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


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ne In Orrier tn inaugnrate q millennium.
The author ~ the hook before ~ pro-
nounce- this hypothesis entirely tntenable.
He maintains That the absence ~ Robes
pierre's signature from some lists sent to
rie tribunal has no such Significance a. has
been claimed for 10. II has been asserted
hat he signed only ons list after June 10.
l7a4. and thenceforvard vas Inclined 70
mercy IL this were true ID would simply
mean thai on June 10 he raSsed a law With
which on June IN he was disguised. Az a
matter ~ fact. between June 10 and July
, no fewer titan II arrests were made IN
R~obespierre'l sole warrant and II moro
on his Joint warrant. The list which he
signed on July 70 contained t47 names
(Hamei. his bio grapher, makes the num-
bar 1881. We cannot know for certain
whether he did or did not sign some lists
later. for some were destroyed. To the
plea that he should he credited with mercy,
Mr.. Beesly replies with he question,
What mercy had Robespierre shown for
the I.2O0 executed before the law Of the
I'D Prairial June 10, iTa5l? did he raise
his potent voice and plead for sorurulOus
trial? No, he bewailed the gliillOtine's
slowness and quickened il. Yet We are
asked to believe that he truubled himself
because his Internal statute slew by the
hundred instead Of by the %scorei"
Mr. Beesly does not attempt to discrimi-
nate betNween rhe good and the i'll To lie
found in Robespierre's doctrine. 1t liz adj
nitted that some good there was, II that
had he practised the best of his preaching
he might have come TO n better end. II in
further conosded thai. an democracy begets
more republics in Elrope. it may happen
that Robespierre will come to bs looked
lpon with leniency, az nasoent d~emocracy's
foriorn hope. 1t in o~uraanthor's conviction.
however, chat such men really retard the
progress Of the causes which they espouse
No tyranu's memory he thinks. should
he the sweetsr because he has chanted
hymns to freedom; no democrat should
ever forget Danton's death; no republican
should ever cheat himself into sympathy
with Robespierre.' The hope il Expressed
that the appeal for a statue to R~ohespierre,
lately made by the Paris newspaper
L'Humdnits, will fall IN deaf oars. Re
publican France has men Of as famous
memory az 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
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