The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-01-14
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
HrW ORLrANs, SUNDAY. JANUARY A. 1874.



proaise anends and promPtnees for the
future Though the many beautiful, spirited
and able articles from the eagle pen lfor no
ordinary quill can soar ike his) Of Rev:
Father Ryan, the loved Laureate Bard OF
our Sunny South, have left no room nor
1epinipss for epistolary matter. Dear Fa-
Their Ryan! how We all love you and long
to see you! i know not q Southern heart,
prejuliced or bigoted Protestant or inhdel,
that does not beat 10 grateful. feeling
hand that would not grasp and fold, In
warmest welcome, the hand of him who has
sung SO sadly, so sweetiy and so well, the
.dirge of our loved, lost cause. There are
hardy farmers. gray.haired, tottering ia
theirs, mourning mothers, weeping widows
and sorrewing sisters ia almostev home
in our land, who would travel over many,
many miles, and como in many ways, to
shake the hand of him who penned the
Conquered Banner. The Sword Of
you GOT visit us, Father Ryana May we
never hope to see you herei You come to
Us in yonr musical, many -metred "Carol,"
telling us you are "old," and your locks
are gray" your "voice is sad," and your.
sings 50 wildly we'll, Win i've to liven With With
his music many = sunlit morning yet. Age
has laid NO whitening grasp upon . heart
50 fresh, 30 full of feeling. Bid not, then,
The young to !" chant the Christmas lay"
No %a ssa ~ s.: 5:s 81 gray,
Lie: sps,se ~ IS 81 81. n = q. ssrai
1a Ana sSs pathway hung
T5 hen s s.IE e e ;s!n ssr srisve thou tass
rhs sssh : sS Sc 81 Sd man. b... and last
- =: IS: s +. ss:s taught
s or ;;1s q sung, I'D
To gloom and sadness we'd
r5s, ~, IA
E:sm Cur 70 os ss ai anpe i'' 20 40 CHORUS
Its solemn strain sweet peace sffords.
as Gs sss g: :s.s sIs ssss ss"s along
: Tina. ", %.:s sa, 3 y aay' long gone
Like echoes from some far of bells
From heaEs s % sss sG shss music .ws
- Oh sing you erst havo sung
But why do sing no bard am 1! If
Nature gave to me the heart, life and strife
chords; it is pnstrnDg, and fit, now, but
for echoes; wherefore, Father Ryan, if l
have uttered sembiance of song, tits but
the echoes of your 0wn-pardon my mimic
pen, and henceforthI will restrain it but
who that has
Could else than catch the kindred strainsa
but, there goes my wandering pen again,
off into that unknown realm where only
the gifted and the good can go; shall be
= compelled to lay this pen aside, and take
.evit.n
have the pleasure of telling you now,
Messrs Editors, what might and should
have told you some time ago, namely, that
ali of your subscribers here, several of
whom are Protestants, have expressed
themselves to me as more than pleased
with the MORNING STAR AND CATHOLIC
MESSENGER; they, like myself, consider it
the best family paper and most ably
edited Catholic paper in America; l
it-would exchange 1t for none; one of
your subscribers here, non Catholic, and
a weIi-read and reading man, told me he
would not give it for all his other papers
Sunday evenings dessert nay more, I
enjoy 1t as the Frenchman does his pousse
cafe and cigar, OF the Italian his cigarette
and SKINNER siesta, except that it's pleasures
and its stimulation are to the mind and
soul, and not the body.
And that enchanting writer, Mrs. Elder,
We are al! much pleased with; Ellen
Fitzgerald" is we'll written, entertaining
and beautiful, worthy of any circle or in
teilect. Her scenes and characters are
overwrought. like the ample, yet high
toned, noble bearing of her leading per-
sons domestic love and peace and har-
mony, more read about than realized, she
pictures we'll. Mrs. Elder with her per-
mission) 10 an eloquent, beautiful and
fluent writer, and one~of-the very few
read with any degree Of pleasure or salts.
faction. Her writings are totally void Of
that vanity, or egotistical effort at display,
80 palpable and Characteristic, in American
female writer's generally-an effeminate
weakness, which often leads them to sacri-
fice plot, sense and success to q love of dis
PLAYA vain desire to be thought, not to
become, deeply read and learned. We all
like Mrs. Elder. May she live to write us
many tale, to while our lonesome hours
away.
Shreveport is still looking up and build
ing up; we are having lovely weather, and
a fine business season. Since my last to
you, our great Railroad Convention came,
convened, resolved, reported, and passed
of which forward you herewith.
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