e as a translation, his life was represented
as incompatible with the existence of the human race:--

"Here lies Robespierre--let no tear be shed:
Reader, if he had lived, thou hadst been dead."

The fall of Robespierre ended the "_Reign of Terror_." Most of the
leaders who had acted a conspicuous part in these horrid scenes, met a
doom similar to that of their leaders. It is impossible to convey to the
reader any adequate conception of the atrocities committed in France
during this gloomy period, in the name of liberty. Men, women, and
children were involved in the massacres which took place at the
instigation of the Jacobin chiefs. Hundreds of both sexes were thrown
into the Loire, and this was called republican marriage and republican
baptism. And it should never be forgotten, that it was not till France
as a nation, had denied the existence of a Deity, and the validity of
his institutions, that she was visited by such terrible calamities. Let
it be "burnt in on the memory" of every generation, that such is the
legitimate tendency of infidel opinions. They first destroy the
conscience--blunt the moral sense--harden the heart, and wither up all
the social and kindly affections, and then their votaries are ripe for
any deed of wickedness within the possibility of accomplishment by human
agency.

Says an eloquent writer--"When the Sabbath was abolished in France, the
Mighty God whose being they had denied, and whose worship they
abolished, stood aloof and gave them up,--and a scene of proscription,
and assassination, and desolation, ensued, unparalleled in the annals of
the civilized world. In the city of Paris, there were in 1803, eight
hundred and seven suicides and murders. Among the criminals executed,
there were seven fathers who had poisoned their children, ten husbands
who had murdered their wives, six wives who had poisoned their husbands,
and fifteen children who had destroyed their parents."

It may be profitable here to record the end of several other Jacobin
leaders who had been conspicuous during these scenes of atrocity and
bloodshed. Public opinion demanded that some of the most obnoxious
members should be condemned. After hesitating for some time, at length
the convention, pressed by shame on the one side and fear on the other,
saw the necessity of some active measure, and appointed a commission to
consider and report upon the conduct of the four most obnoxious Jacobin
chiefs, Collot