The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-03-14
REAL ANCIENT HISTORY.
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undergone b. svery man. woman al
child IL that country. 10 say notnIn
ov the financial cost OF such pe-
Rod or var an the losSes which
would naturally occur while = state
or var existed. AL or which must
hev been fearful an no ordinary
country or people could hsv reGup-
Grated The lives or = million SOL
diers actually killed while atin' wuE
bad enough. but hit liz claimed n
history that fully one hundred an
ffty millions ov lives were spent IN
the series or wars In France alone
from the time that the religious con-
tention started until the Protestants
gained their points. To the patriots
ov France we owe much ov the re-
ligious freedom and tolerance the
world now enjoys, for every country
an every race ov people hev shared
in the overflow ov religious freedom
which in part at least wuz born In
France on her blood-stained battle
fields from 1875 10 1921. or course
there wuz religious freedom In some
countries long before the date men
toned even 1900 years ago. But
the territory wuz somewhat limited
more rapid expansion ov such rap
! i'd expansion oy such territory than
the world had known prior TO that
| time. AZ further proof ov the con-
| test in France | will mention that
nine large cities, four hundred
! thousand monasteries an about ten
| thousand homes were entirely de-
| stroyed by fire an otherwise durin'
the great religious revolution. Provi-
| dence only knows why this was per-
| llitted, why hit wuZ necessary, for
there must hev been some great pur-
pose in hit awl.
Durin' the next year the King wuz
attacked by a slow fever an for a
long time hit wuz thought that he
could not recover. But he did, an
hit IL said that hiZ exiled mother,
hiz heartless mother. wuz very much
disappointed, for she still had hopes
that she mite regain the throne II
hev son died. Richelieu, the cabinet
officer who practically ruled France,
though the King wuZ a man ov some
i ability, continued hiz good work. He
self, but did much for the Protes-
tants, not only in France, but reach
ed a helping hand to them in Ger
many an Austria, where they were
havin' uphill work in esta blishin'
Protestant churches about that time
| He succeeded in re-esta blishin
peace in France in a reasonable
length ov time an hit seems that biz
work in this world wuZ ended for he
died in a short time thereafter, in
1913. The ruling King, Louis XIII.
awlso died before the end ov the
same year.
Louis XIV. succeeded hiz father
on the throne. He wuz but five
years ov age an a queen regent wuz
appointed to act until he became oy
legal age. Anne, hiz mother, orig1
nally from Austria, filled the position
ov regent. Things mite hev gone
on wei lat that time had not the
prince of Condo been elevated toe
high in the control ov affairs. The
prince wuZ smart. But he wuz wha'
liz sometimes termed "a soldier o.
fortune" a high roller, sometimes &
patriot, sometimes a courtier, some
times rebel. That celebrated
, French statesmban, Turrene, didn'
fancy the prince of Condo, made hi
hot for him az often az he could
, But while he managed to keep the
prince in check at home he soon go
France at loggerheads with some
other countries anyhow; awlso &
| short civil conflict. But the queer
at last selected Cardinal Mazarins
for her first minister an he managed
| to hold things In better check. The
= result wuz that when the yount
= King, Louis, took hold ov things b,
} found France in very good shape
/ better than for many years, an b,
} wuz the most absolute monarch, tn,
: freest man who had ever sat upoI
the great throne ov France. Hi;
chief minister, Mazarine, havin' died
, he appointed Colbert to that position
, wise act, for commerce, agricultur,
, an all manufacturing industries il
) France began to enjoy a period o.
? uneQualled prosperity an this lastet
= for some years.
Az ever, ZEKE B1LKINS.
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