The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1867-01-17
The nsepctitions Of. History.

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interesting paper, comparing the
French .Jacobins of 1871 with the
American Jacobins of 1861. The
article is entirely too long for our pa
per-would make at least four columns
but as it foreshadows what IS to
come and proves an exact counterpart
of our present national troubles we
believe synopsis of its leading points
will prove interesting to The general
reader. AS similar causes everywhere
produce similar results the writer takes
the ground that our difficulties are.
drifting to the same gulf in which those
of France found their grave. Agree
ING that leading men are the parents OF
leading causes in every cline and that
their sentiments and animosities con-
troll the whole, he goes on to prove the
leading men of the United States are
controlled by reason or passions SIM
liar to those which peryaded the minds
and hearts of the French Jacobins,
when passion became the controlling
power and resulted in driving the gov
eminent to the same ultimate destiny.
The Frenchmen who rode in the whirl-
wind and directed the storm which
overturned the minds Of men and rem
dered them obnoxious of their own in
terests were Robespierre, Danton,
Murat, ST. Just, Couthon, Camille,
Desmoulins, La Croix, Du Sachelles,
DE Herbois, Westermann, DC. They
were then the idols of the infatuated
masses, but their names are now loathed
everywhere. The grand underlying
dogma of the Jacobins was the anhe-
rent equality of the whole human race,
and by decree Of the Assembly they
conferred political equality and person
al freedom at the same time upon the
half savage slaves of Hayti.. In vain
Barnave and the remnant of the Con-
stitutional party strove to moderate
the extravaganza of the emancipation
lists; the violence of the Jacobins
bore down all opposition. "Don't
talk to us Of danger,,' said an original
Sumner, the President of the Society
des Amis des Noirs, "Let the Colonies
perish rather than one principle be
abandoned" 1t is a remarkable fact,
that emancipation was begun by ex-
tending the boon of freedom only "to
such slaves as joined the army of the
Republic" The complete triumph of
the Jacobins, however, was signalized
by decree of general and unqualified
abolition of slavery-"Liberty and
equality" was the Jacobin motto
liberty which consisted in general
spoliation of the opulent classes and
'equality" in the obstruction OF all
who outshone them in talent or ex-
ceeded them in requirement. Thur
rean an original Phil. Sheridan, at the
head of his twelve ssinfernal columns, !"
treated the very "stones, houses and
fields Of La Vendee as enemies worthy
of determination" The massacre OF
the prisoners, taken in battle and seiz-
ed from private life, was the work Of
Danton, the Jacobin Minister of JUS
tice, an Office, in some sort CORES
ponding to the United States Secretary
of War. He held everything, so does
Stanton, subservient to personal ad
vantage and the safety of his party
Murat was a fair type Of Brownlow
Atrocity was impressed on every lin
eament Of his sharp angular counte
nance, and his journal necessarily
clamored for the blood of two hundred
and thirty thousand of the rebels
Robespierre was a thorough Thad
Stevens. He was Unsuitable in his
thirst for blood and had nothing grand
or generous in his nature. At tone time
when presenting some petitions of the
Municipality of Paris, he exclaimed al
the bar:
ssBlood has not yet flowed-the PEG
|. pie remain without vengeance no sac
rifce has yet been offered to the names
Of those who died on the 10th o.
| August! A tyrant (Davis.-ED. has
been suspended-why is he not pun
ished? All the conspirators shoult
be punished, and by judges military
commissioner created specially for thu
| occasion-judges who shall have TIT
power of pronouncing, without appeal
the last penalty of the law"
"Tne people are referred to<as tn
..power behind the throne" tn
\ prompters of all projected wickedness
The same pretence prevails to-day
| st. Just can be found in Chas. Sum
ner. In Specie before the Assembly
on the question of right to try de
throned King, he said:
pHe is to be regarded more as al
enemy, whom we have to combat
than q criminal whom we are to judge
Delay in such case is the greatest i'm
prudence. When people are SO has
- .,,feo,. themselves rr1ed hy- fl