New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-11
LoYALTY-so-CALLED.

Taste has been defined to be-taste. VI
the same principle we suppose that modern
''luyalty" can, with equal precision, be sale
to be nothing less than "loyalty," 1t Ger
tainlv defes 4 more lucid definition. I
varies in tints like the eolors of the kaleido
scope. 1t assumes more shapes than the fit
ting shade Of Junius. Now it sings the sof
notes Of the cooling turtle ;'ond now its SOM
is the Withholding soreeeh of the staring owl
4 To-day the bleating Of the playful lamb il
less soft and innocent than its plaintive voice
tomorrow it roars with the wildness of the
awakened tiger, or howls refrain more re
lentless than that of the savage hyens wheu
baffied in his attempts to desecrate seine new
made grave.
Its gaze is now meek and soft as in thu
modest look of the pious Grinnell or It'll
glare is wild, and fierce, and varying, as are tht
restless and whirling orbs of the inhumar
Butler. It stalks now into the Senate cham
Der with the vain and vulgar stride of Sum
ner or a Wilson; or it imps into the Repre-.
sentative hall, bearing with it the cynicism
and the malignity Of Stevens.
1t shrieks in tones of piercing agony for the
cherished rights Of +" free-speech and free
press !" and then it ,fetters the one with its
cruel gives and stiles the other in its intoler-
anoe, till the faintest means of despair can no
longer reach the sensitive "loyal ear. In
one breath it shouts its war-cry of ''the Union
as it was, and the Constitution as ii is :" and
in the next it declares the subversion of the
one and the destruction of the other. 1t
breaches to-day, in patriotic strains, the main
tenanee .oflaw, and tomorrow, under the aoqis
Of martial rule it erects q despotisna which
defies and overturns and sUbyerts the very
foundations Of the law. But in every form
under which it appears, in every varying tint
OF its prismatic hues in the soft cooling of the
dove or the howl of the hyena, in the i'm
maculate piety of Grinnell, in the hypo-
erisy of Banks, or in the vulgar profanity Of
Butler, in its loud screeches for free-speech,
or in its suppression of the freedom of the
press, in its hypocritical theories in common
dation of law and in its practical disregard of
every principle Of rigbt-in ever varying phase
Of its existence it loudly asserts that it alone
is s'loyalo
It misses the venom of its malignity on
everything that's good and noble. It pro-
fanes the sacred character Of the pulpit by
melting to blood and vengeance instead of
preaching the wholesome doctrine of tpeaoe
on earth and good viii towards men Under
the mock title Of philanthropy it would doom
to misery, to destruction and the grave, the |
yet remaining fraction of a late eontented |
race, and would consign to worse than
servile state the Caucasian of the South and |
the white men Of the North who would OBJ
pose the wild sweep of the destructive wave.
The patriot who, amid the roaring seas that
would engulph the ship of state, and amid the
tempest that howls for its destruction, seeks
to guide its stormy course into some happy
haven and to moor it safely to the rock of the
Constitution, escapes not the venom of this
modern "loyalty."
The halls OF Congress resound with cries of
vengeance. An indecent mirth pervades that
arena of malignant passions when the vulgar
but harmless inveetives of a Brownlow are
announced through the vile instrumentality
of Forney. That "loyalty" which would,
2y violence, overturn the Constitution of
louisiana sndsow amongst us the seeds ofper-
nnial strife, breaches to the ignorantinstru- h
nents whom it would employ to accomplish
IS netarious ends, that the President is eds 4
oyal' and a g traitor that that which had
+ origin in fraud and persists in wrong is
lone truly "loyar-that the many must
ield to the few; that intelligence must be
objected to ignorance that worth must give !
lace to presumption; that regulated and a
Institutional liberty must succumb to vio- b
nee and usuIpation and that the grasping
nbition of few vile conspirators must hold II
gh carnival over the wreck of subverted II
a
Last, but not least conspicuous in this pro-
ssion Of greedy aspirants for power comes Il
e executive of Louisiana. Confagsedly de- +
ised at horne, he bids for that sympathy b
m others which is denied him by his own =
ople. Coneading himself an migrate, he d
ms with all the venom Of his nature upon tie
, people who elevated him to power. IL (;
,ieal in all his deductions, he charges dis
atty upon those alone who uphold the CON
.utonel government of the country. and 10
nraends as truly loyal" those only who No
or its violent sEbVersion. Insensible Ia by
me, he boasts Of having eonspired the 2, q
s4hrow Of the very government of which in
Nasthe head. vi
ut fhwarted in his nalevolent purpose he M
Is his harmless anathemas against the peo- eq
who have honored him SO far beyond his *
its, and denounces the constitutional at
ey of President johnson as calculated to tin
at the revolutionary violence which he S 9ot
ted and sought to carry into execution as a boz
us of perpetuating his power. IN nti
e leave his name on the piGlory where he me-
elf has placed it. as the enblem of in VIII
tnde, and Of that style of 'loyaIty" POI i,
h derides all that is just and good
4 fixed figure for the hand Of seorn 7
10 point her Slow 'anmoVing finger atn Biz
y.
ss G. w. Barber has commenced the pub c'sp
on Of paper at Newman Georgia, and r n"n
it Miss BARRIERS Weekly" She was at ssI f
tia on the I'd inst. soliciting advertise il /
s and subscriptions pla