Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-03-31

eented themk elves from the POlIS' O"' nO
sane man in North Carolina believes HIM.
1t is not true. We are certain that seven
ty-fve thousand of them cast their Votes'
and this is a small allowance. Less than
tan thousand whites voted the Radical
ticket in North Caroline in 1868, and we
believe that less than five thousand Will
vote it in 1872-certainly not so many as
there will be colored men voting the Con
gervative ticket Pools falsehoods and
treachery are rapidly disgusting the re-
spectacle colored people of the State, and
driving them from party of which he is
an acknowledged leader.
rho InsurTeciiOn In Paris
After passing heroically through the phi
vations and suffcrings of a long selRe,
Paris has just seen her streets embued with
the blood of her citizens, shed, not by the
foreign enemy but by her own sons.
MANY time before has despotism crushed
popular resistance by slaughter. 1t re-
NAMED for those who call themse Ives the
onlv true republicans of France, to turn
the weapons of destruction upon all un-
armed multitude of their fellow citizens.
Swift and stern punishment should be
melted out to tn, Sc who have stained the
streets of Paris with innocent blood. Their
crime has done more 10 throttle out the life
of the infant republic than oil the intrigues
of Bonnpartists or Orleanists.
But this crime against liberty, humanity
and country, should not be attributed to
the French or the Partisan people: 1t is
the deed of few thousand misguided men,
rendered desperate by poverty and the
prospect of starvation. IN q city like Paris,
with two million of souls, there are always
fifty CT sixty thousand who know not in the
morning whether they will be able to pro-
cure food for the day. These wretched
beings wLo have nothing to lose are al
ways ready to listen to any demagogue
who may tell them that the government is
the cause of their misery, and that levo-
luton will give them all that they crave.
Such turbulent rabble excited by VIC
lent and desperate leaders like Pyat, Flou
rens and the Garibaldis, and armed with
the weapons put i'll their hands for the de-
fence of their capital against the enemy,
can produce terror and bloodshed, but
they no more represent the people than
the criminals, the insane, the paupeIs. can
be said to eLresent O nation of which
they are only the burden and the shame.
Yet. it is to be hoped that the events
that have just Mortified all the friends of
France and liberty in Europe, will result
in the permanent removal of the seat of
government from the city of Paris. Too
long has she assumed to control the Ges-
TIMES Of France. It has been asserted that
Paris is France, and in one sense, there
was some truth in the assertion for the
elite of the talent and intellect of France
has always converged towards Paris, be-
cause it found there the most favorable
field for it's development. But unfortu-
nately it has never been the talent and in
tellect concentrated in Paris that gave the
impulse to its revolutions. There are pro-
events of Paris which refec ted the will
not only of Paris, but of the whole nation
the 18th of July 1889 which witnessed the
destruction of the Basti lie and the three
days of July 1880. resulting in the expul-
sion Of the elder Bourbons. In every other
occasion we see the vilest populace of
Paris, stirred up by the worst demagogues,
overawing the National Assemblies, and
substituting the dictates of mob for the
legitimate expression of the national will.
Whenever q radical faction in the Conven-
ton found itself in the minority, it appeal
ed to the turbulent elements of the CAPT
tai, melted an armed demonstration of the
rabble,, and by the help of intimidation,
doomed the most prominent of their ad
versaries to the guillotine. thus sec uring
for themselves majority by the slaughter
of their opponents.
The events of the last few days are like
lurid reflection of the baleful fires of
1893 and '94. We learn from the dis
patches that, while patriotic generals were
being murdered in Paris, the deputies OF
the Mountain" "a name of bloody mem
ory,) to the number of one hundred and
twenty were absent from their seats
Where were they 1t is more than proba-
bic that, like the ''montngndrdS of 1893,
they were melting the mob to insurrec-
ton against the conservative members of
the Assembly.
TIE very demand of the Reds" that
the Assembly shall forthwith be brought
back to Paris, ought to settle forever the
removal of tho Government from that tur-
bulent city. The National representation
will never be safe within it's walls or its
reach. Versailles is too near Paris to be
safe. Tours, Bourges or some other small,
central town should be selected, SO that
the provinces might watch over the safety
of their representatives. Let us hope that
the Theirs government will have sufficient
judgment and energy to inaugurate this
desirable innovation, and sufficient energy
to drive out the bloody spectre of the
"Red Socialistic Republic"
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