Let us close this mournful inquest.

We have proofs enough.
"The general execration of the deed is visible.

A hundred other depositions which we have before us repeat the same facts in almost the same words.

It is at present certain, it is proved, it is beyond the possibility of doubt, it cannot be denied, it is evident as the sunlight, that on Thursday, the 4th of December, 1851, the unoffending citizens of Paris, the citizens who were not in any way mixed up with the fighting, were shot down without warning, and massacred merely for the sake of intimidation, and that it is not possible to attach any other meaning to Monsieur Bonaparte's mysterious command.
"This execution lasted until nightfall.

For more than an hour, there was, as it were, a debauch of musketry and artillery.