The Placer herald., 1862-03-15
THE PLACER HERALD
AUBURN, MARCH Is, 1862.
"A Lesson from History

IN WnlCn the present Pooitio" vi WIZ ~
States Is compared with France during her great
revolution.
The writer declares they form the nearest his
torical parallels of modern times, and ne THINKS
Il useful and Instructive to call up the record, as
showing what France endured and Frenchmen
uchieved seventy years ago. We agree with the
Tribune man, but cannot find anything in the
fact to congratulate the country upon. The
French revolution was bloody and terrible
night-mare Induced by causes directly opposite
TO those that have induced our own sid condition
Marat Danton. Linville, Couthon, Saint Just,
1.ebas, the Robespieres, the inventors and work
ers of the Gullotine, were the deformed crea-
lures of that darkness which had been brooding
over France for generations, q darkness indu
ccd by King-craft and Prest-craft working in
deepest corruption. 1t was as revolution, op-
pressed human nature goaded to the last extreme
and bursting through hunger and rags, and ig-
norance vainly grasping for an incomprehensi-
bic something by which they and the world of
man at large. should be bettered and made happy.
Saint Antoine represented France, and France IN
those terrible days of "93" "year two of the re-
public, was famished WOLF maddened by insult,
wrong, and hunger, and gnashing its teeth for
revenge and bread.
The philosophers of the Jacobin clubs, the
Mountain, the Cordecrs and other political
clubs, were like the spouters of the Republican
clubs of 1860, full Of high sounding phrases,
even leading the blinded tools to "liberty, fra
ternty and equality''-lke his French brother
he was for the ballot or the bullet" for ALL
~, kha
publican, "was over corpses;'-they too favored
"blood lettine' and sent the gullotine into every
city and department of France, and ght and
day, those savage patriots worked that horrid
machine until exhausted nature overcome, they
fell down by its side declaring they could do no
more Then they marched the victims out by
hundreds and shot them,-but the burying of
them became too great labor,-so they placed
them in bulks of boats and sunk them in rivers
and harbors,-anon this became expensive in loss
of boats. so they tied them in pairs, and anchor
ing the boats in the streams, deliberately cast
them overheard. Among these victims to the
gullotine the fusilade and to the waves wer"
weak women with infant at breast, and children
of tender years.
Nor was this all. says an author of the time
lat Mendon there was tannery OF human skins;
such of the gullotne as seemed worth faying OF
which perfectly good wash-leather WAS made, for
brecches and other uses, the skin of the man
superior in toughness and quality to Shamoy.
that of the women was good for almo nothing,
being so soft in texture" This exhibits the
ergy with which the republicans of 1898 carried
on the work of reformation, in the blood-letting
branch The Tribune greatly admires the ener-
gy of those times,-Greeey should have q suit
Of that "perfecty good wash-eather." Poor
republican Frenchman.-w -wading through blood
;,ol finn oh thoOr-
les of false philosophy, impracticablc formulas.
laws, and dead letter constitutions, he sought
what the American republicans OF 1860 already
possessed in the fullest enjoyment civil liberty.
Phillips, Seward, Abby Kelly, Beecher and
the rest of them. are republicans begotten in the
very sunshine of lberty,-how shall We excuse
them for their thirst of blood?
Confsuation was strong card in the hands of
republicans Of '93, and it is equally the rage
with the American brotherhood Of 1862. The
enemies of the French republican were the "ty-
rants and oppressors'' of the Southern States-
they that hold men in bondage. These philoso-
piers of both countries and ages, were and are,
doubtless earnest men, and are equally. rabid
with isms leading to anarchy and destruction.
Says the Tribune "like the French leaders of
1898, we offer peace and protection to the op
pressed and war to the oppressors for the op-
pressors are the enemies Of the Union. and the
oppressed its only friends in the South" Here
is The armng of slaves plainly marked out, and
there is to be an upheaving of the orders Of So
cety to effect it. The rights of man demand it.
and the Phillips, Beechers, Garrisons, Greelcy's
and Abby Kelleys have decreed it, and let no
weak halfway conservative border State GirOn-
dist oppose it, or he will be ground to death by
the extremists. 1t is the latter that win in revO
lutionary times
The lesson history teaches, shows that those
who favored law, moderation and the rights OF
states, went down before the fierce Jacobns
yyho 81 no AM nrn
able" They concede nothing to "the slave pow
er" but favor ian antislavery COnstitu ution, all
anti-slavery Bible, and an anti-slavery God"
The Frenchman worshipped the Goddess of Rea-
son. had his Feasts of Reason and discardrd old
religions. He and the American brother are in
sane upon the subject of constitutons-the form
or to manufacture them, the latter 10 tear down
down and destroy.
There are American Jacobins who Nre not
now disposed to 60 to the extent Of these leaders,
but "the necessities Of the war" will gradually
convince them of their error, otherwise they will
take their chances with the suspect" The ul
timatum OF French rcpublicnnism was reign o
terror, if the American obtains sway it will bt
the same.-they will land at the same point.
This is the lesson from history that the Iri
bune prdes itself in and the editor speaks fol
more than one hundred thousand followers.
GOVERNMENT CREDIT IN PHILADELpnIA.-A
friend has shown US a letter received by him
few days since from Philadelphia, dated
Feb. 3rd, written by gentleman, who is a
book keeper for large merchantile house
in that city which had an extensive con
tract from Government for furnishing clio.
thing &C, to the army He says:-our
house has suspended Government work,
Others intend to do SO as the Government
fails to pay up. Her certificates are selling
in the market at eight and ten per cent
discount"