The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-04-23
The French of To-Day.

Inc french OF lO-Udy.
Paris at the present moment is described
as a vast madhouse. Ought we, tLen, to
be surprised at what is taking place there :
We certainly should not be. The revoIu-
tionary malady is q dangerous one, and it
IL taking its natural course. The red revo-
luton is in tho ascendant. Its birth
was in the principles of 1889, and in one
form or another it has reigned in France
for eighty years. During this time it has
given to the country seventeen constitu-
lions, and has four times changed the dy-
nasty. Each dynasty either compromised
with the Revolution, or, like Bonaparte and
Louis Philippe, put themselves at its head.
While the statue of Voltaire was being in
augurated in Paris on the eve of the As
sumption, Louis Napoleon publicly de-
clared that he had inscribed the princi
pies of 1889 upon his banners, and that
France was again about to be their propa-
gandist throughoutcentral Europe. 1t was
at this time that he withdrew from the
protection of the Catholic Church the 5000
troops that were stationed in Rome. France
had not learned wisdom by the warnings
and chastisements of the past. Neither
the domestic experiments of '93, 1914, and
Of '4s had taught her wisdom, nor the ter
rible defeat and loss of territory which
followed 1915, taught her, the lesson that
her greatness, stability and happiness con
sist in the fulflment of the design which
Providence long since marked out for her
as I" the most Christian" nation. During
the whole course of the war the Provisional
Revolutionary French Government never
once mentioned the name of God. This
was logical the character Of the Revolu-
ton is to separate the creature from the
Creator. Aud it was reserved to Protest
ant monarch to come down from the north,
and. with the name of God always in his
mouth, to rebuke the atheism of the Revo-
luton, and To declare, as Atilla at the head
of his Huns, 81 march against the people
with whom God is angry"
| In confederation of the view here taken,
we take paragraph from the letter of the
Paris correspondent of the New York
| World, In which he details conversation
with citizen Moreau, of the Central 1nsur-
rectionary Committee of Paris:
| C.-Your measures, of course, are but tenta
tive and preliminary measures What is to
followf
M. with great animation What is to fol
low Listen, then. This Is what is to follow
, The formation of one vast republic under the
regime of the Commune; . republic greater
and more comprehensive than Louis nlans
. sled This new and vast republic is to have
two foundations-compu education ana
universal suffrage 1t is to be fact as we.i q,
even of wealth; without favored class
without poverty, without Ignorance, without
3 vice, without q priesthood, and without
: IC.-'And without q GodT asked some
7 what indscreetly. tt
Il Citizen MORGAN looked ut me very sharply
and, as thought, very wickedlyi and began
= to feel very uncomfortable thinking that
had decidedly put my foot into it, and that til
interview, which up to this point had been .
# By musketry in the court below, ON suspicio
Of being Jesuit in disguise. But kept m
countenance toiersbly well, and turned tn
subject quickly as possible
= Such is the avowal of Representative
a whose principles find favor in the eyes
es the Republican of this city Will not q
=, decent men unite in saying that these me
It are not only the bane of Republicans
I'd every where, and of society itselff The
idea of liberty is the despOtism Of Il
a street mob. No wonder that the conserv
or tive element in France instinctively reco
it when a republic, founded upon such pri
" ciples apd governed by such men, lie pr
e. sented to them. Any government, wi
ut security to life and property, and pea
10 and order, is preferable to Rochefortis
On with government of agTariaDs, cut-throa
aid and aeeassins. We congratulate the Ne
'se Orleans Republican on its associates. +
mobile Jrasrem.