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

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have hesitated TO make the rotor h@d no
bean able.
Lafayette has charged DAMON WIZ
getting q man named Montmorin mntusrou
In the massacres because montmorn AneW
something TO his diScredlt' ~ "es tho
COmte de Montmorin, ex-MInister OF o
eign Affairs, Who wa supposed 10 Know
things discreditable TO Danton' As
matter Of fact. he was not ny
Danton, but by the anu .ssnis
been committed Tor trial On oeptemoeT .,
i7s7, was executed the same day. our
author can find nothing TO ehow tnat Danooh
Lafayette says that Danton had given
Montmortn n receipt for q bripe. that siont-
MORN had ~'imprudently' told Danton inc
receipt was burned, ana tnat tne'euPoh
Danton had him massacred' he seefns not
to have perceived mat win tne oissp-
pearance OF the receipt any speciai mouve
for massacring the owner would nave ais
appeared too
The conclusion. then, reached oy Mf.
Beesly Is that the charges on the score OF
which Danton has been PRONOUNCED guiity
Of the September massacres are the acou-
sations OF enemies OF ega on men
without character. Ihey TEEN Win I'M
and sell ontradicuohs' hhey
are wholly inconsistent with the tone Oh
Danton . speeches and the tenor OF MS acts'
They were not made 70 the Assembly py
those who would have been only 700 eager
to make them mad they nao eViaehce'
Their whole force is cumulative IN each'
examined by itself, Ia FOUND 10 Do himsy
or absurd. They are based mostly on
town talk. such as might make up queer
chapters In the biographies OF some Oh our
contemporary pohuoal-personases u 'u0n
things now found their way into PRINT w
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iii.
How came Robespierre and his ID
to desire the death OF Dantohf
Our author recalls that In '7sa' AFTER the
OF the Girondlst there "ere
four parties, four powers, in Paris namely
the party Of the Mountain In the VEN
ton, the Committees, the OF
and the Club OF the Jacooins' GRAD,
ually the Mountain was ov~ershadoweo
by the Committees. OF which, on the otner
hand. the Paris Commune long maintaineo
its Independence. In the triennal oomoat
which vas now in progress 1t Ia easy 70
see why Robespierre, the representative
OF the Committee OF Safety, would Wish
to suppress HILBERT and Chaumette. the
representatives OF the Paris Commune.
1t Ia equally easy to see why men OF the
Mountain, like Danton and Desmouiins,
fell foul OF Hebert, who travestled their
revolutionary system and undermined
their influence. One can see. too, why
both HILBERT and Robespierre hated SUCH
men rs Fabre d'Eglantine. Bourbon n
Pnilppeaux, because they resisted the
power OF the Paris Commune on the one
hand and that Of the Committees on che
otner. It is not so easy TO see why they
should have hated Danton. He had no
private feuds. He had always been re-
~oa.t,j IN tho Commune. He strenu-