New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-10
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efAPosTACYn


The Courier, Of yesterday noynin 8, has a
lengthy article under the foregoing caption.
The article is well written, and were It's conclu-
sions founded in accuracy, it would Be almost
Irresistible. But, lacking the rock of fact for a
foundation, and resting upon superstructure
Of sand, Of course the first gushings from The
fountain Of truth undermine and destroy the
whole edifce
The Courier is opposed to ssreligious apos-
1 tates.'' 1t says, in its opening paragraph:
Since the days Of Judas Icatiot the religious apostse
for reward has regarded the basest f mankind
either by the open abandonment Of religious faith or by
| encouraging and conserving With Its enemies.
i A religious apostate" for reward, is to be
detested. There is no question of that. But,
fcould not the Courier have extended the scope
Of its denunciations, and included all Rpostates
One is just about as bad as another At all
events 80 far as temporal affairs are concerned,
| there is no difference between traitors This
| brings US to our point The Courier, while pre-
tending great ablforrence of religious s. apos.
1 tacy," hugs to it's bosom and eagerly publishes
all revelations Of apostafes from the american
4 Order! What then becomes of the application
4 Of the argument? Are net the small Judas Is
CARROTS as detestable, in their way, as was the
| Infamous original Of that name' Undoubtedly,
or else the illustration of our cotelhporary is
| worthless.
Yet, one description Of treachery is epplauded
aud encouraged, while the other is condemned
For our part we will have nothing to do with
either.
| After denouncing apostacy, the Courier pro-
| ceeds to avail itself Of treacheryt The Courier
hates apostates when apostates don't help the
Courier, bat when traitors come along and pro-
pose to give the Conrier's cause lift, they are
the most dear, delightful, enchanting fellows
ever known. What magnificent specimens of
consistency the political world sometimes pro-
duces
The Courier then rapidly reviews the rise and
progress Of the American Order N publishes
the following as a true extract from the obliga-
tion Of The First Degree:
That you will not give your influence for any
man for office in the gift of the people, unless he be
American born citizen in favor of Americans ruling
America, nor If he De Roman Catholic.
II then asserts emphatically q This is a
literal ertract from the oath of The FIRST De-
gree"
Gentlemen Of the Courier, you have placed
yourselves in false position. You start out
by denouncing apostacy," and here we find
you endorsing as literally true that which, if |
true, could only have been communicated to you
by an oath tyour own word y breaker, per- |
jared so6undrel, an unmitigated villain
The Courier nextgives what purports to be /
an extract from the obligation of the Second /
Degree, and says that the obligations of the /
Third Degree are still more stringent The |
editor Of the Courier is too wise for lis day and |
generation. We fear he was net calculated for /
this age. He knows SO much more about the
4 KNOWN othings !" than the g Know Nothipgs Il
themselves know, that there is danger a surfeit |
Of knowledge may prove the death Of him.
+ We have not time to follow the Courier
through its elaborate article. We would like
to do so, for we could overcome every point
made, But, sickness has swept bare our edito-
rial room, with a solitary exception, and the
writer has too many duties to perform to allow
lin 70 enter upon a studied controversy i,
One more point and we will close The Courier
Issurnes- land most unjustly- that the Ameri-
IAN Order is opposed to the Catholics This
has been refuted SO often that we are
urprised at its reiteration. After asking
: How stands the case with the Catholic Know
Sothihgs'" it adds:
Hs that the Know Of all t ot,ar Stats.
the Union havs adopted the anti Catholic pattorm IF
be Philadelpha Convention. -
The foregoing statement is not founded in
act, and the editors Of the Courier ought To
ave known it. They can only pIead culpable
ignorance in justification, and that. we hone. !
ill be allowed on file South Carolina, yir- J
mia, Georgia, New York, and We behave
srkansas and Tennessee, have formally repu-
lated the obnoxious test to which the Courier
sfers, while it has always been substantially
spelled in Mississippi and Alabama It has
cen disowned, if we are not much mistaken
Illinois, and that it will be ignored in Ken
acky as soon as the State Council meets. there .
~ 4aes'ioh' our deliberate, candid opinion, O
'unded upon the best authority better than
nr neighbor can ever obtain from periured =
'aitors--is. that the repugnant provision in :
le national platform, which is perfect in all :
her essential respects will be alraost unani.
onsly repealed on the 22d February next--the Z
y fixed for the convooation of tile National
'uncil.