New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-08-25
MIR LOUIS BUSH, OF LAF0URCHE.
The following appeared in the editorial column

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az tie Courier Of this city yesterday morning
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II AMY M Busl addressing the members Of the secret
asoeaon said In substance; have been one 81 yours
Am Therefore bound by oath and preeudsd from dis.
cuxipg anything but the documents and facts which yoa
have bean pleased to make public But yon KNOW .nas
there 10 something else which cannot mention ana u,
you assert, all your secrets commemorate ana es
challenge public scrutiny, then release ne rom w op
cation and let speak out. defy you 70 grant ms
that privlege.n
If Mr. Bush has used the language, or IN any
manner conveyed the sense here attributed to
/ him, he has done what was not warranted by
| his knowledge Of the American party. He has
| attempted 10 convey false Impressions to the
public. lie has attempted to induce the belief
| that deep, diabolioal oath was taken by him
sell to accomplish some dreadful Interior pur-
pose, which he would now most cheerfully ex-
pose to the world if released from his obligation
of secrecy. The animus Of his speech is, there
fore. improper, untrue, and not warranted by
any pledges MIR. Bush has ever made, and he
ought to know it. What are the factsa Mr. Bush
Joined the American party on Thursday, the
9Th Of June, 1854. He withdrew from it on
Friday. the 29th Of June, 1856. He remained
q member Of it one year and three aoeeks.
If. as another report has it, he said in his
speech on that occasion, he retired from the
Order 50 soon as he discovered its pernicious
principles, how does it happen that he continued
| more than year to be one Of its most Jealous
and consistent members and advocates, and
| never made the discovery sooner.
| MIR. Bush must DO dull indeed, in powers of
perception, to have required more than one
year to discover what is exposed to the compre-
hension of every man the moment he is initia-
ted into the Order. The principles of the
American party were the same on the day MIR.
| Bush Joined it that they were on the day he re-
| tired from it; and they remain the same now
and never will be changed. Truth, purity,
justice. and patriotism, constitute their tounda-
| ton. Why should they be changed
What is 1t, then, that Mr.. Bush would disclose
to the world, if released from his obligation Of
secrecy Is it some hidden purpose Of this Pc
litical party to war against the constitution Of
our country-to war against its laws and insti-
tutions, or to aim at the association of Church
and State, or the elevation of anti Republican
principles Of government Mr.. Bush we'll knows
this not to be the case. He knows, on the con-
trary, that there is no principle, no purpose, and
no measure held by the American party of Lou
isiana, with which the pure native American
patriot would ever blush to avow himself iden
titled. Then what is it that Mr. Bush would
like to do to be &c the herald Of noisy suorla 2''
Why he would, if he could, we suppose, gladly
ploclaim to the world the signs, tie grips and
passwords of the American Order. He would
like to convey to the curious, information about
small matters in order to be looked upon as a
person who happened to possess little more in
formation on certain subjects than is usually
entrusted to those without discretion THIs is
ALL
He knows that the published platform of prin-
ciples Of the American party Of Louisiana con-
tains every jot and little of the principles and
purposes Of that party and when Mr.. Bush de-
livered his speech at Thibodaux, he knew that
he had nothing to proclaim to the world con-
corning the American party Of Louisiana, of
which any American gentleman could ever be
ashamed