Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-08-06

rally anu pOutlcaiiy WIonS' Ano
men of the Revolution, whose great
thought conceived and gave birth
to the nation passed away. Sue
ceeded by a new generation blinded
by the lustre of wealth, to be ac-
quired by the culture of q new
staple, Massachusetts was confronted
by Virginia with the doctrine that
the slave system was wise, Provi-
DENTAL and good-bene6cient to the
oppressed and highly beneficial to
the oppressor,-an eminently Patri-
archal concern. As
s'The evil which men do lives after them,
While the good is often with their bones
inferred"
so there is no data from which to
calculate the immensely lily results
of a false conception. The law OF
reproduction governs thought as
much as nature. Every thing, both
ib nature and thought, reproduces
itself in a great multiplied form.
The. tree bears fruit after It's kind
and SO do the vine, the reptile, the
animal and the herb. In like man.
ner every thought and every action
ripens and multiplies its seed, each
according to it's kind. As in the in
dividual man, much more in a ma
ton, righteousness exalts, and
crown with glory and life; while the
reward of sin is misery, shame and
death.
The spirit of evil is keenly alive,
intensely logical and audaciously
persistent. Seeking consistency in
a bastard science, the South looked
for and found abundant means by
which to establish slavery in the
bulwarks of American law; to work
it into the organism of rising States
and to fix it in the public sentiment
of the Country at large. Complete
ly dehumanized at the South the
negroes manhood was reluctantly
acknowledge at the North, in theo-
| ry, but discarded in fact. Terrific
ry, for the spread of the curse, was
demanded, and half of Mexico Civ
EN-. Command of State and Ma
tional Legislation was sought and
gained. Courts of judicature were
subordinated, and the forensic arm
of the government bent to it's aid.
Through cunning, plausiblei intrigue
Judge Taney's notorious decision
was obtained and the sentiment of
the Country, brought to crystalize
around that most unjust, strange
and unnatural opinion.
But these agggressions on the one
hand, and Anti-slavery agitation on
the other, woke up the nation, at
last, to sober reflection; and slavery
touched its downfall. That was q
glorious day for America and the
world, when the proclamation of
freedom was made in 1868. Heav-
en- shouted, "Sublime!"
"Angels rejoiced, the earth was glad
And praise surrounded the throne"
True, it came as a war measure,
but, with a single exception, liberty
has been always q child of convul-
sion. Nor can we believe that the
total abolition of slavery in this
country could have come, except
through the critical conjuncture Of
National affairs caused by the war.
How did the French slave trade go
down? "When Napoleon came
back from Elba, when his fate hung
trembling in the balance and he
wished to gather around him the
sympathies of the liberals of Eu.
rope, he no sooner set foot in the
Tuilleries than he signed the .edici
abolishing the slave trade, agains,
which the Abolitionists of EnglaAd
and France had protestelf>f twen-
ty years in vain" Tb.slave system
of France went .sowh amid convul-
sion. Tho storm that rocked the
ve-sei Of state almost to founderiine
under the Provisional Government
Of 1S4S, snapped forever the chain
of the French slave. So of Mex;rs.n
and South American EMANCIPATION;
and SO of every other Instance when
liberty, civil or religious, has been
achieved, exe4t in 1884. when
England pose to the moral dignity
Of emsacipating her slaves without
the shedding of blood.
| Although it came through the
agonies Of civil war the emancipa.
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