Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-05-24
OBJ Fireman.
Second Fall of Paris.

CdllF GELdDllsu6u the iaCG LDdI peace cudll
once more prevail in poor distracted France.
The troops of the Versailles government have
succeeded in preaching the walls of Paris,
and in entering that city. And although
the Conmunes have not yet surrendered, OF
given up desultory fighting in the streets,
the steady advance and continued successes
of the Government troops the past few days
and the Intellectual resistance of the Com
munist forces, leave no doubt that ultimately
complete victory Will come to the troops of
the Theirs party. 1t seems now satisfactorily
demo ustrated that France, and not Paris,
shall overn the French nation. 1t is true
the Communists may continue the fight be-
hind the formidable barricades they have
erected inside the city, but they made so
sorry resistance to the entrance Of the Yer
saillists through the battered gates and over
the preached walls that we do not look for
any long-continued fighting in the streets.
And further resistance to the legal govern
ment Of France by the Reds Of Paris seems
almost madness. It cannot but end in utter
discontinue to the misguided men who have
Paris was all France, and France was arbi-
tress of the fate Of the world.
1t l. humiliating thought for any people
to realize that their former prestige and
power has passed from them. And the Par
isians are no exception to this weakness Of
human nature Naturally volatile and
thoughtless, they could not quietly accept
the lesson taught them by their sturdy Ger
man conquerors. They could not realize
that the glory Of Paris had departed. They
sought to win by free fight among French
men, the renown they had lost in the war
with the Prussians. The whole history of
their civil struggle, now we trust so near it's
termination, has been one of sickening hor-
rors. Countrymen and neighbors and friends
and brothers have INDUCED in an indiscrim-
mate slaughter Of each other, and all the
devilish malignity and ingenuity incident
TO a fratricidal war has been brought into
play in this horrid STRIFE. The atrocities
perpetrated in a civil war scarcely find a
parallel in a conflict between foreign nation
alities. Paris and France, carried near to
destruction and desolation by a foreign foe,
were released from the fate yawning beneath
them, only to be plunged into worse vor-
tex of ruin from the passion and madness of
their own sons.
Paris, insolent and imperious, determined
not to submit to the government elected by
the people of France, and her mad, uncon-
trollable mob took appeal to arms against
their own countrymen. That city and that
mobhave been humbled and we trust that
now they may be willing to study the things
that make for peace. They should realize
that Paris is not all of France, neither is
France all the world Cheerfully accepting
the situation in which they find themselves
placed by the fate Of war, the Parisians and
the people of France should now devote
themselves to the peaceful arts of life. They
should labor to repair the desolations Of war.
and build up the places laid waste by
folly and passion. They should revive all
their old industries, and seek out new chan
nels for the inventive and working genius Of
their sons and daughters. The commerce,
and manufactures, and arts, and all the in
dustrial pursuits of France, can be extended
enlarged and strengthened French renown
and French prestige is hereafter to be gained
and recognized in the peaceful paths of
trade and labor and skill, rather than on the
CORY battlefield.
Let the people of France heed the lessons
that have been 50 sadly brought home to
them, and, resolving to learn war no more,
turn their thoughts and their energies reso-
lutely to the work of making their nation
famous for It's progress and standing in the
peaceful arts and Industries of the world
We append a few details of the three las
days fighting, gathered from cable kilograms
to the daily papers. Sunday morning Capt
Troga Of the Navy went TO the ramparts a
Pont du Jour, and finding the insurgent
had retired, called 800 sailors and took pos
session of the gate. Other troops followed
and before any one was aware the entry ha,
commenced, and in an incredibly short spac
of time Paris was filed by the Government
troops, without guns being fired, or mar
wounded. Soon the city became scene Of
the widest confusion. Mcmahon superin
tended the movement Of his troops in person
Skirmishing occurred on all sides, but tn
Versaillists pushed on, sweeping opposition
before them.
The special correspondent Of the TriJua
at London, telegraphs that Sunday Afternoon
the insurgents were driven from the Chatea1
De Ia Muette. They subsequently rallied
and held the enciente with considerable te
nacity, but were finally driven back wit
heavy loss by the heavy firing of the Yer
sailles batteries. At nine clock Dom brow
ski, under cover of a couple of guns charge
the Cemetery des Hanveres. He was me
hy firm and whitening fire, and the Insur
gents lines became broken and disordered
however, they again attempted to storm th
Cemetery, and hand to hand fight followei
but the report that Dombrowski vas kille
caused the Insurgents to become panic
stricken.
pause of few hours succeeded, wher
suddenly the batteries on the hill opened OF
the encicnte, railway, and showers of shel
and hail of musketry poured on it, Tn
insurgents essayed feeble reply. Suddenl,
heavy firing from the north was heard aud
mad panic ensued. Arms and packs wer
thrown away, and all bolted, the officer
leading. They surged and struggled an,
blasphemed up the quay in great confusion
shot and shell chasing them. They, in ex
IRENE panic, blazed away indiscriminatelz
and struck each other with dubbed rifles
AS the tides of fugitives swept along, bat
talions came up with them, apparently witt
fresh panic. The fire of the Versaillst
reached Trocadero. The avenue between Ar,
de TriOmphe and Raud Point was packed