The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-02-20
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Last week We published aa excellent article iron
the Southern Cultivator IN which the writer recon
mended that we minge populations with the North
ern States It will be seen from the following edito
rial from tile New Orleans Times, that the citizens
our commercial metropolis and the officers Of the Ma
Wy have taken steps in the right direction to inaugu
rate an era of good feeling If this example is gener
ally followed ut the South Congress will have to burr
up its work of reconstruction, or be cheated out o
all its political capital.
II spite of Radical demagogues and partisan pur
poses and, whether we are represented in Congress
or not there will be restoration Of the UAlon at TX
distant period. The laws of trade: and free socla
intercourse, will prove in the long rum too strong to-
scctonalsm
"Wben all that can be said or written regarding ou
sectional differences has been fully discussed the re
fleeing mind must settle down to the conclusion tina
one of the most powerful auxarie7 to be used in th
final adjustment is that which governs the social in
tercoursc of people representing the two sections. II
great city like New Orleans, where the Mississippi
river furnishes outlet for the products of the West
it natural that waters should harbor many of the
vessels of the national navy. Among those vessels
are the irOn-clad monitors which have given Amerca
such notoriety throughout the world. These vessez
Differed by gentlemen whose intimate association
with people has served teach them that we are
net of the class to which paror soldiers and radical
demagogues would ASS On Us. They have been the
recipients of those kindly social coutcses which gov
crn refined people everywhere, and they do net hest
tate to condemn the pToscriptyc measures which
would class Us as basbar!ans.
In view of these facts, the officers of the United
States feet below the city, have resolved themselves
into an association, ard adopted the name Of 1.-The
Iron Cads, with view to encourage, by social and
pleasGrabe intercourse better feeling between the
people of the two sections
Last evening, the Iron Cluds had grand ball
upon the monitor Oneoa; the first ola series Of those
pleasant entertainments which they intend to give te
those OF our citizens, who choose to encourage
sentative sentiment so much needed at this time.
The party was indeed select one and the pro-
grammc was fully carried out. The steamers Ella
Morse and Continental carried from the Canal street
wharf about ghty ladies, with their citizen escorts
who gave zcst and spirit to the audable enterprise
dear to the heart Of every one who desires harmony
and good feeling.
1.-The gay and festive party after being conveyed
some three miles below the city, safely placed on
board the monitor Kickopoo, the reception iron-clad
OF the occasion, where appropriate apartments and
proper attendants, under the command of that sillul
executive officer, Ensign Loan, promptly attended to
them Closely dashed to this steamer was the Oncota
another turrettcd monster, upon whose broad and
smooth deck the dancers to engage III the pleas
Ures Incident to such occasion. The night air was
shut out from this vast saloon by canopy composed
OF The flags of every nation, and the surroundings
composed of evcrgrcens and soons showed that the
iar hands OF gentle had manipulated the dress
ing There were orange branches bearing the golden
tFslt, AID the luscious tropical products to gladden. the
eye at every turn Beyond this, the monitor Tppecu
noe was dashed, and upon her ample decks, canopied
by various flags, was spread bountiful and elegant
supper. Everything seemed to have been provided
by experienced hands.
when We left, at midningt, the happy party, in
which were many Of the enemyn all seemed to be in
TIC height OF enjoyment, and Commander E. Stone,
OF the Iron Cads," said that not even a telegran
from the Radicals could prevent them from keeping it
up till morning"
In speaking of the ball given i'll New Orleans for
the benefit q the Southern Hospital Association, the
New Orleans correspondent of the New York Herald
has the following remarks pertinent to the subject
matter:
There we saw cxCon1eLeratc and Federal officers
IN friendly conversation beauties who once hated the
aks, permitting their conquerors to lead them in the
ancers and the quadrille; Longstrcet Beaurccard
he batte-scarred Hood, Dick Taylor Dabncy L. Mau,
y, and the slIVerhaileQ DUclncr graspng cx-Fed-
'ral officers from Nc" England and the West by the
land, and welcoming them cordially to the cyeuing's
estIVltleS. Could Thad Stevens, Ashley and other
abld politicians, have witnessed the good fellowship
hat existed between the conquered and the conquer
'rs, they would have had food for reflection It is
UGH friendly acts as those extended to Northern men
N Thursday night, at the Southern ball. that in very
cW years Will make us again people, united in |
0mmon aspirations, children Of one father-God
bove.'