The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-30
FUNNY PARAGRAPH.

We find the following item in our
and notice with regret That
The journals of Virginia take apparent
delight in giving 1t a wide circulation
As though it met with their appreciation
and sympathy. 1t has been published
in Norfolk without a word OF dissent
from the evident idea that it is Intended
to convey and from this fact we are
justified in concluding that 1t meets
with approval, and that the same course
would be applauded here: i
A new hotel has recently been opened
in New Orleans, which boasts that IL
neither seeks nor desires the patronage
of Northern gentlemen. An army Of
Hcer who found that he could not secure
The attendance of walters, complained at
the Office, and was bluntly told that the
servants had orders not to wait on sueh
AS he.
Now. we have no hesitation in assert
ing that this is a most palpable n
transparent falsehood. The city ofNew
Orleans and the people are too cosmo-
politan and liberal in their character to
A-snil IF such childish folly. Unlike
Norfolk, and other cltiesor Virginia. 5no
is not cursed with an "old man of the
mountains" upon her back but with a
young and vigorous and energetic popu-
Iation gathered from the four quarters OF
the world, the Crescent City permits no
boundaries to be erected to her growing
greatness. Such peurile and petty pre-
iudices as the above paragraph would
seem to suggest do not exist there.
Fanaticism o6this kind is not native
to that latitude, and couldonly be trans
planted from some small bigoted town
in the backwoods, where the people
have not yet learned that the world
turns round. The citizens OF New Or
leans are too enlightened and intelligent
to entertain such narrow views they
are too intent upon making their city
thef foremost commercial mart in all the
world, to pause by the way to have a
boyish quarrel with visitors from the
North, or to insult them at their hotels.
New Orleans is largely indebted to nor
| thern enterprise for her prosperity, and
| will not kill the hen that lays the gold
en- eggs. From, the great West flows
that unending stream of wealth which
in a few years will make her the center
of trade in the center Of America; and
the manifestation of such a spirit as Ii
falsely alleged in the above paragraph
would be suicidal to her best interests
We do not belive that a respectable hote
keeper between Carrollton and the Bar
racks could be found to admit the truth
of this paragraph. A city that opens
her doors to the people of all countries
and all climes-and welcomes VIII
omen arms all who come to seek thei
fortunes within the compass OF ner gol
den horns-and whose inhabitant
have ever frowned upon all attempts tt
make invidious social distinctions, IAN
where n may meet mingling in com
mon fellowship in the never-endlnt
hurry and rush of business men Of mari
and stamp from every nation, ~infusinl
new life and energy into all, and turn
inc everything to gold that they touch
is not the place for the display OF sucl
petty prejudice and spite. The mel
from the North, from the Wes'
from the Southland rom III
world at large, have combined to puii'
up this great city, which in five year
will double her wealth and population
and in less than a quarter Of a centur!
will rival the greatest marts OF Tn
world. New Orleans has no unprogres
sive past at her back to destroy he
: energies, and exhaust her life-blood
e She long since discarded the dwelling
D of second childhood, and determined I
: owe to herself, and not to generation
, dead and buried, her future grandeur
i. She has many first families, and a FEY
admirers of the ancient regime; bu
, their prejudices only excite smiles Q
{ ridicule and are never allowed to retar
:. the wheels of progress. Her people d
; not waste their valuable time in brood
;. inc over their losses blythe war, neithe'
| Int with a wise philosophy, accept tho'
q disasters as the unavoidable accidents
. ufe.-place them to the account OF prof
and loss, and apply themselves WIN :
. doubled energy and renewed industl
e to recover their former wealth n pos
ton. They are no weepers over spl
! milk-these grand Orleanians. Wou