The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-03-26
The Organization of Labor.
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The best Feature of the political System is the
inherent Power of its own Overthrow. Its Exist
ence is a progressive Revolution 1t kills like
Brufus Its own Parent, and dies, like him, by Sui
eide. What Enjoyment offers Home which must
be for ever defended against Those that have none
and of what Value are those &c Liberties " which
can only he preserved by alternative ''Voting and
Fighting % constant clashng of angry Passions
within, during an Interval of Peace an incessant
Preparation of Assault from without, in the most
destructive Warfare, what Devil could devise a
State of Torment for the Punishment of wicked
Mortals more dreadful than this!
But will the Social System change this State of
Things for the better! answer: No; but Men
will such Men as are, every one of them, a Social
System IA hemsetueS. In the political System, &C.
cording to President Monroe, % Principles are
Every Thing; Men Nothing lin The true Social
System, Men are Every Thing, and their Prnci-
pies. Nothing. Who would be so foolish as to in
quire into The Principles ola Temperance Reformer /!
He points TO the $ Order Of the Sons
on have heard u revolutionary France. of the
Principles which dictated, of the Watchwords
chosen for the carrying out of its Measures LIB
erty, Equality, Fraternity, the Right to Labor, and
the Organization of Labor" What has become of
these! They lie buried under forest of Bayo.
nets, or under Mountain of Grapeshot The
Clubs are closed, and the Press under lnterdict
And 1t Is well that il is So for under The Manage
ment of Men Ike these Condition of Things, in
hnely worse than the worst Political, would have
succeeded.
Ii you want to know the Character of the Men
who figured most eminen1y In this ludicrous tragi-
co-Drams, here is Sc Monsieur de Lamartine' In
his " Condolences he speaks of pressing Affairs.
Res Augusta Dom; domestic Embarrassments of
Fortune difficulties of Living, according to ones
Cond,ion;" he had paid for his large Estate
MAy" Gndeed large enough for the foundation
OF City Nth " borrowed Money!; that Money
he cannot now repay though he does not repent the
Borrowing of it. friend advices him TO sell
very small Part, amply sufficient to pay the Debt,
and which still would leave HIM princey For
tune . Here is Lot you do not WANT /" Oh
no! the hungry Poet cries, cannot spare that
it is the Vineyard that my Father planted, the year
mat was born" But" continues the friend |
" here is another, fit for Cattle" Yes signs |
the Man of Sorrow, ''but this cannot be: the |
River, the Meadow, the Orchard where We used to |
play! " Well, let us look elsewhere this strip |
behind the House!' "But this borders on the |
Garden. Who would be able to look at it without |
Tears in his Eyes -. Let me stop here for in
deed the Heart sickens in the Reflection that this
man should dare to proclaim the Redemption of |
france from Social Misery, who is unable to spare
the least Parcel of Land not his o,o and is heart
0 Foken Ur1h,ng IN agony" when he is required to
DO that, which the poorest Laborer would do with
Delight IL but an Opportunity was given. Go you,
Monsieur de Lamartne, write Anacreonides and
Sonnets; the Regeneration of the World is not for
you You are not the Man for US. You are moth
ing but revolutionary Scheemer; not the Embo-
1iment of the Social System. Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity are your political Principles but Serv.
Jude, Oppression and Arms for ALL against all
he Fraternity, you must have, to maintain 60 Ones
Next Number will give the Character of One not
much better; yet the nost prominent Advocate for
he Organization of Labor
CHRISTIAN BURGHALpER