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The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
. This was the first Revolutionary tribunal, which was dissolved on the 1st of December --the two parties being engaged at that time in a desperate struggle, and both, it is presumed, being quite willing to suppress that formidable institution, as long as the result was doubtful. In January, 1793, however, Louis XVI. was condemned and beheaded, the Girondists having been compelled, under the influence of fear, to vote for his death. The Jacobins followed up their advantage, and on the 10th of March, under terror of a general massacre, obtained the re-establishment of the Revolutionary Tribunal. This second Tribunal was the genuine simon pure — the real Tribunal — that perpetrated those murders which, even now, it makes the blood run cold to think of. It possessed unlimited powers, and its President, Fauquier Tinville, was the most cold-blooded monster of those dreadful times. Nobody who was denounced ever escaped.--On his trial, it was proved that one hundred and sixty persons, of