The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-27
l1snARcxs TRAP.

ed and agreed 10 Dy the puDllc'
That this satire is based upon fact
was too evident during the late re-
bellion. We all then had an oppor-
tunity to see for ourselves how his
tory is made, and how little depend
ence could be placed upon it.
Doubtless the receivedhistory of the
late French and German wal stands
in need of revision as much as that
of our own war. The history of the
Commune as it has ~fitfully flashed
across the ocean, probably bears very
little resemblance to the real occur
rences which it protested to chroni-
Gle. 1t is as true now as it has been
from the beginning of the world,
that the c%onquerors always write the
histories. The history of the Com
mune, as We have received it, has
been written chiefly from the win
dows of Versailles. Theirs is too
much of a historian himself, is too
we'll aware of the value of public
opinion, to allow his official transac-
tlons to pass into the prevailing lit
erature of the times, without being
first touched up by sycophantic
coloring. We read that a few
days ago he presented a copy of his
History of the Consulate and En-
pire" to each of the regiments now
in the public service, perhaps to
spite his enemies who under the
Commune Government publicly
burnt the same work at the foot of
the Column Vendome. The man
who is so particular aboutthe history
of his country half a century ago,
and of the part he then played in it,
is not likely to permit the Commune
side of the late insurrection to m
blazon itself into permanent story
through any special advantages.
There are some things connected
with that transient government, and
with the policy of Germany in
France, which are likely to remain
as inscrutable as the biography of
the man in the iron mask. Perhaps
We shall never know whether there
is any real ground for the suspicion
of a European correspondent who
writes:
Some curious facts are now COM
ing to light. There Is much evidence
to show that Bismark coolly ,on.em-
pl ated and desired to bring about the
determination of every Red Republic
can leader throughout Europe who
could be induced to 90 to Paris. Let
them alone long enough, said he. and
every revolutlOni>t in Europe Will
make his rendezvous in Paris. Then.
when the trap is perfectly full, we will
shut the door and bag the whole of
them The plan was a Shrewd one.
and it has worked well. The Germans
kept the door open AT st. Denis to the
very last moment. Any one who
wished to enter Paris could do so up
to the Sunday morning before the
Versailles troops made their entry:
then the door was shut to with Il bang.
No II was allowed to come out. The
Germans moved up closer. and drove
back or killed every II who atteInp-
ted to escape; and now. doubtless
|, rlt1Ii hi i sl,.,
switzerland. Spain and Italy. are
ready TO seize and send back to death
any fugitive who may have escaped
by balloon or otherwise. The trap was
full of foreign re~vOlutioni>t>, that is
certain. The Figaro, publishes a list
of the names of the military and
political leaders OF the Commune. OF
this list forty-nine are foreigners.
There were of these twenty-one Poles.
eight Italians, seven Germans. and
two or three each of Bel@ians. Walla-
chians, Hungarians, OrtugueSe. Span
iards and Soi-di>ant Americans"
The foreign names of most Of the
Leaders of the Commune confirms
the statement of their origin. The
popular feeling in Paris, lately re-
ported, against all foreigners, in
GLIDING Americans, is the rebound
of the late spasm Of admiration for
the offshoot of the International So
ciety. The Commune chiefs, home
less and countryless themselves, be-
lieved in the universally of their
principles, and the practicability CT
their application unrestricted by
national -Tbov cbortoJ