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He declared everywhere that he had never been in favour of severe measures; that he was a Girondist; that he had always condemned and lamented the manner in which the Brissotine deputies had been treated. He now preached mercy from that tribune from which he had recently preached extermination. "The time," he said, "has come at which our clemency may be indulged without danger.
The municipality of Paris had been the iniquitous drudges of the Jacobin party in the legislative assembly they were made the instruments of massacring the prisoners,* of dethroning and executing the king, and successively of destroying the Brissotine faction, * filling the prisons with all who were obnoxious to the republicans, and of involving a repentant nation in the irremidiable guilt of the Queen's death. *
When Toulon was taken Barère came forward to announce the event. "The conquest," said the apostate Brissotine, "won by the Mountain over the Brissotines must be commemorated by a mark set on the place where Toulon once stood. The national thunder must crush the house of every trader in the town."
He declared everywhere that he had never been in favor of severe measures; that he was a Girondist; that he had always condemned and lamented the manner in which the Brissotine deputies had been treated. He now preached mercy from that tribune from which he had recently preached extermination. "The time," he said, "has come at which our clemency may be indulged without danger.
When Toulon was taken Barere came forward to announce the event. "The conquest," said the apostate Brissotine, "won by the Mountain over the Brissotines must be commemorated by a mark set on the place where Toulon once stood." The national thunder must crush the house of every trader in the town.
The municipality of Paris had been the iniquitous drudges of the Jacobin party in the legislative assembly they were made the instruments of massacring the prisoners,* of dethroning and executing the king, and successively of destroying the Brissotine faction, * filling the prisons with all who were obnoxious to the republicans, and of involving a repentant nation in the irremidiable guilt of the Queen's death. *
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