The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-31

baidi by the Assembly, after the peace OF the
tomb. which IL had seemed to SEEK there
was no further doubt on its monarchical inten-
tions. II needs 10 be very decided TO give one's
self away to q king to surrender TO the stranger
with such haste. The people OF Paris
understood that The Republic was in danger.
what has taken place since and what
As es place actually demonstrates that IL they
fai,ed 10 patience they were not wanting in penetra
tion. NJ. Theirs, In the speech which preceded his
fall, pronounced these imprudent words II they
were not premeditated. "How can you suppose that
|, old monarchist. DID not hesitate long before
deciding for the Republic? But numerous Delegates
from the Departments came to warn me that
II did not make formal engagements in this
sense they would initiate Paris and organize In
Communes Now, as l had not 80, 600 men to detach
from the Siege OF the capital TO march against the
province II it reoelled, | ought to make such
promises which to-day 1t would be impossible Tor
me To withdraw
THE MOVEMENT OF THE 18TH OF MARCH.
They could not state more clearly that the move
ment OF Tire 18th OF March in retaining the troops
before Paris mad contributed TO the consolidation
OF the Republic The Commune, which followed
IT, was, IKE all the power brought ABOUT by an in
surrection, q government de rdctO. then thought
it my duty TO go and shut myself up in Paris,
which had chosen me the first, and when, even
after my resignation was gwen, following upon the
abandonment OF one or two provinces i, there
FORE remained morally the representative. have
given in my journals advice, certainly not to the
Commune for they would not have listened to it,
but 10 the people OF Paris, who knew me and had
still retained confidence in me.
What then did would do again II an analogous
state Of events were to happen once more also
add that If all the Official representatives OF Paris
had acted as did--viz., to have the Assembly at
Versailles TO calm the agitated feelings or consult
their electors, the struggle would have taken
different character, and the democracy would not
have lost $1,000 OF its best warriors who were
mastered in the name OF the Republic by those
who at the present do not attempt to conceal
their aspirations towards monarchical form OF
government
But, ask, what could j do alone to calm the
exasperated feelings OF the people In bombarded
city, From the first insisted in lie Mot GOrdre
that the torch OF the incendary and the scaffold
burned on the Boulevard voltaire was not merely
a public ceremony. So long as punishment by
death shall remain certain executions Will be
necessary, like that OF Macmillan the Jocrisse
of power. like that OF Bazaine, the atrocious
villain who was saved by friend whom
history viii certainly consider an accomplice.
But the dead who are not formidable ex-
amples become useless, and consequently dam
geTous have therefore regretted, In a political
and humane point OF view, the executions which
compromised the honor OF the last days OF the
struggle. But can we exact from the vanquished,
riddled with mitraiileuses, stranged, bombarded
the sang yrOid and the GOODNESS which were SO
totally waning In the conquerorsf
PARIS SUBMERGED IN BLOOD.
Yes reyenges were allowed 1 Play priests were
plore 1t. The REPUBLICANS are men olprncipie and
not men Of passion; they had not the right to
their enemies slaughtering them; but alter all
never were reprisals more excused by the terrible
ne e. s @
sEsss HES ssSHs sSS ~ Hs
sScp me sresest 81 he crimes that history s 1i has
yet rad 70 thronIcm mad Deef Committed, One Of
the elect OF Paris representing the people in the
National Assembly, the citizen Mllliere, had been
arrested at his father-n-law's, in the midst OF his
ssF e G y ana so shes w It ts
trial by certain Captain Garcin acting under the
orders OF General de Cissey:
solutely unique. me royailsts can hereafter at
their ease insult the great works OF the first Revo-
Of Nantes the sades Of lyons the Con-
vention decimating itself. We answer that
had been judged; Danton and the HeRsrpsts
had been judged; put a., a Deputy, Resting
murdered upon the street by inferior Ofiieer OF
the army, is a monstroslty without name, without
precedent. Had Mlliere taken part with the
preponderating acts of the Commune his summary
execution would have been unjusti1able. One
rests stupefed TO think That his role had been
which were of such nature as to bring about its
suppression by R.oul Regault
THE DEATH OF MILLIERE.
The executioners endeavored later on to explain
that assassination. The shooting Of Miliere had
occurred through an error they pretended N
Paris Deputy, and who, be 1t understood, it has
been impossible to find again.
The death, however, Oh the journalist Milliere
served the d1sgraceful interests OF a man who
hitherto had been almost allpowerful SO evil
IDENTITY that no doubt existed as to its premedita-
ton. They noundered around in making their ex.
plantations, as later on they foundered around In
the blood Of their fellow citizens. THIS assassina.
they showed how the conquerOrs OF Paris
treated that city,, without a show Of law
pretended to night. In thus getting rid without
precedent Of one Of Its members the National AS
semDly committed suicide; for later on 1t
legalized all the attacks made against its au-
toEomy.
"Dufing eight days
A SINISTER SOUND
filed the Labau barracks wrote the immortal
author Of "LAnnee Terrible Hundreds OF pris-
oners were taken In chains and placed before
the mitralleuses and blown to pieces. At the
Buttes Chaumont the ignoble Galifet caused the
National Guards to dig immense graves, at the
sides OF which he grouped entire battalions, whom
ne hred on TIL they fell in these improvised tombs.
one o. our companions Of captivity Ia the case
lican, who had been but badly slaughtered,
and waited for the advent Of night to crawl out
from among the cdddrres with which he was sur
rounded and 10 gam place OF retreat from which
ne was not taken till several months afterwards.
BEHIND THE PRISON WALLS
1 or La Roquette the butchery had been such that
burial had become Impossible and the good health
! OF the nelghborhood was much interfered with.
\ The ofncers in charge OF the execution had found,
! as they thought the solution OF the matter by
bringing into requisitlon large number OF wagons
into winch they pitched the dead as they were
handed out. PROBABLY to give an interest to the
proceedings they compelled the National
/ GUARDS TO put into carriages the bodies
OF their dead brothers In arms, aud
each time that prisoner had finished his
sinister task, that the tumbril lul and that he
was preparing to descend from 1t, a shot IRON a
! gun stretched him next to mis- COMPANIONS and
the cartman carried to the same grave the dead
and their gravedlgger These rectas seem inn
printed with exaggeratlon Wen, ] affirm they
are still very lar from the reality We can only
mention some episodes, and 1t is the multiplicity
OF like events which augment their horror.
MYSTERIOUS Young MAN.
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