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Some Particulars Not Generally Known Respecting Monsieur Bailly.
His hands tied behind his back , he sometimes demanded when would be the end of so many hardships ? but these words were uttered with a calmness worthy of one of the first philosophers of Europe . He answered to one , who said to him , ' Thou tremblest , Bailly , '— ' My friend , it is from the cold . ' " If we were asked , how we were so well informed , let it be known that it was by the channel of the executioner , who , during die whole year , has not been a single day , without being called for in our execrable residence , and who related to our gaolers those shocking , but
wonderful circumstances . "Were I to abandon myself to the painful task of naming individually all the interesting beings sacrificed in so long a butchery , to speak in due terms of their virtues and courage , I should pile volumes on volumes . I confine myself to say , that death was become a trivial thing , and that Socrates himself , in the midst of 4000 persons of every and sexthat I have seen murdered in less than a yearcould not
age , , have surpassed them , except by his eloquence and his sublime speeches on the immortality of the soul . " In addition to these particulars , we find the following in another Paper ; ancl as any thing relative to a man who fills so great a place as Bailly , either in the literary or in the political world , cannot but be interesting and gratify ing to our readers , we give them without
apology . " Bailly wrote in his dungeon a Memoire Jnstificatif on all the facts he was indicted for , and especially on the affair of the Champ de Mars . That memoir was printed under the modest title of , Bailly to his Fellow-citizens ; but it is very little known : for though it was written with the greatest moderation , and inculpated nobody , and was only confined to the defence of a single accused person , no bookseller
or hawker dared to sell it . This is not one of the least striking features of the universal oppression under which a whole people groaned , who spoke of nothing but of liberty . " Bailly communicated his Memorial to some of the companions of his captivity ; and especially to a man of great sense , who , by the distinguished talents , and the wise princip les he had displayed in one of to be included in the Grande
our National Assemblies , deserved well Conspiration plotted by Roberspierre against all kinds of merit . " The friend of Bailly was strongly impressed with the evidence of the proofs that attested his innocence— ' if your Memorial is perused , ' said he , ' it is impossible they should condemn you . ' ' They ' will ' not read it , ' answered Bailly , ' and were they , they no less wish to have head shall have
would condemn me . They my ; they it ; and I think , ' he added , ' that such is their animosity , that they will change the nature of my punishment ; they will not deem the ordinary execution cruel enough . ' Then , after a moment of reflection , he pursued , ' That thought hangs heavy upon my heart , for the sake of the unfortunate victims who will fall after me , for the death bv the fruillotine is a very mild one . "
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Some Particulars Not Generally Known Respecting Monsieur Bailly.
His hands tied behind his back , he sometimes demanded when would be the end of so many hardships ? but these words were uttered with a calmness worthy of one of the first philosophers of Europe . He answered to one , who said to him , ' Thou tremblest , Bailly , '— ' My friend , it is from the cold . ' " If we were asked , how we were so well informed , let it be known that it was by the channel of the executioner , who , during die whole year , has not been a single day , without being called for in our execrable residence , and who related to our gaolers those shocking , but
wonderful circumstances . "Were I to abandon myself to the painful task of naming individually all the interesting beings sacrificed in so long a butchery , to speak in due terms of their virtues and courage , I should pile volumes on volumes . I confine myself to say , that death was become a trivial thing , and that Socrates himself , in the midst of 4000 persons of every and sexthat I have seen murdered in less than a yearcould not
age , , have surpassed them , except by his eloquence and his sublime speeches on the immortality of the soul . " In addition to these particulars , we find the following in another Paper ; ancl as any thing relative to a man who fills so great a place as Bailly , either in the literary or in the political world , cannot but be interesting and gratify ing to our readers , we give them without
apology . " Bailly wrote in his dungeon a Memoire Jnstificatif on all the facts he was indicted for , and especially on the affair of the Champ de Mars . That memoir was printed under the modest title of , Bailly to his Fellow-citizens ; but it is very little known : for though it was written with the greatest moderation , and inculpated nobody , and was only confined to the defence of a single accused person , no bookseller
or hawker dared to sell it . This is not one of the least striking features of the universal oppression under which a whole people groaned , who spoke of nothing but of liberty . " Bailly communicated his Memorial to some of the companions of his captivity ; and especially to a man of great sense , who , by the distinguished talents , and the wise princip les he had displayed in one of to be included in the Grande
our National Assemblies , deserved well Conspiration plotted by Roberspierre against all kinds of merit . " The friend of Bailly was strongly impressed with the evidence of the proofs that attested his innocence— ' if your Memorial is perused , ' said he , ' it is impossible they should condemn you . ' ' They ' will ' not read it , ' answered Bailly , ' and were they , they no less wish to have head shall have
would condemn me . They my ; they it ; and I think , ' he added , ' that such is their animosity , that they will change the nature of my punishment ; they will not deem the ordinary execution cruel enough . ' Then , after a moment of reflection , he pursued , ' That thought hangs heavy upon my heart , for the sake of the unfortunate victims who will fall after me , for the death bv the fruillotine is a very mild one . "