The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-03-28
Ansirs ia Europe.

Paris aud their authors: It 10 impossible
to cgsr-estimate the importance of the
events which are transpiring in Paris.
The entire revolutionary movement il
controlled by the Red Republicans, and
is directed against M. Theirs and the
National Assembly. If the views and
doctrines OF the Paris radicals are what
the insurgents aim to make paramount.
then the object is to establish socialistic
republic, and TO resuscitete in France all
the grotesque and demoralizing princi-
pies of the first republic-prinoiple
which have sapped the morals of the
French people. and given to Paris the
unenviable notoriety of u city IN which
born yearly are iliegitimate. We trans
late copy of the cred" bill posted on
the walls of Paris on March 6. and held
to have been preface to the scenes of
disorder now acted in the French Me-
tropolis:
FRENCH HREPUBLIc-LIBERTY, EoUALrrY.
FRATERNITY COMMITTEE OF THE
NATIONAL GUARD.-The Central Com.
mittee Of the National Guard, appointed
in general assembly Of delegates, rep
resenting upward of 200 battalions, has
for its mission the constitution of the
Republican Federation of the National
Guard, that it may be organized 80 as to
protect more effeotually than the perma-
nent armies have thus far been able to
do, the country. and to defend, by all
possible means, the threatened Repub-
lio.
The Central Committee is not an
anonymous body; it is an assembly of
bearers of mandates Of free men, who
know their duty, affirm their rights and
seek to establish q solidarity between all
members of the National Guard.
It protests, therefore, against all i'm
putations tending to misrepresent the
expression of its programme, with view
of hindering it's execution. It's acts
have always been signed; they have had
but one obieot-the defence of Paris.
tended to tax it with exciting to pill
lage of arms and ammunition. and to
civil war.
The expiration of the armistioe, con-
cerning the prolongation of which the
Journal O6aciel, of February 26, has
maintained silence, had generated the
legitimate emotion Of all Paris. The re-
newal of hostilities was. in effect, inva-
sion, occupation and all the calamities to
which conquered cities are subject.
Hence, the patriotic fever which, in
one night, aroused and placed under
arms the whole National Guard. was not
| due 10 the influence of a provisional
commission appointed for the elabora-
tion of political statutes; it was the true
| expression of the sentiment of the popu-
| lation.
When theconvention relating to the oc-
| cupation became officially known, the
Central Committee. by declaration
posted throughout Paris, called upon the
citizens to insure, by their energetic CO.
operation, the strict execution of that
| convention.
To the National Guard reverted the
right and the duty to protect, to defend
our menaced 6re-sides. Rising with en-
tire spontaneity, the Guard alone, by it's
attitude, has known how TO make the
Prussian occupation humiliation to the
conqueror. Viue Ia Repu6iquei
(Slgned) Arnold, Jules Bergeret,
Bout, Castioni, Chauviere, Chouteau,
Courty, Dutil, Fleury, Frontier, Gas
teau, Henry Fortune, Lacoord, Lagarde,
Lavalette. Matiournal, Matte, Muffin,
Ostyn, Piconcl. Pindy, Prudhomme,
Varlin. Henry Verlet. Ward
PARIS, March 4. 1871.
The EMPEROR WILLIAMS SPEECH
FROM THE THRoNE-OpENINa OF THE
GERMAN PAR1IAMENT.-The German
Parliament was opened, on the 2lst in
slant, by the Emperor William, who, in
person, delivered the speech from the
throne. The Emperor said:
When l see the German Reichstag for
the first time, after the glorious but try
ing struggle which Germany has victori-
ously prosecuted for independence. am
impeled. first. to give thanks to God for
the historic successes with which He has
blessed the faithful unity of the German
allies. the heroism and discipline of the
armies, and the devotion Of the people,
We have what our forefathers struggled
for-the unity Of Germany and the se-
curity OF her frontiers. Our conviction
OF future unity was veiled; the ever
present enthusiasm Of the people rent the
veil. When the fatherland was threat
ened, the nation unanimously ross in her
defence and traced its firm will, in indeli-
nt,n .