Mobile register and journal., 1845-09-13


Gentlemen: have seen with extreme regret in
your weekly edition of the 9th instant, letter from
a correspondent TO you. dated Pensacola, September
3, 1885, making wholesale attack upon the Creole
popu ation Of dis ctv. As an American, a native
oi another State, and having other Ties bind
TO the Creole population of this any other place
but The kindness, friendship and courteses of lie
which have again and again, both here and in Loui
siana experienced at their hands, feel called upon
to repel the assault made upon this portion Of our
countrymen by your correspondent. | AIN myself
not citizen, but a temporary sojourner here, and
the private note which append will make me fully
known 10 you and trust that knowledge will con-
vince you that but an ohservent and sinterest.
ed spectator. With my knowledge, then, having
heen several months here. am compelled to say
that the charges made against the CreOIes of this
quiet and peaceable CITY uDgenerous, unjust and
untrue. append one of the obiecional sentences:
s. The Creoies are generally selfish and penurions,
" without ambition 10 excel in anything and the diff
'' ference between them and the other citizens is at
" once percepiible. !"
The assertions herein contained are as wholly I'M.
founded as anything possibly can be. ! have found
The Creole population here in the Stale of my re-
sidence, open free, liberal and generous people.
have had peculiar opportunity to observe them in
this city. A friend Of mine arrived here an utter
stranger, never perhaps before having person
residing here He was taken desperately i'll, and
those of the Creole population, we'll others,
seemed to with each other to who could do
most to alleviate his sufierings.
ask, is this the characteristic of sel6shness? l
answer, most assuredly not. 1t was generous and
noble feeling Of humanity, disinteresled it
praseworihy, which prompted them to the act. In
truth, far this matter concerned, they err, if
at all, upon the opposite extreme from that charged
by your correspondent. They have suffered by it,,
and yet their and conduct has not been chang
ed. When stranger comes here, il he has the bear
ing and department of gentleman, no matter what
his opinions in politics religion, he is once la
ken by the hand and treated with hospitality as
proiuse as it is freely gwen. With regard to the
charge of penurousness made by your correspond
ent, il is equally unfounded. They are, the
irary, generous and open handed people, parlak-
ing in this respect fully Of the southern character.
No object of commisseration, no matter from what
county, ever goes unprovided for. As an evidence
Of it, there several families now residing in this
place who provided for by voluntary contributions
from the Creole population Most, if not all, ofthose
thus generously supported, are not Creolcs, but
tives OF other States or foreigners-and even your
State comes in for goody share Of this
bounty.
No one ever heard of a Creole refusing TO pay his
Just debts, and | believe there is not solitary in
stance here in which one has taken the benefit Of The
bankrupt law. They are quiet, orderly, unobtru-
sive. but at the same time brave and devoted peo-
pleas much attached to the institutions of our
mon country as any one Of u.s. possessing as gene
raj rule quite much intelligence as those OF any
other portion Of our counrymen, and in their gene
al intercourse in life, their course and conduct
would bear favorable comparison with the hest of VS.
Invidious distinctions, like these drawn between
any classes of fellow citizens, l-judged and
impolitc well as unjust and injurious. Ofcourse,
am totally unacquainled with the author of your
published letter. The excitement which it has pro-
duced ere, however, leads me TO believe that his
cannot long he kept secret. This excitement
extends, The Creole population alone; others
residing amongst them feel quite indignant they
do.
regret extremely the publication of this letter in
our highly respectable Democratic Journal--the rea-
sou you can well divine. ] hope you will publish
THIS reputation of the charges from
PENSACOLA, Sept.9. VlRGiNIAN.