The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-08-19
THE OWL WAR In FRANCE.
Address of the General Council
OF THE
INTERNATIONAL
WORKINGMEN'S ASSOCIATION.
CONTINUED.

The massacre of unarmed citizens in
the lace Vendome is myth which NJ.
Theirs and the Rurals ignored in the As
sembly, intrusting its propagation exclu-
sively to the servants hall Of European Z
journalism.
+" The men Of order," the reactionists Of
Paris, trembled at the victory of the 18th .
of March. To them it was the signal of
retribution at last arriving. The ghosts
Of the victims assassinated at their hands
from the days Of June, 1848, down to
the 22d Of January, 1871, arose before
their faces.
Their panic was their only punishment
Even the sergeants de vile, instead of be-
ing disarmed and locked up, as ought to
have been done, lad the gates Of Paris
flung wide open for their safe retreat to
Versailles.
The men of order were left not only UNI
harmed, but allowed to rally, and quietly
to seize more than one stronghold in the
very centre Of Paris This indulgence Of
the Central Committee-this magnanimity
of the armed workingmen-so strangely
at variance with the habits of the party of
order, the latter misinterpreted as mere
symptoms Of conscious weakness. Hence
their silly plan to try, under the cloak Of
an unarmed demonstration, what Vinoy had
failed to perform with cannon and mitrail-
leuses.
On the 22d of March, riOtous mob of
swells started from the quarters of luxury,
and at their head the notorious familiars Of
!, the Empire, the Heeckern, Coetlogeu, Hen
ri de Pene, etc. Under the cowardly pre-
tence of pacific demonstration, this rab-
BILE, secretly armed, with the weapons Of
the bravo, fell into marching order, ill
treated and disarmed the detached patrols
and sentries Of The National Guard they
met with on their progress, and, on debou-
ching from the Rue de la PAX, with the
t cry of "Down with the Central Commit
tee Down with the assassins The Ma
! tional Assembly forever" attempted to
t break through the line drawn up there, and
0 thus to carry by surprise the headquar-
tiers of the Guard in the Place Ven Dome.
In reply to their pistol shots, the regular
: sommdtions (lhe French equivalent Of the
! English Riot Act were made, and proving
ineffective, fire was commanded BY the
general of the National Guard.
One volley dispersed into wild fight the
silly coxeombs, who expected that the mere
! exhibition of their Responsibility" would
have the same effect upon the Revolution
of Paris as Joshua's trumpets upon the
q walls Of Jericho. The runaways left be-
o hind them two National Guards killed, nine
s severely wounded, (amOng them a member
}. of the Central Committed, and the whole
! scene of their exploit streWn with revolvers,
daggers and sWord-canes, in evidence Of
It the unarmed" character of their pacific
demonstration.
J. When, on the 18th of June, 1849, the
: National Guard made really pacific de-
+ monstration 10 protest against the assault
e Of French troops upon Rome, Changar-
J. nier, then general Of the party Of order,
o was acclaimed by the National Assembly,
D and espec'~'ly by NJ. Theirs, as the savior
: of society, or having launched bis troops
from all sides, upon these Unarmed men, to
2 shoot and sabre them down, and to tram
ME them under their hor-5s' feet T =
taen. sav , 81 IL state u sieca
: farre 1rvz;s taraalL be Asss.upl9 -
= lava of repression. Naw arrests. =
o.Ip,ions-a new reign Of terror set in.
b But the lower orders manage these things
otherwise
The Central Committee of 1871, simply
ignored the heroes of the pacific demon
strstion;" so much 30, that only two days
later, they were enabled to muster. under
Admiral Saissett, for that armed demon
!. stratiOn crowned BY that famous stampede
to Versailles.
In their reluctance to continue the civil
= war opened by Theirs burglarious at
tempt on Montmartre, the Central Com
mittee made themselves, this time, guilty
of decisive mistake in not at once march
ing upon Versailles, then completely help
less, and thus putting an end to the con-
spiracies of Theirs and bis Rurals. Instead
Of this, the party of order was again allowed
to try its strength at the ballot-box, on the
26th Of March, the day Of the election of
the Commune Then, in the mairies of
Paris, they exchanged bland words of con-
Citation with their too generous conquerors,
muttering in their hearts solemn VOWS to
exterminate them 10 due time.
Now, look at the reverse Of the medal.
Theirs opened bis second campaign against
Paris in the beginning of April. The first
batch of Partisan prisoners brought into
Versailles was subject to revolving attroci-
ties, whilst Ernst Picard, with his hands
10 bis trOwsers pockets, strolled about, |
jeering them, and while Mesdames Theirs
and Favre, in the midst of their ladies of
honor, applauded, from the balconies, the !
outrages Of the Versailles mob. The cap
tured soldiers Of the line were massacred ia |
cold blood our brave friend, General Du-
val, the ironfounder, was shot without any
form of trial. Galifet, the kept man of
bis wife, SO notorious for Der shameless ex-
h:bitions at the orgies of the Second Empire.
boasted in a proclamation Of having com
manded the murder Of small troop Of
National Guards with their captain and lieu.
tenant, surprised and disarmed by bis
Chasseurs. Vinoy. the runaway, was ap-
pointed by Theirs Grand Cross of the LIE
gion Of Honor, for bis general order to shoot
down every soldier Of the line taken in
the ranks Of the federalz. Desmaret the
gendarme, was decorated for the treacher-
GUS butcher-llke chopPing in pieces of the
high souled and chivalrous Flourens, who
had saved the heads of the Government Of
Defence on the 31st Of October 1870.
''The encouraging particulars" Of his assass-
nation were trlumphantly expatiated upon
by Theirs in the National Assembly. With
the elated vanity of parliamentary Tom