South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-02-14

well might the sculptor Of block of.
marble, after exhausting his genius and
his art in giving it beautiful human
form, call God to witness that it shalI
perform all the functions ofanimal life j
as the Constituent Assembly OF France
could pledge the faith Of its members
that theirroyal democracy should work
as permanent organized form ofgov~
eminent. The Declaration of Rights
contained all the principles essential to,
freedom. The frame of governments
was radically and irreparably DETECTIVES.
The hereditary Royal Executive wag
itself an inconsistency with the Decla-t
ration of Rights. The Legislative
power, all concentrated in single AS \
sembly, was an incongruity still more
glaring. These were both departures
from the system of organization which
Lafayette had Witnessed in the Ameri-
can Constitutions neither of them was
approved by Lafayette. In Difference
to the prevailing opinions and prejudi-
ces Of the times, he acquiesced in them )
and he was destined to incur the most
imminent hazards Of his life, and to
make the sacrifice Of all that gives val-
ue to life itself, in faithful adherence to-
that Constitution which he had sworn
to support.
Shortly after his resignation, as
Commander General Of the National
Guards, the friends of liberty and order
presented him as candidate for cleo
ton as Mayor Of Paris but he had q |
competitor, in the person Of Petition
more suited TO the party, pursuing With
memorable rancor the abolition Of the
Monarchy and the destruction Of the
King; and, what may seem scarcely
credible, the remnant Of the party
which still adhered to the King, the
King himself, aud, above all, the
Queen, favored the election Of the ia.
Goblin Petition, in preference 70 that Of
Lafayette. They were, too fatally for |
themselves, successful.
From the first meeting Of the Legis-
lative Assembly, under the Constitu-
ton Of 1871, the destruction Of the
King and of.he Monarchy, and the es-
Enlistment Of a Republic, by means Of
the popular passions and Unpopular vi
olence, were the deliberate purposes Of
its leading members. The spirit with
which the Revolution had been pursu
ed, from the time Of the destruction /,
the Bastille, had caused the emigratiIl.
Of great numbers Of the Nobility az
Clergy; and, among them, Of the til
brothers of Louis the Sixteenth, and /
several other Princes of his blood.AJ
They had applied to all the other great
Monarchies Of Europe for assistance
to uphold or restore the crumbling1
Monarchy of France. The French
Reformers themselves, in the heat Of
their political fanaticism, avowed, with
out disguise, the design to revolutionize
all Europe, and had emissaries in eve.
~ country, openly or secretly preach-
ing the doctrine Of insurrection against
all established Governments. Louis
the Sixteenth and his Queen, an Aus
trian Princess, sister to the Emperor
Leopold, were in secret regulation with
the Austrian Government for the rescue
Of the King and royal family of France
from the dangers with which they were
so necessarily beset. In the Electo.
rate Of Treves, a part ofthe Germanio
Empire, the emigrants from France
were assembling, with indications Of
design to enter France in hostile array
to effect counter revolution; and tn.
brothers of the King, assuming posi-
ton at Cobleniz, on the borders ofthei
country, were holding councils, the OBJ
ject Of which was to march in arms 4
Paris, to release the King from captiv
ity, and to restore the ancient Mon
archy 10 the dominion Of absolute pow
er.
The King, who, even before his fore
ed acceptance of the Constitution
1871, had made an unsuccessful d
tempt to escape from his palace prison
was, in April, 1892, reduced to the hi
initiating necessity Of declaring war
gainsl the very Sovereigns who wei
arming their Nations to rescue biz
from his revolted subjects. Three a
mics, each OF fifty thousand men, WEI
levied TO meet the emergencies of tn
war, and we're placed under the con
mand of Luckner, Rochambeau, an
Lafayette. AS he passed through Pa
ris, to go and take the command Of hi
army, he appeared before the Legisla
tive Assembly, the President Of whict