Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1870-03-26
Continuation.
.=# VII.

The Seventh Session OF the tanatiCal IsMS.
presented a scene Of great animation. The
doors Of the Conventicle were thrown open 10
the public, in anticipation of the great triumph
which, it was confidently hoped, Peruersus
'whouId achieve in demonstrating that New
Englanders are The Saints!
Before the learned advocate Of New Eng
lands cause, resumes his argument, said
Miolicus, l move 4 vote Of thanks to the Rev.
Ebenezer Timbucioo, for the happy way in
which he improvized the hymn Of the "happy
day., Of which, it is impossible 10 speak in
terms Of sufficient admiration! The motion
was duly seconded and passed amid loud
cheers and clappins Of hands!
Perversus now mounted the platform, and
said that j, was gratifying to observe the deep
interest felt by the entire population Of New
England, in the cause Of reconstruction, as
evidenced by the vast concourse Of both
professional and non-professional 1sMs, there
assembled. The cause in which they We're
engaged was a sanity one and it was both
meet and just that it should receive the sanity
sanction and encouragement Of all shades OF
fana,icism! And this brings ne, said the
speaker, to the development 81 the grand
proposition on which the fate Of the world
hangs namely, that Nev Englanders are The
Saints!
The fate Of the vorM The repealed; for
who could contemplate without a shudder, the
fearful consequences involved in the rejection
Of so evident a proposition? Would i. be too
much to affirm that, in such a contingency, the
march of progress would retrograde at least
4 thousand years? while on the more hopeful
hypothesis Zone which he was manifestIy
justified in assumine) of its universal accep.
lance, it would be safe 10 predict, tina. the
STARS Of the armament might be reckoned as
4 cipher in comparison to the countless IsMs
that would spread their f%auatical influence
over all creation /! (Hear, hear, hear, and great
applause, with reiterated shouting y
There was a time, said Peruersus when to
be .eputed Saints, it was deemed essential to
accept and practise the revealed law of the
Creator; and that involved certain formulas
If right and justice towards others. But the
law Of progress" ignores all this. and pres,
eribes mans first duty 10 be to take care Of
himself. The times are changed-"1smpora
mutantur, ct nos nutamnr in ills = consequent.
~, he very opposite Of what, in ancient times,
were considered prerequisites Of Saintship,
must be pos,ula,ed as the conditions sine qua
non Of modern saintship +! IT'S clear to every
unprsjudiced mind, that New Engianders
possess these conditions in their entirety !
IT'S clear that no people have ever been more
devoted to progression whether viewed in a
literal or figurative sense; whether we
consider material or moral progression, or
look It it from 4 commercial or covenanting
s,and-point. Our devotion 10 literal and
m,,erial progress, none may deny, who have
the slightest conception Of our intense
anxiety 10 .aops Nouibarard on the very first
manifestation Of that cynosure of al modern
progressivists-Pey! For the evidence Of our
moral prosress, We need but refer to those
unsxampled societies that are . direct emana-
ton Of il, aaL that flourish no where as they
do in New England II mean the Bloomeri,es,
the Oweni.ss, the Dickensonites, the WON.
antics, the Beeohsritss and 20 forth! For our
moral prosressivensss, surely no higher testi.
mony than these furnish, could b found in
the wide world! aad were il not . duty to
exhibit ell the phases Of New Engisndis
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