The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1867-09-20
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hear and see good many persons,
! who are just now acting with the
Jacohin party, declaring that they
never belonged to it, never voted
with it, nor for it, and never had
any sympathy with it's ends, its aims,
nor it's principles. .-
That is always how great rcvolu,
tions end; the reyolutionists deny
ing that they ever had any hand in
the excuses, the outrages, and the
tyranpies that Liberty had had com,
mited in her name, through their
agency, or instrumentality.
1t was so, at theiend of the old
French Revolution, and also at the
end of the later Revolution, in 1S49.
Fellows that had been first among
the foremost, in backing up Robes
pierre, Danton, Murat, and the 9th
er Radicals of that day, when the
tide began to turn, were quick to
turn with it. And none were louder
than they, in lying protestations
that they had never been Extrcm-
lists, had never committed excess
cs themselves, and had never
countcnanccd the commital Of them,
by others. In fact, to put faith in
their protestations, under the
changed or changing circums tances
in which by the revolution Of public
opinion, they found themselves
placed, one would have supposed
that they had always been conscrv-
atives, s,-fricnds of Law and Order,
and good Governmcnt,--nover JAG
obins, Anarchists, Tcrrcrists, or
Thieves.
English, as we'll as French history,
affords abundant illustrations ofthe
same thing. Macaulay tells Of fawn-
ing creatures, who, while the Stu
arts were playing the role ofTyrants,
were their rcadicst and most obsc-
quious supporters, but who, when
the tide turned, had the impudence
to assume the role of advocates and
defenders of Public Liberty, Free
Government, the Rights Of the Pco-
pie, etc.
u One cannot help recalling these
"3n,o&;tiors f history, as in some
sense applicable to men and parties
e Cur oTu tiiae and country. We
have been passing through a fear
full revolution, in this country, these
six or seven years past (to speak
more particularly, ever since the
Jacobins rode into power with lin
coin and Hamlin, OH the shoulders
Of Old John Brown;) but all signs
now indicate that the revolution is
ever, an,L-that the inevitable REAC-
TON is not only begun, but acquir
ing fresh momentum every day.
The elections in Connecticut. Cali
fornia and Maine, are hut the first
muttcrings of the storm which ere
long is destined to as thoroughly
sweep from existence the wicked
mcn who have so long had our coun-
try by the throat, as ever the Jaco-
bins of France were swept from eX-
istence. Some of them, we OBJ
serve, as if already deserving the
coming doom, are making preten-
sions Of conservatism, as if in order
to escape it. We expect to see the
number of these hypocrites daily in
creasing, and as the tide rises, it
will not be according to precedent
if we do not find them soon protest
ing against the ''radicalism'' and
the ''extrcmc views" which govern,
or governed their fellows, but which
no less governed them AS LONG AS
IT PAID.
That now is the philosophy of the
paculiar phase of history upon which
the American people appear at
present to be entering. We think
it is phase worth watching, and
studying, as it progresses from stage
to stage, toward the grand culmina-
ton, which is to witness, at no re-
mote period, the triumph of Right
over Wrong, and the rescue of Lib
erty from the DEBRIS of Despotism.
N. Y. Express.