Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-01-14

Lodges, separated from the ~, ~
distinction which no longer has any,
ing-the distinction of color. \. =
one of you in his indisidual cb'' W. :
an independent man, asserting Az :
tanning his individual rights and Ivy =. .
be recognized as our equal and n.
My theme tonight is the j1s,.
responsibilities which TO-DAY Ar. We
ON the colored men, by thei, b;.,.
present condition.
The subject is sminently NJ.
for Masonry treats of all the rob-
and responsibilities of men. W.
grow out of their relation to a.
their fellow-men, those of kiuj,.I
their country or their God. \
THs ADMISSION TO Mlsos,r
Is but the solemn recognition ,b,.
has always been a Mason in hi. "a
his heart Masonry accepts o. :
who are already Masons. La.
have revealed that, to Use Il. ~
your patron saint, Saint John ~
gelist, 1.-The light
sHINErH IN DARKyy.
And the darkness compreheul4,,
To-day those men who were WI.
their homes crowded into the Ian, n
NAL hold of the pirate ship, vDs.,,']
the horrors of the Middle Pa,a,. d
forced to groan under the lash d Il
taskmasters, stand forth in bold ,-ss j
the pioneers of a race on its road +, II
ization. When
THH Sun SHINES
All Winter and the heavens i, Ella,
the Summer the sAli, =.
parched and sterile, the crops viths !.
the valleys and the cattle die on ,ba r1I
sides.
As In Nature so with men. The storu
that destroys is the iorerunner of the ola.
nous Summer. Andso, through suffering
ignorance and oppression, slavery v,
established in our United States II,
strange anomaly Was presented to 4,
world Of servitude and freedom bsri,,
together to form a republic. Rs sa,ci
Liberty shed its light over the SINE d
the oppressed. And both in the Nail
md in the South there were large-hearS
'ar-seeing
PATRIOTIC MEN,
Who, bitterly regretting the ezis,1x
slavery, still saw that it had been zts
20 twire round every nook, and stOna |.
,oin of the social fabric-as the iyytu
lround some of the old English ca
ill its removal Will cause the pverth,5
he walls upon which it has been sussl
o grow. They depended on the oldtsl
tronghold of slavery with knishtly w
md undaunted hearts. And if the flt
Troy could have depended by iniiviial
ourage and skill, their right arms voll
ave been irresistible.
As you, my fellow-citizens, read the u
Dry of your country pause and dwell urd
ne patriotism and earnestness Of Wa
Ter and a Clay. Their lives were one 1
es of compromises, whose object va
, avert var. Their one great iradw|
nat they should live to see the hlni 90
merican uplifted against against
rother. They feresaw, and the eve,
roves that they foresaw rightly, the.''
lentous consequences Of the strnggE 7
hich they passed their lives. The 'r
arvative is
AS NECESSARY As THE REFoRNEE-
'ebster and Clay were as indispenslb.s
lie National progress as Seward Or sl-
er, or the still more aggrieved WeniS
hillips. But it is the fate of the reforz'
} achieve Immortality. because he plar'
imself on the abstract right and rests u
II the world comes up to his standAl
ecause he represents an eternal III
hich never loses its freshness or Is
rest. while the humber but equally !
,ssary work Of the conservative "
eks to avoid
IMPENDING DANGER