The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-01

| che Partisan jails. The event in itself was
one of the most monstrous atrocities of
human history But still there was a
method in the madness, and Danton him
| self is said to have been responsible for the
method
This was the theory of that sppalling
butchery: The Austrians are gnawing into
the vitals of our France. The king and
the kings party wish the Austrians to sue
coed, to triumph over US, to destroy Us.
These men in the prisons are loyalists and
enemies of the republic. They are friends
of Louis and the Austriaus. We will kill
them as measure Of terror. We will let
In upon them the fierce Sansculottes, and
not one of them all shall escape our venge-
ance. Austria will hear it and tremble.
OF all this bloody syllogism and deduc>
ton Danton may have been the author,
but it was not from cruelty Of disposition,
not from depravity of nature and hatred
of men, but rather as one of the hardships
of death struggle which he could not
well avoid. Around the doors of the seven
prisons of Paris bloody courts are extern
porized. The mob bowls The prisoners
are dragged forth while the Salsculottes
shout, give la Nationp The inquest is only
for moment. Death is the sentence. The
prisoner is cast forth upon the sabers, axes
and pixies of the multitude. bowling for
blood. Then another and then another.
The dead are heap of corpses. The sewers
are full of blood to the shoebuckles. All
the crowd are splashed with blood. The
walls of the houses are smeared with blood.
Pixies and liberty caps are dipped in blood
until the work is done and aristocracy lies
mangled and dead. 1t is not only terror
but horror-a very effective horror, for
Austria stands aghast, and all the world!
Above this devastation Danton rose
still higher. He went into the national
convention as the real leader Of the revo-
luton. There for nineteen months, from
the fall of 1892 to his death in April of 1874,
he stood and eigned as the supreme pro-
tagonist of the epoch Under the weight
of his powerful hand the Girondins went
down to despair and death. The king also
came to the bar of the convention, and the
president said to him, Louis Capet, you
may sit DOWN. On the trial Danton,
while not the most bitter, was the most
powerful of the prosecution. He voted for
the kings death, aud moved the appoint
ment of the committee of public safety
and those other executive bodies to whose
hands all power was now virtually com
mitted. The party of radical revolution
lists, known as the Mountain, was now
victorious over everything. The monarchy
was gone. The king and the queen were
gone The Girondihs were gone. Every
thing was gone but terror and the Aus
TRANS.
After the overthrow Of Roland and his
companions, Danton would have fain staid
the tide of violence. He believed that the
revolution had now gone far enough, that
it should henceforth be directed into the
milder channels of restoration and order.
1t was on these principles and in their de-
Tense that he began to break with Robes
pierre and Saint Just. He knew well
enough that his colleagues were opposed
to his policy that they sought by every
means in their power TO supply new fuel
to the flames, until every trace of the past
should be consumed. But Danton feared
them not. He feared nothing. His friends