The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-05-07
Bitter Irony.

erful master as q dependent province, Dut
it is the depth of misfortune to be bound
hand and foot by vindictive enemy and
handed over to a malignant band of harpies
and unclean spirits for slow torture. These
creatures are not satisfied with plumber and
with Islander, with thrusting themselves
| into every Office that exists, and creating
| swarms of new offices that never existed
before; with robbing their victims by every
imaginable ingenuity that their legislative
authority gives them the power Of en-
forcing as law and maliguiDg the people
with lying assertions of crimes which they
themselves have tried in vain to provoke,
but they must, forsooth, start an organ in
the very midst of the ruined sufferers and
fill its columns with the most cruel taunts
and the most heartless railery.
In the last Wednesdays issue Of that
gem of irony--a specimen worthy of being
embodied in the next edition of Blair's
Rhetoric, as illustrating to perfection the
principle of adding insult to injury. Says
the Republican:
If the MORNING STAR, which is the organ of
q Government for Rome which the Romans do
not desire, Ia not uOTo Ru6Iucu AZ AVG oPPsoCes@
ton of the Democratic address, about the
| authorship of which there il some dispute, we
shall be forced to conclude that it is as ignor-
ant of American as it is OF Italian sentiment .,
prepared to revolutiODiZe the country by force
of arms against the Republican party while
they have the handler remedy that offers itself
tivcs and modifying their laws to suit them
selves.
"The handler remedy of changing their
representatives." How can sarcasm be
more pitiless than this Imagine as chang
ing our representatives. Hon. Jupiter
Caesar goes out to make place for Pompey
Smash, Esq. Ashantee yields gracefully
to Dahomey. "What is the use of your
walking that plank overheard says
q jocular pirate; ooh, I wouldn't do
it by any MEANS" and the amiable man
srins as no gives you another thrust with
his dagger. The Republicans reminder of
the liberty we enjoy is pretty much of the
same kind.
How pleasant of the "organ" to invite
us to "change our representatives" with
grim old Grant and his bayonets looming
up in the background. This is improving
on the "plebiscites" which they have in
France and Rome. The joke can go but
ono degree farther, and we propose that
our Legislature provide for that at its next
session, by passing law for the right of
suffrage in the Penitentiary. Let the con-
victs elect their keepers hy all means, and
give the present keeper the right of reject
ing such votes as he may choose to reject
after having had the appointment of all
sub officers and the distribution of sundry
" good things" among the voters.
The organ continues:
If the ballot was not such an inestimable
blessing in the hands of the American people,
we might then he thrown back on the bullet
and the brirand, as the Italians As it
is we can change our rulers and our laws
without consulting our priests or our neigh
bors.
Inestimable blessing! How readily we
can change our laws without consulting
our neighbors! How instantly the tax
payers of this State, for instance, could get
rid of the printing bill, if it were not for q
mere fit of generosity on their part which
prompts them to pay their said neighbors
about FIVE times as much for public print
ing as they ought to be paid! We do not
approve of inconsistency, however, and
| must JneTSlOIo pIosSoo oGnAoSe Wy
bullet and the brigand, as found in a remote
country, and then branding the Ku-klu,
at home as worthy of all wrath.
But hear the organ out. 1t concludes
and the government has no fear o
such mon of Garibaldi OF Mazzin because j
allows the people to think and act withou
being inspired by sentiments which they ar
afraid to avow, or by patriots who are pros
cribed. Under the impulse of the MORNING
STAR this might not be altogether the case.
We have occasionally expressed senti
ments as regards the Republicans govern
h ment, which we were not afraid to avow
v and which we shall not be afraid to avov
Q in the future, yet already the organ i'm
$ pugns our motives and hints darkly at in
It tentions on our part just the reverse q
It patriotic. 1t insinuates treason in GU
r hearts against the principle of self govern
J. ment, whereby to SOW few more seeds G
9 a popular storm which it's party hopes to b
: n hle one day To let loose upon the CathOii