The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-06-21
THE RE,PU BnIG
From the Christian Enquirer.

We have before us the April and May numbers
of Lamartne's new political journal. They con-
tain his first and second "Adviceto the People"
As an illustration of the way IN which such man
addresses not statesmen, but the great body of his
counlrymen, we translate some extracts from the
close of the second of those papers.
THE RED REPUBLIC.
But there is another party that of
itself alone is more dangerous to the Republic than
all the rest put together. 1t is the party of eXcu
sive republicans, inpatient violent agitators, dis
turbers of the public tranquility, brollers, who, in
the journals and in the clubs of Paris, and of the
provinces, are called the '' Mountain
The Mountain" under the first Republic was
the terrorist party. II is the party who adopted
the scaffold as the means of government, death as
prime minister. The party who decimated France,
little and great rich and poor, until she was drained
of all the ancient blood in her veins. and she be-
came republican by the humiliation Of life 1t was
the torture applied to nation of twenty-six mil
lions of men by seven or eight nquistors OF the
self-styled Democracy This party has destroyed
the Republic, and it has left behind It burst of IN
dgnation against the executioners, and OF pity for
the Victims that will never cease but with the re-
cords of history
Well, this party, odious as it was, had, at least,
not an excuse There is never any for crime,) but
an explanation of its madness. 1t fought externally
against emigration and combination internally
against scarcely conquered privileges. II had the
passion for conflict, the angry conception, the ex
citement of the battlefield. The Z" Mountain" then
signifed the volcano of compressed revolution
that bursting against its enemies, pours forth its
flame and scora upon itself. We understand that.
But, at present, the " Mountain" signifies a cold
booded party, that adopts anger, injury, and men
ace, as a system of government; that pretends TO
seek for enemies TO pretend to brighten them. A
party that gives TO the united, magnanimous, hu-
name, and fraterna Republic of 1913, the dress, the
attitude, the action, the discourse of the sangunary
and implacable Republic of l765. party, IN
short, that appears to think that the red flag, the
committee Of public safety, the revolutionary trbu-
nal, the assignats, the arinum, prescriptions, dun
eeons, and the gullotine are very proper means TO
tempt to Republic an Industrious, agricultural ma
ton, friendly to order, jealous Of It's liberty, of It's
dignity, of Its fame, of It's national character and IN
dividual safety
You see that this terror is not supported by COM
mon sense. That this terror IS a poshumous
parody upon fearful drama performed sixty years
since. That these posthumous terrorists are mere
ly reproductions of Danton and Robespierre, play
ing at guilloune upon puppet show. Two things
wanting at the present day, TO the fanatic terror
of the JMontagnards of the clubs; people who
willing To be gullouned and people who wish
to guillotlne. All this is then very odious bu,
serious. Therefore, as you know, 1t conceals IL
self in a few clubs ashamed TO sit by day.
But this mania of the terrorist republicans is sti
productive of real danger. This danger is that it
may serve as pretext TO the enemies of the Re-
public to make her doubt and detest timid persons
men of peace and of substance.
Nations, as well individuals, gifted with
imagination. This Imagination has remained horror
struck atthose sinister days when blood spilled
in the name of the first Republic. II is but fifty
years since. Fifty years, they are as yesterday IN
the life of people The impression is not efaced ;
il will never be effaced The difficulty Of the pre-
sent Republic is 20 have it well understood that 1t
has nothing in common with the other, but It's
name Those men, with an extraordinary lack Of
common sense, were DESTROYS that the two Repub-
lies should resemble each other 10 dress, in tyranny
IN language, IN the solemnity of prescriptions In
this way they alarm the people, they make of the
Republic a spectre clothed IN sanguinary rags 10
startle the eyes and shock the hearts Of men, And
they talk of traitors to the Republic! All if the
Republic ever falls, history will give 10 each one
his true name land if there have been traitors his
Tory viii tell whether they are to be sought for
among those who wish thar the Republic should
be adored, or among those who seem to have
sworn to make 1t object Of hatred. Distrust
those men, and keep them far possible from
the tribunal They would cause II TO crumDle by
the uterance OF words that would be crimes if they
were not folles