Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-12

dates OF the Imperial viii VI
Amar said: "This measure alone can
save the people otherwise it must rise
in insurrectlon, and its enemies fall be-
fore it."
Cam6on insisted that trial in the pro-
posed Tribunal should be by jurors.
Duhem cried: AT Liege, patriots were
slaughtered without trial by jury and
we are to give the trial by jury to the
assassins Of the country! Bad as the
Tribunal may be, it is even too good for
sceJerGts."
So THADDEUs STEVENS and the New
England pulpit declare that Military
Dsspotism and trial by Military Com
missions are good enough for rebels and
the right Of trial by jury was denied
Mrs. SURRATT, that she might have no
chance to escape being strangled to death
Cam6on declared that he, too, thought
nothing was too severe for the counter
revolutionists but, he said, "a good
citizen may possibly get his head chop
ped off; and look now! What an in
convenience that would be! let Voyez
quel en- seTait Pi~ncOHUeail.
Barrere said: 1t is impossible that
/ citizens who are friends of liberty wish
to initiate in their vengesnoes the most
frightful tyrants !"-at which there were
murmurs. He afterwards quoted these
sentences from SALLUsT:
1.-THE Lacedemonians, having con-
quered the Athenians, subjected them
10 the government of thirty men.
These at first condemned to death with
out judicial formalities such great Grim
inals as were the horror of all the world,
and whose crimes were public and in
contestible the people applanded these
punishments. This power afterwards
grew, and soon they smOte indiferently
the good and the bad, SO that the repub-
lie, crushed under the yoke, was pup-
ished for having had confidence in them.
In our times, when SYLLA was victo-
rious, he caused to be put to death a
large number Of citizens, who had
made themselves great by their crimes
and the mischief they had done the
Republic: who was there, then, that
did not applaud? It was loudly said
that these criminals had deserved their
punishment but it was the signal for
frightful carnage: whenever a man COW
eted a house or land, be procured
the name Of the owner to be placed en-
the list of the prescribed"
nE, n------@sa. l.--I ~ IL
should be jurors and that these should
be appointed By Itself. The satraps set
over U Provinces are not required to
have jurors for trial Of csses before the
" Military Commissions or Tribunals I"
which they are empowered to establish.
But the precedent is a good one for Gen
era SHERIDAN; and as he removes and
appoints judges of the State Courts, he
might do further credit to the mill
tary, 4" and ",prove himself equal to the
task imposed on him" by exercising the
power OF appointing the jurors in all
criminal cases in the courts.
DANToN said: 81 feel how supremely
important it is to take Judicial measures
to punish the ounter-revolutionists for
it is for them that this Tribunals neces-
sary it is for them hat this Tribunal
should supply the place Of the Supreme
Tribunal Of the Vengeance of the Peo-
pie" Felicitous definition of Military
Commissions, also, in which cold and
ssturnine Hunters preside, 'mal-sdminis-
tering and m~al-treating the law and
the HoLTs and BIEGHAMs hunt iDno-
cent women to death, leashed together
like blood-hounds by desire to crafty the
popular rage.
The great revolutionary Tribune
further said "Nothing is more diff
cult than to define a political crime
a If it is so difficult to reach a po-
liticsl crime, is it not necessary
that extraordinary laws, aliens to
the social organization, should terrify
rebels and smite the guilty d? Here the
safety Of the people demands great
means and terrible measures. I SEE no
MEDIUM BEFwEEN ORDINARY
FORMS OF PROCEDURE AND A REvoLU-
TIONARY- TRIBUNAL. Let US
be terrible, t orelieve the people from the
necessity Of being so; let US organize a
Tribunal, not well, for that is impossl-
bic, but no worse than can be helped
hat the sword Of the law may weigh
heavy on the heacs Of all its enemies.n
The first article Of the decree establish
ing the Revolutionary Tribunal that sent
so many thousand heads to the guiIlo-
tine, and whose executiOners compelled
a young girl to drink the blood Of one Of
It's victims, in order TO saye her fathers
life, read thus: I
"There shall be established al Paris {
an extraordinary criminal tribunal {
shall have cognizanee Of every I
ounter-revolutionary enterprise, Of S
every attempt against the liberty, the !
the unity, the indivisibility Of
Republic, the internal and external
security of the State, and all plots tend
ing to r~e-establish royalty or to establish. {
any other authority Infringing the lb- :
srty, equality and sovereignty Of the I
whether the accused be civil or :
military fu~netionaTies, or simple citi- !
The property Of all persons con- :
demned to death was TO be vested in the O
Republic, and those convicted of Of. Q
lenses not defined and punishable by !
.aw, land whose incivisD1e and residence \
the Republic might cause further 4
-rouble and agitation" were to be pup- I
shed. ?
on the 9th Of April, 1913, the Com :
OF Public Safety, Of nine mem. h
,ers Of the National Convention, was o
established to deliberate in secret. 10 ,
uperintend and accelerate the admins. ! !
rative action, entrusted to the Provis- d
onal Executive Council, and authorized b
TO take, in urgent circumstances. Z
Of general defense, internal Ia
md external" It soon became tbe sols b
authority. b
In October, 1898, Saint .yitst nade q p
epOrt, in the name Of this Committee ~
pom the necessity Of declaring d Pro- q.
isional Government OF France revolp. in
ienary, until peace. That report said p
HEo prosperity is 10 be hoped for. as q
ing the last enemy Of liberty pc
reathes. You have to punish, not only "a
but eUen the Indifferent; YOU ~
ave TO punish whomsoever 10 passive In &c