Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1868-01-04
Nojoque.

Nojoqus.
However much we might be disposed to accord
to this singular production certain degree Of ad-
mraton for research the part Of is crazy authoY
our rising sympathies as we read it, complex and
contradictory pages, are utterly vanquished by the
trash they contain, and the infinite disgust excited
by the rabid fa"atcism and unmitigated bigotry Of
the writer. An amalgam Of truth and fklsehood in
the ratio Of one to one hundred, not but re-
gard its prepondeating mendacity and its efrontery,
as poor compliment to the intelligence and love Of
justice Of our Southern people and reproscf to
the whole country.
But yesterday, Hinton Rowan HELPER issued to
the American public, volume Of cloudy philosophy
demonstrating TIE natural right of the Negro to step
out shoulder to shoulder with the Caucasian in the
march Of human progress today, this same Helper
helps his fellow citizens to "melange'', one of
whose principal ingredients is tota denial to the
Negro Of any human rights whatever and the clas-
sfcaton Of the poor African with those noxious
reptiles that are supposed to cucumber the earth
A writer that can coolly indulge iu views 50 nal
pably contradictory, 50 unjust and inhu,nan, must
be moved at once by great selfassurance, and BY y
very small appreciation Of the generous instincts,
noble nature. and logical acumen Of the enlightened
public that in the main, constitute American soce-
ty We for our part, think that there is more than
meets the eye. in the audacious attempts of sucll
writer's as Helper to impose their readers by
high sounding epithets covering vast amount Of
falschood with thin veneering of truth And we
are satisfied that however skilfu'ly the author Of
'Nojoquef may have clothed with pa,,sibility his
schemes of reconstructing society, he has an u-
terror object carefully concealed from the public
gaze; even as the angel Of darkness when, to de-
ceive humanity, he transforms himself into an angel
of light, keeps in the background, the horns and
l,oof and tail
But though Satan knows better than to risk the
defeat of his satanic projects by exhibition Of
those terrifying appendages his followers are rarely
such adopts in the work Of deception. With them,
soon or late the cloven foot is certain to appear.
And thus we find in Ncjoque the diabolic instincts
of the author breaeng out in insane effort to in
woke sanguinary legislation against american ct-
zens protesting the Catholic faith
The CATHOLIC religion and the Negro are Helpers
tolerated in the United States, but the whole world,
| winch maps OUb INTO governments OF MS
own fashioning. snust be rid of them 1t must be
confessed that this is vast conception, and would
be vaster Undertaking As to extrpating Catlloli-
city, Helper ought to know that that scheme has
been experimental upon all roundothe world, ags
after age. for eighteen centuries: and are yet no
nearer to its consum1nation We "know'' that Ca
t1olicity can no more be eliminated from Society
than the light can be extracted from the SUM- We
know too (and this shall prove Directly that
Society-Christan Socfety-cannot exist without
the vitality, binding force, and safeguards which
Catholicity alone supplies.
Nor are we less certain that the Negro is an elo
mcnt Of human society," destined to outlive the most
violent attacks Of such religious and political maniacs
as the author Of Noioque Condemned to degraded
position by Providence whose mysteries we can
not comprehend, the slavery of the African was un-
doubtedy mercy, saving him from deeper de-
graduation This will readily be conceded by those
given to literary pursuits, who must necessarily be
acquainted with the historical fact, that, from time
mmemorial, the native tribes of Africa have made
of each other, articles of food. And however much
our phlanthropsts may fret and fume touching the
policy of making the black man All article of COM
merce, surely. the most violent of them must ack
rowledge that that was an improvement on Gamma
basm And as the most recent travellers testify that
in their native wds the Africans are found to be
the same degraded cannbal. and dolators that they
are found to have been in looking back through the
long vista of past ages-bacN almost to the days Of
Ham-havng no trace of religion; no idea Of the
sanctity Of the marriage relations; social aec-
tons no capacity and desire for moral advance
ment-it is clear to the dullest comprehension, that
the enslaved Negro, under the modifying influence
Of the Christian civilization on which our American
Fathers built up this Republic, was transformed
into an improved condition, not only superior to
any thing that the widest imagination (in view Of
his unchanged and Interchangeable history could
r conceive of him or hope for him in his native de.
graduation. hut ncomparably preferable to the pitt
less freedom violently thrust upon him by the phi
lanthropi.ts; and infinitely more humane than the
3 exterminating schemes of clinton Rowan Helper"
: We admit that this blessing of an improved con.
dtion is liable to be- and often has been frustrated
bv human perversity. But this is Just the point at
which the functions of the Catholic Church come
into play, and her authority utilized in reconcing
e the relations of master and slave demonstrating
= and enforcing obligations on the one hand and du.
. ties on the other, and teaching both how to live to.
j. gcther in mutual happiness and for mutual good
This brings MS to consideration Of the puoposi.
e ton of which promised the proof namely, that
e Cathocity is the sole bond Of unity which can hold
e together Christian Society whatever its constituents
e And when we shall have proved this those ncces
:" sary corollaries mus find admission in every candid
1t mind-1st that Helpers "raved nonsense touching
0. the Catholic Religion if practicable, would be =.
detrimental to social existence as it is absurd and
it wicked it itself; and 2ndly, that the author Of No
l. oque and writer's of his stamp ignoring the provi
n dencc of God, madly attempting to blot out the
y e4istenccs He has created, and imrous' assuming