Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1868-05-09

any Government less tolerant than our own,
would subject them to an indictment stay "a
wicked conspiracy against human interests!
If to this grand conspiracy TO confound. tile
human intellect, (Which the AnylosSaxhn
tongue was providen,ially designed TO en-
tighten, WHY. and spitituaize ! we supesadd
the frenzied flashes Of ra,ionalismS w!isl, now
and then burst forth in favor Of the supremacy.
o! The "intnilional faculties, TO the manifest
contempt of the prior claims of Anglo.Saxon.
ism y FLASHES, BY the way, tina, find their con.
genial level in the corrupt unSaron sentiments
of the age 1.-THE perplexi'y will be consum.
mated and the philosophers, pubIicists, and
rattonalis,s who lave so audacionsly demon.
strated their contempt of the eieva,ing Anglo
left nothing unprotected in their compiled.
tons!
But however pi,iable and even detes,able,
this treatment Of a language in which the
whole human race is SO deeply interested =
how we'll soever our modern pnhlic teachers
have completed the embarrassment Of the hon
est searcher after truth, and succeeded in
making 'contusion worse confonndel'', The
praise or blame is not wholly theirs; for they
are but setvile copyists of the old materialisn
Which, from the beginning, has arraycd itssIf
against The imperi>hahle 7ruh given 10 man
for his guidauce-the old ma,erialism which,
in every age of the world, has been in mortal
conflict with the most sacred traditions of The
hnman race, and which, in its nef.rions
schemes, has either. malicionsly or stupidity
ignored the lofty, distinguished, mission Of our
dear Anglo-Saxon "M. a,4. 4.,"..
Nor is this all. For those traitors TO Anglo
Saxon prominence, have. not even the merit
of honest copyists because wanting the sus.
iaining i~nilnence Of the all. powerful Anglo
SAXON, their descen, from bad to worse from
base imitaiors 10 baser llhrica,ors, was a mat.
tor o! course and 81 entirely natural, that rot
content with adopting the conifoverted points
Of ancient metaphysics, in whose abSlrnseness,
error was too often sheltered, they have even
dared 10 fal>ify and dai ken On deEarce Of The
pe'lucidity ef the Anglo Saxon gem the sim.
plest ideas ol national poiity, and the immu.
table principles Of social cxis,cnce.
The Encyclopedia Bri,annica-a work which
Processes 10 be exclusively An~rlo.SaAon, but
is moi, (as tie definition WE are about to give
from it, abundantly rrovcs)-defncs "Society'
to be,-'ihe union Of persons who assemble in
the hope of mninal ad,antage''. This definl.
ton. so entirely destitute Of the trne Anglo.
Saxon esprit is admirably calculated 10 reduce
man TO the level Of brntes, which, indeed, as
semble, BIZ, do 10, associate. Brutes unite by
a natural instinct, and, perhaps, for their com.
mon good bn, they form 10 society. Who
ever knew Anglo Saxon instincts TO be limited
to that esprit borne" which assumes mans
chief good to consist in material success =?
Union among brutes, is, rs i, were. a natural
right. Anglo SaxonismN which was never
known 10 approve any thing british ~, insists,
TO be sure, on The %'.natural ri lights Of man
bnt not Gas the unitarian philosophy of the
age would have i) to the exclusion Of the
Creator! For instance, Gro,ius, in his work on
the "Righ,s of Nations, tries TO maintain tina,
the 'righfs of man. are inherent and inalien.
able, and that this wonld be true even il God
did not exist "IMc uern esSent etiamsi Deus
non erisieret." ny The inheren, purity of
the Anelo.Saxon tonene would, maniies,ly.
debar i, from being employed, in any eon,in-
gency, as the vehicle Of such bIasphemous
philosophy as this The stale calnmny about
Anglo,Saxon fundamentally in disturbing the
peace of nations, and even in shedding human
blood, in order 'to promote the sale Of cali.
Goes, buttons, and hooks. and. p, we do not
think worth while 10 refrte ! for, since, at the
very birth of time, our Smother tongue was
invested with constitn,ive and regnIalive func.
tons, il is clear 10 every mind not wiifuliy in.
credulous. that it could mover (without a mi
racle y so far wander from the sacredness of
lis lofty mission, as to sanction the impiety Of
Grotius and his groveting imi'a'ors!
Oh! no. This damnatory tendency of mo-
dern materialIsm, which practically establishes
a parallel between man and a machine, which
indicates for "the human form divine, no
higher destiny than production and consump.
tion-this degradation of the "image of the
CREATOR, though too often clothed in good
Anglo.Saxon, cannot honestly be laid TO the
charge of a "tongue", in which, as every can.
did mind will admit; there is no guile. This
abuse Of Anglo-Sax syIlahics, the marvellous
*tongue" is no more responsible for, than it is
for the fragmentary confgnration into which
"barbarians' determine 10 resolve themselves,
when blown from the muzzles Of An%gIo.Saxon
guns, by a gross abuse Of innocent Anglo
Saxon gundowder!
Yes this prostitution of the dear 'mo,her
tongne", to inglorions ends, is truly dep|or.
able Deeply 10 be regretted, indeed, it is,
that the publicists Of our day are not rightly
imbued with a sense of its active efficiency
for, unfortunately. lacking this v%ivifying and