New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-03
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zsis is . favorite caption Of ours. Itisprao'
teal and significant. It expresses great deal
much more than is usually found in an ordi-
narily sized volume. There is world Of every
day wisdom in it, which the commonest under
standing can readily comprehend .acfs are
valuable. Words are worthless The ONE mas
70 tangible application. The other. IKE the
4 yiewless breeze, comes and goes as the atnos-
phericsl currents indicate. The one is the nurs-
limo If the GOOD Samaritan. The other, very
often the treaoherous smile Of the painted wan
| ton.
The acts Of the anti Americans, with respect
to adopted citizens, compare strangely, not to
say repulsively, with their professions. Pro-
Tossing unbounded devotion to adopted citizens,
they take especial pains to place no adopted
citizen on their State ticket In the hour of
distribution Of honors and emoluments, adopted
| citizens are incontinently thrown overheard.
Those who love them so dearly only want them
on election days Bitterly denouncing the Amer
lean party, because the members thereof boldly
and manfully avow the doctrine that the sons Of
the soil are better calculated to govern the sui
than those not born upon it, they go to work
and nominate for the most important offices in
the power Of the people to bestow-so far as
foreigners are concerned-men who we're once
more proscriptive in their native Americanism
than the Americans Of the present era!
These are facts-plain, undisputable, incon-
trovertible facts. There is no getting around
them, over them, or under them. They stand
forth, boldly and prominently, and cannot be
questioned or gainsayed.
| When party processes so much and acts so
inconsistency, would it not be profitable for the
objects of its friendship to reflect upon the
| value likely to flow from such favorable con-
sideration' We throw out the suggestion with
no view to the disadvantage Of any of the par
| ties concerned.
Further, which party is most deserving re-
spect and support-that party which candidly
avowa certain principles and enforces them in
practice, or that party which, pretending to
repudiate those very same principles, carries
them out to the fullest extent whenever aoms-
nations are to be made
Judas kissed our Saviour and then betrayed
him to his enemies, to endure the lingering tor
lures of death upon the cross.
| The anti Americans caress adopted citizens
most lovingly, and then cut them off with the
portion Of the disinherited heir-a beggarly
shilling. Do not our illustrations prove that
g acts" speak in trumpet tones, g louder than
words'
The other day we published extracts from
An Address Of the Louisiana Native Ameri-
can Association to the Citizens of Louisiana
and to the Inhabitants Of the United States. %
The Address " was written and published in
1889, and conspicuous among the names Of the
signers to it is that of Thomas Green Dauid-
san. anti-American candidate for Congress in
the Third District. From beginning to end, the
" Address " is intense in its prescription of the
same adopted citizens now called upon to assist
in the election of Mr.. Davidson to Congress.
In all obnoxious features, it far surpasses the
nativism Of the present day, aoao SO bitterly
denounced by our opponents!
AS the general tenor Of publication is some
times overlooked by the casual reader, we have
concluded to reproduce a few of the more promi-
nent, salient points, in order that the oblivion,
desired by the author, may not overtake them,
Hereafter, in another article, we shall bring
forward other specimens perfect jewels in their
way--of the love of our opponents for foreigners
We extract, at random, from the aforesaid
"Address." Here is precious paragraph
Says Mr.. Davidson and his compatriots:
We therefore, like those PATRIOTS seeing porentious
evils spproaehng our country from foreign Influence like
them though far inferior, will cease to warn the
people, till those evils are corrected or ayerted
"Evils" from " foreign influence T" a Let
every adopted citizen rush to the support of Mr..
Davidson, and the party which nominated him
which seeks to place him in position where he |
could "aoars" the national legislature with |
effect. Such friendship should not 90 unre- |
warded.
Further along, the "Address" comes down
terribly on the foreigners on account Of their
e secret societies." So, it would seem, the ma
lives have not absorbed all the secresy of the
and. Read:
When we tell our countrymen that throueho,,. 4ba
s1stes 10 every cty town and village there exist
ocieties Of foreigners cho hold their meetings i; ersot
egfee IN secret and their proceedings remain unsesnti
zsd by native Americans and that although generally
nder the ooor Of tneVoent purposes their objects NAV
e POLITICAL or ct least be entirely foreign NOTHING thai
ould be beneficial to our country rssai nom theaa
We might go on at greater length, but for the
resent we must close, remarking, en- passant,
hat If native secret associations are criminal,
oreign secret associations cannot be altogether
lghteous. The reader can put the two illus.
rations together, and draw his own conclusions
This subject will claim our attention again,
FINANCIAL STATEMENT,