Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1867-12-21

stumbling from one delusion to another. Thus it is
that the Anglo-Saxon race. welded above all others /.
to pelf, can occasionally relax from the sordid pur-
snit, not indeed to apply to elevated and sublime in +
terests but to founder in the congeneric occupation
Of political ~jugglery.
We use hard terms; but the facts, of which we
are ourselves eye and ear witnesses, justify them.
The Anglo.Saxons of today, true to their instincts,
incite the Italians to revolutionize a Government
more ancient and more Legitimate than that of En-
gland; and while the whole world is divided in
opinion as to Garibaldi's sincerity, Anglo.Saxonism,
needless Of the alternative, throws its weight into
professedly to advance the cause Of human progress
abroad, while at home the stupid peasantry of En-
gland are wallowing in ignorance aud sottishness that
have no parallel in civilized nations!
If any thing further were needed to prove the
h%ollowness Of AngloSaxon professions, we might
refer to the role played by this domineering race in
Syria, some Is or 90 years ago. About that period,
Syria. which had been a Thousand years under the
dominion Of the Turks, underworld to throw off the
yoke of that tyranuic power; and for that purpose,
formed an alliance with Egypt. But Anglo Saxonism
III IUt IuIlN u III C.nHlSH S'hdtTtu lNt'TIlthtli'u
stormed some of the Syrian cities; and obliged a
duly organized people to fall back into slavery!
All how adroitly hypocrisy manages to blow hot
and cold, in order to suhsrrvr its diaholic ends and
yet how thin and transparent is the veil that covers
its "diahleric'!
Strange , that honcst-minlrd Americans, who
yield their admiration to the material prosperity
achieved by Anglo-Saxonism and who hold it up to
the admiration Of others. do not reflect on its mi.
q~uitous effects. Strange that thew do not practical.
ly realize that the -wruf+++A -r~+++-+s7 -+kA- TIA. -aI
individuals. when misapplied, is the fruitful source
Of maedictinn. Strange. passing strange that they
are either unable or unwilling to trace back to the
Anglo.SaSons' incapacitv TO rise above material con-
siderations, the manifold evils which now afAict our
own people.
What Protest 'ntism is in Religion, this Anglo
Saxon materalism is in Society-a negation Of
first principles, a rebellion against authority against
the authority instituted to control. direct, elevate,
the downward tendencies Of fallen humanity 4
protest. in short. against Truth. For it is a truth,
eternal and immortal, that hnmanity's interests as
far transcend the limits of matcrialism, as light tran.
seconds darkness as eternity ,ranscends time as the
bliss of immortality surpass's the vaporo,s, evan
escent pleasures and affections of this mundane
sphere.
What, but this incapacity to look beyond material
interests, has given birth to the thousand false
theories aud corrupt ideas Of Northern society : To
what else, save the ali pervading passion for the
gro~sness Of matrrialism which monopolizrs every
thought word. and action of our Northern "hreth-
rem" can We attribute the moral regard attached
to the multifarious 'isms' originating among them :
Our Northern friends, embracing Of course, the
down-east puritanieal fraternity, are peculiarly the
lovers aud hoastcrs Of the Ang'o-Saxon element"
And this element gross in its nature, gross in its
affections, no sooner finds its path crossed by some
sbn'lition of human ", or some alteration of the
human intellect, than forthwith it invests it with an
"ism" and chcrish's it as a creature endowed with
attinities to which it is instinctively attracted.
l. is thus that we find thos. trrnzied doctrines,
Fouri'rism. Fanny-Wrightism. Anna DicksoniSn,
and the beastly Mormonism, fostering on the vitals
of America, and drawing Anglo-Saxonism after
them as naturally as the loadstone draws the magnet.
And it is a remarkable fact, and beyond the possibi.
lily Of cont, saiction, that this Mormon abomination
receives its supplies almost exclusively from the
Anglo-saxon race!
Two centuries aud a half Of nnhlushing hvpocri-
sy two centuries and a half of audacious Boosting.
have so bewildered the minds of some of our people,
that they cannot readily realize the stupendous fraud
practiced on their crrdulity. And even when the his
toricsl facts which they are too indolent to CLEAN for
themselves, are brought under their very noses,-
cood-natnred souls they would rather not believe
such disreputable things Of respectable Anglo-Sax-
onism.
With this class it is useless to dispute. "Frustra
trntemns els sati>facere.' In vain do we demonstrate
to them that Anglo-Saxon fanaticism has done its
worst in our own Republic to disrupt the society
saving barriers erected by the Almighty. In vain do
we refer them to the atrocities Of 1892. recorded in
our annals as the "New England witchcraft', in
which Anglo-Saxon ministers Of the Gospel and
Anglo-Saxon magistrates participated. In vain do
we refresh their memories on the cold. hloodsd Zero.
city perpetrated at Wyoming and Cherry Valley.
Vain too is the effort to open their eyes to the we'll
established fact, that every social and political trouble
known to our people since they shook off the hated
yoke of England, has been i~nstigated and fosterca
by Asglo-Saxons. Burr the arbitrator Burr-was
of the Anglo-saxon Puritan stock.
We have said or intima'ed that Ang'o-Sax onism's
pretence Of advancing human freedom is a monster
fraud. We can 50 far modify this, as to admit that
under the Influence Of a spurious sentimentalism, of
which the fanatic Wherefore was the high-priest,
Anglo-Saxonism did give freedom to the West
In 1iAn Negroes and We may add, contributed
mainly in conf"rring the same questionable boon
on those Of the South. But it is notable that Anglo.
Saxopisin. its.lf destitute Of the 4l.me,,. &c .u,.
civilization, has never been able to civiize the
African as the recent horrid outrages in the island
Of Jamaica ahundantly testify.
Better evidence than this, of the fallacy of Anglo.
Saxon "superiority'' we need not adduce.
Are the admirers of Anglo-Saxonism satisfied ? If
not. we have more history at their service.
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