AMERICAN PROBLEMS by WILLIAM E.BORAH 1924

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forth to the departments reveled in an extravagance of
cruelty unknown even in the capital. The knife of the
deadly machine rose and fell too slow for their work of
slaughter.
grapeshot.
Long rows of captives were mowed down with
Holes were made in the bottom of crowded
barges. Lyon was turned into a desert. At Arras even
the cruel mercy of a speedy death was denied to the prisoners.
All down the Loire, from Saumur to the sea, great
flocks of crows and kites feasted on naked corpses twined
together in hideous embraces. No mercy was shown to
sex or age. The number of young lads and girls of 17
who were murdered by that execrable government is to
be reckoned by hundreds. Babies torn from the breast
were tossed
from pike to pike along the Jacobin ranks.
One champion of liberty had his pockets well stuffed with
ears. Another swaggered about with the finger of a
little child in his hat. A few months had sufficed to degrade
France below the level
of New Zealand.
Mr. President, the great statesmen of England
who were then at the head of the English'
Government refused to follow the example of
Washington and continued to discuss the question
of whether England would recognize the
so-called government of France, or treat with
it, or in any way assume a relationship with
the government of France such as would even
imply recognition. Pitt and Fox continued
to discuss the matter for many years after
Washington had recognized the government
of France.
What was the effect of the recognition, so