Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-09-28

',onlS's OF the Customhouse ~ =
Democratic party should g,; " !. 'le
ascendency,all the free school, IT, n me
be stopped at once. would
Nor is this feeling unreasoD.h,
The 4 party who is supposed 70 Enas
all about the Gatlin gun erov owl
and who led the party to ds ssu,
Last year has openly avax.a n.'
contemplated aaliaton With tba y.
mocratic party. rather than Iva ~
der Governor Warmoth, and ~.
lite wash tub organ of the DEM Mo-
cratic ilk has already piped its Ittl.
note e9a'"s "fres negro schools"
and against the tax for schools
This. In connection with tn. r..
mat last year nearly every electiv.
oHes was given to the Democr..'
la' convinced tia co'orsd elsmer.
that the customhouse Republican,
I've simply a but on the hook Of IA
time Shareholders; and tina, sol,
protection demands fealty to ,boss
"ho have already led us ont into
ihe Light so far; Or, to use the homo.
" but expressive phrase of N.
ield, Eve praise the bridge that
carries US safely OVER" and that 50
Jar as We understand the political
future, is the party now led BY
Henry Clay Warmoth.
The school system Of Lafourcbs
parish is not excelled by any coup.
Try parish in the State. Our Pres;.
dent of the Parish School Board
don. Oscar Crosier, is working in
full harmony with the Division Su.
perintendent, Hon. E. S. Stoddard
and has nearly a thousand children
attending the daily public schools.
Of this number, one hundred and
sixty are attending the Stoddard.
many of whom are fitting them.
selves for teaching, under the efic;.
ent training of the most able prin.
cipal we have ever had in the
parish.
The Hon. Oscar Crosier, and his
able coadjutor, Rev. William Muir
rell. also on the Thibodaux School
Board, do not forget their race nor
the duties they owe to them; and
they lose no opportunity of impress
sing the rising generation with the
necessity for education, and self-im-
provement.
1t seems as if something might
be done to show large majority
OF our race. the necessity of owning
houses, and especially their own
small farm. In the present system
OF large plantations, the laborer gets
800 per month and ration of meat
and meal. OF course a portion of
these wages must 60 for food and
clothes, so that when the end Of
the year comes round they hsvsnot
much moro than they had when
they began. It seems as il the
great trouble with them, land
have talked with many Of the mos.
Intelligent of the laborers Of the
parish about this subject is tho
ignorance Of where to buy, aud how
to buy land for their homes.
For example, there are at lesst
\ hundred or moro colored men
in this town (Thibo laux,) who
nave bought and pail for their lots;
built neat and substantial dwelling
places on them. while their work"
in perhaps six, or seven miles dis
tant from their homes.
Their lots cost from $75 to $50
md houses and fences from one
hundred to q thousand dollars.
Now if they conld have purchased
-ay twenty arpents Of land to cnlti-
vate with this same money, they
would have q certain source Of
their entire lives.
II the columns Of the LOUISIANA
we're to take up the matter, it would
be certain to succeed. and our race
would have conf lsncs 10 buy
farm and psy for it gradually, il
they were assured that the propr-
,tors of the LouIslASIAN had the
management of the purchase and
heir money was in their hands Inc
,tead OF some Of the irresponsible',
Who occasionally gull them out Of
heir labor and their money.
Perhaps I have made my letter
M lOnO Init 7 fas1 warmly on this