New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-04-20
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MORNING. APRIL %, 1854
THE TRAGEDY or D0UGLds. |

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Dear reader! we had but time to tell thee
day before yesterday, that be Of the Bleeding
Heart, the Black Douglas, oung Norval, who's
father Ia frugal SWAIN fed his flock on til,
Grampian hills Of Vermont, but who hath him
self married Southern dame for her negroes
and 10 become I. q Northern man with Southern
principles Is downs much like g thousand o.
bricks. upon the parsons, for daring to express
their opinion, as Ministers Of the Gospel, agains
the Nebraska bill, On that subject. be seems
determined to give them no . benefit of clergy !.
He hath sat down, as fierce for a duello as Sil
Lucius 0'Trigger when he was penning d chal
lengs for Bob Acres, and hath writ them de-
hance, Of rather the most s learned length ans
laundering sound that has ever been indites
since til days when Napoleon the great marche,
with printing press to the conquest If Russia
ainging pacific proclamations before him ant
bloody bulletins behind
If the man IS small, his spirit is large. Little
dogs are always the most quarrclsome, Ger.
tainly, since the days Of stark old Bell-the-cai
and stalwart ] James. Of Scottish story, the sta
ture the Douglases hath shrunk considerably
but if their persons are short, their letters art
long--t the late missiye being Of just eight news
paper columns. Thus the race is still formidaI
Bile; in peace, if not il war with pen, if not
sword to parsons il not warriors.
As apostles Of Old sent homiletic epistles to
the churches or ~ bishops address pastoral
letters to their dioceses; or as parsons rebuks
the sins Of their 80 doth the dimi-
nutivs Of giants adlnonish the Chicago clergy
He scolds them as if they we're his parishioners
moth one Of theirs He let's them know that
spins texts as they are, he can draw out a longes
and q Stacker twisted yarn than any Of them!
and that if they beat their drum ecclesiastis
against him, he will pound them back again
all which Is, no doubt. highly commendable. VIZ
Ike 70 see people stick up for their rights. The
Young Giant stands the great representative 81
Stump craftsmanship: he should mako the
Stump respected, therefore; should maintaiiS
it's dign ty. The Stump is great institution =
the chief Of institutions almost the only inst
tuition left us From that horse-block, ths
\ gh raulting politician Of Buncombe expects y
Ieap into the Presidential saddle. Itneeds must
therefore, be- with him, the Stump against TIN
pulpit and Buncombe against the Bible.
His great effort, then, is 70 prove that, IL
venturing TO take part IN 9 political question,
and nslx with worldly matters, the clergy Of TN
North have quilted their sacred calling, u
minsle in Satan s-politics. He proceeds Il
show that, by doing this, they manifest D desig
20 nsurp the direction Of public affairs, and II
establish over VS. an ecclesiastical tyranny. Hi,
\ of course, uprears his vast bulk, to save thu
country from 4 danger go dreadful 'Tis only h
Tom Thumb thai can subvert the giants It'll
only his yalor that can do battle with the black
costs. @ "
Nov, We have already intimated that little
F'eopls IRE prone 70 be oyer-yaliant The great,
stsss of their spirit oyerswells their discretion
little put Is soon hot; and the less it has in IL
the sooner II bcils over.
Seriously now, Master Douglas never makes 4
grand political move that il not d mastery mis-
take. TIE never loads his gun but to miss his
80 III $500 oss - w .ninA NJ
parsons Bah that's humbng too groos for
even The greatest fool in this nation, unless his
hap should be 10 be an infticl also Who dreads
an assanit upon Dur liberties by the gentlemen
iii white crayats VINO apprehends that they
Will come 10 Washing ton, drive Congress out 81
the Capitol and dethrone Mr.. Pierce Let then
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