Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1843-04-21

| from their resting places,to be outraged
by the people. Mad with crime. they
moved the gates ofhell IN impotent rage
against the King of Heavea,the Alnigh-
" Jehovah himself. With all the wick
edness Of man, it remained for the
French Revolution TO exhibit such u Pic'
ture as this:
"rhe execution OF the Queen was an
act OF defiance bv the National! Con
ton TO all the crowned heads in Europe.
Ii was Immediately followed by u meas
ure US unnecessary as ii was barbarous
the violation Of the To NIB oGSt. Denis,
and the proclamation of the >epulchres OF
the Kings Of ~France.-By II decree Of
the convention. these venerable asyIums
of departed greatness were ordered TO
be destroyed; a measure never adopted
by the English Parliament even during
the frensy Of the Covenant, and which
proves the political lanaticlsm, will push
men TO greater extremIIies lhau religi-
Gus. A furious multitude precIpitated
itself out Of Paris; the tombs Of Henry
the w., OF Francis the l., Of Louis the
XII, were ransacked and their bones
scattered in the air, Even the glorious
name Of TureGe could not protect his
grave from spoilation. His remains
were almost as undecaye1, as when he
received the fatal wound on the banks Of
the Lcch. The bones Of Charles ",
tho saviour OF his coun;rJ, were dlsper-
sed. Al his feet was found the coffin Of
the faithful Du Guesclin, and French
haRds profaned the ske,eton before
I which Innltsb IN yo.i,p hoH rnllaI B,rG
Most Of these tombs were found to be
strongly secured. Much time and no
small excrtion Of skill and labor, vas
required 10 burst their barriers. They
would have resisted forever the decay
of time or violence Of enemies, they
yielded 10 he fury Of domestic disscn-
ton.
"This was Immediately followed by
general attack upon the monuments and
remains OF antiquity throughout all
France. The scpulchres of the great
Of past times, OF the barons and generals,
feudal ayes, Of the Paladins, and the
Crusaders, were involved in one undis-
Iingui-hed ruin. 1t seemed as If the glo-
RES Of antiquity were forgotten, or
sought 20 be buried iG oblivion. The
.omb Of Du GueSclin shared the same
fate as that Of Louis XIV. The SOULS
of monarchs and heroes were tossed a
bout like footballs ny the p~rofane multi
tude: like the grave digger in liam ct
J they made u jest oil tho laps before which
nations had trembled.
The monumental remains which had
escaped their sacriligious fury were SUBJ
sequen lily collected by order of the Di-
recrory, and place in n great museum
at Paris, where they long remained p,l.
cd and heaped together in broken confu-
sion: an emblem Of the Re voluliou.
which destroyed in a few years what
centuries of glory had erected.
"Iavlng mustered the great Of the
present, and Insulted the iIlustr;ous of
former ages, nothing remlined TO the
Revolutionists but to direc. their ven
geance against Heaven itself. Pache.
Hebert, and Chaumetle. the leaders of
the municipality, publicly expressed
heir determination 'to detnrone the
King Of Heaven as we'll as the monarchs
of the EARTH To accomplish this de-
sign, they prevailed on Gotet, the apos-
tate Constitutional bishop of Paris, to
appear at the bar o. the assembly, az
%comPanied by some of the clergy Of the
dIocese, and there a5jure the Christian
faith. He declared that no o;her na-
tIonaI religion was now required bu; that
OF liberty, equality and morality Ma
ny OF the ConStItu ional bishops and
clergy in the convention Joined in the
proposition. Crowds OF drunken arti-
sans and shameless prostitutes crowded
to the bar, and tramPled under their
ieet the sacred vases, consecrated for
ages to the hottest purposes Of religion.
Inc sections Of Paris shortly after fol.
lowed The example Of the Constitutional
clergy, and publicly abjured The Chris
tlan religion. The churches were strip-
ped Of all their ornaments; their plate
and valuable contents brought in heaps
to the municipality and the convention.
from whence they were sent TO the mint
to be melted down. Trnmpling under
loot the images Of our Saviour and the
Virgin. they elevated, amid shouts and
applause, the busts oil Narat and Lepelle-
tire, and danced around them, singing
parodlse on the HaIleluIhu, aud dancing
he Carmagnole .