Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-07-16

'i'S .. "0'O"l' 'ieu, IL " orr iN.l;~sS
pensab!e duw to employ al Us
means and e. draw upon ali %
resources within our reach ~ a.
velop us into latiopal lie. Ma,
are some OF ths means mostly rsl;.,
upon by OTHER nations in crdsssaa
attain this higher lie? Some sa ~
"wealth is power" and get weol'i
So it is power; but wealth alone !.
injurious to nation. Spain nlnn
dered the Montezumas for gold. -.
got it, and staggering undsr i,
weight, to-day she is the mos, ~
significant of all the powers -
Europe.
WEALTH WITHOUT CULTIVATED Rs,,v
to direct it, is a Nations means g..
destruction. This has been mos.
wofully exempliied in the Sontb
Twelve hundred millions of doll.
in slave property, controlled Nv.
three or four hundred thousani
property holders that they minIs
obtain power, plunged the nation
into a five years war at cost Of
over a million OF lives and almost
on the part Of the Government, foIr
billions of dollars. "a dear deal T.,
pO,rer." Now, my friends, withop,
going into the business or unjust.
ness of the late war, without fa.,en.
ing it upon this section of the coup.
try or upon that, this party or thu.
party. it is enough for us to know
that the results OF the war have
changed our condition, and PLACED
upon us new and increasing respon.
sibihties; responsibilities that must
be met, and III order to meet them
the
DUTY OF THE HOUR Is TO EDUCATE.
Freedom is something more than
to be able to go here and there; To
work when we please and let it alone
when we please; to lie down when
we want to, and get up Just whenwe
feel like it. 1t is to fight the bat.
tie of life, which is real and earn.
est. 1t is to use all the God-siven
means We possess, to develop mus.
Gle and brain, and to ditfnse new
life into four millions of our
race whose degradation is the re.
suit OF two hundred and fifty years
of the most abject servitude that
could crop ont of the nineteenth
century. 1t is to raise this desa-
led mass of humanity into high.
er moral life: to foster this new
born American-Aflican babe in the
sunlight OF our civilization, and 10
make of it a mighty giant in this
our Western world.
These are some o. the many re-
sponsibihties which freedom brings
with it and whic we must meet
| Not to meet them is to lapse back
into degradation more unrelenting
far than the one from which We
have Just emerged. This must not
and cannot be said Of us if each will
but do bis duty. In the light
of the past, amid all the many
disadvantages with which We hays
had to contend, we have advanced
more rapidly and hive accomplish.
ed more than any other raca sini-
larry stu ted known TO histor
Nv friends, let me just sly here
while in this strain, fer our eN.
co;uageme,it, that cur race sccm-
plished what 10 other race attempt
ed whilo in a state of si!vory. VIZ;
! W.ien the thunder storm oi TIE
french Revolution bursted over the
IsIASD on ST. DoMrsdo.
in 1859, they drove Nlpoleo IS bet
troops from the Isllnd, beat bars
the Enghli.;ir, pr5 the Spanish u",
der their feet, tore the letters that
bound them from their limbs alli
established q "Republic' whici
stands to-day as a monument OF one
of the most remarkable meh Of ta'
last century, Toussoint LonrT~t
To educate then, as l said, Is tic
duty of the hoar. Now by eIaeG'
! ton, 1 not only mean that when
is obtained by the study OF books
but that which comes also from
, pract.c.A life; a knowieiSe Of !As
. mechanic arts, of agriculture and u
the domestic duties Of the nou'e'
hold.
: OUR YOUNG MEN MUST LEARN TRAPS
and not always be content III m.e'
D ness; in filing those avoca'ioas ~
5 life that develop no strength ="
, mind or stability of character %
, the one hand, and that lead to u,a
= soiute and pernicious habits Oh 'u'
4 other, We must lean to woiA W
r scientific principles; learn to ha aud
l how to plant, how to cultivate aDi
' how to reap. 1t is a fact, rePolH y
{ that for the want vi skilled labor ~ !,
e the State of Louisiana, two ili'i,'%
0 all the sugar raised in that oc@. a.
s thrown away in consequence o. ~
t imperfect method of extracting s ~
charine matterfrom the cane. Au'
/ also, as much rice wasted as IS lNs
n ed in that State; only two IN scn.. !.
are found cleaning it. Now VIA: =, .
E true of the culture ofsu3ar ana ~. ,n
S is also true of the culture OF COW
] and other products. Tie s''hie -