The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-07-08
address of J. G. Duncan,

ON THE sANE OCCASION
LADIES AND GENrLEAEN-At the request of the Com
mittee of Arrangements forward this evening 10 give
few details relative 10 institution, the great benefits of
which you conspcnousy displayed before you. feel
that the in which speak will claim your ind nlgenee
for the defects of the speaker and refuse the task
when these Orphan children around supply tie
paucity of words. forward, too TO solicit your
ympathies propous occasion IL is the Holyday
American People-when every heart bounds with gadness
and the pulse of the Nation beats with Joy This day
is signaized the advent Counys Liberty when the
Patriot Band in Council in the city Of Penn and sent
forth that Declaration of Rights, acknowledged by the
world Proud may we be of this Festive Day, but while
review for gratitude, let forget the
duties which present prosperity entails upon Garry
mind back sevenyfo -four years, when we feeble people,
claimed the sympathy Of the patriots of the world and while
rapidly tracing onward power and greatness, let
remember that in progress have always remained
seadast to the great principles which must tend to tie
prosperity of nation. By their works shall know
them and there nothing in the annals of our young
Try that would wish blot Wherever civilization has
extended there have the pe of the Church and the walls Of
the School house raised together and far the echo
the pioneers has been heard there advancing
with his daring step the Institutions which the pride AMI
boast of our land Shall not this spirit contnuel win
knowledge be still dispensed with the liberal hand and
the mantle of Charity still enwrap ustrous folds the
Genius of America? God has given glorious heritage
land of refuge to the oppressed of the word Will we
aside from the preeeps which he has written
country? He has pointed with finger of light to the
high detnies in for and has dotted ths promised
land" with cline and feature to make the great ASYLUM
the home of ALL The German imagnes his native Rhine
the borders of the Suquehanna and the Hudonthe of
Erin sings of his loved Ly by the banks of the Ohio
and the lnos-the children of Italy and France repoe
der their vine and fig in the genial cline of Ioui
sana and the Swiss dreams Of his native glaciers meath the
snow-cowned cliffs of the North where the rush of his
lost amid the hunde Of our Niagara
The minds of people like their errtoyhey expand
embrace the works of explore the paths of science
support the noble charities of the land And with the
past look back promise of the future again ask
the zDir ipad
sior is written upon banner and every year says
| "Onward!'
In addressing you, then in behalf of institution which
the city, and OF pride to its citizens
one Of the great links of the chain Of noble charities which
Americans. pro I'D of-T do with the firm rel
that the liberal hand stretched forth from tune 10 time III
aid of the Asylum, will again be extended Iiee that nougb
that could could call forth IN the generous hearts who
have responded this nights call eler nteesto adeepel
feeling then the sight of two hundred Orphan Girls must pro-
duce in this assembly No eOquence necessary
to enlist sympathesno high wrought fancy needed TO
strengthen the simple appeal borne to you from the lips o.
these children There homey elO1uence in their words OF
thanks-a moving picture in their happy faces more thrilling
than ought that studied phrase the powers OF the mos
gifted could excite Had it been necessary TO call npoa th'
realms of ancyto pluck the flowers OF retore-lo Gull iron
the gardens of literature its choicest blossoms to adorn IN
walls of the Asylum aud decorate its Deeds then would
mors competent speaker then the who addresses
have been sought out by the committee. But TO me left
plain unvarnshed tale deliver Of the noble deeds OF III
ssacrifcing women who minister 10 the helpless beings b
fore you-who truly with mothers care, tend their hu
flock and take them TO their quiet fold.
Fourteen years passed since Sister Regis aud five othe
of the order OF the Sisters Of Charity laid the foundation
this Asylum Without money means, with not even ia
ntue for the house generously offered them rent free
Joseph Kennedy. ESD, these devoted women commence
their labor of love For three years they to amid dteu
ties of every kind. Children quickly sathercd nnd
their roof o this great city with the tide femgraon ho'
ing constantly shores, Orphans 100 soon nSde 81
9 ninety little inmates psro0k Of their bounty. VIII a
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table spirit which characterized them in their holy calling
abed them TO look calmly in the face and rely upon
higher power than for their prolseuon They remain
h comparatively unknown, bat though the eaases OF ma