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The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1863., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience 2 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1863., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
llotine cut no great figure as a political engine. At length, on the 7th of April, 1793, it was removed from the Place de la Revolution to the Carrousel, and there commenced that series of murders, which have no parallel in the history of mankind. On the 8th of May it was moved back to the Place de la Revolution, where it continued until the 9th June, 1794, during which time 1,235 persons were executed for political offences. Among these were Marie Antoinette, the Princess Elizabeth, Charlotte Corday, Madame Roland, and Danton, the best of that infernal triumvirate which ruled France at that time. At last the people in the neighborhood began to grow tired of these spectacles. They complained that after these wholesale executions, the blood of the criminals remained in pools, that the dogs came and drank it up, and that crowds of men fed their eyes on the spectacle, which, naturally, had a tendency to harden their hearts, and instigate them to ferocity and bloodshed. On one oc