Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-11-06

the wounded, as blow after blow fell upon
them, the incessant reports of inusksts, and
of pistols, the tramp of soldiers, and the peals
OF the alarm bell. all combined to create scene
OF terror such as human eyes have seldom
witnessed.
In the midst Of ten thousand perils the
young man crept along, protected by his priest
ly garb, while he frequently saw his fellow
Christians shot and stabbed at his side. In
turning corner he fell into the midst of a
band of the body guard of the King They.
seized him roughly, but seeing the prayer-book,
they regarded it as passport, and permitted
him to go on. Twice again he was seized, and
each time extricated in the same way.
At length he arrived at the College. 1t
was Catholic college The porter kew him,
aud refused him admiltahce. The murderers
began to multiply around him, ard TO assail
him with fierce questions. BY means of BIZ
bic lie at length got message to the president
OF the college, who, an enlighted and humane
man, was exceedingly attached to bis Prot
estant pupil, lie received Macmillan kindly.
Two priests in the room with the president
| insisted upon Immediately cutting Macmillan
down, declaring that the King had command
ed that not single Protestant should be spar
ed-not even the infant at the breast. The
| good old man, however, firmly protected his
| young friend, and conducting him to a private
chamber for refuge, locked him up. Here
Macmillan remained three days, apprehensive
every hour that the assassins would break in
upon him. He was thus saved, and afterward,
as Duke of Sully, became one of the most
! illustricus ministers of whom any government
| can boast.
While these scenes were transporting body
of soldiers entered the chamber of Henry of
Navarro, and conveyed him to the presence Of
the King. The mbece monarch, with bias
phemous oaths, and a cOuntenance nfamed
with fury ordered him to abandon Protestant
ism, or prepare to die Charles allowed Hen
ry three days to decide, declaring that if at
the end of that time be did not accept the
Catholic faith lie should be strangled'
Henry, to save his life, inglori0usly yielded;
and even carried his compliance so far as to
send an edict to bis own dominions, psohbit-
ing the exercise of any religion excepting that
of Rome.
When the darkness of the night had passed
away, and the morning of Sabbath dawned
upon Paris, a spectacle was witnessed such ~
even that blood-renowned metropolis has sell
dom presented. The city still! resounded with
no pdfOlllSUlS H6T6 RuI1 duu GOV
cred with the dead Men, women, and
wounded and bleeding, pursued by m ,rciless
sssassins, riot0us with demoniac laughter, and
drunk with blood. The reports of guns and
pistols, and of continued volleys OF musketry
from ell parts of the city, proved the univer-
salty of the massacre Miserable wretches
smeared with blood, staggering along with
ribald jests aud 6end like bOwlings, hunting for
the Protestsnts. Bodies torn and CORY were
hanging from the windows; and discovered
heads were spurned like foot balls along the
pavementS Priests in sacerdOta robes, and
with elevated ciucitixes, Urged their emissaries
not to grow weary in the work of extermina-
ting Gods enemies. The most distinguished
mobiles Of the court and OF the camp rode
through the streets with gorgeous retinue en-
cOuraging the massacre.
Let NOT, the King proclaimed, zone single
Protestant be spared to reprosch me hereafter
with this deedn
The massacre was continued inthe city and
throughout the Kingdom for a week, and it 10
computed that from eighty to one hundred
thousand Protestants were slain in France.
Charles himself, with his mother and the
high born prUilgate ladies who disgraced her
court. emerged in the morning light in sPleE-
did array into the reeking streets. The ladies
contemplated, with merriment and ri6ald jeSts,
the dead bodies piled up before the Louvre
Some ufdhe retinue, appalled, by the horrid
spectacle, wished to retire, alleging that the
bodies already emitted an offensive odor.
Charles brutally replied:
"The smell of dead enemy is always pleas
ant"
On Thursday, after four days spent 10 hunt
ing out the iugitives from al15tieir hiding,
places, the clergy Paraded the q Dts in a tri
umphal procession, and with jubilant prapers
and hymns gave hsnR seogGod for their victo-
ry. The Catholic pulpits resOunded with ex-
ultant harangues, and in honor of the event q
medallion was struck off viii the inscription:
''Le piete receiIle Ia justice"-Religion has
awakened justice.