New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-05-31

| all nations. whose representative. helped Z
earn the triumph. In the chandler OF n
suIges OF two oceans. we enou. welcome 4
:he world. By III. silen: Par,ismen:
man and African hare assembled 4
ete:na! session, we declare a :eoree
all may be partners. TIE Russ:a1
has entered or family on :Ie north. al
I WIZ speedily enter tine Mexican on :ht
south and tie Caban a. Che eas': 20 eacE
and all We pledge .he sterling basis OF a
home. an honorable citizenship, anu pe1'
,ranent and pateIna' government.
II IS especially opposite Cha: American
womeE should visi: these grsves. and ot1e!
! vecna1 blooms. in the words OF Ophelia.
! there's sue tor -you-:f..'s 70. senen'
| h,ance.' When J reiiea: how intimately
! they have been associated with .he wars OF
! :he republic: how Mrs. Steele. in the tss.
war. c!andestinelv pressed upon General
| Greene :wc bags of specie. the hard earnings
| of 1nany gears. with che words. 'You reea
| cLem-l can 90 without how Mrs. Schuyler
| fred her Variable fields Of whea: or che
approach Of :he British; how IN oar late
| struggle women diligently sorgh: tie col.
| die1 IN -he hospita! with tender heed Tor MS
! wants, ! rejoice 10 see them move down
:;ies iorg silent wards and assert a teauti.
| ful and Jealous motherhood IN their minis.
:rations. No groans longer aitiict the air,
I the last Guiver Of pain is sti.led here. nay.
j: would seem that a deeper calm must
| swee.en the sleep Of the dead when these
| fcster.mothers. by the figh: OF a patriotic
! sympathy. kreel by these green eove:lids
1 and in a Eower. muteiy hestow blessing
| tina. today struggles 20 the lip OF thousands
! o1 distant mothers and wives. who
| Tor eigh: long years have Malyelled :hs:
! their loved ones do not return. Women OF
! Louisiana. here is a sacred charge: Who
these men were. matters G:t!e-wha. they
| Gid. matters much. A historian remarks
| trat the mos: wretcheG Goggeyel becomes
sublime When j: is the solemn war-chant OF
| mar.i hing regiments. and with equal force
| j: may be said that the humblest man.
| whatever his race, that in :he national uni.
form dared ior the republic all :ha: me.
| naced her is a statesman a: whose grave we
| should bend Ieyere1t brows. IN the Oid
tournaments. as the knights awaited the
signal for combat, .here sometimes sprang
| into tie lists an unknown knight. before
whose lance many a proud plume :railed IN
the dust; and wheE see these white shields
| lifted here in the sunlight. ranged in
rigid ranks and inscribed ''Enkncwu' over
| tie warriors at res: after their fearful
| ious:s with treason. know that they have
| been Cur Ges: benefactors. and tina: ;or Us
| 70 supplement: their task IL behalf OF free
COIL ~ SEt SOlt StlCAUOIi SAC,b SIGiU a.
our hands. Here, then. nen OF Louisiana,
with their form. beneath your feet and
theic epi:..s a. ycur elbows. !; :s for you 20
engage bv solemn VOW 3nOre scrupuIO.siy
to donor and asser: :he citizenship they re.
assured yCu. lie. Us never forget thai our
hest na;iuna! fortunes are noe IDLE lounge
but hard a1npstOole whereon we awal:
new summons to march. The best secu.
,itv ;s ont insecurity; dangers do not
On. GA 1U Al on
their caps and en:rea: ingress. they steal
and sap and mine in The rear. While We con-
tdently exul: that we held them at bay IN
FROM. ] am not insensible :" tie thousand
blessings We VaUnt as people. but our
gratitude. therefore. mus: no: 6e eimplv
inert at the heart: It tmust Gar: jealous zeals
and yigors into the brain and hand. When
a wrong erecrs its head les Us not bow ours:
ia the words of the first colonial petition
to .he British crown. Feeling as men and
thinking as subjects in the manner we do,
silence would be disloyelty." To torbeac re.
nonstrance ae the righ: hour is q substantial
treason: j: is 20 slumbeT in the sentry-bes Of
citizenship. We should. in the language Of
Burke, '.tee! that in every public thanks.
giving we should express our gratitude oy
our v!r.ues and no: merely with our
mouths BY our virtues le. Us this day
covenan: with The dead.
lEere are ICO 1HdHS NHO AoW uRuI tIc
battles Of the Iuion, not as they were
Tough. IN lie :orr years war. There is less
OF The Gsinteres es:eGGess that signailZed the
soldier, Of the candor that sought che open
field. Patriotism is too often "a profession,
not an energetic principle beating in the
heart and active in the ite.' as is vouched
OF Josiah Qnincy's time hv his son. We
are ready 70 sacrifice on the altaS scarcely
more than did Diogenes-a iouse. We rely
e,,oo ,p
and artifee.
The American people have yet 20 stifie ,n-
s:.iiOus treasons that are almost inseEsiblv
spiking their best aggressive virtues. That
American manhood gloriouslv asserted i.
self ID its patriotic traits during tie recent
war, the wOrs. cynic dare not deny. IT was
a splendid zeal-a determined rescue OF ta.
t!onai titles. The condition neediu! to-day
is not the battle-van's muscle, but The same
fervor that pricked and exhilarated that
muscle. j. is ''eterna. vigilance. no: ID.
difference. that lis the price Of liberty,
and he who is eve. on the alert. vino dares
deuounce error. who winnows :ne grain
of the statesman from the chat1 OF
the demagOgue. who accepts expedlents
ONLY rs means 20 Justice. never as apologies
&c. adjsvrrirg *. who is not ccnten: to be
al idle pensiOnec On :he result OF other
mems efforts. but IS an affirmative par: OF
his political community. Such one IS
man, rifle. bulle.-nay. a whole arsenal
in himself. and contributes substantial ce.
tense TO his country. Too many OF rs love
the Union by dogma rather than by convie.
;ion. and viii dare nothing tor her-our
patriotism :s toImality. not an impulse.
Such men are :he first to De faunted by
hazard. the last 70 dispute the hazard. Be.
fore we toll alarms Of danger. we had
better cast our bells into canon 10 for.
l., N S,ln1
back for heifry songs when we shall
have earned our pean. We are apt to
condemn public villainy. II j: be IN some
measure successful. 20 wonder at its al.
dacity rather than denounce its wrong: 20
make romantic Conrads of our cOrsairs. 20
sanction and fee our Turplns because they
accost us SO cleverly on the highway. A
large element in our State. pretending to
refinement and severe morality. having ac.
cepted this responsibility few months
ago, they have no reason to marvel at the
contempt with which they are regarded by
the people of the repnbiic. The iIsrru.
ment against whom they mad long de.
claimed as being wicked, they hired be-
cause of his wicked sptitudes and thus
morally disatmed themselves. Their re.
cruit has proved by his discredit their viz
tual anita gOnist just as British guns. though
dangerous at one end, sometimes proved
excellent colonial clubs at the other.
Il is to be iamented that an element in
our State persists in the sorry deIusion
tnat because Mcclellan and Halleck sever.
ally halted the march of theiy armies be.
fore mock cannon surmounting rebel ram.
parts. the federal government can coT be
held at bay by political Quakes guns: tina:
mobs may interpre. law: that intolerance
and spleen are genuine social police pow.
ers. Dervishes have pretended before now
70 project their souls into dead animals. out
the dead rebellion can never. never be re-
awakened to vitality. Sir. in The late war