New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-10

Fourth Of July celebration participated IN
hv two or three couapenies Of the State mill
tia and citizens of the Third District, ct the
Douglas grounds, near the United States
barracks. We have room only for the
81 epeech Of General MuAgett. b
Laies, Soldiers Of the Louisiana State Militia and
Fellow -citisens: ts1t<q1ss
We celebrate TO- day the ninety fourth an
niversary of the Declaration OF indePcnd
ence, the ninety fourth anniversary OF the
establishment ofthis great nation, the strong
stretches from the Canadas to the Gulf Of
Mexico, and from the Atlantic to the Paclne
may be heard from every garrison the same
patriotic air of TO
"Yanluee Doodle, keep her up,
Yankee Doodle Dandy,
Mind the music keep the step
And with the girls be handy
In the eloquent language OF Counsellor
Phillips, 1.-THE oppressed OF every cinne, tnt
MARTYR of eyery creed, the innocent victim
of despotic arrogance. or superstition
phrensy may here find refuge: his industry
encouraged, his piety respected, his ambi
tion animated, with no laws but those which
are the same to all, and no distinctions but
those which his merit may originate
Happy, proud America, the ightnings OF
Heaven have yielded to her philosophy; the
temptations Of earth have not yet been able
to seduce her patriotism. s, Ia,
Let us thank God on this glorious ami
yersary of our national birth, that we are at
last at peace. The steady tramp of armies
moving in serted column, to fierce
lery. the crash of musketry, and the
whiz of the death-dealing bullet have
all passed away. The grOans and prayers
of the dying have long since been echoed
across the battlements of Heaven. flushed
is the heavy thnd of the pick and the spade
in the hands of brave men,, delving the
rough sepulchre of our mayrtyred dead
after the day of carnage. and more silent
still here, but reyerbrating through Gods
illimitable space, are the many, many cries
of grief and despair rending the hearts and
seyering the hopes of fathers, mothers,
wives, sisters, brothers and dear. ones when
first they heard their cherished ones had
fallen. .l .s
All these have passed away with the days
and years that are gone, but not from the
memory of the living. Thanks be to God,
however great their sufferings and mar
tyrtlom. glorious and lasting victory has
been won for civil and political freedom. !.
This Government. thrice baptized in
blood now comes forth from the sanguina-
ry Jordan, arrayed in shining robes OF
",
fact. Now and hencefOrth those living
words in our Declsrati0n of Independence
are no longer knocking of human justice in
the land. To-day all men are and Of right
ought to be free; free vet governed by law,
for without the sway Of just and wholesome
laws, liberty and freedom, are hut names !:
a cloak under which il concealed the most
brutal crimes, and cover for the spasmOdic
reign of the most cruel tyranny.
Let us also rejoice that We stand to-day in
the mild light Of the epoch of reconstruction
Of Louisiana. without distinction of race or
color. may now be seen crOwding together
to the temple. and bringing their gifts to
the altar of their common country.
In standing before a battalion of colored
soldiers in this chivalrOus old State OF Lou
isiana, where it is no new thing for black
men to bear arms. where tifty-fi years ago
black men were led to victory and glory by
General Andrew jackson. and, shoulder to
seoulder with the hunters Of Kentucky,
struck the decisive blow which terminated
our second struggle with Great Britain, it is
useless for me to express my pride and con-
graduation: for here it was that Packen-
hahn was killed and his troops defeated, in
part by colOred troops, and here, let us
hope. the cOlOred troops of this battalion
will show themselves worthy descendants OF
such noble sires.
need not remind you that the first blood
she'd in our first revolution was the blood Of
. black man: l need not remind you Of
still more illustrious example in the West
Indies TOussaint L'Ouverture, of whom
that silver-tOngued orator, Wendell Phillips,
the Cicero of the North, so eloquently said
10 an audience whose prejudices were sup
posed to run counter to the current Of his
speech: ''YOu think me a fanatic tonight,
but you read history with your prejudices,
and not with your eyes. A hundred years
hence some future Tacitus will put PhOciOn
FOR the nOblest model of the Greek. and
Brutus for the Roman; put Hampden for
The glory of England, and Lafayette for
France: choose Washington as the bright
flower of the past generation,
and perhaps the martyred saint OF Harper's
Ferry John BROWN for this, and then,
nigh in the clear blue above them all, the
name of the statesman, soldier, patriot and
martyr TOussaint L'Ouyerture."
Breathes there man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native lande" "a
Every colOred man within the sound of
my voice is native and to the manner
Dorn. See. then, that YOU do not sell your
See that the charge be never
Justly brought against You, which has so
)ften been brought against the people OF
France and of Mexico, that yOu are not fit
for self-government. Rather may you all
prove worthy of the great and precious
boon, for which so many of the wisest and
Dest in all the ages have fought and bled-
he priceless boon of liberty-hitherto the
exclusive privilege of your fair skinned
masters, in this country, but now the blood
bought heritage Of all.
xasv~ NJ oil tyrvpnc nd in
syery contingency! Let not the siren voice
# passion seduce you into factious and fool
sh quarrels among yourselves and with
your neighbors, but
Come while the nation feels the lift
OF great impulse, shouting forward!
And know that freedoms not a gift
That tarries long in hands of towards"
1t has been forcibly asked, shall free
lom die in this country? Has the Almighty
out the great Mississippi Valley for
ts grave! Has He erected the Rocky
Mountains for it's tombstone, and appointed
Niagara to hymn its requiem! The war,
With its grand results, has answered that
and it is now for you, all of
YOU. aye as one man, to give it the final
md decisive reply, that shall echo to all
1Osterity, the voice of the colOred people at
he ballot box-No! ten thousand times
No.!
Take your stand ON your recently ac-
,uired constitutional rights, and if these
IRE invaded, or if the ruthless hand Of I'M
lallowed violence is laid upon those liber-
les. then nail your colors to the masthead,
md proclaim again that you are men
. Who know their rights, and knowing, dare main
tain"
Should the hour of peril come, which may
God in his providence avert, let the spirit Of
A. Hacks and LOuverture. or coming
nearer home, of Cailloux and Crowder, be
and emulated.
Louisiana, our own proud Louisiana, with
ler deep rich soil, her inexhaustible agri-
cultural resources, and with the enterprise
If the all-conquering and irrepressible Yam
zee industry, will develope into her proper