The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-02-07
Our New Orleans Correspondence.

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. l, 1853.
Organization Of the Order of the Lone Star-Con
st'tutiom Of the Order-Samguine Amticiratioms Of
the Misunderstanding Erents IN Prospect-Ia,-
po,tomce ofthe Ntw Increment.
At sundry times, in the past two or three years,
have written to you of facts occurring in the fill
buster community. / have never made misstate-
ment or written from an incomplete understanding.
Another fact has lately occurred; If you not al
ready informed of it, propose, at this time, to &C.
quaint you with it.
The Order of the Lone Star has at length organ
zed-that is the organization is now complete as to
outward legislative form, and according to the origi
nal design Of the founders of the Order In accord
with the constitution the acme of authority has
at length been arrived at The Supreme Council has
been created and the constitution sets forth said
Council shal hereafter arbitate control and direct
all matters pertaining to the Order" This Council is
composed Of members elected from the General As
semblies Of the various States, which members met
in New Orleans on the 18th December, 1852. They
were in session about two weeks, and there is no
doubt that their proceedings were perfectly unan
nous. They have agents, who at present are estab-
fishing Divisions in the States, one Of whom is the
President Of the General Assembly of Louisiana Dr.
j. V. Wren and another, the Vice President of the
same Assembly, the Hon. Douglas Mitchell. The en-
tire Order are in high spirits here, and swear by the
crescent and the beard of the prophet, that they
know what they are about. Their numbers and in
fluence constantly augmenting, and amongst the
reputed members are many Of the best and most
talented Of our people-not only politicians, but men
Of all other pursuits and proessions-Jew and Gen.
tile-bankers and preachers-judges and editors
State and federal officers. The Order is ramifying,
beyond question, in a thousand directions and is
established from Illinois to Florida.
Do these facts portend nothing? Do they argue
that the Lone Star believes in mastery inactivity p
Do they prove that this Order is deficient in talent
In infexibity OF purpose in vgor OF action? Which
conclusion do these facts favor-that the Order has
faith and satisfaction in manifest destiny, or that
il determined upon the creation Of such circumstan
ces as Will order destiny consonant with its peculiar
passion. You can scarcely point TO an idea of the
age which has had such rapid deyelopement-which
has been embodied in form 50 vigorous, papable,
promising of positive result Its birth is almost as
sudden that of the rghtful daughter of Metis
who, by the crack midwifery system Of Vulcan,
sprang forth from the head Of Jupiter, completely
armed. 1t strides forth now, swelling with passion
ate hopes and defiant OF opposition.
The fact that no ruptures have occurred in its
management, tells significantly Of a settled purposes
and the facts that though this Order is conscious Of
its growing power though it hears that tits the cause
ofSpansh agues, and though the columns of the Lon
don Times are laden with censure, yet that not
flushed by prosperity, unseduced into exultation,
unexcted by the frowns Of the great oracle Of anti
strike the reflective mind Of some with as ominous
an excitement as would be felt by sentinel upon
whose ears the quick tramp of an armed foe falls,
while his own camp is sumbering.
j believe that these circumstances do foreshadow
matters OF stirring interest, and believe that we
have only seen the beginning Of the end.
\ on explained some time since, the true cause OF
the creation of the Order Of the Lone Star which
was mainly that the foreign policy of the admins
tration illustrated in its acts concerning Cuba did
not represent the desire of the American people.
wrote you, more than one year ago, that G2ibus-
t1fsm was by no means extinct. Do you think that
it is idea born of vaporthat its hopes will turn to
ashes that its chiefs are pursuing a chimera Have
you been induced to believe that the Lone Star was
impersonated in DR.. Wren? Have you noticed him,
and believed that in him you saw all the talent and
representation Of this Order? Whoever may have
thus believed, are ignorant Of what we of Louis
lana know. They know not OF the thickness Of
the mystery which surrounds the movements of
many Of the members, and that besides the emissa-
res for the establishment of divisions &c. there are
others, assisting in the management and conduction
at work, who are subtle-mnded, cool headed, saga
cious energetic and determined. / am not one OF
those who deem the Order dishonest or antdemocra-
tic, you class it with internal machines for
its purposes and character seem TO be quite well I'M
derstood by the public. Should any important acts
OF the Supreme Council be attainable, will endea-
vor to let you hear OF them. JOHN SMITH.