MORE heinous and atrocious deeds of the "french revolution"!
"As soon as Louis XVI. had been transferred from his throne to a loathsome prison, the National Assembly formed a plan for the total extirpation of the priests, and with them the Christian religion. The ministers of the gospel were seized and thrown into prison, or transported from every part of the Country. At Paris, about three hundred were shut up, in order to be massacred, and were actually put to death, during the 1st and 2d weeks of September, 1792. The oath administered by the Constituent Assembly to their minions was this, I swear to pursue unto death all
royalists,
fanatics, (the appellation for Christians,) gentlemen, (or well dressed persons,) and moderates, under whatever colour, or mask, or form, they may appear. I swear to spare neither parents nor relations; to sacrifice my personal interest, and even friendship itself; and to acknowledge for parents, brothers, and friends, nobody but the patriot, the ardent defenders of the republic.
The revolutionary committee of Nantz, seized and imprisoned almost all those who were esteemed rich men, men of talents, virtue, and humanity. Old men, women, and children, were drowned. They were put on board of lighters, railed round to keep the prisoners from jumping overboard; there were plugs made in the bottom, or sides, the lighters sunk, and all within were drowned The committee used to turn the drownings into ridicule and jest they called them national baptisms, vertical transportations, bathings, &c.
At first the drownings were with the clothes on, but this was too merciful; therefore they stripped the prisoners, and culled the young men and young women, and after stripping them naked, they were tied in couples, face to face, and thus kept for an hour, then thrown into an open lighter, and after receiving several blows on the head with the but of a musket, they were then thrown into the river, (this was called republican marriages.) The Constituent Assembly abolished negro slavery, and prohibited the term negro; they were called Americans. At Nantz, where there were a great many West India merchants who had brought negroes from the West Indies as waiters; these were emancipated and taken into the service of government, and employed about Nantz to assassinate the inhabitants. These
Americans reserved five of the handsomest women, and shut them up for their own use; and after having had to endure the horrid approaches of these negroes, (the handsomest was compelled to endure the embraces of more than one hundred of chem, and had fallen into a stupor and lost the use of her limbs,) they were then abandoned and shot.
The wives and daughters of almost all the respectable citizens were put in a state of requisition, and were ordered, on pain of death, to hold their bodies in readiness for the embraces of the true republicans! Nor were they content with violation: the first ladies were led to the tree of liberty and there compelled to endure the approaches of chimpey sweepers and common felons. Not content with butchering in cold blood, they took a pleasure in making them die by inches, and insulting them in the pangs of death; placing several of them together, they killed one of them at a time, to render death more terrible to the rest. Neither age nor sex had any weight with them.-Above two hundred women, thirty of whom had children at their breasts, whom conjugal love had led to follow their husbands, and more than fifty odd men, whom fillial piety had snatched from the assassin's stab, were all most savagely butchered at once. Several wounded prisoners were collected together, and put into a ditch, with sentinels placed around them to prevent them from killing themselves, or one another, and thus were they made to linger, some of them two or three days, while their enemies testified their ferocious pleasure by all the insulting gesticulations of savages.
A man named Phillippe, came to the jacobin club of which he was a member, and made a long speech on patriotism, and concluded by saying that he looked upon every man, who preferred the ties of blood to that of patriotic duty, as an aristocrat, and worthy of death; he then opened a box he had brought with him, and held up by the gray hairs, the bloody and shrivelled heads of his father and mother, "which", said he, "I have cut off because they obstinately persisted in not hearing mass from a constitutional, alias Atheist priest:" the speech of the parricide received the loudest applauses, as it was discovered by philosophers that parental authority was only a vestige of the old feudal system which could not be tolerated by republicanism.
A new-married couple having refused to have the ceremony performed by one of the Atheist priests, a party of his myrmidons broke in upon them the wedding night, the husband made his escape, the wife became the prey of the party; they gratified their brutal passion and afterward their ferocity; they tore off her breasts as a tiger might have done with his claws, and threw them on the floor. They then left her to wait till death relieved her from her horrible situation." - The Religious Monitor, and Evangelical Repository, Volume 6, 1830, pages 477, 478. Link:
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