Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-04-08


stand, but did as hidden, and went whittier urged
by the violent and crafty Of each fresh faction. II
cried out, when the monarch yielded II a conslltu-
ton, Long live the King y and when ne was
powerless 1t shouted Down with the tyrant !!
Then it huzzaed for sPeton or death and il
prescribed Petion. 1t made the great days OF the
Tenth of August, Chat of the attack on the Tuil-
cries and slaughter of the Swiss guards,) the Sec
ond and Third OF September, 1892, when all the
prisoners on suspicion, some thousands, were mas
sacred in their places of confnement) and the Thir-
yfrst of May. 1898, 1.-THE date of the destruction OF
i the Glrondlsts Republican party by the Ultra
Democracy) 1t dei6ed MARAT by an apotheoss
: in the Pantheon and it dug up his remains to
: cast them into the common sewers. Ii worship
ped RoBEsPIERRE, and il covered him with male
dicons as he was dying. The peoples creduHty
is the patrimony OF those who will flatter and Jug
4 gle il.
I "In the midst of these frghtful disorders, crime
alone moved along at its ease. When country
\ is torn by factions which rush every way, which
jostle, which upset. which crush one another, each
TO be crushed in its turn by party more power
full adroit, the spublic good is but mask
for perfdy, robbery, assassination. Virtue hides
! herself or becomes mark for destruction. Crime
alone dares to erect its hideous head. 1t hovers
in air, it selects It's prey, it swoops and It strikes
the victims we weep and we are silent"
Presently came that singular phenomenon, not
entirely unseen in this country that there, where
the institutions are avowed to be such confer the
most universal happiness, precisely there the mass
Of men is most easily persuaded that nearly one
half the citizens, and just those whose industry and
sobrety have secured them from want, are the en-
emies of all this liberty and bent upon overseeing
that stability in which none have so much to lose
So easily do the public parasites succeed in per-
suading the people that happy government pro
duces greater body of traitors and more unnatural
ones than did ever the worst tyranny! To kindle
up this jealousy of their more fortunate neghbors
to infuriate the society with suspicious within ITSELF
now became in Paris ready resort for attracting
confidence and influence meried in no other way.
And, as such practices were at first directed, by
pidty, against the rich, so, by and by, they were
turned for the ends of personal revenge against all
men.
"A Revolutionary tribunal was established. The
Bastille had fallen thousand new ones brstled
the back OF France. Her authorities became one
great body of turkeys; and one-half her people
seemed occupied in cutting off the heads of the
rest rvetng their letters. Every day, cart.
loads of the prescribed were arraigned before the
tribunal; and this adjudged them to death without
Witnesses, without a hearing. The Jury's mind
and conscience asked no further information after
it had heard the names of those accused. They
'aristocras,' disaffeced,' lederalists,' or
suspected according as these designations best
served the bloody purpose of those who meant to
destroy them. The populace, now grown fero-
cious, followed the death-carts in crowds; they
who insulted the victims to-day forgetting that
their own heads would fall tomorrow, if il suited
their yrants."
From these and kindred horrors which disgraced
humanity during the first great Revolution of France
and the repetition of which during the second was
prevented only by the overpowering influence of
the name and character of LAFAYETTE, may Heaven
in its mercy now shield and protect the People Of
France, SO large proportion of whom are worthy
OF better fate than 10 be made the sport Of success
sive tumults and the victims Of the caprice Of de-
signing and selfish demagogues Happily may the
People work out their salvation, and succeed in
establishing free, elective, and representative gov
eminent, possessing power to execute its own re-
solves, to defend its country from invasion from
abroad, and to suppress instructions at home In
such consummatlon of this Revolution all the
wishes Of America will be realized and no where
in the wide world will France meet with more SYM
pathy and more substantial goodwill than from the
People and Government Of the United States. Nor
is the man TO be found in these States who will
more rejoice than we in her solid and stable
prosperity.
But, in the ardor of our zeal for newborn liberty,
and in the afluence Of our professions of devotion
to Republican principles let US not be ashamed or
afraid TO inquire what we are doing, and where we
are going This is all that, in our former article
this subject, proposed to ourselves, or recon-
mended to our fellow citizens, without distinction
Of party. And here is as fit an occasion as we
shall probably find to protest against any party
being held responsible for our views on this sub
ect as has been attempted to be done with no i'll
design, we dare be SWORN by an honorable Senator
from the South, who is officially reported to have
said on Thursday last, /" that the organ Of large
and respectable party, published in this city, has
" in the most solemn and formal manner expressed
sentiments hostile to the movements in favor OF
freedom in France" We know nothing Of the
views Of the Wings, as a party, on this subject.
We think il quite possible that some, perhaps
many, Of those who belong TO the Wing party
disapprove Of our feeble exertions 10 prevent our
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