The Democratic Whig. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1842-1843, 1843-08-17

uOLSeS win taxed Bfl0les on taxes road:
and the dying Englishman pours his medicine,
that has paid fifteen per cent; fings himself
back upon his chintz bed, which has paid
twenty-five per cent; and expires in the arms
OF ms apotheeafy, who had paid license OF "a
| hundred pounds for the privilege fpHtting him
% death. His whole property is then inlme-
diately taxed from two 70 ten per cent. Be.
sides the probate, large fees are demanded for
| burying him IN the ctancel, his virtues are
handed down TO posterityon taxed marble; and
| ne - then gathered to his fathers. to be taxed
| no more"
THOMAS PAYNE AND THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION. g
| 1Weextract the following from an article in
the North American Review, on the Life and
services of Thomas Paine. e
ssCharles the First had a trial before the on
~ Peers that can try aithless monarch, his
own offended countrymen. The French Con-
ventlon was mob on a small scale. Eng
llshmen sat as jurors to try the English King.
| The French inquest was sort of tales, not
even de caTcstnsSf0nffbuS, not Of the body ofthe
country. Judges were summoned from abroad
like Paine. Anacharsis Clootz, and others,
and made citizens for the nence and by whole
sale naturalization, if not citizens by mere
force OF republican SympatnieSs
"On the test vote in the Convention, Paineas
voice for mercy, and what he calls his speech
in favor of Punishment to tie United States is
preserved in his printed works. What dis
NAL scene was that of the night session of the
18th of January 1892, and what thoughts must
have crowded into the mind Of Paine as, with
the fresh recellections Of the past, he looked
around him! It was the same Paris, whittier
he had 6-st come some eleven years before to
invoke sympathy for America, and where he
had been SO warmly welcomed. Before him,
during the days of the trial, sat the monarch
who generously supplied the aid America had
solicited, now attainted and about to be sacri-
feed. Where was the brilliant court which
Laurens had impoftuned where the white
flag which had f1oated before the entfench.
ments of Yorktown-where Lafay cite, the
Lamottes, Chastelleux, Rochambeau, DIES
taing, Degrasse? All gone TO death or ban.
ishments the scene was changed there were
new actors and bloody ceremonial. Seven
hundred and forty-nme judges were utterlng
the words of doom on innocence. During all!
one night and the following day the polling Of
this dreadury continued There was TO be-
heard the hoaFse emphatic tones ofthe Jacob
in, ren1ors6ly pronounclng his bloody opinion
tile hesitatipg Whisper of the Girondst taking
eteznn No upon his soul for Q false Judgment
constituti0n-monger, the d0uhting vote of ban
ishn1ent on Paine'e lips, followed by execra-
tons and sneers from those who had imported
him for sterner uses; aEd, last and worst Of all,
the hollow voice of an apostaie Prince Decree
ing death to one whose blood was kindred to
his own: all these in quick succession were
the Incidents of that night and day; and yet
Paine lived through IL, and meditated on it af-
forwards without remorse. or without any
thought but that this was the rightful effect OF
theories that wee destined TO triumph and
though he shrunk from being himself The
butcher, hecould IN his old age look back up
on the bloody actors in these scenes and
praise them az the wise and good.
@Paine was soon to taste of the poisoned
cup of revolutionary excess, and bis subsequent
career affords curious comment on hls usur-
ped functions Of citizen Judge. He was, as
we have stated, naturalized, or, IN d.. Theirs
phrase, aeiected a citizen on his arrival in
France, and qualified by this process to take
his seat in the Convention. He was then
made one of the philosophic triumvirate with
Sieyes and Condoreet, TO prepare the plan Of p
Eeonstitution. Anacharsis CloUtz and himself
were the only two transmitted foreigners IN
the Convention. On the fall Of the Gircnde.
IL order urobably to get rid of them, decree
as passed expellIng all who were not natives
Of France. The next day. by natural tran
sition. they found their way to the cells OF the
luxembourg. The next step was 10 a revo-
h,t;onary distinction to which Paine did not
asrire. and. in his reasonable terror at the
thought 9of death, he applied TO G0uverneur
Morris to obtain his release as an American
citizen. But, with the honors Of French CATH
zenship, he had assumed its responsiveness
and the Minister Of Justice very peremptorly
replied to this effect to Mr.. Morris,s Interces-
sion. I'M vainl did Paine argue u favor 9, m
deFeasible aliegiances IN vain dld ne assert tnat
Ls.,;r1 ,rce BECOME an American citizen, be
ro,,lds not be renunnced as such; the logic was
tnos eubtle for Robespierre and Fouquler In
v;lle- and could not unlock the prison doors.
Res;aes. if allegiance were thus inahenable,
Tnoland had 4 sort Of prescription rgnt 10
I'm far within her realm he had been born,
- sh;sher he had once voluntarily returned.
Tsc- eleven months, throughout the whole
Res;on of Terror, did he remain prisoner 70
the Luxembourg.
s.14ow he escaped the wholesale Indiscnmt-
go Slaughter Of that awful period has never
tssy, rreciseIv ascertalned. MIR. Morris atlrl-
hutes 4 to the contempt INTO which ne naa
sunk- and paine accounts for It by the mis.aks
r,aae nv The JailoF In marking the cein q me
condemned: mistake WHEN cou'a sc1Icsj5K
have occurred unless the Jallog vas g es1nA
a the prisoner &eu5Laliy . g. "a - $3.50. r
y Saasellas Af,acharss Clootz, and Lepon o.
Ssrss. rs immediate companions n capsIvl.y,
vent. one after another, @ the guallotine.
one hundred and sixty ~ one cay anu ~, n.gns
/ 80 esir1ss fFom the LuxembOuEg and con-
49, I VET he destroying angel passed 1y
49,. ~ aananed TIL the revolution pf me
a. -,,;dor. and the 6lf 81 KobeepIeEe
-. 80. ~ nr;sons we're opened and PANE
q ~. 49, ss@ ofher survivors, worn CUT WIN
49, s:aas : "a aStFess Of mind and body as set
Il lisslsyf' -
~. 4. f,ll,, a. Is mise.