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Title: Building the nation : events in the history of the United States, from the Revolution to the beginning of the war between the states
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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SACKING THE ARSENAL. down. The French Guards in the Bastile were heart and soul with thepeople. They hung out a white flag, and the prison was surrendered. Aduke rode to Versailles with the news. It is a revolt, said the King. It is a revolution, replied the duke. I will order the troops away, said the King. He issued the order,but the deluge had come. Blood-thirsty men were roaming the streetsof Paris, murdering men and women of noble birth. The National As-sembly ordered the Bastile to be torn down, and the people levelled itto the ground. The National Assembly, imitating the example of the United States, 50 BUILDING THE NATION. (Chap. III. made a written constitution. But the people of France knew very little asto what constitutional freedom is. They thought that government mustdo everything; themselves nothing, except to run the government. De-signing, wicked, blood-thirsty men planned to put themselves in power.
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TAKING OF THE BASTILE.—(FROM AN OLD PRINT.) They were ignorant and brutal. They determined to get rid of all pastthings, and to begin a new era. All through the centuries bishops andpriests had been heaping up money for the Church, until the property ofthe Church was worth $400,000,000, and yielded $15,000,000 revenueevery year. The bishops and prelates were living in luxury, while the 1789.) TEACHING BY EXAMPLE. 51 people were starving. The Church owned one-third of the soil of France. The property belongs to the people, said the National Assembly, andtook it for the use of the State. The great estates held by the seigneurs were divided into small farms.It was a great change. The people thought that they had obtained theirrights and liberties. How delightful it was! They stopped work androamed the streets singing, and shouting Liberty and equality! There were two parties in the National Assembty. The deputies fromthe Province of Gironde, in South-western France, were intelligent me

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