Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-08-17

OF these cargoes were composed OF women
and children. The poor wretches were locked
up In large building, driven out toward
dark on these vessels, and their drowning
concealed by the night.
What no styled republican marriage was
hurting couples bound together, frequently
Of different sexes, into tho water, or forcing
them into it at the point Of the bayonet The
convention was not aware OF these ntroci-
ties; but the citizens Of Nantes, supposing 1t
to be, feared to denounce Carrier lest they
too should be decapitatod. Finally the con-
vention gained information on the subject,
and the fend was recalled by the committee
OF public safety. After the execution Of
Rcbespierre, his arrest was ordered by the
s tribunal and he was beheaded, which fate
be had merited hundred times.
Some OF the revolutionists carried out pri-
vate grudges in official capacity, like Coliot
d'Herbois who first proclaimed the republic.
He had been an actor, was on the stage for
years, and had written number OF success
fui plays Having joined the Jacobins, he
drew attention there by his resonant voice,
striking attitudes, and impassioned elocution.
He was chosen president OF the national con.
vention in the summer Of 1903, and the next
November was sent to Lyons with Fouche
and Couthon to punish the city for insurrec-
shooting, In cold blood, Of hundreds of the
Inhabitants with grape shot, because he hat
ouee been hissed there on the stage. Wounded
vanity smarts long, and dreadful sometime.
are the means Of healing 1t, as in this in.
stance.
II is pity that he did not meet the doom
to which he condemned his fellows, as did sc
many Of the extreme revolutionsts. Escap
ing the AZ, he was transported TO Cayenne,
where he died miserably and most descrvedly.
Toulon sought to avoid the horrors that other
provincial towns suffered from their own
people by surrendering to the English. But
it was retaken by the French, and treated
with ferocious cruelty. In fact there seemed
to be nothing but despair for the anti-revo-
lutionists anywhere, as the emissaries OF tho
convention penetrated 10 every corner OF the
country, literally with fire and sword. The
history Of that epoch has hardly been equaled
for immitigable horrors; those Of the Roman
smpire, in Il, final days, cannot exceed it,
The coalition Of tho European powers
against France did not, meanwhile, make
much progress; they were inharmonious,
while the ono bleeding nation was fighting
Tor life, and with a desperate energy that
challenges our admiration. In Paris, com
Elsrce and industry had ceased. The mighty
mob robbed and ravaged as it chose; such
authority as there claimed to I've letting the
gigantic wild beast rend whom and what il
might
Barere had avowel In a speech that "Ter,
ror Il the order of the day." which it had
long been. He was one Of the few leaders
who reached old age. At the outbreak ha
was chosen a deputy, being lawyer by pro.
feGion and 81. A member of the conyen.
uon, he advocated the death of the king and
Of Marie Antoinette, the confiscation Of all
property belonging to outlawed citizens, and
the raising Of q revolution army. He was
noted for fiorid style, and as no was very
Z fond OF speaking, he got the title--the Parish
ans must, under all circumstances, have their
tsst-of the Anacreon Of the guillotine.
His associates distrusted him, md he would
have been prescribed but for Robespierre.
He basely turned against his protector, whom
hs violently traduced, and was subsequently,
condemned to transportation. This he
avoided by escape from prison, having been
nearly torn to pieces by q mob while going
there. After divers viciSitudes he kept hid
den until after the 18th Brumaire, when he
was amnestied. He became a Journalist and
pamphleteer in the interest Of Napoleon; was
banished as a regicide on the second return
OF the Bourbons; went back to France after
the revolution Of 1880: became member Of
the general council Of his department later,
and resigned in 1870 He died in his Seth
year. He must have been a man of some
sort Of ability TO keep his head on his shoul-
d6rs through all those times