Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1830-12-06
q OI1t A1r,
eobbtl IS APPEAL TO THE FRENCH
oms Brase Hofking People of Paris

LEWIS sussEx. 18th Oct 1890
rFfehds-kvery good man in England feel
indignant AZ the base atiempt that Is nov m,
@''e 10 w''hnraw from justice the savage and
'ioe.'os men VINO caused your streets to 1aty
With innocent blood. W. were s,rnr;.ed =,
many things we saw an other Boprbon setun
over You, aud that too without consultiop tb.
sovereign people upon the subject we wer.
81 ,nished to see, that loan-jobbeIs ,ooL III.
iean IN your atfans; that Baron Louis. who vas
j one III the ministers of Louis XVIII. was one al
your new ministers but the sending of ra,le,
rand TO bngland opened on eyes, aud conyin.
eea rs thai your blood, fittings must 90 no far
I iheI, had been shed In vain. In short we saw
'hat yo" mad gained no'hing AZ all and thu
unless YOU were as vigilant ms YOU had been
brave, You would again he brought. toni
doacemcm gently and softly, into the sam.
state IN whiah the Bour5ons had held you be,
fore.
All Tins we saw before IL became so evident
, That II was intended 10 save the lives IF the
hloody ninist RS. AoH, we clearly SEE that
al our suspicious were well founded we ser.
that. ifom the first, the intention was 10 beiray
yop. II was ton, aud You only, that defeated
'he tYrant' and their bolchering Sw IS troops
when YOU had won the victory, then came The
hankers aud the peers Il join you they never
appeared hll The battle was over they werp, Ms
u Is nav clear Ia u, sorry for yonr victory !
lhfs pretended admiratlo OF your conduct; thy
heaped applause upon yon their design uas To
"heedle you bach again within their rapaclons
grasp.
THIS is all now evident enough. Tppy brib,d
me press by giving places. that IS giv,ng taxes
iha' Is, giving tbs fruit of your labor t. the
editors OF newspapers aud they thought thai
they should be able 10 compel YOU and ,out
children 10 work like slaves 10 pay the debt
which had been contracted TO pay the A HES fol
forcing the Bourbons back upon yol; topa,
ihtse emgran's for berayng you 10 pay the
cohorts oil CossaCks TO irampte on you Tor five
years TO pay, III short, for stopping your ma
sen'n' and taking from you ali the iruIts OF our
~ondrOus valor.
We expected that The brave Belgians would
receive from you assistance and support we
expected TO see the burning OF ,oJr villages
avenged; we expected. in short thai thr cause
of tue people would now, at last, prevail over
the cause Of tyrants. For while snrprire fl
ed our minds, when we saw the brave Belgians
abandoned TO their fate, zen we saw TIM, tlr
debt, the internal debt, vas still TO press Won 10
The earth; when we saw thai there was still n
procnreHr du R0i' (horrible ttle) TO make war
upon truth hut now surprise is made 10 give
place 10 Indignation, when we s. clearly see
that II Is intended 10 rescue from iusl,ue the
bloody men VINO slaughtered your fathers, bro
Tiers, wives aud children; and apparently 10
shed II possible, even your blood, rather than
not accomplish this nefarlons putpose. We
saw, that almost as soon as the new Bourbon
had been set up over you, the Chambers began
to talk OF law tn abolish the punishment OF
death for political offences. We thought il |
strange that T'is law snoaid have bssn thought
of just at such time. We thought that a
matter requiring patient investigation and cool
d. hberatIou, ought not To have been taken up
a, a time oi so much hustle, and wben there
were so many important matters Immediately |
pressing upon the attention of the Chambers.
The doctrine itself we thought very bad, very
dangerous, for how are you we ever 10 be
sarr, Il ucatn u. not tue doom Of him who shall
sell fortress or fleet 10 enemy II vas
curious too, that ihls lit of excessive humanity
shout have seized on your rulers just al tins
time They not only saw Ney, Labedoyefe,
aud scores of others put to death BY the legiii-
mate BouIbons, but many ot these same exces.
siyely humane men md Il hand III causing them
t. he pul to death Bninos WIEN those wh9
have caused your fathers and children aud
wives II be butehered b. rnflians, paid, clothed
and led out OF taxes raised rom yonr laD0hr,
these humane, hose tender souls, Shudaer nj
the thought Of taking The lie oil fellow cr
tur.
Frenchmen on your vaor we have a firm
reliance; The only danger Ia, thai your geneao.-
iiy may mslead you. The men who no" wish
10 soften and deceive you, are profound hypo
crnes.--When did they spare you. or propose
to spare you' The law OF Cod, by the moath
OF Moses, says -" He who sheds ma IS blood,
by mao shall his blood be shed" jesus Ihr,sl
says,-"He who lives by The sword shall y
the sworJ.' Talk Of ] suits indeed Wat
jesuit Is there equal IN hypocrisy and maud IL
those who are endeaVorng to save these san,
culinary tyrants, who were playing AT cards OF
shooting buds, while their hired butchers were
Strengthening the people Paris What Eght
thousand innocent men, women, children,
stabbed or shot by order OF these meicless
tyrants; fathers and mothers lett to wal tue
death OF their children orphans 10 weep lor
their parents widows for tner husband, and
husbands for their wives slaughter sdfpds-
sing in the number oil SAN the bloody massdere
Of 81. Bartholomew totally unprpyoked aud
wantony committed and after suffering the
chiei iyrant o escape, and even giving hi.n an
immense sum Of yoIr money AS "A reward "i NJ
deeds, these humane phllanihropistS are now
engaged in the work of saving The lives even
oil tnt udder tyfants, whose orders Pf"dheea
The Carnage Talk OF Jesuits. indeed Wat
Jesuit that the world ever saw was guilty OF
hypocrisy and peridy equal 10 these
Brave and generous men OF France let me
beg you patiently to attend TO me, while des.
crIbe the motives of those who wish to save
these base and cruel tyranis 1helr endeayo's
are SO manhe.ily un Just, tue object OF them Is
50 wicked, they are 50 directly against mature,
the heart OF mAn so involuntarly swells with IN
digna.ion at the bare thought Of the au'aeIons
design, that we are hurried away from the mo
tives, yet We ought to look well at these motives
for we shall lad them OF lhe greaiesttnportance
10 you.
From the moment that you had beaten your
tyrants, the great object OF the Chambers was
/ TO preserve the public funds; that Is to say, To
DE able still 10 get from you, out OF the fruii oil
your labor. taxes to pay the interest Of the debt
which had been contracted TO ensIave you, and
which must have ma You slaves as long as you
continue to pay it. We, in this country, laughed
when we saw banker at the head OF the Dep
uies. and when we that banker Offering
! the crown t. the new king To preserve the