Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-05-15

zion for the expulsion of the royalist no
bility and the n%on-juring clergy of the
Kingdom from the borders OF France,
But the king would not sign the decree,
and so the measure lay in abeyance under
the veto. More and more was it seen that
the emigrant mobiles and the priests were
in the way of the Revolution. History
had planted them, as she has done in every
age, squarely in the pathway of reform
and regeneration. Therefore, saith the
French Revolution, these priests and roy
alfst emigrants must be thrust forth from
the land of liberty.
But how? The answer to this question
an answer which was as a lighted torch
to a magazine of combustibles-was fur
nished by Marie Jeanne Roland. She put
forward her husband in his character of
minister of the interior to demand in writ
ing of the king that he should sign the de-
cree for the expulsion of the mobiles and
priests. With her far reaching intelligence
she discerned hat an issue would thus be
made between G~irondinism and the mon
archy, and that the latter must ultimately
yield to the pressure of the Revolution. If
the king should sign the decree he himself
and his throne and court would be en-
quilted. If he should not sign it, the Gil
ronde. backed as it would be by the Mount
ain and all classes of the revolutionary
party, would be able to assail the Mon
archy and cast it from its foundations.
A letter was accordingly drawn by Nine.
Roland in the name of her husband and
addressed to the king. demanding his
signature to the decree of the convention.
Only the brilliant pen of the Queen of the
Girondists could be trusted in the compo-
4ltlnn Of SI1ch q panor Sipoo tho two -
the Crusades no other such daring letter
had been addressed to the majesty of
France or to any other king of Christen-
dom. AS had been foreseen, the missive
was not accepted by Louis; but Roland
read it to him in open council, and when
the kings signature was denied the docu-
ment 10ds sent to the ]convention! That
day sealed the fate of the Bourbon mon
archy, and made possible not only the en-
pire of Napoleon but the Third Republic of
Francel
Down then with Roland! Louis will
have no more of him in the council. So he
is dismissed n turned abroad with the
paper in his hand. All men read it and
believe it. France is with Roland, and not
any longer with the king. The manifest
deduction of the public was this: If the
King and the monarchy are not with us,
then they are against us. Being against
us, they also, as we'll us the traitorous
priests and royalist aristocracy, shall go
never to return.
Roland read his paper in the council on
the 10th of June, 1892. In two months
from that day royalty was abolished in
France. Feudalism, with all of its medic.
val ~tyrannies, was swept away. Roland
was recalled to his place of minister of the
interior, and at his right hand was placed,
as minister of justice, no other thar Dan
ton himself. The real Revolution rose and
swelled and broke in lines of foam through
every ~thoroughfare of society. The Mount.
ain, groaning with the pent up democracy
within, threw its whole weight for the
Gironde, and the Gironde suddenly awoke
to the fact that a tempest was on which
threatened to sweep away the landmarks
of civilization.
Marie Jeanne Roland was the first to per-
ceive that the Revolution was rushing