The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-07-18
REAL AISC.TmSTORY
When the Whole Of Europe
Was Excited and and q
World-war was Threatened



nisser That on~ Large Gag We.
Totally Destroyed ard ass<h~r n~-
pepaiAa~si POE sorse ye~s~--
RTyHai.a and TulmAni~sn Ne~xsy
Ruined fr.so~-N~~ R~vsssse
Made q Had s1Ars-uwsIil..s ss.w
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Bikiasviile. ~. c. July Is. isia
Correspondence. OF The Caa1anian-
Entsrprise
In a short time after the exseutloa
oy the kinw ov France 81 the instance
ov the French Reeshirts. practically
the whole ov the Empire became
stirred up. not an unusual state ev
affairs. but in thls case the agitatlou
seemed more serious than usual A
world-war wux threatened England
increased her army: and. altogether
fourteen countries had Armies ready
for any sort of strife. The Preach
| people who were known az GirondIsts
u
/ Her name wux Charlotte Corday. She
wuz not from the great not air capt
tai ov Mecklnsburg County, -. C.
however. az her name would indicate.
but from Normandy. q division ov
| France. This girl landed IN Paris on
the lfth ov July. She spent some
days Iookin' about an sized up the
! Q kA H.
sible for the unsettled condition ov
France. Danton. Robesplerre an
Marat. With Charlotte cordAy after
the trio somethin' wuz bound TO hap
pen. After watchin' the conduct an
habits ov the lawiess leaders soms
days she concluded that Marat wux
the meaness in the bunch. But Marat
wuz sick with form ov fever. prob
ably malarial. about that time. and
this proved to hix advantage. for Misa
Corday didn't care TO kill a sick man.
regardless ov his record. Marat edit
ed newspaper an managed 20 write
some cy the meanest editorials which
; hit contained. sick though he wuz.
Finally Charlotte Corday vent 10 the
I
MED admission. But Ma=at learned
that some one wuz present an had
the girl admitted. The scoundrei IL
, said to hev been in hiz bathtub at the
, time. He eagerly questioned Miss
Corday TO learn somethin' ov the
: Girondist strength Ia Normandy.
, what they we're doin' an 80 on. After
/ hna fns H.
grow very angry, sayin' THE Giron-
dist leaders in Normandy shall be ex-
, ecuted." Miss Corday wuz far from
J bein' in sympathy with the Giron-
dists In Normandy or elsewhere. but
the language oy Marat furnished the
| inspiration an she sprang AZ Maras
| an drove a knife into hiz breast an
: one ov the three monsters WIZ no
! more. Charlotte Corday stood near
an saw him breathe hiz last She
wuz arrested at once an hurriediy
; tried an executed the same day
Marat wuz buried. Oy course .hous-
ands lamented the death ov Maraf.
though they were wastin' breath.
/ Speakin' ov the conditions then
said: The convention is a political
/ phenomenon which has existed. bat
once: and It's terrible power wux
welded by men ov the lowest ambi-
/ tions The Mountain "a division OF
!. the Girondistsl wuz q volcano, which
} vomited its fires over Europe. while
! it inundated France with its incen-
J diary lava; an the Jacobin Club. the
J caves where the thunderboIts were
forged. Still these fanatics oy Iiber-
~ remained poor. while they were
denouncin' death upon the rich: N
J they depopulated the earth. while
they were promising themselves 90
share It's blessings an live like bresh-
} rem Eyerythin' ID fact wux immo-
lated TO the fierce infexibility OF their
passions This wuz anarchy In hits
| worst form.
Ov course efforts were made 20
shake on the terrible yoke The
/ Girondists an constitutionaiists had
been called moderate men. rose at
/ Caen and Lyons. The convention
had decreed that Lyons. a prosperous
manufacturin' city, should be de-
stroyed. Marseilles. another thrivin'
city. wuz depopulated for a time. an
even the name wuz ordered suppress
| ed. shown 70 what folly Redshirt
politics had brought the country.
When we compare the democracy ov
France one an two hundred years
ago with modern Organism and Till
manism. We can't help noticin' that
they were an are one an the same
thing. with just enough Catholicism
to favor the whole business
/ After things reached q crisis Tou-
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