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Show PAB1S AND ITS FATE. Madame Roland, while on her way to the scaffold, in the . year 1793, exclaimed: ex-claimed: "O, Liberty! Liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name !" So to-day, reading the accounts ac-counts of pillage.murder and rapine in the streets of once beautiful Paris, we exclaim: "O, Liberty ! Liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name !" The heart recoils from the contemplation of what has been the fate of the Capital of civilization while the inhuman fiends who proclaim themselves the friends of universal liberty have held sway in Paris. Fifty thousand corpses of men, women and children in the houses and streets; theatres, libraries, palaces of art and monuments of progress blackened ruins; one-fourth of the city destroyed; human nature demoralized and degenerated degen-erated such are the results of the reign of terror which has finally been ended by the triumph of Thiers and the Versailles Government. The Reds are attempting in all directions to escape, and Favre has dispatched to the representatives of foreign governments: "The acts of the insurgents are criminal crimin-al not political," and he requests that all refugees be arrested and returned under the extradition treaties for punishment. pun-ishment. Xo event in the present century will be so generally condemned as the almost total destruction of Paris. The world stood aghast at the burning of Moscow by the Russians; but when the facts became known, the reaction came, and the patriotism of the Russians Rus-sians generally applauded. They destroyed de-stroyed to save, and the destruction of their Capital annihilated Napoleon and his legions. The Red Repoblicans had no such patriotic motive. They fought against their own countrymen. The blood they shed and caused to flow was fratricidal. "When they saw their brief reign about to end with defeat encompassing en-compassing them they resorted to the last refuge of cowardly assassins, and determined that the victors should possess but the a-hes of the splendor of their imperial city. The English language does not contain words of abhorrence ab-horrence sufficiently strong to express the verdict of the civilized world upon the red-handed Communists of Paris. An example sufficient to last for all time should be made of inhuman monsters mon-sters who were the ringleaders in the revolution against the constituted authority. S'. F. Chronicle. |