The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-07-14

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and denoaaee, md pdfssue With bitter
words, oil Who differ from them. All
parties 10 the country, have their politi-
cal bigpts. They are those who deal in
abuse because they have not the sense, or
brains to deal in argument /; they are those
who disgrace their speeches with PERSONAL
titles becanse they have not the education
to discuss principles; they are those who
substitute the power of lungs for tho power
Of logic men ofparrow, shallow iutellects,
in whose heads there IL only room for one
idea; mon of superficial education; and
yet, withal, possessing 'fiippant tongue
endowed with the gift Of the CAB men
who mistake the mouthings Of stupidity
and ignorance for the utteranees of elo-
quence and wisdom, and who have never in
their lives been found guilty Of proving
anything, except their own conceit and
impudence. And yeti. singular to say,
multitudes hang on the Mords Of these po-
liticsl higOts--follow them, applaud them,
and endorse their sayings, with the tradi-
tional endorsement Of the rsbbie-an inane
harraA. There is nothing Ike q hurrah in:
this country. It il q sort of political act of
faith made in speakers and in speech. We
have borrowed the 'custom from the brute
creation. To hurrah is short way of
proving things, and Of accepting conclu-
ATOMS. There is picturesque. barbarism
about it, but We have introduced the bar
baric. hurrah into our civilization, aud of
that civilization it has become a very pow
erful element. And 10 the political bigoss
rant, and shout, and regaie the ,ears of the
multitude, who love such N nsic, with sense-
less sound and the papers giowingfy de.
scribe such things as eloQnence. and wis
dom, and logic; and the people, too lan-
guild To- make the effort 10 tkiHk, with
mouths agape, swallow tie shontings of
nonsense, and 7-hurrah! Thus "deep call
eth unto deepsn1Hoa 70 haa ,eroj~s..l IS
Bat the politica, bigoery that calmly and
deliberately ats down to write for the
people :is, far WORSE, and more raneerons,
than the bigotry which stands up, all ex-
citernent, to speak face to face with the
people. Passing from political bigots who
speak, to those who write for the benefit Of
the very enlightened people, and examin-
ing those very noble ~ forms of literature
and those matchless vehicles of thought
political nsWspapers-We,- meet with the
same exhibition of ignorance. Ia the
dearth of argument, there is a feast of
abuse. In many of them the use of nick
names is their highest logic. Savage per-
sonalities form their syllogisms. Fierce
epithet, violent vituperation, low flung il
fusion, bald jest, and every other vile and
dishonorable means which bigotry. can en-
ploy, are brought forward as elements of
persuasion. Lying before US are many
political pewspapers-some of them the
leading ones in the country-and in the
most of them, there is q lack of that courte-
sy which should be shown, at least by gen
tlemen, even to an enemy there is very
words are brands of passion rather than
utterances of reason. There is a wild
animalisn about them nearly all; and did
We not know better, We would be apt to
think that the editorial pen was in the paw
of u bear, instead of in the hand of q man.
Hatred begets hatred-bigotry begets big
try.,The people who applaud such things
are not q whit better than the authors Of
such things.
AS time brings US nearer to the EoVem-
Der election, this political bigotry will,
grow still more bitter and this is the way
in which the minds of the people are pre-
pared to cast their votes, and to elect their
candidates! Passion in the hands of bigots
not principle in the hands of gentlemen
is doing most of the political work in
this country. We can only deplore it, and
wish for better days; but, we fear that
our best days, with the most of the good