Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1868-05-02

regeneralive Anglo-Saxon tongue, has clearly.
rendered them proof against poisonous in.
huences: and this explains the secret, that ST.,
Austin when sen, by Pope Gregory tho Great,
10 convert the pagan Saxons to Christianity,
made no effort to expel the noxious reptiles
from Albion, as St. Patrick did from Ireland.
This, too, etfectually blows away the clouds of
mystery which lowered over the, report Of the
toad,eating al New York, when il was frs, All.
noulced that the convives enjoyed the repast
with a eusto as keen and apprecia,ive, as if
lheyllad been ~feasling on the time-consccrated
roast beef and plum pudding of Old England!
But after all, the material enjoymen, was
but n cohcomitan, of The more sublime felicity
which the whole assembly-Anglo- Saxon, to
a man-fuund in the interchange of swee, An.
glo-Saxon twadlle, Twaddle is the modern
abbreviated form of the serund twaddlednm,
a cognate, as we have shown, Of ',oad'; and
il was precisely by a liberal and unrestricted
employment of ''lwadile' that Dickens de-
monstrated to his hearers the supereminence
Of the Anglo Saxon race over all others, not
excepting even the Gntnli, whom %IIanno, lie
Carlhaginian navigator. in his Periplns, ciuh,
hundred years before the Christian era, fouud
in Central Africa, hanGne1ing on porwigoles
(Ang|o-Saxon, "tadpole') and celebrating tie
nine hundred and ninety ninth anniversary Of
their departure from their rrogenitor-lIam's
tent on the plains Of Shinar!
Ii is n very suggestive circumstance, tina,
tho C,tn1i ,l,o, =, IL, ,,,t,l, .f ;..t;n.,.,.t ~
preferred, to all other dishes, The luscious am
plibial reptile which the equally civilized,
high strung, Anglo Saxons Of modern times,
find so gustab'e and delicious /! And his deli.
cate taste Of the Gnlnli is the very best cola.
teral proof CHE direct proof we hold in re.
serve), that the original Anglo. axiom tongue
had entered the Ark with Noah, had presided
at the building Of Babel, and tina, when uni.
formity Of speech was lost, fragments of the
Anglo Saxon had adhered to the leaders Of the
several tribes that set ont in search of new
settlements, and, became, afterwards, the
founders of new States
As inlimaicd above, we have great respect
for Dickens astuteness; but he has committed
a grand mistake in not extending his tour 10
the Parish Of St. James. Had he done so, he
could have saved himself Il world Of verbiage,
by simply using the LouisianniS with his AN.
glo.Saxon Yankee friends, in the same wav
that Anglo-Sayon missionaries employ the
Anglo-Saxon Bible 10 convert the pagan Chi
nese viz, by throwing The Book at them. and
keeping themselves a, a safe distance! But
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the Anglo.Saxon missionaries g that while
the latter vainly hoped and waited 10 see the
Chinese reclaimed by mere contact with a
Book which neither party concerned, under.
stood, the verbose Engljshnan would find in
our columns, demonstrated as lncidly as any
proposition in Euclid, all lha, he has ever con
ceiyed in favor Of the venerable "mo,her
tongue, and much more than he has been
able TO impart, at a vast expenditure of toady-
ism, TO the dull, nnappreciative and inap, Yam
kee Anglo.Saxons!
However, we are willing to believe that, in
spite of Yankee stupidity, Dickens efforts to
exalt the Anglo-Saxon race and tongue, have
been a partial success and, we believe il, the
more readily because we %ardentIy desire it.
"The wish is father to the thongh,'. Ii is the
very idea that we, ourselves, have been labor
ing TO establish and we fondlv hope and trust,
that we have not laborel in vain-conyinced,
as we are, that Were that model tongue uniyer.
sally extended, and properly es,ima,cd,-,ha
neither Impeachment, nor reconstruction, nor
universal liberty, nor socialism, nor iree.love-
ism NOR rpnrV1Nntc,, p~r ,Lt-.. ....,, .--
things past, nor things future, nor life, nor
death, nor the iniinitude Of isms aud ANAL
gains, which are one day destined 10 cnl-
inmate in that "human perfectibility', which
it is the special mission, aim, object. end, of
the %omnipotent Anglo Saxon tongue 10 con-
summate, and of which it will be the ~,riumplal
crown-ihat none Of these, nor all of them 10.
wonld present any further difficulty!
Since then, it is pretty evident, that, on the
whole, the toad-eating brotherhood, lately as
sembFed at New York, have mutually satisfied
each other, that the AngIo.Saxon emo,her"
and another tongue hold the frs, rank in the
vanguard of progressive and civilizing agen-
cles and since ace have convinced our readers
of the absolute indispensabilily of the "tongue",
10 the exlgencies of humanity, we can, one
aud all, console ourselves for Dickens failure
10 visit our parish, by the knowledge that the
great cause which we have so much a, heart,
has, lately, received valuable accessions both
North aud South, and is now, well.nigh placed
beyond the necessity of further advocacy. To
effect this in toto, no better auxiliary can be
employed, than toad-eating in the North and.
in the South, nothing can better contribute to
that desired end, than the candid expose which,
IN our passionate love of every thing Anglo
Saxon, we feel it incumbent on us to make, q
and, which we are making, (1houeh we say it j
onrselves) with a zeal that knows no abate- i
nent! +,