The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-06-04
Paris.

those of its predecessor in the last century.
Then, as now, the Partisan mob was athirst
for blood. 1t was wild and frantic with the
devil which had taken full possession Of
all its faculties. But then the blood which
it drank was shed by its victims now it
has been drowned in the saDguinary tide
from its own veins then, its frenzy proved
to be an irresistible power which swayed
the whole nation, and made all Europe
tremble; now, the evil spirit which inspired
it has allured it on to its own swift and
fearful destruction.
| Paris has been crazy. The kilograms
tell us that many of the men and women
who are captured appear to be insane. We
think it not at all improbable that this is
| literally true, or rather that they are pos
sessed by the DEVIL The principles which
actuated the mob we're diabollcal in the
highest degree. Murder, sacrilege, rob-
berry, Wholesale destruction of property
and Of the monuments Of civilization,-all
| tho most prominent features of its character
and history were after the image of him
who instigated it all. The arch-fend was
| the father of the whole movement. We
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| the councils of the insurgents instead of
law; we hear him in the agrarian outcry
against property and in the blasphemy
which spoke Of Christians as servants of
the person who calls himself Gods" we
recognize him in the mutual and general
distrust which pulled down one day those
whom it had elevated the day before, and
shifted authority from one committee of
blood-stained despots to another of the
same sort; we perceive his agency in the
petroleum and the torch consecrated to
useless destruction, in the hellish murder
of aged and unoffendiDg priests, and above
all, in the wild, blind storm of frenzy in
which large masses of men struggled on to
inevitable death, satisfied to perish SO they
could Overwhelm others in their own ruin
1t really seems like case of possession
by the devil" The demon had so worked
upon their passions and Influenced their
minds that he may have succeeded in TAX
ing complete control of their faculties TO
the exclusion of reason.
At any rate, lie has led them on to ter
rible destruction. The fendish doctrines
SO long propagated by him through the
Red Republican orators and journals of the
great capital have fermented until they
effervesced in crime of 80 fragrant and de-
fiant character, that society has been
obliged to chastise it with the most SUM
mary and condign punishment of which
civilized history gives any account. The
principal leaders have nearly all been killed
already, as we'll as many thousands of their
wicked followers. 1t may be that excesses
have been committed by the soldiery Of
the Government. It would be hardly pos.
sible that this should net be the case con-
sidering the acrimony of the contest. But
there can be little doubt that the soldiers
were ordered to kill all whom they cap
tured in open resistance after further re-
distance had become hopeless. Such resist.
ance was no longer war; it was the de-
speration of outlaws. If parties not thus
taken in the very act of fighting were killed
without a fair trial, it was of course wrong,
but whether this was so or not, to any con-
reports that come to us on this point from
English sources must he taken with some
allowance.
AND SO Parls has met with just retri.
button for her wickedness, her blasphemies
and her infdelity. We speak Of the Paris
of the Mob, the Paris of Red Republican
ism. She despised God and worshiped the
evil spirit; she rejected Christ and followed
Voltaire, and now she has eaten the fruit
of her sowing. Her folly has grown into
madness, and her madness has wrought her
| own ruin.
We may we'll hope that this is the
last of the terrible power of Voltaire in
Paris and through Paris. That naughty
capital was determined to rule France. She
has always done SO until now. The CURRIERS'
or city working classes have always looked
upon the Bourgeoisie and peasantry as
mere lay-fgures, not to be taken into con-
alteration at all. Whatever the mob of
Paris should inaugurate was to be seconded
by the mobs of Lyons and the other cities,