The mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1863-1943, 1865-07-29
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a-mor0 especially, the holt and ,AtAntcn
PApt Of fdt--SheHld rcd hisAOty just neS,
and learn lessons Chersh6aS. .'.9 =
AftsE the lOO. days of NApoleon- when
200, 900 foreigners vera 0uArtsFed npnn
REanes, 10 punish France, koF FsbelliAg
seaiA undsF NaPUls0A, during the 100
days Marshal Nsy vss brought, not b.
fore sbonlder-strap Court with some
supple Gen. Hunter q preside there, bet
before the Chamber ofS RssTt, TO be tried
for srtabOn therein. pOtusiie tfeason cOu1-
mitted thste could be no manner Of doubt.
Ehst aggravated NeyS cyims was, that
Louis XVIII trusted hin, during the 10O
days, more than any Other man. He was
evel, Sent forth 10 meet Napoleon landing
from Eba, and said, in his enthusiasm =
"If I see the least hesitAtion, in my
troops, ! will seise the 0rst gTenadier's
muakst. make use Of It, and give an ex.
ample to others"
Despite all this, however, he was among
the Rrst to turn traitor TO the King Of the
French, and Iced over his army with him
to the treason.
This treason was 80 clear, 90 pslpable.
90 damaging 70 the Kine. that mercy
could scarcely be expected from, him when
he was Fes6Ated in the Tuillrries. Never
theIess. there is proof that Louis and his
Ministers, FOuche, TsIleyrand. tile Duke
de Ricbelieu, and otheTs, desired Ney's
escape before arrest. The. gaTrants Of ar.
rest for several State criminals were pur.
posely delayed, to give the accused oppOr-
tunity to escape. Passports we're furnish.
ed to all. or nearly all, Of the prescribed
persons and among them, to Ney.. No
less than $40, 900 were put at the disposal
Of the Police to furnish them tho means
Of running away. Marshal Ney, indeed,
did run away, and Was within very few
leaRues Of the Swiss fFoatier, when he
was seized With fatal desire 60 return %
his own country, and did 20 return, u the
horroEef the Ministry. in order 70 avoid
the sentence Of death par cOnIunacs,
which would weigh Upon his memory, ,aHd
the interests Of his relstives.
When Ney thns returned. there existed
in France some such fanaticisID for hang.
ing, 90 nov exists among many Of ouE
Reverend Clergy and Others, who know
nothing Of history or Of war. The Min.
istry bad the elephant on their hands, q
We have JEFF. Davis & Co., and 1.-THE PeO.
pie" demanded that Ney DO shOt Afte'
q fair, impartial. deliberate civil trial, be.
fore . Chamber Of Peers, and after de-
fence from tWo Of the most eminent Law
yers ia France, NM. Berger and Dupin,
he was found guilty (l07 10 ~ Of high
treason, and he was sentenced to be shot
The Ministry then, more alarmed thar
ever, held midnight meeting, at which,
upon anxious dsliberatiOn, it VAS resolved
to petition the King in favor of . commu
tation Of the punishment, to banishmen
in America. The Duchess Of Angouleme
70 woman y however, among others, In
teFfered. and demanded great example
and she, together with the almost unahi'
nous voice Of the European Powers, over.
came the Kings better intent, and at nine
o'clock in the morning, with eyes unban.
daged, three balls penetrated his head,
and four bis heart The place of execu-
tiop may still be seen in the Gardens Of
Luxembourg, classic spot, and pilgrim
age Is made there by about every Admirer
OF Napoleon, from every quarter Of the
world. Ney heOceGorth ceased to be o
traitor, and became . "vietim," and his
name is now associated only With the glo
ries Of the army, and the immortal victo.
ries Of q great Marshal Of France
And never did the B0uTbone commit .
greater mistake than when they yielded
to the temporary cl&mors OF the Roy slists
Of France, and suffered Ney to be shot.
The re.action began from that moment,
aud the blood Of Ney vas the seed Of the
subsequent revolution Of Louis Philippe,
and the final restoration Of the Napo-
Icons.
Only six persons, history records, suf.
fered death oil over France for that rebel.
lion, which re.dethrOned the King, caused
the conquest of France, and fastened .
debt OF $89O, ,000, 600 on its inhabitants.
Among them wSs Col. LabedOyere, who
started for GrenOble, at the head Of the
7th Regiment OF Infantry, to meet Napo-
leon, and to betray it to the Emperor, in
defiance, too, Of the order OF his General.
FOuche, Minister. previous to the arrest,
sent for Labedoyere, and said to him:
~ advise you to leave France /; here
are your passports; IL you want money
here are $4,000 francs in gold-but set
off,"
But he did not set off-and Fouche was
obliged, by public clAmor, to arrest him
and have him shot. As q matter Of ne.
cessity, be was condemned to DEATH
though the Judges themselves, il is re-
cOFded, shed tears when the sentence was
pronounced. The only civilian then con.
demned to death MAS NJ Lavulstte, whose
romantic story IS almost novelistic.-
Madame LavaIette entered his prison, the
night previous 10 his execution, with her
daughter, . child Of fourteen vears, and
as soon as they we're alONe, she persuaded
him with much difficulty, to escape in her
dress. Lavalette, in his wife's robes, safe
" passed four gates and tweive turnkeys
but the police, aroused by public clAmOr
for the execution, hunted him 81 bounds
hunt game. Lavalette fed to Englishmen
IN Paris for protection, among them to
Sir Robert Wilson, who had 90 vehement.
ly denounced Napoleon for poisoning the
sick ct Jaffa "a brave soldier and . Briton
oil over. He had been privy to design
for the escape Of bis old antagonist, Nsy,
and would have been succeadul but for
( the sudden trebIing of his gpaElls. Lava
lette escaped into Germany bot those
RngIishmet,, Who carried him Oh, were
tried (os aheltIng IN that escape, end con
demnsd to the slightsst puniEbpsnt. the
Law would allow. three mo0ths impriSon.
ment. Sir Robert W ilson made . defence
Of uimself which carried ~ hearts With
him., and 90 did Mr., Bruce, one Of the
abettors. who had stood at the bead Of his
company in the foot guards. which re-
pulsed The last attack of the Old GaardIOu
the 6eld lOf Waterloo. WilsoqIaRa RTHee
4 were soldiers not hAngHen. They could