The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-05-26
Fall of the CeI.n. ve.de.e.

Fall of the Column vendone
10 their recent destruction of thu
Column Vendome, the Communist
consummated their reign of folly
The Column Yendome was model,
lcdaftesthe Trojan Column ofRome
and was an exquisite work of art
and the noblest commemorative
shaft that stood in any public place
in Europe. 1t was crowned by a
4 splendid figure of NAPOLEON the
Great, and lowered grandly at. an
immense height above that gay and
brilliant part of PARASITIC Place
Vendome.
The criminality of the destruction
of this noble work, is indefensible,
and the act deserves, as we doubt not
it will receive, the universal condem-
nation of the Civilized World. The
Column Vendome was the common
property of every Frenchman, as the
WASHINGTON National, should it
ever be completed, will be the COM.
mon property of Americans. 1t COM
nemmorated victories won 81 by
French arms, directed by the genius
fone whose name should be hallow-
ed by every Frenchman, ard whose
wonderful achievements and daz-
cling successes, made France the gio-
ry and admiration of the world. Be-
cause it commemmorated victories of
the Empire, and bore full high in the
air, II obly and grandly, the figure of
the Great NAPOLEON, these crazy
Communists, forgetful of the past
honor and glory and greatness Of
France, deafto the protests Of civili-
zation, and blind to the insane folly
of the act, resolved in a moment of
foolish frenzy, to pull it down. For
the same reason that prompted them
to perpetrate this most ubiquitous
deed of folly, they might rs well go
through the Luxem bOurg and hurl
from its windows all the relics of
NAPOLEON that are there enshrined;
place a magazine under the gilded
dome Of the Invalides and blow that
greatest and grandest mau soleum to
a warriors ashes, into countless at
oms. Why should they even have
spared the Hospital of the Iuvalides,
where few thousand wounded,
manned and decrepid veteran SOL
diers drag out a feeble and aimless
existence? But these are only relics
of the First NAPOLEON land it is with
the things which commemorate the
glory and greatness of the First, and
not those that gilded over the little
ness of the last NAPOLEON, the Com
munist mob have begun the work of
destruction. Where can it terminate
where will it end, when they come
to deal with the relics of the Chisel-
hurst exile? Truly has it been said
that all Paris commemmorates him.
Its broad boulevards and streets, its
stately rows of trees lining the finest
thoroughfares in the world, its every
place of beauty and magnifcence, all
claim the Last NAPOLEON for their
founder, and his name is as inevita-
bly, woven into the history of the
new Paris of the second empire as if
every square contained dozen
bronze statues of the man. To de-
stroy the memory of the last impe-
rial BoNAPARTE the Communists
will have to rae Paris to the ground,
to throw down its nOblest streets of
houses, uproot the long lines of syca-
more and linden trees which he
caused to be planted, and leave the
once fair and bewitching metropolis
of France, a bowling wilderness.
The scene of the fall is described
as being tremendous. All the balco-
mics in the neighborhood were
thronged with ladies, and three bands
of music played while the work of
destruction went OH. But there was
a hitch in the arrangements. The
windlass that stretched the cable
around the base of the column broke,
and several hours were occupied in
putting the tackle once more in Or
der-the crowd in the meantime be-
ing excited to a condition of frenzy.
II finally fell after five O'Clock, and
"swept nagnificently down." as the
account says. The crowds shouted,
the red flag waved, the excitement
was tremendous, is still running high,
and the next thing we may confident.
ly expect to hear is the destruction
of the magnificent tomb of the In
valides and all other relics of the
Bonaparte family. 10 be consistent,
the reds must destroy everything
that made Paris interesting and beau
tiful.
Death of Schmayl.
Late foreign advices announce the
death Of SCIIMAYL. He was the lead
or of the Caucasians i'm their frequent