Houma Ceres. [volume] (Houma, Parish of Terrebonne, La.) 1855-18??, 1855-10-18
HOU NJ A.:
THURSDAY, October rs. 1855.
SUGGESTIONS
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forming an Association for the purposes
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rnE history Of the origin Of free gov
srnment is always fraught with interest
and replete with instruction to its citi-
zeas, who live under the laws and enjoy
the blessings engendered and fostered by
that government. More particularly is
this true Of a generous and brave people
who. by revolution, have thrown Of des-
potic yoke, and set up an Independent Re-
public for themselves. At any rate it
ought to be SO. Even those people who
live under the most hopeless despotism,
whose minds have never been illumined
by a single ray Of enlightened liberty,
whose hearts have never bounded with
the elastic, elevating consciousness that
they were msn-and masters Of them.
selves. Even the somnolent Chinaman,
and the on,laved and voluptuous East In
diaman, dates back, with pride. the origin
Of his despotism, thousands Of ages be.
yond the Adamic period, and reverently
cherishes, in his recollection, the mystic
traditions and authentic narratives of the
origin Of his people and political inst;tu.
tons. How much more, then, should a
free people, who enjoy all the blessings Of
liberty, and Of wise and benefcent laws,
under whose benign influence the waste
places have been made to rejoice, and the
wilderness to blossom as the rose-a peo-
pie who dwell in land where peace and
plenty have met together, and liberty and
law have kissed each other-a people who
have all but realized those highly colored
descriptions Of the Hyperboreans, those
beautiful pictures Of human felicity on
which the poets Of former years delighted
to cwell-how much more should such 4
favored people be exercised with desire
to inquire into the history Of political
system which has been the instrument Of
20 much prosperity and happiness, to in.
form themselves Of every circumstance
which may have had any influence in
moulding the body Of that society and
breathing into It = proper spirit and to
possess themselves Of the contemporaries.
ous collateral events which arc always
important in the Interpretation or it, fun.
dsmental constitution.
Most all nations are better acquainted
with the political than with the civil histo.
~ Of their country. The reasons arc OBJ.
vious; inasmuch rs ono is plain narrative
Of events, Of battles and seiges-of biv-
ouack, Of marches and retreats-the other,
= philosophical deduction Of sequences
which gives nearer insightint the char.
aeter, habits, sentiments and resources Of
aPeopie. The former has no doubt more
attractions for the many-it possesses
moro Of the marvellous, and romantic, and
brilliant; but the latter is moro instructive
and interesting to the curious student-to
the lawyer the statesman, the philosopher.
The people Of the United States are
pretty well versed in the history Of the
Revolutionary struggle. They know what
battles were fought what victories were
won, what triumphs achieved. what fields
were lost. what officers distinguished
themselves. They can trace the marches
Il the destroying enemy, and recite the
tales Of devastation and death that follow
cd in his track-they can tell whom fort
was 'tormed and taken, by what General
aid numbers . city was beseiged, when
Boston m New York were evacuated BY 4
vanquished, and entered by = victorious,
army. Our revolutionary war is 80 mar
yelously brilliant in al ito details-there
10 something 20 unlike the history Of all
other wars in its cause. lis progress, and
it, termination; the opposition Of foreign
foes, domestic traitors, and unfriendly ele.
ments, rendered the conflict 20 fearfully
doabtulthe interests staked upon the issue
were Of such vital and momentous impor.