The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-09-24

The FAuBouRG SAINT ANTOINE IN New YoRS
Sixty -four years ago, this month, France was
proclaimed in state Of anarchy, revolution
civil war. Society was shaken to its foundations
tile streets Of Paris flowed with the blood OF
The good, the brave, the fair and the gentle. The
Faubourg Saint Antoine invaded the Faubourg
Saint German to give the people liberty. The
people got license for q few years. and then re
signed themselves to the tender mercies of o
military despot. The revolution Of is4s had
similar result, and after that numerous gentle
men from the Faubourg Saint Antoine were
kindly informed that they talked too much and
too loud; that change Of air would be beneficial
to their health. They came 10 us, of course.
They came to the land of the free and the home
Of the brave, and occasionally we hear
Of their celebrating the anniversary of something
or other by getting up a weak Jacobin club in
some mysterious beer house over in the Bowery,
making windy speeches, smoking short pipes,
drinking gallons of beer, displaying rcd and black
flags, and laying the rouge upon radical demo-
cracy OF least an inch thick. One Of these plea
sant affairs came off in Hester street on Monday,
where the Society Of Revolutionary Mechanics
that is, we presume, society Of mechanics who
revolt against work held meeting. One citi.
zen advised the United States to join with the
red republicans Of France in overthrowing oil
the governments OF the Old World, and setting up
a European republic. That would be nice for the
revolutionary mechanics. Another citizen pre-
dicied the speedy death Of the Emperor OF France,
who was called q " dog, a rascal q " cheat"
an assassin rat" and various other sweet
and savory things and called on the revolution
AIRY mechanics TO get their traps in order 20 they
could start at short notice. A third citizen got
himself into an awful state Of excitement. This
revolutionary mechanic desired to be another
Robespierre. lie had an appetite for blood, and
hoped one day to wade knee deep in the severed
heads of rascally aristocrats. Not pleasant
thing for the revolutionary mechanic or the aris-
tocrais, we should suppose. But cioam son gowi
This citizen further desired that everything in
general should bc snnhlated and the universal
republic reared upon the debris. Citizen num-
Der four hoped for a social revolution to cut of
the money arisiocrais, who were, he said, worse
than the aristocrats Of blood This citizen also
thought that the rich Americans would be all the
better for an acquaintance with Marianne
(cant term for the guillotinel Wall street will
consider itself in danger. II might not b.
pleasant TO sec, some Cine morning the heads
Of half dozen bank presidents sticking on
tho fence Of Trinity church, A citizen ia
a blouse went in for killing all The rich people
with steam guillotine, and for division Of
all The property among the revolutionary me.
chanics.
We have q sort OF admiration for the man who
perils his life for cause. even II II is bad onc
and we could pardon even Jean Paul Maret for
much of his brutality because OF his sincerity; but
those fellows who blaze away at a conveniently
safe distance from France, and libel the country
that feeds them, are beneath contempt. They
are worse than the scum Of the Faubourg Saint
Antoine. The citizen of the Faubourg fights and
dies for his cause: the citizen in Hester street
gets three thousand miles away and talks about
it. To carry out the ideas Of these philosophers
there would literally be no one left to inhabt
their model republic except themselves. They
should have republic Of their own; II should
be a republic within the walls of an insane
spyluU.