The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-03-29
Philosophical Lawsuits.

little learning Is . dangerous thing,
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."
Thus wrote Alexander Pope in the year
Of our Lord 1909, and unhappily, we find
that the adage has just as much, if not moro
application in the year Of our Lord 1861
This thought, and these verses, required to
our mind on perusing. an editorial IN the
Exchange Alley periodical, of the 26th ult.,
which bears the title Ella Franc Mac0nnerie
ct les Danes du SacreC eur." We had always
| thought that the New Orleans Iribxas was
merely political organ, gotten up, on the
spur of the moment, to foster party inter
ests; but after reading it's issue Of the 96th.
we find out to our great astonishment that
it is somewhat of a philosophical aheet-in
fact, that it actually philosophers. "For
our part" to use Benedict's language, 1--WE
are SO sttired in wonder we know not what
to say" and therefore beg of you, gentle
readers, to look compassionately ON these
few lines, and to be sure, that though
amusement dumbf0unds us, there is, never
theless, speech in our dumbness.
After rather tiresome exordium, in the
shape Of TRADE on consistency, the "phi-
lOsopher" of the Iribune classes all socie
ties under tive grand heads, religious and
philosophical. Now, when we were on our
college benches, we remember Studying
and, by-the-by, in very elementary work
on logic-that the first rule to divide well.
i" al bens diuidendum," was that the division
should be adequate, or as the logicians ex-
press it in their terse Latin phrases, "ut
omnia nseltra diUidentia, sinsul sumpta totun
adrquent.n The philosophic editor of the
Tribune, evidently, never read that elemen-
tary work, and if he intends to philosophize
any more, We would advise him to get any
common school book in which may be con-
tanned the principles of logic, and to peruse
it carefully, before giving to the New
Orleans public the benefit Of any philo-
sophical dissertation.
We were always taught to place societies
under four heads, viz Religious, civil, do
nestle, and international; these, of course,
to be subdivided, and each society classed
according to the end for which it was es-
tablished; but we never met with the phi
losophical division of society, and if it was
created merely to place Free Masonry I'M
der its ;egis, we must proclaim it failure,
for we have never been able to detect the
least germ of philosophy-true philosophy, 2
we mean-in the Free Masonry of our days.
The Supreme Council of Free Masonry
in Louisiana" says the Tribune, "under the
grand commandership of Mr.. Eug. Chas-
saignac, inangurated n new era in these
United States by admitting, Tin the lodges
within its jurisdiction,) all men without dis
tlnction of color" Here, Mt least, the gentle
man was frank enough to admit, and within
parenthesis too, that it is only in the lodges
sous sd jnridiction,'' that colored persons
are admitted. But these are not SO numerous
as one would think them to be, and if Dame
Rumor has not stuffed the ears of men with
false reports, these amalgamated lodges arc
daily growing "fewer and beautifully less.-
AS to its comments ON the nature of the
suit brought by the Hon. B. F. Joubert, one
of our worthy city fathers, they are quite to
the point, taking, of course, as their basis,
the paragraph which appeared in the local
column of the Bee, of the 25th. The Bee
made an erroneous assertion, which happily
was corrected in its issue of Friday morning.
The Sisters of the Sacred Heart never SOIL
cited the admission of Miss Joubert, or of
any other young lady; but Miss Joubert So
lcited admission, and was admitted. When
once, of course, she shone in her true light
and genuine colors, she was respectfully
to withdraw. The ladies of the
Sacred Heart were not going to ruin their
institution merely to afford Mr.. Joubert the
satisfaction of raising his daughter in
white school. They requested her to dis
continue her attendance; she did SO, and
now Mr.. Joubert sues for n breach of con-
,ract. But speculation being the order of