The New York herald., 1871-04-13


fer Liberty, Equality, Frat ernisy and
Anarchy.
The insurgent rufians of Paris, among their
desperate expedients to prolong their ''Beggars
Opera, have, 1t appears, invited the women
Of the city (thst Is, the women Of the town.
to form military organization for its defence.
The Amazons Of the gay metropolis, who may
be classified a. the ruilans and cutthroats Of
their Sex, figured conspicuously In nearly all
the horrible atrocities Of that hideous 6rst
French Revolution Of 1889, Of '1ibsrty,
equality, fraternity" anarchy and the guillo-
tine. They were conspicuous In the storming
Of the Bastile; In the royal progress from
Versailles to the Capital, riding upon the
cannon; In the pursuit Of Louis XIV. and his
family In their flight from Paris; In the motley
procession Of the sans oIlottes which escorted
the poor King back to the Tuileries; in the
mob which murdered the amiable Princess
Lamballe, and marched in triumph through the
streets with her head borne aloft upon pike
in the bacchanalian orgies In the Tuileries,
with the occupation of the palace by the mob,
and they were the life and spirit Of the foul
and obscene crowds which regularly, from
morning till night, attended and exulted In
drunken frenzy at the slaughters of the guillo-
tine. Of all the demons in human shape let
loose in Paris during that Reign Of Terror, and
till the restoration Of law, order, decency and
religion by the First Napoleon, these abandoned
and bloodthirsty Amazons of Paris were the
most diabolical, detestable and disgusting.
They reappeared again in the streets among
the reds In the revolution of 1880, and In 1848,
with the flight Of Louis Philippe, they enacted
an opera 6outs in the .Tuileries which will,
perhaps, some day be set to the lively music
and scanty costumes of Offenbach, unless he
shall prefer the more abundant materials for
the illustration of the Amazons of Paris to be
found in the glorious reign Of Its Commune of
ruhians and prostitutes of 1871. Voltaire
justifes US in the notion that your average
Partisan is 'spart monkey and part tiger" or
part opera 6ou6s and part tragedy, a buffoon
or an assassin. Victor Hugo In "Les
Miserables" describes him, but even
Hugo fails to describe the shocking
Paris Amazon in the political role of
French equality and women's rights. There
can be nothing more revolving, more de-
graded or debasing than this female monster
under the sun. Aud these are the creatures
to whom the Commune of Paris of 1871 have
appealed to organize as military phalanx for
the defence of the city. What mockery for
Paris as the capital of civilization! What
chapter Of infamy is this in the present degra-
dation of Francel
From the doings of the Commune in Paris
during the last two or three weeks it is clear
that their ultimate object is the universal re-
public of Anacharsis Cloots. They have
made considerable progress, too, as it appears,
in this direction. They have abolished the
rents for lodgings; they have driven off some
two or three hundred thousand landlords, and
occupy their houses free of charge; they have
abolished the Sabbath, and in their spoliations
of banks, stores and churches, in their
Imprisonment Of priests and nuns, in their
scourging Of the Archbishop, and in their
blasphemous proclamations, they have pre-
pared Me way for parading again through the
Boulevards q woman OF the town as the
embodiment of their religion. Such are these
Communists of Paris. Their whole programme
may be reduced to these few words EVERY
thing for everybody; everything in common;
no work, but general carousal till everything
on hand is eaten up, and then sale Of the
national palaces to raise the wind, and so on.
And it appears, too, that in all these social
istic doings the women Of Paris, more than in
any preceding revolution or revolt, are
actively concerned.
How are we to account for this? Is 1t q
natural outgrowth from the debaucheries of
the empire? or Is 1t French developm ent Of
women's rights? or is 1t due to the demorali-
cations of the late siege, or to the general
spread Of inddelity, domestic, political aud
religious, among the people Of PARISH All
these demoraliziug causes have evidently been
at work, undermining the foundations of gov
ernment and society In the gay city, now
called to meet some Of the penalties due for
its sins and follics. The German armies came
first, as the Medes and Persians came down
upon the gay city Of Babylon and put An end
to its reigning dynasty in the midst Of
q grand carousal. Under the German siege
the army and the people Of Paris were reduced
for subsistence to horses, asses, elephants,
lions, tigers, monkeys, alligators, rats, cats
and dogs, aud such strange food on empty
stomachs, and under all the fierce excitements
of bloody and fruitless sorties, nnquestionably
contributed much to demoralize and brutalize
the Parlsians, women included. Then from
the capitulation and the harsh conditions ol
peace exacted by Germany, and accepted from
necessity by M. Theirs and the National As
sembly, the general mind Of Paris was 50
unhinged as to place the city and its people at
the mercy of these reckless and desperate