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French rebels themselves lTi ~ 4osr YUi .nfl
Taxation and representation we're indissolabiy
connectsd-the fundamental idea Of President
Johnson's policy. The injured French monarch
freely conceded that the right Of taxation must
rest solely with the representatives of the people
though that people had been disIoya sad rebel
lions. There was 70 beno prescription for oPin-
ions sake. The assumption was quietly maze
that those who had been loyal to Napoleon,
would be most loyal to Louis. No new patents
ofloyalty were taken cut. This, we were told
at Gfeensboto', was the plan of Mr. Lincoln and
General Sherman. The troops were disbanded
In the expectation that all the functions. of the
State governments would be discharged, as hith-
erto by the men, whom the respective States
most honored, not those they most distrustsd.
J 1t will be objected by the Jacobins that the
Constitution was too liberal, and that the revolt
which followed in less than a year, was In conse-
quence Of the indulgence shown 10 the rebels
We do not so read history Alison tells Q diff
iersnt story. Before giving his reasons, for a
second outbreak Of the French people against
their lawful king. we would ask the candid read
er. If there could be q more perfect refutation,
than here given, ofths Jacobin assertion that the
lenisncy of the President has no parallel Nor
is their any philosophy in the JAG, b.n reason, for
the, second great rebellion. The French people
like the Southern, were sick Of the war. They
were for peace upon any tel ms. Their great suf-
fering, g,-the enormous sacrifice or life the heavy
taxation, the waste and desolate feids-all the
horrors of war were laid at the door of their once
idolized Emperor. He was repeatedly mobbed
on his way to exile, once narrowly escaping with
his life; and after that he made the balance of his
journey in disguise. Notwithstanding all this
evaporation against him, and the utter exhaus-
tation of the country, be left Elba on the 9th
February following, and the French people ral-
lied around him with enthusiasm. "The Bour-
bons had learned nothing, and had forgotten
nothing" The King violated his oath, directly,
and indirectly, and began series of3petty, as
well as great, persecution of the men, who wish
ed to be faithful to him. He sought to dishonor
the soldiers lately in rebellion, and make them
forget the glorious deeds, they had performed. -
Some of the little acts Of the King were, almost
as small and contemplate, as cutting buttons of
".Wegive the extract below, and let the reader
make his own reflections upon it. ..rnar .
'''They abolished the French colors the object
ofeven supsrstitious .yeneraticn TO the whole
French soldiers and substituted in their stead,
the flag Of the monarchy, with which hardly any
Of the army had any association, and the glorics
Of which, great as they were, had been entirely
thrown into the shade by the transeendcnt gIo
ries Of The Empire. They altered the numbers o.
the regiments, as well infantry as cavalry, de
stroying thus the glorious recollections Of the
many fields of fame, in which they had signalis-
ed themselves, and reducing regiments which had
fought at Rivoli or Austerlitz 10 level with the
newly raised levy. The tri colored standard was
ordered to be given up; many regiments, in pref.
erencc burned them in order that they might at
least, preserve their ashes The eagles were
generally secretcd by the officers; the men hid
their tri-colored cokades in their knapsacks.-
They altered the whole designations of the supe-
rior officers, resuming those, now wholly forgot.
ten, of the old monarchy. --.,
These things were submitted to in silence, tu.
they sunk deep into the heart of the army and Of
the nation" (Aison's History of Europe.) 81.