The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-05

Perceiving her power, the Mother So
ciety-for by that name the Jacobin club
was called-began to be mother indeed
| She proereated and established daughters
like herself first in the principal and after
ward in the rniper cities of France, until
her lineal progeny Numbered no fewer thar
twelve hundred, all obedient to her will
These subordinate clubs followed the ex
ample of the mother, and clubisrn spread
everywhere, until as many as 40, 600 subor
dinate societies were organized in the
French towns and villages. The whole
constituted an immense speaking gallery
resounding in every chamber and recess
with the echoes and edicts of the great
Mother.
In short time the diverse sentiments in
the Club of the Jecobins led to division,
in which there was Center, a Left and a
Right The Left became more and more
strongly revolutionary in its principles.
The Center held on in the same line OF
agitation, instruction and reform which
the Revolution itself was pursuing. The
Center aUdS the Revolution. The Right
drew back more and more toward constitu-
tional monarchy At length the Left, I'M
der the lead of Danton, Marat and Camille
Desmoulins, broke off from the slow going
Mother Society and organized new club,
more radical and furious than any society
thus far established. The club secured as
its meeting place the old chapel of the
Franciscan friars, known as the Cordeliers,
from the name of the cord with which the
monks were wont to girdle themselves.
Hence the new society was called the Club
of the Cerdeliers.
The meeting place was in the Rue de
FEcoie de Medicine, or, as we should say,
Medical street. Here the extreme agitat-
ors gathered, and began to foment those
questions which involved the destruction
of the existing order of society. Here the
maHgn pigmy, Jean Paul Marat, with his
moIastrous head and croaking voice, came
up from underground Paris to pour out his
invectives and sarcasms, streaked with
blood. Here was established, under Camille
Desmoulins, LIE Vieux Cordelier, or The
Old Cordelier, which became the mouth
piece of the frantic revolutionists, the or
gan of the approaching Terror.
In like manner the Right broke away,
and was organized under the title of
Friends of the Monarchic Constitution"
But that name soon gave place to the
Feuillaps club, so called, like the others,
from the meeting place Of the society,
which was the convent Of the Feuillans.
OF this body the leaders and founders
were the Able Sieyes, old Bailly-mayor of
Paris-and our own Lafayette, with few
other conservatives, eminently respectable
and strongly DESTROYS of putting brake
on the wheels of the Revolution.
Still another great club was organized,
called the Club des Monarchiens, or the
Monarchists' Club, having for its object the
propagation and maintenance of monarch
ical principles, and in particular the sup
port of the lettering Bourbon throne
The break between the RoyaliSt and semi
Royalist societies on the one side and the
Jacobins on the other tended strongly TOT
increase the democracy of the latter, and
to force the whole society over in the direc-
ton of the Cordeliers so that sympathy
but not organic union, was re-established.s
between such leaders as Robespierre, they
Lameths, Danton and Marat-a sympathy
fatal to the monarchy and ultimately de-s
structive of itself. /
Thus arose the clubs of Paris More and
more the Jacobins dominated all the rest.
The Feuillans society waned, was Knocked; 1
at for a season by the real revolutionists, /;
and in March of 1871 was broken up by a.
mob. The Club of the Monarchists per-
ished with the monarchy itself. The Cor
deiiers club reached it's climax with the
Terror, fuctuated as the Revolution itself
rose and fell, and was finally abolished by,
a decree of the convention in August of
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