Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1869-12-11
TIlE L%OUlSlANIAN,
Saturday, December II, 1869.

IN CHANGING at the history Of past ages, il
will be seen that the Christian Societies of
the world, Republics, Monarchies, or Empires,
lit. matters not-havs never conceded to the
ruling Power, any other functions than those
OF making the laws and executing them. and
OF preserving the people in internal order, and
defending hem from external violence. They
never permitted the Supreme authority 10
absorb he rights of communities, Of provinces,
OF families, or Of individuals. With corporate
and private Interests, the chief Power had
nothing to do; and consequently, so long as
the Christian theory of Legislation remained.
nuadulleratrd by those monslrous Pagan
Observation-Disclosures and absolutism.
The Christian nations of the world were
governed by the moral principles which all
Christian pubIictsts have agreed in making
a condition sine qua non in both The theory and
administration Of civilized governments; and
IN th'ss nations the people, accordingly, were
truly iree.--Te riias lberaJit uos.
"7ae Truth oiH make you ,free''! Words of
Divine revelation, and worthy TO be sacredly
cherished BY every one whose mind aud heart
are still uncontamina,ed by the "new moral
IDEAS OF Radicaldom. For, freedom is the
very antithesis Of absolutism and Ills latter,
none can approve, save those who possess not
The truth, or TO whom it is repuenant; save
in SHORTY avowed pagans or he miarowed
oheS---lhe majority of American Radicals!
"The Truth will make you Free A Divine
assurance this, and the only i..(allibte condition
ct treelot,. But a people or a party devoid or
moral rectltuds must be strangers To the Truth:
they can not, therefore, impart it to others.
Hence the reconstruc,ion promjsed TO
Southern society, if effected al all BY Ike
Radical party, must BE- accomplished in
contempt Of Truth; aud thus. instead of build.
ing up a people welded 10 frsc institutions, TO
the requirements Of ,rne RepnbIicanism. The
Radicals would inevitably reduce Society 10 q
state of barbarism.
No people have ever vet attained ,tne
greatness in the absence Of purify II morals,
which, in fact, is but 1'ruh in action. Even
Rome's highestma,crial grandeur was reached.
and her greatest conqnests obtained only when
her people were morally grand; when old age
was h%onored, when paternity was respected.
when the indissolubility of the marriage
contract was religiously observed, and whea
The great mass OF the people, instead of regard.
ing wealth and worldly fame as the chief end
OF existence, subordinated them to the uses
which every ratioIai being should make 0.
them-the means of achieving Immortality.
But on the DECLINE Of the popula, morals, |
Rome's political greatness declined also; the
Liberties of the people disappeared with the
disappearance of private virtue; the manners
Lereriorated, and degradation and corruption,
and Al! manner OF vice, aud new phases of
error, and tricks, end schemes, ard utopian
projects iSuch as, in our own day and genera
l.on, we find Radicalism r~csorting to-, sigualed
the tail of Roman greatness.
Nor are Christian Republics-;he same
canse acung--less subject to decay, Or this
We have a noteworthy example in the down.
fall Of Venice, whose brave sons were at one
time ranked among the heroes Of the void.
OF before them, has the naughty C.escen,
tremaled and lis lustre been limmed yet, as
Venetian history bears record tha, the Govern.
ment, having lost all sense Of dignity and O.
honor, lost, likewise, every sentiment Of
justice, it is no matter of astonishment that its
tail from the high estate it once held, was
speedy and complete.
Like causes produce like effects. Than the
Radical Congress Of the United States 10 day,
no body Of rulers could well be less d~isnifsd:
none has ever given clearer evidence Ct its
own %dishonor; and never have Legislators been
a%c,nated by baser motives. According to tkeir
own account Of one another, they are DULLES,
rowdies, cheats, tricksters, schemers, and
thieves ! How then will they reconstruct us
Of the South ? In ,hievery?
IN the very heart of Radicaldom, the
Mormonism of the West is approved; and, as
we have lately read, that congenial "new
moral idea" has made a local habita.ion there!
viii the Radical sympa,hizers with polygamy
" reconstruct" US into so many Brigham
Youngs?
Spurious Radicalism has many features;
hat of polygamy, openly added, would hardly
aggravate their hideousness !-Ws pray
our Radical friends hcreabeu,s, to make G note
of this picture and of that. "IAe Trwk uiH
make you free"
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