Show 7 T HE FRENCH MURDERS I 1 in pulling lo 10 naila airro icaro howl and cremieux tile tho I 1 rench french government III hai repeat edIA ft the world has ads been slowly unlearning tt it has confounded political offenses with wilh ordinary orji nary crimes crimea ina doubt the cause or the was a baj bad one no doubt its grin triumph ul ph kroull T dula liard hat V a been a disaster dis ostor to society and adil to lo rel repress gr elito it by force was a butyl 1 anil and in the e r A erce convulsion of abo th fin final 1 struggle ruggle Bt I 1 when nad bad burned and nj murdered in sheer destruction tho the world was vis not disposed to lo scan been too closely llie he swift punishment orl of those taken bcd ed banded in thomi the ast of iichi outrages the punishment too tod tit it whatever time those directly concerned oni erkcil ned in inch acts acla as aitho the all murder ardc if f the hostages and ind and thomas thoma must have been so ao bunted righteous oui vat but six bix inen months tits and aid lie he 1 fact stands out ot clear halt lio 16 commune immune in ia jt its s general outlines Is as essentially a i political brovell in biant crit that a 1 great xi number umber of i iaco aco i i pl Is supported it id I 1 iaia in all i sincerity as aa a beneficent revolution thal spart pirt r om particular thoe in it t should be bo I 1 judged bri abri tho the famo iamo footing fooling as tho the parties in n abny any unsuccessful rebellion rob ollion the tha hintt sanu of modern limes has justly recognized an aa immense minic nic between bein tach such ewes cases and those of ef ordinary A prim criminal male by the strict lettai of the law a reb rebel I 1 in may y rank with a comm 9 murderer BE but a a ian blehi ic dula dicave tile lives or of a vast r a lion aaion exposed to the langman f li Is abay A 1 bay rejected by it thi ie general feeling i i f mali malkind kind not becal 1180 it it I 1 involves consequences ion sequences but because ii i I 1 I 1 a I 1 unjust the very fact chii th a alj ho of f men otherwise so sprig upright ht h hato avo IL jet joined c d in in a common cause came is proof abat hat far than the motives have been at work I 1 I 1 political expediency here teaches the ilia same fame lesson as 11 morality the ithe united states in forbearing to inflict the penalty of a single death for tho the crime of rebellion only acted in adf nc cordasco cor or danco dince with the principles which ire are coming to be recognized ts as bind I 1 ing on all governments government it is I 1 to bo be full felt that what liaf has been calle mercy I 1 in buch suell cases cages is ii after all I 1 1 hardly more than lan justice tiac sentiment the growt growth of w which bich Ls is anc of the test best examples of modern progress has been set at defiance by the government DOI the sot sei will be taken and rightly as ila AJ affront and injury to the highest c political i c 2 I 1 idema of ilia times those thom alio L babyc 11 a least Bym sympathy pathy with the baui 1 e ga of r the Co Com mauno nuno will feel that it ought t not to be pursue pursued I with such w weapons po as it is ia greatly I 1 to toi i be feared act that tile internal agles yet to come for even M thiers can hardly flatter himself that FrAince lEas seen iho 60 last of civil war will a assume a still bitte bitterer rei and giorc cruel character for these judicial U I 1 |