Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1870-01-15
f!HB LOUISIANI.A{,N,
Saturday, January Is, 1870.

opposition TO the Creator; and II il note
worthy, that, In both, the catastrophe wa
reached ny the creation Of a race Of Nomades,
! The parallel nigh. be easily prolonged bu,
II IS 1--WE think sufficiently comple,e as j,
, stands.
Society established in..the manner Indicate,
oy our definition, is what is called civil society,
~ course, 'itinerants from strange ATTITUDES
form no part OF it; and, consequently, can,
~ 10 way, NEEDLE, with The civil functions
against the will Of The resident, population,
save by q subversion Of every priuciple Of
right and Justice. IT'S true that a people who
nave trst subverfed the natural aud revealed
Law ieel no compunction in overturojno the
law Of society; and this accounts. in mart.
Tor the Radical persistency in trying to
persuade the world that thei, view If tho
social edifice is the correct one. as a NOM.
teoa"S' standing on his head, may be supposed
ehoeavor'ng to de|ude an audience into The
belief a that pyramid turned on its vc,.ix, is
IN lis natural position.
Secondly,-Socie,y is either constituted Or
non-constituied. 1t is non.constitutea. so lono as
The Creators sovereignty is not formally
acknowledged by the social community in
p"o'lc worship, and the laws by WHICH tie
people are governed, are destitute of form and
u"'1ofm'ty. This state Of society could exis,
IN Its entirety, only in the inf. ncy of ,,,e
human family. 1t may exist in part. among
a degenerate people. " =
Society is constituted, when the Sovereign
creator anu Disposer of all lI'ings,>is recorn-
ICED in public worship conducted Ly a bolv or
men, specially appointed to that sacred office
mat is to say, BY a priesthood; and when, at The
same lime, the people are ruled by a for NAL
and uniform code Of legislation. This defio;.
1.on OF constituted society, we adopt from
those Christian publicists that wrote on tho
laws OF nations and social existence. era
new moral IDEAS" took captive The minds of
protesting christians. lis acceptance by our
readers, will, of course, be in The ratio of
'ne'F devotion TO true Christian principles and
70 ancient and approved traditions.
Apart from its intrinsic worth and fron ,he
value that attaches 10 il as the cmanation Of
writer's while Christianity was We,
an 'n'esef, we, in comparing i. with the
OF the "Chosen People" effected
by the Creator Himself, through The jns,,u-
mentality of Moses, find it not only e~nli,elv
RATIONAL, but the only one suited 10 a com.
mnni'y acknowledging their dependence on a
Supreme Ruler.
Inc 5staelites were nomadic during the
lorly years following their departure from
Egypt; they were established, only when they
occupied tho land Of Chanaan; bu,.,hey were
into . political power, when
hey received, through Moses, Z Constitution q
sh.ch directed ut The same lime l,.sie civil !
nd religious action, which provided for :
for public worship, and Tor 1 judicial
uniform in lis application.
And this is the history Of all public societies
ru'y constituted It will b. easy now 10
lecide that the definition we have laid down
: incapable Of being applied 10 tho "oew
notal idsa' societies Of Rad;caldom. Fot
hose degenerate communities III the oor,bern
ec'ioos Of the United States, that mos,
bound ia ''new moral ideas', arc precisely
hose ~ which Radicaiism is most prolific,
sop'e ~ whose midst evesY one i. The
Manufacturer and expounder Of hi. own B
notal code. can havs no use Tor = priesthood. Ii
he genuine, simon.pu.e, puti,anica,-R adica, s.
Communities, accordingly, have none. A people 4,
declaring that The creation Of c,
lo"opol,es is one Of the chief functions Of Of
can have no fancy for Uniform z
The simon-pure Radical. .ccora. Ia
'gly. sconceives that the acme Of Legislative.
'sdon Is reached, whom one law for ,ae
orth and = different ons for the Sou,b
nanatss from what he calls the "na.ionoi
esisla,uss."
Radica'ism has u loeai saandice in ,hs
outh. Its representatives hefs, arc siiher in
ATE OF isolation or i.inssancy. We ..e,
eFsfOrs, fully justified in contrasting its
abroad with lis moral and social
q home. We could not, in any event,
justly censured for stripping The false
'vef'os from Aggressive audacily, aud
posing the astiss hidsousnsss Of a ~people
~ 10 al moral shame. But when such 20.
sep1lchses," a. We know
sm 70 be-attsmpis 10 reconstruct as. il
comes : positive dsty 10 dsunonslrats their
fitness Ct . Important I ta,k.
Nov. y have sssn Radicalissn 4 II. ctadl.
Its hea'ths and homes, ia liz stronghold. n,
'tituts # tie essential slsmsn,s 81 eo.,.f;.
people; abaadoaed (net Ia ~soiilayy En
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