The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-03

whips, the Protector chastised them with
scorpions. His soldiers interfered with oil the
pleasures of the people, dispersed their festive
meetings, and put fddlers in the stocks. Pic
lures and sculpture were destroyed. Dancing,
even in private houses, was prohibited. The
sullen tyranny of the Rump, the rampant
fanaticism of the Barebones Parliament, the
violence of the army, and the dictatorship Of
Cromwell, were now regarded with loathing
by the people, and they remembered Charles /.
only as a martyr. A bloody and licentious
monarchy succeeded, and Charles H. sent his
host OF Highland hellhounds over the Western
wings of Scotland.
1t was in vain that the patriots Algernon
Sydney and Sir Benjamin Rudyard had warned
their own party of the danger of their course
and the certainty of running their cause by civil
war; 1t fell at last into the hands. of q military
dictator. Thus republicanism 50 suffered from
it's Identification with the Puritans that it fell
with them, and though two hundred years have
since elapsed it has never been able to rise
again. Let the republican party, now in the
ascendant In this country, beware. lest they
too bring the principles of republican govern
ment into disrepute, and the people fall back
upon monarchy as the lesser of two evils.
The result was the same in the French revo-
luton, by which king also fell and repub-
lie was substituted. The moderation OF the
Girondists, who sought to achieve the regene-
ration of France by legitimate and mora
means, was borne down by the violence Of the
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wholesale massacres and robberies and wrongs
to maintain the authority of the republic, zone
and indvisible;" to abolish the rights of pro-
perty by dividing it among the people, as
has been proposed among ourselves by Gree
ley and the philosophers of the Tribune and to
establish atheism upon the ruins of the Christian
religion. To crown their work they declared
the political equality of the free negroes and
whites in their island of st. Domingo, and they
afterwards sent three commissioners to pro-
claim the freedom Of the slaves. The fearful
massacres Of white men, with the loss of the
colony to the French, which followed as the
natural consequences, are well known.
After drinking blood till they vomited crimes
without end; after bringing even Robespierre
to the guillotine for his moderation, and after
innumerable horrible excuses caused by the
secret agents Of England in order to destroy
the republic, as they have been trying to do
with our own, the Jacobins failed in all. The
repablic merged into an empire, which the
people hailed as relief from the despotism of
the military republic Of the Jacobins, the
Christian religion was restored, and the rights
of property were re- established, while the sis
ter republics, which the Frefosn republic had
erected throughout Europe, all relapsed into
monarchies or became fefs of Napoleon's en-
pire, which resulted in the conquest of France,
the dismemberment and partition of her terri
tory, and the restoration Of the Bourbon kings
to the throne, in despite of the will of the peo-
pie. Thus again was republicanism ruined by
its own partisans, and the cause Of democracy
was thrown back more than half century in
Europe.
And now the red radicals of the republican
party Of the United States propose to force
their anti slavery ideas upon the whole coun-
try ut the point Of the bayonet, after the man
ner of the fanatical blood-thirsty Puritans
and Jacobins. For thirty years their faction,
under one name or another, have labored in
the cause, and they believe that the game is at
last in their hands, and that all that it is neces
sary for them to do is TO carry into practical
effect the policy of Danton, 'To dare; again to
dare, and without end to dare" If they sue
coed in their daring, nothing is more certain
than that they must share the fate of their pro-
totypes in England and France.
REGISTRATIONS IN THE ARMY, NAVY AND CIVIL
SERVICE OF THE FEDERAL GovERNMEST-We
publish elsewhere formidable list Of resig-
nations Of officials in various departments of
the government, caused by the breaking up Of
the Union and the establishment Of Southern
confederacy. After to morrow the federal
officers in the South will decline to keep their
places, which Of course cannot be filed in the
cotton States, and only with much difficulty
and by inferior men in the Southern States
which have not yet gone out. designations of
army and navy officers are on the increase.
In the army two general officers, one colonel,
three lieutenant colonies, four majors, twelve
captains and twenty-eight lieutenants have
thrown up their commissions. In the navy,
FIVE captains, four commanders, four pursers
and twenty lieutenants have resigned. In this
list will be found the names Of some of the
very best officers in the united service;
and if the South is compelled to accept the
arbitrament of the sword, its army and
navy will not lack competent command
ers. The resignation of these officers proves,
too, that the leaders Of the Southern people are
quite assured that the reconstruction of the
Union is no longer probable. The army and
navy officers have given up life appointments,
with the direct promise of others no less i'm
portant, honorable and lucrative. Their course
sno,-s cloarly tha doararafa state into which