Show first a Ke I 1 know tho men of the people in paris too well not to know that their first movements in times of revolution aro usually generous and that they are best pleased to epand the days immediately following their triumph in boasting of their victory laying down tho law and playing at being great men during that time it generally happens that como government or other is set up the police returns to ita post and the judge to hia bench and when at last our great men consent to step down to the better known and more vulgar ground of petty and malicious human passions they are no longer ablo to do so and are ro deuced to live simply like honest men besides wo havo spent BO many years in that there have arisen among us a kind of morality peculiar to times of disorder and a special code for days of rebellion according to these exceptional laws murder is tolerated and hakoo permitted but theft is forbidden although this what ever one may say does nofa prevent a good deal of robbery from occurring upon those days for tho simple reason that society in a state of rebellion cannot ha different from that at any other time and it will always contain a number of rascals who as far as they aro concerned scorn the morality of the main body and despise its point of honor when they aro unobserved recollections of do villo |