Litchfield enquirer., 1880-03-04

Geueral, a revolution was effected, that soon carried terror and alarm in all Europe" 5 Thiers is our authority mostly to show the fulfllment of this prophecy in relation to the acts of France Gone of the Horns of the Ro- man Empire), as he was Frenchman much respected on both sides of the Atlantic and has given us no doubt truthful history.
 He died in 1878 much lamented. Thiers, Vol. II, page 37O, says, ''the first festival of Reason was held with great pomp on the 10th of Nov. 1793. It was attended by all sections together with the constituted authorities.
 "A young woman represented the Goddess of Reason. She was the wife of Momoro the printer, one of the friends of the atheists. She was dressed in white draperry. mantle of azure blue hung from her shoulders her flowing hair was covered with the cap of Lib- erty. She sat upon an antique seat, entwined with ivy and borne by four citizens.
 "Young girls dressed in white and covered with roses. proceeded and followed the God dess. 4tasz sasa-
 
 Temple of Reason, and then they proceeded to the Convention"
 Chaumette then spoke as follows, "Legisla- tors! Fanaticism has given way to reason. This day an innlence concourse has assembled beneath these Gothic walls, which for the trst time reaches the truth. Here the French have celebrated the only true worship, that of liberty, that of reason, we have abandoned inanimate idols for that animated image, the master piece of uature" As he uttered these words Chaumette pointed to the Goddess of Reason. The young and beautiful woman de- scended from her seat, and went up to the president, who gave her the fraternal kiss amid universal shouts of "1,he Republic .tor- euer! Reason .t0reUer! Doaon ssiM Fanati- cism.''
 The convention then left and returned to the Temple of Reason and there sang patriotic hymn. We have in Vol. 3, page 366 the ac- count of some of their sentiments in regard to death.
 Chaumette obtained resolution that minis
 
 their exercises. He caused new funeral cere- monies to be instituted, the friends and rela- lives alone were to follow the coffin to the grave. All religious signs were suppressed in cemeteries, and replaced by statue of Sleep. A foot note says that Pache, Herbert and Chaumette the leaders of the Atheists, express ed publicly their determination to dethrone the King of Heaven as well as the. kings of earth. ....
 Page three hundred and sixty four says, ''that they divided the year into three hundred and sixty days, and the months into thirty days each, then, they divided the months into three decades of ten days each, and that super seded the Christian Sabbath. As there re-. mained five days to complete the year, these were Festival days, and each person had specific duty to do if they chose"
 The prophet says 'they will honor the god of forces" and we learn from Thiers' chronolo- gy that they had school of Mars, the god of war, on the plain of Sablons. Thiers tells us on page AIS, vol 1, "that they not only hon. ored Mars and Tha lia, but they honored their offspring" It appears that the Editor Marat was in pursuit of person and was told that he had gone to see the play at the Temple, and a file of carriages and brilliant illumina- tions pointed him to the Temple. where the children of Thalia were honoring a son of Mars Thalia was the Muse of Theatres.
 A foot-note on page 371, vol. 9, says, ''eve- " tenth day revolutionary leader ascended the pulpit and preached atheism to the bewild- cred audience"
 Marat was universally deifed, and even the instrument of death was sanctifed by the name of the Holy Guillotine. On all the public cem- eteries this inscription was placed, "Death is an eternal sleep" The comedian Monert in the church of St. Roche, carried impiety to it's height ''God, if you exist" said he, ''avenge your injured name. 1 bid you defiance. You remain silent. You dare not launch your thunders. Who after this will believe in your existence. ."-Alison.
 The thirty ninth verse says, ''he shall cause them to rule over many implying torces." Thiers, page 337, vol. 3, says, "It was in the three principal cities, Lyons, Marseilles and Bordeaux. that the representatives struck es- pecial terror" >t ,~
 The decree against Lyons enacted, tha. the rebels should be tried by the military power at the expense of the aristocrats, the houses of the wealthy destroyed, the name of the city changed. .-. ,
 The execution of thls decree was intrusted to Herbois, Montaut and Fodche. They went to execute their orders, taking with them for ty Jacobins to prepare the way. at ...
 Resin had followed them with two thousand men of the army and they had let loose their fury. The first stroke of a pickaxe was sig nal for eight hundred laborers to commence the work to destroy the finest streets. The Lyonese suspected of having borne arms were guillosined or shot, to the number of fifty or sixty aday. g<
 1 Terror reigned in that unfortunate city The commissioners wrote to the Convention that the only way to subdue the city was to dis place one part and destroy the other. So much for M Thiers. f
 In foot note on page 33S, vol. 2, of Thiers, taken from Alison, we are told that Couthon walked through the finest streets of Lyons with silver hammer and striking house saying, "Rebellious house, I strike you in the name of the Iaw," instantly the agents of destruction, of whom twenty thousand were in the pay of the Convention, levelled the, dwelling to the ground. Proceeding on athe- istical principles, the first step of Herbois and Fouche was to institute a fete in honor of Challer, the republican governor of Lyons, who had been put to death in the first insur- rection. His bust was carried through the streets, followed by an immense crowd of as- sassins and prostitutes. After them came an ass bearing the Gospel, the Cross, and the x 15.s ry r |. 4