The history of the French revolution; . risoners; but to all his representations he obtained no otheranswer than, Those men are very guilty.—Granted, rejoined Alquier,the president, but the law alone ought to punish them.—Do you notsee, resumed Danton, that I would have already have answered you inanother manner if I could ? Why do you concern yourself about theseprisoners ? Return to your functions, and trouble your head no more withthem. On the following day the prisoners arrived at Versailles. A crowd ofstrange men rushed upon the carriages, surrounded and separated them fromthe escort, kno
The history of the French revolution; . risoners; but to all his representations he obtained no otheranswer than, Those men are very guilty.—Granted, rejoined Alquier,the president, but the law alone ought to punish them.—Do you notsee, resumed Danton, that I would have already have answered you inanother manner if I could ? Why do you concern yourself about theseprisoners ? Return to your functions, and trouble your head no more withthem. On the following day the prisoners arrived at Versailles. A crowd ofstrange men rushed upon the carriages, surrounded and separated them fromthe escort, knocked Fournier, the commandant, from his horse, carried oftthe mayor, who had nobly determined to die at his post, and slaughtered theunfortunate prisoners to the number of fifty-two. There perished Delessart,and DAbancour, placed under accusation as ministers, and Brissac, as com-mander of the constitutional guard, disbanded in the time of the Immediately after this execution, the murderers ran to the prison %. {•) .A.;^I I u 1:^1 , FRENCH REVOLUTION. 355 of the town, and renewed the scenes of tlie first days of September, employ-ing the same means, and copying, as in Paris, the judicial forms.* Thisevent, happening wilhin hve days of tlic first, increased the consternationwhich already pre\ailed. In Paris, the committee of surveillance did notabate its activity. As the prisons had been just cleared by deatli, it began tofill them again by issuing fresh orders of arrest. These orders were so nu-merous, that Roland, minister of the interior, in denouncing to the Assemblythese new arljitrary acts, had from five to six hundred of them to lay on thebureau, some signed by a single individual, others by two or tln-ee at most,the greater part of them without any alleged motives, and many founded onthe bare suspicions o( hicivism. While the commune was exercising its power in Paris, it despatched com-missioners to the departments, for the purpose of justifyi
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