Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-01-14
/, W. signs the name OF
IrEAHAM LINCOLN

"a Who will go back OF that act
- ~, your birth: Will it be any Am
.;,izens But he knows that thai
a. ,.l PROCLAMATION of freedom was
-, declaration that you never had
. : that at your birth God made
g. It Was a restoration and not Q
4 your original right. To-day
-.I,,ad people stand fully before the
-. citizens, with no right of citizen.
,,,risl them. The right of property
rb.,-y-the privilege of aspiring to
.a,s n the gift of the people,
,,.o,r!E POLITICAL EQUALITY,
ae-. But with the vast accession
- -1....r is also a vast increase OF
~. and their responsibilities.
W. =. =. duty of the colored man now is
ne and cultivate himself, and to
IN j-y,lope and cultivate by every
az. il his power the men Of his race,
,tss,osver they are found.
r. know as well as l that those who
:. ,rl are opposed to your present
..,-,n deny that you are intellectually
N, of nerforming its duties. 1t is
:. 10 point the doubters to such men
,-,.ly African descent as have achieved
-.sHce.
rr-7cite to them Toussaint Overture,
!, ysntured to compare himself with
g,J.oD. and who with his rude forces
1ira long time the disciplined armies
4,ts French at bay, You are told that he
. Al exception, as If III nature there
old b any such thing as
An EXCEPTION
= case ike this, as if the eminence
rich one man of race can reach were
II conclusive proof that nature had but
-a,,ra,ed in him the possibility of the
rogess q bis whole race.
There aye many colored men with a
more O, rs alnixture of white blood,
! who have attained to unquestioned excel
kncs il h.TtS and literature.
But those who deny an intellectual
eIGlhg to the colored race, assert that
t.se have owed their superiority entirely
70 his layen of white blood.
YEll remember Dickens admirable por-
n; Of the hypocrite Pecksnif-Pecksnifl
rs or called himself an architect, and
sFls in the habit, when he saw a beau.
thlhOuse designed by a brother architect,
Quitting in some little window and ther
Ling the whole plan his own.
lose who attribute the whole
INTELLECTUAL SUPERIORITY
nan like Alexander Dumas to tn,
" blood that is in him, have adopted
sans to me, the Pecksniffian plan
Echim because the whites have put {
1Ft into Dumas that the whole plar
s.zius Of the man are the creation o.
,lites.
Fould recommend 10 all such the
q which the devoted son of Dumas,
the heir OF his talent and fame, pro.
lnced on the death of his father.
ie has the manliness to acknowledge t.
II an extent the great romancer was in
lied for his genius to his African blood
~ he derived from that source tina
I'm and gorgeous imagination; that en-
-24sm which enables him to carry ava,
lladers at his will; that oriental tropica
KITTY which has made of him
THE GREAT STORY TELLER
usage. But it is for you to put down
= doubts by showing what you are.
lH2;lation puts you upon your mettle.
iHoTe it to our common country tc
Sr ourselves worthy to be its citizens
-A'i its officers. You owe it to the
f-l Reiormers, whose lives will have
n Useless if you fail
lou owe it to your children and latest
NsH'y, whose place IN the world de-
as On the Efforts which you are now to
~ owe ii to humanity-for wherever
'ae world there is
An OPPRESSED RACE
sal9 to e1tricate itself from bondage,
- -llS TO employ the blessed light OF
, ..-i your example will be pointed
- - VII he most potent for good or for
~ .t"e II to the memory of Abraham
- your martyr.
IA. : y1aracter of your Patron Saint,
pSii Evangelist will be found the best
~ the world can afford.
v,I /, n y'1'-d disciple, beloved, endowed
s,'-' - .siile and amiable qualities, yet
,-' nv. %.l fearless, unresting in his de-
t,, ,,- Y to do good to his race. Though
n.y.. threatened him, he alone of all the
-, 80 Nood at the Cross to catch the
p 49, OF his dying Lord. Though
,,f ~ o. a despised race, he spent his
H., TRAVEL AND Toll,
l,'r't might raise and benefit his race.
.gm - uioulation and sorrow he lost
M ~ u title of his faith and con-
ia w NJ hundred years ago and on the
S.aI., ,yult OF Calvary there were two
4. en- o. despised and vilified sect.
HI, Vas on the Cross-the other was
aai,.5 ICY No one in the crowd sym-
nv a vi. .i the agony of the one or the
d ,,; iIsoierday, in nearly every part of
tah1--55i, world, men, women and chill
te,.l- ', NJ !he birth ofthe one as the great
hi : p salch God has conferred on the
Ac,, ~ "a uIe other, our Patron Saint.
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