Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-12-09
Eloquent Speech.

lowing eloquent speseh liftPiJ " d hlSiiiJ eoAA
plimentary toast:
I know that my Wing friends will both par
don and Justify me when say that prize this
compliment, coming from Wings and Democrats
alike, far more than could a similar one from
members of my own party alone. There was
time, years ago; when cared little what my
political opponents said or thought of me, so l
had the regard, the support and the applause Of
my political friends. But | have long since
ceased to feel thus. have learned to appre-
ciate and to desire the good opinion of all good
men, l have learned that candor, and truth,
and honor, and honesty, and wisdom, and patri-
otism and virtue are confined to no party. My
devotion to the party with which l have acted
throughout my life as unfaltering, but time
teaches to all true hearts the great lesson of
political liberality. l have published some
things which, although we'll intended at the
time, / could wish blotted from the memory of
my readers and from my own.
I have written some bitter things of men who
have since passed away from the earth, and
whose memories l revere, and on whose graves
could shed tears of sorrow and regret All !!
when I look back through the twentysix years
of my editorial life, and think how many | once
denounced who afterwards became my personal
friends or proved THEMSELVES their country s
friends, and how many l once eulogised and
toiled for who have since turned their hands
ruthlessly and causelessly against me; when
reflect how often the most arduous and devoted
political services are forgotten by those to whom
they are rendered, and how often the deepest
political injuries are magnanimously forgiven
by those to whom they are done; and when
remember how many of my political friends
have striven to crush me, and how many De-
mocrats have gathered around me band of
brothers in the days of my personal peril, |
should be guilty of an outrage on my own con-
science, and on every feeling and impulse of
my heart, if | were not to weed out from my
nature the partisan bitterness that once flourish
ed there. am Wing, but will greet every
true-hearted Democrat as my brother, and | will
greet no false-hearted Wing as such''
NEWSPAPER PATRoNAGE-Rumors having been
rife of large falling off in the circulation and
profits of the Tribune the editor comes out to-
showing large aggregate increase of circula-
ton and for the four months ending Nov. /,
1854, an increase of advertising receipts over
the corresponding period of the preceding year,
of 81, S65. This will do pretty well considering
the stringency of the money market, and we
are. not surprised that Horace Greeley felt that
he could afford to attend the Italian opera last
evening las dead head, where in a semi-som-
nolent state he attracted almost as much atten-
ton as ''Coutts." Tho old white coat " was,
for once, the cynosure of thousand lorgnettes.
p,,f+ 10 ;s 8 ,{
the tightness of times and the loseness of the
Know Nothings may hurt it in the year to come;
and therefore it makes an earnest and touching
appeal to its friends to rally in its support The
edior defes his enemies to kill him; and Ajax
like, only asks ssfor light to see his foeman's
face" A newspaper he says, ''has seldom
enough by those who never think of it. We
shall not die of Know Nothing prescription
at least, not yet"
This is quite true. Thousands buy and read
principles. As an evidence OF rn1ts,,, we ra're
before US in a late number of the ssNew Orleans
Commercial Bulletin in which the very clever
and candid editor Of that influential. journal, in
commenting on the Mirrors recent article on
"Putnam's Magazine" says
"As Southerner and conductor of a South
ern press, we are panied at being forced to adj
nit that what Mr.. Fuller says is a melancholy
truth. He has defended the rights of the South,
and for his pains got only compliments. He
must have much of the right sort of stuff in
him, to have SO long persisted in course which
every one must know has injared instead of adj
vancing his worldly interests or the circulation
of his journal in the city of New York, or
throughout the North.
1t is fact that will readily be admitted, by
all who have an opportunity of forming cor
rect opinion, that for one number of the Mirror
seen south Of Mason and Dixon's line, there are
a score of New York Tribunes Or Times. This
fact is as patent as it is discreditable to our
people, and the sooner it is remedied the better
it will speak for them, as being grateful to a
disinterested friend who has fought their battles
as courageousy and sturdiy as their best cham
plons of Southern BIRTH
Thus it appears g. that the Southern people
will tolerate press, which they daily denounce
rs "incendiary," and whose editor would be
personally maltreated if he ventured to visit |
them, in preference to one "who has fought |
their battles as courageously and sturdily, as
he best champion Of Southern birth" Is not |
his a rather humiliating confession on the part
If the " chivalrous South !"-N. Y. Mirror.
FEMALE EEUcATIoN.-The following remarks
# the New York Times, contains suggestions
hat are worthy Of general consideration among
hose who are interested in the subject of female
ducation:
Why are there no convention of teachers of
emale schools !? Alarge number of accomplish
d gentlemen in various sections of the country
re enthusiastically devoted to this department
f education. Ladies, too, by scores, are in the
anne work. Female education in the United
tates is rapidly be coming an interest of i'm
lense magnitude. It has awakened vast de-
rec of solicitude, and in some sections of the
Inion-the Southern States particularly-has
7ell nigh reached the borders of mania. But
0 far as we have seen, no organized effort has
ct been made to mature the system of female
ducation That various errors exist, none can
oubt. Popular opinion needs very decided
direction, and teachers themselves might be
luch more judcious in their modes of operation.
there were general interchange among the
'iends of female education, much might be {