New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-25

s,S cruoiied by their decision les s fee
M sake Of peace and our possest.s ,esa list
tlC9 S,reyer Let no eaptlons oLt :.l bicb AM
e seltlsN sreDresent the spirit WIN WI ,l s
e have assembled to take paEt M Sla f
S,iv naSeant Gentlemen ~ho " 49, cboi,e ia,
sds have followed 5iie p'iSa VI ana over, Of
III h0t II ~ Inhibited faith, nor prove Ee0lS s
aEoW 80 ~ 3tljgation that new loyslty uIpos9s
ny ss and in sadness yon haVe leiuop . 49,
n setroW NJ, cherished ensign which Tor 4 season -
oreSet III tbrough sunshine and through stetul' F
Soa s, INN prpwess was the wonder aha aeiHn
lnei f he world; and when It's stars iaoeo ~
INV aim you saw in its place. aoS W. arohien,
II; and Unicorn on crimson held-nt euloiens q
NJ lenitipaacy the flag under wl VIA ytSat
e,bers Had fought. The oserpoweflhS nos' Sas.s
Won we'd over you, fought y9u A. +i, le' If
yielded only spegs eSeF, ybep 7oa remember That
exhausted by your own YIUt1saee and that you
spirit OF concord and harmony, repair yea- W ere
tered fortunes restore confidence, promote peace
and above all things keep alive and cherish your
own sell respect with the stern dignity of crusade
| knights, should now be your high endeayar ~
love the flag which now claims your allegiance is
more than You can yet do, if you honestly fought
1 1t, and more than magnaniInous enemy should
exact. fou can respeetit, for it is the emblem Of
/ the only rights you possess and you can keen
| with pure faith the new Obligations Won have as
sumed, and by Recognizing and UNFOLDING the sr-
! premacy OF the law, put to shame the mercenary
sIles VINO proWl around your social circles to mis-
represent Sour motives.
4 The occasion should not pass without giving Mt
terance to the feelings which actuate not YOU only
1 but every gentlemen in Texas, toward the govern
| nent OF the United States. We reverence, as we
/ have never ceased to do It's Consultation rJorv in
| the achievements Of its earlier and better dsvs
and wall maintain our allegiance to its authority,
but even in defeat we look down with loatbin,r
4 and contempt upon tile miserable demagounes
4 who conscious of virtue in themselves While
abusing the President. desire to pervsTt the
4 powers OF government for Cur destruction be-
cause we cannot love them. The exactions of
power, sus aimed by the bayonet can preserve or.
der, but never secure affection. The heart of man
must be changed before he can love these who
with payonet at his breast, tell him that he shall
do what he is willing to do, and has peSged him
self that he will perform. Confidence il a uiant
o. SLOW growth, and is never the child of stlspi
N; clon. Allegiance goes hand in hand with dutv.c
and IS the result of obligation whether voluntary
or imposed. Love is the child of impulse aud Is
fosteted only by kindness. We can respect a
manly enemy, who, scoTning to hunliliate his cap
tive with letters and the dungeon, takes him by
the hand, reinyests him with his civil freedom
and eSacts no security for his friendship but his
pHghted word. Such a man you respect and
learn TO love; and when this government is af.
mlfilstered with that wise charity which will re-
speet the opinions and preiudices of an age, it
VIII soon win back the wandering affections of its
citizens.
More than five hundred years ago. upon the field
Of Poiters, Edward the Black Prince, the first re-
noWned knight of st. George, vanauished the
french KING and captured him in battle We are
Told by trolssart, that the conquerer conducted
= the royal captive to his tent, and with his own
hands served him at table refusing ia sit until a
KING had finished his meal. We are further told
thathe said to him. My dear sir, do not make a
poor meal, because the Almighty God has not
gratded Your wishes in the result of this day for
be assured that my king and father will show you
every honor and friendship Then the knights
who were around him said that the prince had
Espeken well.and nobly, and that he would Vet be
the most gallant prince in his chEistendom if God
u should grant MN Lie to pursue mis- career of
glory Noble knight, of princeIv stock |
stamped by God with the impress Of his own
kn!ghthood thy fame has not persisted and these
knights of an order once ennobled bv yonr COM |
partnership, who have done their Cevoir at Iorietta
and Shiloh at Sharpsburg, at Malvern Hill and in
! the Wilderness now, in their overthrow and de- |
feat can appreciate the lesson of your magma |
~ the ranks Of our late enemies, we look in vain
for the spirit Of the Black Prince, beyond the pre-
| einets OF the White Honse, and when Andrew |
| Johnson 5 words OF magnanimitY are uttered we |
| stenn vain for the answering plaudits from the |
knights around him. When the present shall be-
come the past, and history shall Be busy with It's
| issues, high above the pandering deInagogues who
assal him, will tower the fame Of Anlrew johnson t
lllkesa pyramid whose head is asaailed by cease
less storms, he stands fixed ana tlndismayed the /
stern ana sohtary defender of constitutional free
aOm ~ Lhe South He who but yesterday was
eXecfated and denounced by lis throughout tbe +
length Of the land, has shown that he Remembered
sae land Of ms birth; and still cherished sympathy
Ior ms race though they had warred unOn him
HIS manly bearing in the hour of victory has I'll
Teady won our confidence and affection and if The
NORTH would follow mis- example, we would soon
snake hands with the cordial grasp Of brothers
ever the buried issues of the past
let no one regard this pageant as iltined or
anbeeonlng those who are the Survivors of a de- r
y v ~ cause. 0aYalLy ana honor are the gifts ola
va, ana the defeated knight who has done his
duty may wear as btighta spur and as prond 4 +;
crest as the titled prince with his victor wreath
5lle Knlehts Of the South survivors Of the old
nilgades who have learned the lessensof war NOT /
la fodnancei but in the field are not prepared to .
sing pteans to tile power that has defeated and SIN
treats ls VII The lifted axe to destroy you Your
lage enemies would Prospect Won less were van ~
DO So 2Yeu, like them, followed the eOnvietions n
q duty but your pledge Of allegiance has been |,
gwen and you will faithfully observe it: and none n
IN VIZ astrq Who would make traffic of honor
@lii doubt IT. You have shown your devotion TO y
principle BY the sacrifices you cheerfuly end0red ii
lllu y roy means obedience to the law and CT
suPIport OF ITS authority, then you who
an nag where martial law still prevails are
llofe ~ pc trusted than your caluInnators. Your
Rounfds the memory of your dead comrades and lJ.
move All the refusal to trust YOU all conspire To
etard the return Of fraternaf feelings. Ma inst Il
minded man can desire that yor shall divest your
elyes q your manhood and crnge like suppliant IL
layes around the footstool of power Rather lei au
V dignity defeat by that manly fortte ana ioffy ST
FEARING which may give evidence that We resnat ID
afseIYes ana that whatever the world may think q
or course II was at least dignied by the char n
eter q lts champions Fanaticism, and fanati. u
Ism only can demand that you should walk with =
le ablect look Of the territorial bondsman. When
l1s lepuDlcaH experiment. shall tremble under
le assaults OF legitimacy throughout the earth II ST
VI need the help Of all its citizens and LEI rs :,
ope that the future historian may not have occa III
on 70 deplore the hour in which the lessons If Of
agnanlInity were forgotten to indulge the 81
rnompfngs Of yindictiveness and hate. Sci SCI
me denial Of civil rights cannot destroy opr Au
snlty Or selt-respeet, nor change the estimate in
lich We viii be held by posterity In the grand s
ornament OF civilization which Is before ns 81
oagn our people have entered the lists like tie u
llght OF Rowena, with no deHice but the inverted
ping torn from its roots; and no motto but Inc Sm
efd ulslnherlted, manly and courteous hear
4 may at last win the confidence of n more nov.
gu enemy than Cedric the Saxon and secure tbe NJ
ssslgs o. lasting peace to fairer maidens than w
IN elas You will do this by so acting as "a refain
IN, sen respect, and enduring with djended AT
~ nv wlas yen cannot avert, until fanaticisn
~. n1se speht us force, or turned It's energias
Marao On ltseH For the return Of that ,easias
zen the power of free government will h p4 tG
hed oy reposing its trust once more in tb , =
VINO compose it, we will patiently bona H Pr Id
10 shan never come until we have hranaea d n@'
ives and stigmatzed the honored dead M as w
+ the cause for which they died, then ndsad ONO
I the future be dark and cheeress Thev ann.
r from the Potomac to the Rio Grande-tbe VII
victims of an honest faith
" love their memory, and will forever cherish =,
recollectin Of their sacrifices and death Thev =
aeeillly repose in the bosom Of the land tbeg,
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