The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-09-08

own heads; and are seotng with her eyes, sney |
mako her do - they please. She obeys win
out scruple or law, brushes all other would-be
parasites undsr her feet, and with impassioned
zeal gives glory and power to her masters
whom she imagines ere only her obedient chill
tren, and exhausts horself to supply them with
fstness and strength. She feeds on the State
and its citizens that they, the parasites, may
draw tho moro nourishnent through her. She
no, not she-but they. her favorite parasites,
(the chief and his co-operators.) while they
reign, deny the people. individually and oollec-
lively, any rights and liberties independently
of their arbitrary decision. They permit only
what is agreeable to themselves. If this hap
pens to please the minority, very well, but II
the pleasure of the hydra heads is torture to
the minority, SO much the worse for the mi
nority. No matter how reasonable the wish of
the minority may be, no matter how harmless
the action they would like to be free to do, no !
matter il it be the enjoyment of a liberty they
are entitled to by natural and divine Justice'
it will be refused them If it be disasreeable to
the chief parasitic suckers of the body polite
It is favor q nero accident, depending on
the convenience or conceits of the seducers and
eaptors Of the majority, If the minority save
any rights whatever. While tho favor of the
majority l89I6, uSE ASNOHttOo PAoAAV ~ ~
cast the world in q mould Of their own design
| ing. II you believe them they are philanthro-
l-pists, reformers, self-sacrifeing servants, and
the State would enjoy peace and prosperity
| the whole country and every branch of indus
try aoarish-justice and equality prevail
under their laws and ADMINISTRATION Bat
avarice and ambition are Impatient and in
satiable. Before the successful hydra heads of
the majority. ever fulfil any of tho fne promises
i they have made, OF realize any of the beauti-
full plans they have displayed, they quarrel
over the spoils they revolt against their chief
each insists on the supremacy of his own wis
dom, and they fall to strangling one another.
They CRY to all the world for help and alliance.
Greeley, Sumner, Trumbull, Schurz, ETC., call
! to Doolittle, Belmont, VOORHEES,, Blair, ETC., to
succor them against Grant, Butler, Seward,
: Wilson, etc. Warmoth, Heron, Sheridan,
ETC., call on Hebert, Beauregard, Penn and
even MoEuery and Jonas to give assistance
against Kellogg, Pinohback, etc. In their
writings and strugglipgs, they strangle their
> dear majority and she gasps for breath. In
, the turmoil every rejected leech-worm, that has
been squirming around, crswls mp the seething
and gasping body Of the distracted majority.
A terrible melee or mipgle-mspgle battle for
place on the succulent and tall trunk of the
Queen of the Republic ensues. She totters
under the weight of her old and new courters,
tho ones desperately hanging to her flesh, the
others tearing away to get juicy or dominant
i place. At last she falls This Is her election
. day Then her protean nature develops itself
o As Proteas of fabulous fame, who, every time
u he fell to mother earth, rose again with new
: strength and q changed body, so the majority
rises after election day, rejuvenated and Wig
o orous, with new tastes, new aspirations, ane
y with other worms clinging to her who are t.
10 be her ministers and favorites, and who are II
IL feed and grow upon her, and abuse thei
:. power over her, to Cypress the country and on
'f another, till they destroy one another and fal
away IS those who preceded them. Ever.
u term they run the same career of life, success
- and death, and she the same round OF folly, il
o fusion, reaction and Transformation. She ha
y had many different and dissimilar reigus, under
10 gone many changes of policy and principle
CT but it cannot be said that she has made an.
y progress towards giving justice to she peopl
Il and happiness to the country.
10 The consolation of one of the Minority liviu
O. under the dominion Of Queen Majority 10 tn
~ hope that che will one day change her mind
70 brush away her present councillors, and tax
OF tho leaders of the minority to her bosom.
" is the ready possibility of such chang
whereby the victim and sufferer of to-day ma
Vs. become, without violence aud bloodshed, tn
ns master and revelier of tomorrow, that const
ne tutes the peculiar advantage of Democrat
u over Monarchy.
whether this that party of parasites SUI
10 coed in appfopriatiag Queen Majority, it II
Up variably happens that she and they cease
u recognize the minority as having any right
- hardly even an existence. They act as If the
o acts were unanimous movements-were M
- only assented to but spontaneously demande
by each and every man and woman in tt
70 70 country-as if each and all were glad of it an
NJ acknowledged its wisdom. Thus when tn
~ majority speaks she calls herself the People
~ the Countrywide City-the Public-he commit
W nity-the Society-the common weal-as if ST
~, 70 comprised every body and every thing. IL
Nv glaring sophism passes unnoticed. Hundred
'et Of fallaoious arguments pass undetected sin
w w ply because part appropriates the name