The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-10-27
THE NEW FRENCH ARMY.
London Register. Sent. 81.

| Lonuon Register, sept. "a
| At Vincennes, on Sunday last, the MAJ
shai President of France held review {
so 600 troops, 10 600 of whom were cavalry
Fully aqIarter of the entire population G
| Paris, and almost all the foreign visitors
| were among the number uf the spectators
| To say that the displsy was m 'gDitcent
| but mere matter of courer. lt was NOR
than merely magnificent. 1t WAS, by gen
eral consent, beyond all the mlitar
| pageants Of the kind that have been wit
messed since, eight years ago, tie Grea
Nation as Napoleon loved to call it, passe
| through it's last terrible disasters, begin
| ming with the German invasion and endiDj
! with the Communistjc outbreak. If tn
French army at that time was not, as Mar
shal Let % If boasted, ready 10 the laet bat
ton of the last gaiter. the sc, 900 who passe,
before Marshal de MacMahon On Sunda,
were, and that hey ond all manner of donbt
The display witnessed wes no mere gala
day demonstration. The soldiers assem
bled were no mere carpet knights in spck
and span new uniforma, their tunic
brushed to gloss, their helmets all gilt
whittier than pipe clay. They were there
rather than that, in marching order, read,
to do anything and to go anywhere. I
long succession of mar Ce nvres had prepared
them for their crowniDg evolutions
Sundays chow was the climax, and t wa
not unworthy of being what it undertook
to be. The body Of men on view We're al
of them, as nearly as possible in time o
peace, or "a war footing. Ten days pre-
viously, on the 4th inst, the preliminary
maj D1vres had began. The starting
point for t&sm was at Chsrtres. behind the
river Voise, the long aud carefully ar
ranged series of movements all converging
upon the capital. From many scattered
routes the cOntinQents came in across the
ind inc of tha q l,g
reviewing ground at ViDcennes. With the
boom of twentyone guns the pageant
opened, these twenty one guns danotlng
the fact that the Pre- s,dHnt of the Efeuch
Republic had arrived on ihe review ground
Preceded by about a dszen spah!s, with
their scarlet cloaks f1utterng abroad over
their grey Arabs, and followed by more
than usually numerous and brilliant staff
he cantered along the entire length of the
line, the drums of each regiment beating
and the coiOrs being advanced as be passed.
The rear of the cavaicade was brought up
by troop of cnirassers. 1t was especially
noted while this part of the proceedings
went on that the Chief of the State was
very family cheered indeed. He rode a
fine dark bay charger, and looked every
inch q soldier. On his right was his heroic
comrade in arms, Marshal Canrobert, who
was noticed during the chief part of the
dow To-. I-i".i in the sadd]e on his mo-
y
arst approved.
AGA Men who under eacreligious oaths
an emnly pledge themselves to the crir
and murder, have cast aside the princip
but humanity and reduced themselves |
habits of the lion, the tiger and the b
Their route leads from laWless murd
mo lndiscriminate slaughter. They be
;no beasts OF prey. 1t is in vain that
ed. pledge themselves to recognize their b
>,s rem in crime to the extent of de
ION exclusively with them and giving O
rH. to them only. The same prir
OF which arms them against society in ge
er- would eventually make them fly at
JILL others throats and dissolve their brot
INT hood in blood.
1t seems from the publications all
y to that the American party and
Ieo National party of this parish are p
Ver much the same thing, and that o su
9nt of the so called National ticket would
be success of the Native American p
In Such misfortune would fill our sub,
BIS nate places with Thugs. Sheriffs' Off
INT constables' deputies, and policemen W
no be selected for their unscrupulous d
to gard of human life and their handi
De with dark-lanterns, brsss -knuckles
de slung-shot.
D." Such contingency is not pleasant to
ng template as finishing touch to serit
l' misfortunes running through carpet
's- rule, financial panic, broken levees, fr,
Is- crops and the yellow scourge. Let us
to risk the Thugs
tx Democratic rule has been weak and,
l1' my and barren-but not bloody. Can
Ag Citizens party give US absolute assur4
IN that hearty support of it by Conserva
voters would not divide the white pop
i tion merely to let a Know Nothing &
10 spiracy ride in on q treacherous n
st vote 7
NJ