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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 34 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 4 0 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 4 0 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 3 1 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 3 3 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
eat 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 occasion, during a