Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-01-21
For the Lewisburg Chronicle.

Mr.. Editor As all eyes are now turned
IN France, and great surprise and regre
felt at the apparently quiet satisfaction
with which the usurpation Of Louis Il
submitted to, your readers may be pleased
10 see some glimpses Of the probable cause
of this quiescence.
1t may, L think, be found in the terrible
,,;Ser;cs which the French have endured
during struggles for power between differ
ent political parties, and the conviction
that the security of life and property is
che,pIy purchased by submitting to any
government, if it only be supreme and
1iurcs!stcd.
Daring the horrid civil commo,ions
which in France have been called " i:eyo-
lu,i,ns," the nation became one frightful
scene Of butchery and ravenlng. The
,peratiyes left their shops to rave III ''eiubs,
and ly degrees factories were closed, shops
aL.ndoue,;, the fields neglected, commerce
ceased, and money disappeared. Ofcourse,
emplnycls had no longer business, and la
bo,,rs no more wages. Capital, in the
f,m OF public cd,iiccs, &c, was destroyed
70 an enormous extent, and the whole
country fell into eaunt poverty Then
came piunIer, of course, aud equally, OF
course, murder Houses, barns, stacks Of
orain. &c, were burnt in the hellIsh
animosity of contending factions
The State gained nothing by the peoples
,osses Coutscations reached not the pub
lie treasury, but were squandered among
greedy and unscrupulous officials. Inc
ci,v of bordeaux was too poor to continue
the lighting of street lamps. A document
recently found IN the archives Of that city
shows that its treasury was not able, IN
Sept, 1894, to pay a bill Of - francs Tor
washing the guiliotine
Thre. millions of the best citizens OF
France left their native land for ever
F.nine, violence and war cut off vastly more.
For Tie supply of the armies, the
Council Of Five Hundred was informed
that the subscriptions had descended to
children. Their feeble nature was unequal
10 the tatiaues OF war, augmented by the
v,,n1 OF food aud clothing. The Commit,
tee Of PuDnc Safety published an Official
do,.u,ueut Oh the state of the armies, aud
tins document proved that the war OF the
,hr.. preceding years had cost France eight
b,,,;red thousand soldiers. In the eleven
den ,,meuts which were the theatre OF
the war Of La Eendce, according TO
an estimate entitled to full credit, be-
tween tour and five hundred thou
sand persons were massacred. 1he pacin-
.a,iou, as it was called, Of La Vendee,
was accomplished upon the RUNS OF twenty
cities and eighteen hundred villages
reduced to ashes What shall be said OF
the barbarity of that General who adorned
the walls of his chamber with human ears,
for which be paid his soldiers twenty
iiyres pair, and presented to deputy for
his reimbursement bill for 500 francs .
What shall be said of the statement by
PguIhommc in relating the circumstances
OF the feast celebrated in the garden of the
Tui!l,res, june 10, 1874, that some Of
the deputies wore pantaloons made Of
human skins? 1t is sustained by different
authorities that manery Of such skins
was established at Mendon, and they wert
used for binding books, as well as fol
other purposes.
when the Bastile was made an objec
of revolutionary vengeance, it was fount
in fac. to contain only seven prisoners, o
whom not one was state prisoner II
three wears afterwards, Paris alone con
tanned thirty-six vast places Of confinement
besides uinety-six smaller ones. The SUP
Elementary prisons being suddenly forme
out of hotels, converts, and colleges.
cit is mistake to suppose that tn
reyolution put to death only mobiles an
priests. In one of the principalities n
hundred and twenty rag pickers wer
guillo,iued in two days. Iudeed it will b
found that the guillosine was fed especiall
by the laboring classes; and that swent,
wOrkiugmeu perished for one priest or on
nobleman- A classification made BY Prud
homme, who was . friend of Dantor
shows, out of list Of some twelve thousan
persons thus put to death, that for IS
priests and 639 mobiles, emigrants,'
there were us women and 1871 peasant,
laborers and Ploughusp."