The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-08
LES ENF.aNs TERRIBLEs.

LES ENF.4Ns TERRIBLEs.
PEN and Ink Sketches OF tho "Irrecon-
cilables" OF the French Chambers.
3, The, Paris correspondent of the New York
Times writes under date Of June II: q ia
What do tt ey look like. the "Irreconcilables,"
the eyans terTib!es of the pew chamber De-
ed the fighting professor. A middle-sized.
strong, squarelv-hu;iSS. man. With dark skin.
hair and eyess, compressed lips. and deter
mined look, ne suggests man OF the barracks
Hewa.ks firmly and without, parade to. the
tribune. bowling modestIy to the applause that
greets his coming. He also bows to his friends
on the platform and to the commjssary Of po-
lice sent there to watch him and suppress him
if necessary. While the chairman is getting
off his little speech. Bancel sits with folded
arms surveying the audience and glaL eng
when R1s 1ae
ing 1.-The brilliant orator, the accomplish
cd scholar, the iuustrious patriot" Ran
eel starts to his feet and launches. with
meg!c word: "Citoyens !" You must under
stand thatthis word Is a conquest of.these last
few weeks, and 1s one OF the largest OF what ls
pompously called the ''new liberties ~ Starv-
The word went under in 1852, with the Mar
seilaise and the Republic, and has now come
to the surface again with the Marseillaisy and
the Parisians hold TO it. and cherlshat and
caress it, like q lot OF lMg babies, the most
adorable OF toys. Bancel quickly coDquers and
fasc'nates his audlence; The yonng. genera
s'Why, where does this man come from Z" He
is q second Danton, only more sober. more
contained in h,s eEpression.. His gestures are
natural, his periods rounded. his language Is
o1s oSx-
citement, he has bursts Of eloquence which
throw his audience into 20 frenzy He enters
the Cham 2er pledged to The overthrow Of the
''irreoonciliabfe." and when asked IN public
meeting whether he would not accept the en-
pire with liberty, he exclaimed, mo, we refuse
the presents Of Artaxerxes 4" ,, -.
Leon Gambettas elected from the first dis
tricU Of Paris and from one Of thc districts of
Marseilles. was born at Oahors. in the south Of
France OF Genoese parentB, and siss therefore,
Of Indian blood. He ,is' but IS years old .sand
his brother tawyera al, the law ,coittsla WHAT
has SO suddenly brought this HtranRe Rer ward
and made him .take The lead in popularity of
snoh s men as I6iers and sales Fayre, and the
old leaders and orators Of the liberal party q
Camille Desmoulins one day, the 18th Of July,
1883, in pa ssing by the garden of the Pslais
Royal sprung upon . table and uttered the
dAngerl" and from that day and that hour be-
came the popular leader Of the revolutions. So.
too. Leon Gambetta in o short hour revealed
himself to the Farisians, and imposed himself
upon them as a leader. Like Camille Desmou-
lins, he uttered a cry and his popularity was
fixed beyond contestatlon: He defended the
persons implicated in the Baridin affair last
winter; it was his first political speech, and Tor
twenty years no sneh speech has been, heard
at the Paris bar. 1t was Bsrryer in the skin Of
young man and q radical republican, the
Same distinction of manner, the same ha,ueur,
the same energy Of diction, the same irresisti-
bic argument, with the addition OF the voice OF
thunder and the warmth and mobility or tho
Italian. Notwithstan ding his youth, Leon
Gambetta has been chriBtened the Jupiter
" 1onndat OF the Democracy. It ,s believed that
not Q man in the new chamber, not even M.
Rouher, win be- able to contend with him !; for
he has not only voice and a command Of
only q tribune" properly speaklng. but he is
q man full OF facts, Of Learning. of study, and.
of political philosophy. With his superb elo-
quence' his extraordnary powers Of IMPROVE
moral courage, the Democracy look to Leon
Gambetta as the Moses who is 10 lead them
out Of the wilderness. n
Jules Ferry, the pew member from the Sixth
District Of Paris, is another Of the astonish-
ments OF the late election. IA young man like
Gambetta, and, like him. unknown outside OF
the law courts few months ago. Ferry is an
Of the M,nister 81 State BY the radical Demo
partment Of the vosses, at ct: Die. he stu
L
tlons and has been regarded in the law courts
as one Of the ''coming men," He was revealed
to the PaTlsians more particularly by q pam.
phlet !, published few months, ego, entitled
mann" II Was this pam phiet which started the
terrible reaction against the PrefecS of the
Seine AMI nearly: cost him, his place. On the
1ioation was based the discussion In the Corps
Legslatif which bought the government to the
admission that there had been ''irregulafitles'
in the prefec.'s accounts. This was .'the cry'
sudden popularity with the over-ta1ed sub
jects Of NJ. Haussmann. lAt frst he was
brought forward tmidly, to. tell the truth: for
be was 60 little known. Then he had TO 'oon-
ID Geroult. the outgoing member and . kepub.
liean, and M. Cochin, o Liberal, and q imanoof
wide Il fuencs IN sociai, life. mi Jules Ferry
sesses all the grace and vigor Of one. He Is q.
tail, proud, handsome man, and bears ali the
TRAITS Of Q gentleman and polished man. His
face is long,, oyal and pale. his nose prominent,
he aeS wears Long howing side Nhsksrs his hair
ne looks more like an English ''mylord" than,
2 French barrister. He sthe gentleman Of the
Democracy. s.- 80 ejtt ati; Et.t.|}e,l
members Who 60 into The ~ ChansDrr r as ..irre. nus
concilables" is to say. AS pledgedto to the
immediate overthrow Of The Ehnptte--is mag
Dificent patriarch Of seventy -hve yearsof age
HAIo&Uy vigil HuOWQ,tO inc puQlkCh !. ne was q
prominent actor in the Republic ofi1e49, and
has been before the public SINCE the, hFsbs em.i
pire as' professor and doctor. and as q pnbiish4
r-of books on RATIONAL medicine, aov' what he
calls medicine fpr the people. Tall, straiRhs,5
with asnperh Asad and a flowing white beard.
he recalls to- iajnd s,Mosee, and all the Proph,
ets." His head and demeanor before an an
dience are enough OF thamsalves to elect him.
But be- 10 an orator besides; he 10 WITTY. espe.
cially clever at repartee, end his9 speeches
make an ithprsssion more by cleverneSs. than
blythe development OF great doctrines. He is
Q man Of crest moral courage, and bears the
impress Of bis courage In bis manner and
bearing. He hates Louis Napoleon for his
trial and imprisonment in 1852, and because he
killed the republic; and he will go into the
Chamber the most irreconci!ab!e or the four
"Irreconcilables."
a AEALSEHOOD NAILED.