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

now be permitted to remark how much
the virtues and the crimes of men, in
times Of politica! convulsion, are modi-
fed and characterized by the circum.
stances in which they are placed p
'fhe great actors of the tremendous
scenes ofrevolution of those times were
men educated in schools of high civili-
cation, and in the humane and benevo.
lent precepts of the Christian Religion.
A small portion Of them were vicious
and depraved /; but ihe great majority
were wound up to madness by that war
of conflicting interest, and absorbing
passions, enkindled by greet convuls
sion Of the social system. II has been
said, by great master Of human ma
ture-
SIN peace, there's nothing SO becomes a
man
AS modest stiffness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in
your ears,
"Then imitaae the action of the tiger"
Too faithfully did the people Of France,
and the leaders, Of their factions, 10
that war Of all the political elements,
obey that injunction. Who, That lived
! in that day, can remember who, since
! born, can read, or bear to be told, the
! horrors Of the goth Of June, the 9th of
] August, the I'd and Sd OF September,
1892, ofthe s1st Of May, 1898, and of
a multitude Of others, during which. 10
4 dreadful succession, the murderers of
one day were the victims Of the next,
i until that, when the insurgent popuiace
\ themselves were shot down by thous-
4 ands, in the very streets of Paris, by
|, the military legions Of the Convention,
q and the rising fortune and genius Of
\ Napoleon Bonapartei Who can re-
Fmember, or read, or hear, Of all this,
without shuddering at the sight Of man,
ifis fellow.creature, in the drunkenness
slof political frenzy, degrading himself
l3beneath the condition Of the cannibal
slsavagei beneath even the condition Of
the wild beast Of the desert 7 and who,
s,but with a feeling Of deep modification,
Jean reflect, that the rational and i'm.
smortal being, to the race Of which he
s.himself belongs, should, even in his
1lmost palmy state ofintellectual cuItiva-
hion, be capable Of this self-tzansforma-
hon to bruiality7
In this dissolution OF allthe moral ell.
'ements which regulate the conduct Of
ssmen in their social condition-in this
smonstrous and scarcely conceivable
spectacle Of King, at the head Of
mighty Nation, in secret league with
Che enemies against whom he has pro-
|Ils:laimed himself at war, and Of a Lee
ssislature eonspiring to destroy the King
Snd Constitution to which they have
worn allegiance & support, Lafayette
zone is seen 10 preserve his fidelity TO
re King, to the Constitution, and to
q country,
Il" mistaken, unseduced, unterri6ed,
"His loyalty he kept. his love, his ZEAL"
~ On the 10Th Of June, 1892, four
( Says before the first violation ofthe pal.
/ ice OF the Tuiileries by the populace
\ a Paris, at the instigation Of the Jaco-
4 gins, Lafayette, in letter to the LIE.
] s.islative Assembly, had denounced the
lacobin Club, and called upon the As
4 smbly to suppress them. He after
3lards repaired to Paris in person, pre-
ented himself at the bar Of the Assem-.
INV, repeated his denunciation Of the
n Tub, and took measures for suppresss
n De their meetings by force. He pro,
n Sosed also to the King himself TO fur.
4, sh him with means of Withdrawing
||9s,,lith his family to Compiegne, where
E.s would have been out of the reach Of
saat ferocious and blood-thirsty multi.
n: lde. The Assembly, by great ma
|s..rity Of votes, sustained the principles
III his letter, bu. the King declined his
roffered assistance to enable him to
iithdraw from Paris; and of those up
E, whom he called to march with him,
nd shu, up the hall where the Jaco-
sns held their meetings, not more than
irteen persons presented themselves
u the appointed time.
Il He returned to his army, and be.
6 me thenceforth the special object Of
,tcobin resentment and revenge. On
sle 9th Of August, on a preliminary
ryeasure 10 the intended insurrection of
lie 10th, the question was taken, after
bTveral days Of debate, upon formal
n otion that he should be put in accuse.
abn and tried. The last remnan. Of
eedem in that Assembly was then seen
II the vote upon nominal appeal, or
las and nays, in which four hundred
i'd forty.six votes were for rejecting
e charge, and only two hundred and