The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-22
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Some people and things in this world are griev-
ously mistreated. "Lo,r for instance. who.
should like to know, ever authorized anybody to
call Lo en- indian and by what right do mankind
at large assert that he was poor? And Verbun,
too. who Is eternslly declared to have sat, and
Niha whom everybody is constantly accusing Of
having ftp All these are the victims of ground
less, and must think, malicious assertions, the
general belief in which can only be ascrbed to
The deprayity of human nature. ever ready to
think evil Of others. These, however, have each
found defender. But there exists an individual
in behalf Of whom no writer has as yet taken up
the cudgel, and one. too, who has been oftener
and more grossly aggrieved than any men
toned above. 1 refer, Of course, to Otiuns-
be who is SO often told to " cum Dig"
What rightminded man, l ask, has not
fumed with sympathetic Indignation on hear
Jig this order. insulting in its stern brevIty.
reading, as it does, not Otiu1n. please cum dig,v
or, /" Otiunl, If it's not incoEvenient should be
happy il you would cum Dig" but short. sharp.
''Otsna cum Dig" Yon can almost imagine
you hear d-n you after g OtiuDa,r or that the
orderer means, " Oti,sm. II you don't cum dig.
yeu'll catch hail Columbia" But if the order
outrages you, how must your bosom glow with
admiration Of the angelic sweetness Of temper
with which il Is received. Think Here Is Otist8a,
descended from the old Latin race-a nobemaD
peTbaps, who knows ?-yenerable, on account OF
his great age, which is now nearly 1000 years
claiming consideration from the fact of being a
foreigner and therefore, ignorant OF our language
ard customs, lacoDicaly insulted by being told TO
" cum Dig" Heayensl what a di(Dgredation
And yet no word Of complaint, Of anger, escapes
him. Who ever heard Otiu8s raise a row with
anybody? Who ever knew him to publish a card
referring to bis past record and general distaste
for rural life as plea for not ing and dig
ing, or stating that no one was authorized to re-
quest him 70 " cum dig ?" Ia this respect he
sets an example. alas too.litile followed in these
degenerate days.
Another thing: There is a dark mystery hang
ing about Ottsrm which does not invest others of
his kind Nobody kn0lUs tohdt action he eoer
took on He order. Has he always in silence
obeyed the agricultural mandate, or has he, with
the tscit scorn of q virtu0us mind, simply put il
aside Volumes might be written on each side OF
this eeeply interesting subject By men learned In
the antique lore pertaining to II, and probably
satisfactory conclusion could be arrived at; but In
default OF such men, scarce, sheu nowadays,
OttteDe's conduct under the trying circumstances
in which fate has so often placed him, must ever
remain sn impenetrable secret, whose sphynx
like face we can see but dmly peering at "a through
the mists Of twenty centuries. But whichever
course he pursued, certain it Is he made no sign.
Whatever he Did ne did i without any fuss-ad
mirahle, inimrbe Otima!
These few has,y remarks have been called
forth by the Indignation with which have long
witnessed the repeated insults offered TO the sab.
jecr of this article and the calm equanimity with
which he has borne them. / cannot better close
them than with a moral, the use Of which, nv
friends, will make you bless him whose life gave It
biIth.
Mordl-Wben you sometimes find yourself in
Otlunas fix, when adversely thrusts the spade into
your unwilling hands and calls you from scenes of
pleasure TO y cum Dig" learn from Otiuns the
grand lesson OF silence grin aud bear it.v