The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-06

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a~pologists that he instituted this dreadful
las-the very quinteasence and extiaNa-
CANA % terror-to n the Terror. They
allegs that he auarrelIed with his colleagues
for misnslng IL. that he would not for tha,
reason sign Ia consignfnents to the revo-
! ~itionary tribunal, and that all he wanted
was Just o few more heads OF his wi choos-
ing In order to ~inauRurate n millennium.
The author Of the book before ~ Pro-
ounces this hypothesis entirely untenable.
He maintains that the absence Of Robes
pierre's signature from some lists sent to
the tribunal has no such significance ~ has
been claimed for IL. II has been asserted
that he signed only one list after June 10,
1874, and thenoeforward was inclined to
mercy. Il this were true II would simply
mean that on June 10 he Passed q law with
which on June 10 he was disgusted. As a
matter Of fact. between June 10 n July
2 no fewer than ~ arrests were made on
Robespierre's sole warrant and II more
on his joint warrant. The list which he
signed on July 20 contained LAT names
(Hamel. his bioyrapher, makes the num-
Der 1881. We cannot know for certain
whether he did or did not sign some lists
latar Tor apn mara IaeNrovad To the
plea that he should be credited with mercy,
Mr.. Beesly replies with the question,
What mercy had Pobespierre shown for
the 1900 executed before the law Of the
22d Prairial June 10, 1881? Did he raise
his potent voice and plead for scrurulous
trial? No, he bewailed the Gu%illotine's
slowness and quickened it. Yet We are
asked to believe that he troubled himself
because his internal statute slew by the
hundred instead OF by the score!"
Mr.. Beesly does not attempt to disorimi-
nate between the good and the i'll to be
found in Robespierre's doctrine. 1t Is ad-
mitted that some good there was, and that
had he practised the best Of his preaching
he might AVE come to a better end. 1t Ia
further conceded that, az democracy begets
more republics in Europe, it may happen
that Robespierre will come to be looked
upon with leniency, as nasoent democracy's
forlorn hope. II il oureautbor's conviction,
however. that such men really retard the
progress Of the causes which they espouse.
NC tyrant's memory he thinks. should
be the sweeter because he has chanted
hymns to freedom; no democrat should
aver forget Danton's death; no republican
should ever cheat himself into sympathy
with Robespierre,' The hope is expressed
that the appeal for a statue to Robespierre.
lately made by the Paris newspaper
L'Humdnie, will fall on deaf cars. Re
publican France has men Of as famous
memory as republican Rome. Let her not
be jealous Of the savagery Of her elder sis
ter's legends and glory in the shame OF
having been the nursing Of a wolf
NJ. W. II,