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

rying one Of you. So you are to
become the outcasts Of good society.
Solomon, in describing this class Of
women says; cher feet go down to
death, her steps. take hold on hell !"
Second. Let our young men
learn trades, become profcients in
the mechanic arts, learn how to be-
come producers as well as consum-
ers and not always content to stand
by and look on at the progress
made by men Of other races in lit
erature, the mechanic arts, and
skilled labor. Learn to do some
thing, even if it is nothing more
than to know how to "split rails
we'll" By learning industrious ha-
bits, seek to improve all of your idle
moments; stimulate yourselves into
active life by comparing yourselves
to others who work more than your
self; who are worth more than you
are, and who know more than you
know.
Why, some of the greatest men
who ever lived, have been men
whose chances for acquiring an ed
ucation have been the most limited.
Elihu Burrit, the great National
Linguist, mastered some fifty differ
ent lasguages while working at his
forge.
Fred. Douglas, the greatest liv-
ing national orator, white or black
so pronounced by Henry Clay
learned his letters after he was
twenty years of age, and while he
was slave.
ANDREW JOHNSON,
You know, who said once thas he
would be our Moses" and who is
sometimes known as the"Veto Pres
ident," learned his letters after he
had married. The time was when
the means for our education and
consequent elevation was veay imi-
ted; when but few schools open to
us. But few OF the best colleges of
the country are closed against us.
Primary and training schools are
springing up all over the land,
ready and willing to receive us.
And if We fail to improve those
golden opportunities the fault is
with us. The time has come when
we can no longer wholly lay the
charge of our ignorance, poverty
and immortality to the white race.
Oar friends in this and other coun-
tries are looking on in Ereathless
anxiety to see whether we will re
deem ourselves from the many
charges of our enemies-that the
negro can't learn, that he is incapa-
BILE of improvement, that his normal
condition is that OF a slave, and to
undertake his Improvement would
be money and time spent in vain
, Ny friends are you willing to make
this Wanting true? ESQ, close your
eyes against all these advantages
opening up before you. Let your
children run wild in the streets and
in the woods; let them drink deep
from the flowing streams OF vice
immortality and crime; let them
, crowd our prisons to their utmost
capacity and furnish victims for thu
, gallows. The war for the Union
which resulted in our freedom and
, enfranchisement vii! have been lost
| upon US. But instead of al o.
! this
I LET oSE GRAND EFFORT BE MADE
!. on the part of all to build mp Oul
!. society and throw around it wal
! as impregnable. rs granite and as
| durable as the pyramids, TO protec'
!. the virtue Of The rising generation
!. and save it from utter ruin.
/. Why, one respectable coioret
q mechanic among us in communit,
= Ike this reflects more credit upo!
! our people than regiment of idle
dissOlute men without any trades
o Make a speciality of something
The German, who seems to know
better than the American the val,l
Of the mechanical arts and of agri
culture, no sooner reaches o,
shores than he places his little so
- in the factory to learn trade, o
n upon the farm, and the consequence
= is that they as class are fast be
coming the artizans of the countr
and also the capitalists. TIL
South needs your labor, and sh
|, needs skilled labor, and in order
. get this she must establish an
maintain a system of good school,
There need be no fear as to this
q BUGBEAR Or SOCIAL EQUALITY.
For myself, l am no very grea
= stickler for social equality, as dis
y cussed by those who seem to kno'
so little about. just what it means
q But l am ever opposed to it a
= q practiced by those who seek to d,
+ grade my people, Those shriekel
y who are 1oudest in their erie
y y against social equality, are doin
: all they can outside Of the constitr
: ton to establish it. If it is ma,
y ter Of legislation let us bring
within the pale of the constitutio
= :. and make 2 .nst question of it, an
;. see who possess the necessary quail
J 6cat;ons to he made this man r