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

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Calvary discovers motives, princi-
Piles and purposes the most wicked
in the direct canses, on the part Of
the Divine Being, that history, en-
riched by the grand theme of Re-
demption, reflects principles and
motives the most holy and most
generous; and all is said to have
been by his "determinate council
and foreknowlede."
Remember that history, with
the record of all its catastrophes;
all its marvellous, inscrutable events,
its intellectual struggles and crises;
all it's developments and absorp-
tions,- governed by laws, Eternal
and unchangable, is but the record
of the unfoldings of the human
mind as it progresses through dark
ness to light; from ignorance to
knowledge; from the slavery of
precedent, to the noble liberty of
pure and perfect intellectual Free
dom. The epochs of history may
be regarded as the way marks Of
progress-the highest and most ad-
vanced points gained by the ever
restless and progressive mind Of
mau. Ever seeking higher. fuller
and nobler existence, though long
burdened and oppressed by multi
form wrongs and injustices, and
forsooth bears the CALLING load for
centuries, it burst asunder the
gives by which its vitals were
throttled; casts off the grave clothes
of the past; comes forth from the
tomb of conservatism and plants
itself on the next grade higher i'll
the scale of a nobler existence.
The revolution of 1860 -G5, in this
country, was inevitable. Goethe
says, '1f you plant an oak in a
flower vase, either the oak must
wither or the vase crack" Some
men tried hard to save the vase,
but Providence let it crack, and
preserved the oak. No nation can
live under the influence and opera
ton of two antagonistic ideas. A
single idea only can be homogene-
GUS to a community of interests.
The nation started with the declar-
alton, that, call men are created
equal" and endowed with the in
alienable right to liberty and its
corollaries. That is a just idea. Tn
1889 the seeds of dissolution were
sown. The doctrine, that any class
of human beings is created for a
condition of slavery, is prepOster-
GUS and false. 1t portends disas-
ter, shame and death. Free labor
and equality. Aristocracy and slave
labor, are antagonistic ideas. As
oil and water will not mix, so these
can not he harmOnized. Brought
together and fostered under the
mgis of the same institutions, they
naturally breed dlscord and con-
fict.
jamestown and Plymouth Rock
never could agree. In 1916 Anti
slavery agitation was commenced
Waxing warmer during the space
Of fifty years and becoming general
q crisis in National affairs wa:
reached. The Democratic party
strove intensely to arrest, circum
vent, and crush liberal and JUS
ideas, but at last broke into gen
eral quarrel and split. During tn,
campaign Of 1859 the Bell-Everet
party operated as kind of sweet OF
correlative to the Douglass wing o
the Democracy. Thus aided, the Re
publican party triumphantly elected
Abraham Lincoln, and carriet
Plymouth Rock to Washington.
Born west of the Alleghanies il
the cabin Of poor people Of Harder
county, Kentucky, whose parents
as his biographers say, could neithe
read nor write, he managed to oh
tain what may be regarded as purely
an American education. "Hon
day to day he lived the A1e OF tn
American people, v-1fed IN Its light
reasoned with as reason, though
with its lightly power Of thought,
We. borne forward and upward b,
4 the spirit of free institutions. fel
the beatings of its powerful heart
and 90 was in eye-5 way a child o
nature, a chi'sof the west, the Sol
Of Am-s.ca, the ardent friend of tie
oor, and Of the oppressed. Taking
| the Declarafion of Indono,ao.a.