Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — Charlotte Corday. [ARTICLE]

Charlotte Corday.

A memorable woman stands upon the scaffold, not t£is time in white, but in the red smock of a murderess. It la Charlotte Oorday, born & Armans; and she has killed Marat. If ever murder was justifiable, It was this assassination. The' sternest moralist cannot refrain from admiring this hlgh-souled, undaunted girl; for the murder that sho committed is elevated far above an ordinary crime. She Whs impelled neither by lust of gain, nor by jealousy, nor by ordinary! hate; and she only slew a monster ini order to save unhappy France from wholesale slaughter. Shortly before his end, Marat had screeched a demand for twenty-five hundred victims alj Lyons, for three thousand at Marseilles, for twenty-eight thousand at Paris, and for even three handred thousand la Brittainy and In Calvados. No wonder that Danton, Camille Desmoulins and Robespierre went to see this extraordinary and most resolute young woman, whose motive had drugged her conscience, and who neither denied her act nor to escape ita consequences. She was beheaded atj half-past 7 in the July summer evening. Calm-eyed and composed she went tci death, but she turned pale when first! she caught sight of the guillotine. “I killed one man to save a hundred thousand, a villain to save Innocents, a savage wild beast, to give repose to my country.” j Never has murder found so noble an excuse; and she was only 25.