Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-05-29

tives called the Human Racial flourished
and gained ascendency over the public
mind. The assembly and afterward the
national convention, became only a kind
of sounding board to catch the echoes
from the platform of the JacObins. Here
audacty. adventure, the wild spirit of rad
icalism and innovation more and more took
voice and heat from the applause of that
unquenchable democracy that was rising
from the soil OF France.
Perceiving her power, the Mother So
ciety-for by that name the Jacobin club
was called-began to be a mother indeed.
She procreated and established daughters
like herself, first in the principal and after
ward in the minor cities of France, until
her lineal progeny numbered no fewer than
twelve hundred, all obedient to her will.
| These subordinate clubs followed the eX-
ample of the mother, and clubism spread
everywhere, until as many as 10000 subor-
dinate societies were organized in the
French towns and villages The whole
constituted an immense speaking gallery,
resembling in every chamber and recess
with the echoes and edicts of the great
Mother.
In a short time the diverse sentiments in
the Club of the Jacobns 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 lcuS 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 a 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 frars, 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 Cordeliers
The meeting place was in the Rue de
| lEcole de Medicine, or, as we should say,
/ Medical street. Here the extreme agtat-
ors gathered, and began to foment those
questions which involved the destruction
of the existing order of society. Here the
malgn pigmy, Jean Paul Marat, with his
monstrous head and croaking voice, came
up from underground Paris to pour out his
invectives and sarcasms, streaked with
blood. Here was established under Camille
Old Cortlelier, which became the mouth
piece of the frantic revolutionsts, 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
Feuillans 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
Paiis-and our own Lafayette with few
other conservatives, eminently respectable
and strongly DESTROYS of putting a brake
Oh the wheels of the Revolution.
Still another great club was organized,
called the Club DIES 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 tottering Bourbon throne
The break between the Royalist and semi
| ROyalist societies on the one side and the
Jacobins on the other tended strongly to
increase the democracy of the latter, and
to force the whole society over in the direc-
ton of the CUrdeliers, so that sympathy,
but not organic union, was re-eotabished
between such leaders as Robes pierre, the
| l.ameths, Danton and Marat-a sympath Y
fatal to the monarchy and ultimately de
structive of itself,
Thus arose the clubs of Paris More and
more the Jacohns dominated all the rest.
The Feuilans society waned, WAS Knocked
at for "A season by the real revolutionists,
aud in March of l19l was broken up by Il
mob. The Club of the Monarchists per
ished with the monarchy itself The Cor
tie llrrS Climb reachpl its climax wit n the