Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-04-21
MIR. Daniels of Virginia, on Amerioanism.
This distinguished lawyer in the course of {

lhere Is e reVOlCtlon gong On N this country,
and he who could not and feel it could not feel
the earthquake if the world trembled under his
leet He hailed it as the dawn of a reviving nation
alty almost extinct-a recombining of the scattered
elements of Conservatism-and the knell of that
demagouge-acy, whose whole function is the keep
ing OF great men out of office, and the putting of
little ones in. The condition Of things when the
new era began was alarming. The old issues,
which made parties national, were dead. The
currency question was settled whether well i'll,
it was no time to discuss The tariff, modified by
Mr.. Walkers treasury orders, legalized under the
auspices, he believed, of Mr.. Hunter, was no pro-
tective, that the manufacturers themselves cried
out-Enough' The lands had been given away,
or were about to be, under the same auspices-and
in the absence of old of DIVISION the country
was fast settling down into the most deplorabe of
all conditions-that of mere geographical and sec
tonal divsions-the fires of an unholy tanaticism
blazing on one side-on the other deep, silent
sulen, brooding resentment.
Yet there were men laboring for selfish purposes
to keep up the machinery of old, effete organiza-
tions after their vitality had passed away. The
new movement substitutes something higher and
better 1t aims to put down slavery agitation. 1t
aims to put power i'll this country where it ought
to be, in the hands of wise, sound, national men ;
to restrain that immense and growing evil which
ton of the government, which makes the New
World penal colony of the Old; settles on our
public domain the refuse of foreign societies. the
scum and off-scourng of European population,
there to build up teesoil communities, hostile to
the South alien to her in sentiment with the grow
ing power to nominate and domineer in the affairs
of this nation This process is going on at the rate
Of hundreds of thousands year. The slavery re-
presentation in Congress is, or will soon be, mere
drop in the ocean. All this foreign emigration
being free labor, is deadly hostile to slave labor,
and to the political influences of slavery. The
South may now make stand. If she can enlist
the free native labor of the North against the
foreign immigrant element, she may check both in
promises to do this. 1t will check the too easy
communication of political privileges to this foreign
and too frequently hostile element.
Much objection has been urged against the
American Order secret, intoleranh proscuptive,
and oath-hound As to its secrecy, such an obJec-
ton comes strangely from either Wings or Demo-
Gratis, who have been secretly caucusng for years
to keep each Other out Of Office. Prescription and
Intolerance, all k,ow, were never among the sins
of the Demoerac., Why they not only won't let
man withdraw if they can help it, but instead of
letting recusant leave them quietly as it is said
this Order does they prosecute him for desertion
Order only swear to effect the great public objects
they have in view, let them be believed all the
more readily By their fruits they are known
They comprise our neighbors, friends, and connec-
tons, and for one he did not think their secrecy
hides aught that is dishonest unpatiotic. Asso-
citation is the order of the day-a necessity in this
country dictated by the general equality of con-
diions. Labor charity, and temperance, are all
carried on by association-and why not politics?
In some parts of the country the dependence of
the laborer upon the viii of the employer, added
to the trammes of party allegiance, had well nigh
extnguished all individual freedom of thought and
action. This organization affords to such safe
and easy escape from both-hence its amazing sue
cess. Here where free and open voting and dis
cussion prevail, and the popular genius is perhaps
of holder cast, there may not be the same reason
for these features of the organization, and it may
happen that even the thin veil which now obscures
its proceedings, will soon disappear, and then some
of our patriotic friends will be SURPRISED to find what
very harmless thing they have been abusing.
AMERICAN Provisions IN FRANCE.-The Paris
correspondent of the journal of Commerce writes
under date of March 18th:
NEARLY three columns Of the Constitutional of
this morning are conceded to the prices of meat and
the value of North American supplies. In another
Journal sensible writer had proved that the main
dependence of France and Europe must be on the
United States and not on the regions Of La Plata,
of which the beef had excited strong hopes and
set many scientific heads on processes of jerking
and preservation. According to the Constitution
mel, butchers meat has advanced in France 80 per
cent. since 1852. The causes are assigned and
they offer but little encouragement for the future.
Among the working class the evil is the sores next
to the DEAFNESS of bread, which the provinces suf
fer, not the privileged metropolis. Our Republics
immense production of animal food is detailed by
the French writer. 1t seems inexhaustible-ade-
quate fer the rest of the world and the Indian
corn with which the hogs are fattened! In fine,
he observes, North America with its magnificent
rivers its prodigous net of railroads and canals is
the only country the globe which can relieve our
dearth and distress, and send us sailed meats at
low price. The rates of our pork and beef, as now
sold and eagerly sought at MarseIles and the chief
manufacturing cities of the North, East and West,
are then reported; soon there will be an unlimited
demand Atthe end of the editorial article specific
directions are given touching the preparation for
the table, of the excellent American salaisoms."
IA MODEL HUsBAND.-Mrs Perry; young
boomer has eloped from Mason, Mass with
Levins Clough. When her husband found she
was determined to go, he gave her 800 to
start WITH.
That's what call doing things handsomely,
1 should have taken that 500 bill and handed
it to Levins Clough, as healing plaster for his
disappointed expectations and gone home hug
gng my old man, and resolving to mend every
rip in his coat, gloves, vest, pants, and stock
ings, free gratis, from that repentant hour,
till the millennial day. I'd hand him his cigar
case and slippers, put away his cane, hang up
his coat and hat, trim his beard and whiskers,
give him the strongest cup of tea, and the
brownest slice of toast, and all tthe dark meat
of the turkey. I'd wink at his sherry cobblers,
and whiskey punches, and mint juleps I'd
help him get ten strike at ninepins. I'd
give him night key and be perfectly obvious
what time in the small hours he tumbled in
the front entry. I'd pet all his stupid relatives,
and help his country friends to beat down the
city shop-keepers prices. I'd frown at oil
officers Of spin money I'd let him sit and
smoke in my face till was as brown as a
herring, and my eyes looked as if they were
bound with pink tape; and I'd invite widow
Delilah Wilkins to dinner, and stay away till
tea-time Why! there's nothing scouldn't do
for him-he might have knocked me down nth a
feather after such a piece of magnanimity.
That sLesins Clough could stand no more
chance than wookpecker tapping at an ice