Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1868-09-26
Have Radicals human hcarss2

Have Radicals human hearts
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"Quia enim Gortius desiderat ANNA human
guam reriiatem ~
That the innate propensity of the Iluma
heart TO seek the Truth in all things. is 4
vigorous now, as it was fourteen hunlre
years ago, when The great Author of 9Th
C'iy Of COD, declared it 10 be one of man
strongest desires, Few are so depravpd as t
question. Few, al all events, in The face I
the enlightenment we boast. can be lonn,
hold enough to maintain, openly, the convcrs,
OF The proposition although i, must be admit
ted that there are many 50 welded, BY world,
interests or unregulaie.l passions, 10 the de
torlnity Of Error, that they deem it no iafam,
70 ignore in practice what they avow in theory
provided only tina, they can inven, some spc
clous eSpedient to encourage their selr.sln'ti
fica'ion, and 10 clothc themselves with an an
pearance Of reclitude before the public.
II not only a few segregated individuals
but an active faction holding possession d
important public functions, be found rniltv q,
such infamy, employing a thousand vile
schemes and articles, to silence the re.
p~roaches of the Unborn conviction Of wrong.
and to divert the public gaze from their cor.
rnptions, the conclusion will be inevitable.
that such a faction are aliens to The nobler
tendencies OF honest human nature. And, If
we convict the Radical faction Of this Guilt,
Gas we expect to lo) then, it will be clear to
every one that 'honeSt human nature" and
Radical nature. are totally different things;
that successful self delnsion and decen,iye
practices have given 10 Radical ininnilies a
chronic character and, by overwhelming The
Genus Including The several species, Radical.
Yankee, Puritan) in moral ob!iquity, have H.
lerally deprived the whole execrabte tribe, of
that human benevolence which delinhts in
contributing TO the happiness of others and
them Of the ::bowe's Of compassion''
natural TO man,-,hns leaving them practically
destitute Of human hearts!
The Purllans, Yankees, or Raaicals-all,
he same race OF v~ipers-began their career
m this Continent, by holding out promises Of
,reat human amelioration, and universe! TO-
erance, The absence of which latter. they pre-.
ended. drove them to these shores. But IN ,fa,
hey lied, as they have been lying ever since:
or their history proves, that they had hardly
tanned the barren rocks of Massachusetts
With their baletul footsteps, when they com.
'enced a course of persecution and proscrip.
ion, that successfully rivaIed The wors, ,yran.
les of the Old World!
Said we not right. in asserting that there is
wide difference between human nature and
ad'cal nature In the very first page of The
uritan annals, we have the evidence, tina,
is destitute of tina. tendency 10
ruth which st. Auguitin affirms to be ma
|ral to all humanity.
Since the Plymouth Rock incident THE most
%sastrous that has ever befallen America; be
'use, the source of all other disasters) two
injuries and a half have been swallowed in
e vortex of The Past but we look in vain
rough the whole extent of that long expert
ent, for any evidence that Puritan love of
ruth, has ever yet departed the smallest iota
I'm those formularized falsehoods which. t
h'le imposing on fools and dupes, were r
'clng the first movements of the Puritan. c
Radical race, in characters of blood /. c
When the revolving bigotry of New En- {
and Pur'tanism rendered it impossible for
zen some of their W fraternity to conform +;
the intolcrant laws enacted by the "Saints',,
ourging, eSpa,riation or death was the saint.
remedy. When young Pertains were affected
it'll some inexplicab|e malady, Puritan intel
renee ascribed il TO Witchcraf,, and the Pu-
panacea was hanging, drowning and
nshing to death! These things are historical.
lie New England Witchcraft of 1899 in
hich Puritan "ministers of the Gospelv and
'rltan magistrates, participated, and to which
nocent lives were sacrificed, must be familiar /,
every reader of American history. And these
omInationsswere perpetrated on the plea and !,
the authority of a religion that pretends to !,
an improvement on all others, and with the :
It crazy, half-solemn ratification of fanatical .
nctimoniousness! =
the war Of 1912 in which the COM. =
ngled blood of The liberty loving sons of I
ris'endom, was shed in defence Of onr then 4
1ng-giant Republic, the New England Pu.
ms held a Convention at Hartford. The
ensible purport of that Convention was to
stem the termination of the war; but the fact
passed into history, that for three weeks