is a poor cloak to
his odious moderatism, and his base corruption is manifest at last. The
conspirator, the agent of the foreigner is that fluent stammerer, the
man who clapped the first cockade of revolution in his hat, that
pamphleteer who, in his ironical and cruel patriotism, nicknamed
himself, 'The procureur of the Lantern.' _His_ name is Camille
Desmoulins. He threw off the mask by defending the Generals, traitors to
their country, and claiming measures of clemency criminal at such a
time. There was Philippeaux, there was Herault, there was the despicable
Lacroix. There was the Pere Duchesne, he, too, a conspirator and agent
of the foreigner, the vile demagogue who degraded liberty, and whose
filthy calumnies stirred sympathy for Antoinette herself. There was
Chaumette, who yet was a mild man, popular, moderate, well-intentioned,
and virtuous in the administration of the Commune; but he was an
atheist! Conspirators, agents of the foreigner,--such were all those
sansculottes in red cap and carmagnole and sabots who recklessly outbid
the Jacobins in patriotism. Conspirator and agent of the foreigner was
Anacharsis Cloots, 'orator of the human race,' condemned to die by all
the Monarchies of the world; but everything was to be feared of him,--he
was a Prussian.

"Now violent or moderate, all these evil-doers, all these
traitors,--Danton, Desmoulins, Hebert, Chaumette,--have perished under
the axe. The Republic is saved; a chorus of praises rises from all the
Committees and the popular assemblies one and all to greet Maximilien
and _the Mountain_. Good citizens cry aloud: 'Worthy representatives of
a free people, in vain have the sons of the Titans lifted their proud
heads; oh! mountain of blessing, oh! protecting Sinai, from thy
tumultuous bosom has issued the saving lightning....'

"In this chorus the Tribunal has its meed of praise. How sweet a thing
it is to be virtuous, and how dear to public gratitude, to the heart of
the upright judge!

"Meanwhile, for a patriot heart, what food for amazement, what motives
for anxiety! What! to betray the people's cause, it was not enough to
have a Mirabeau, a La Fayette, a Bailly, a Petion, a Brissot? We must
likewise have the men who denounced these traitors. Can it be that all
the patriots who made the Revolution only wrought to ruin her? that
these heroes of the great days were but contriving with Pitt and Coburg
to give the kingdom to the Orleans and set up a Regency u