New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-11-29
heauep horn inatinct. nave wrought patient

heaven born instinct, nave wrought patient
struggle and endurance, which have re.
corded experience on the lasting tablets OF
the general mind-lasting because not come
set to an expected and authentic END. Inc
hope of that end, that experience haseei ved
only to Ahame 20 an ever mere ana more
unG uenchabIe srdor-a hope which has
never vet. and never will have made those
who were exercised thereby.
So We are not ashamed to-day to call upon
our souls. and all that is within US. 20 bless
Gods hol Y name. Though We stand not.
perhaps. in private wealth and plenteous-
ness: though there is poverty and straltness,
straiter than before, all about Ns: though
the straw were with to make brick Tor IN:
building OF q revived commonw wealth. mas
been consumed ia war or wantOnness. anu
the people suffer sad privatiOns IN enforced
d!eness: though al! these thing', ana many
more are against us. il is possible they tnat
be with us after all, those moral IotceS ac
cumulated and accommodating behina the uain
of stSgnation; forces which nave their spInss
far in tine hills Of other States and nations
since men began 70 think, and veIn"wing
all our neighbOrs' lands, setting Oack upon
Europe. that these ''are more than they
that he against U.s." And even the triDula
tions ara 10 be glofied in, if we can see that
they have any wise contributed to what we
most Je.ire after all. Let us see if they
baye-no. only these, but those which
stretch back over many years-and discern
il We can the evidence that GOD mas never
left MS to vegetate. however Iuxuriantly.
like those hanging gardens of Babylon,
without connection with the subsoil OF a
fallow humanity. which he had Determined
~ SOW with the seed of His kingdom. That
He has not yet apparently decreed that on
This soil dolctui creatures shall dwell, tne
owl. the coymorant and the bittern, and
human satyrs dance, wild beasts 'cry IN
their deeolate houses and pleasant pal
aces" nor deereed that QUE days shalI not
be prolonged
We have had our period of swift and
generous natural growth. Like that choice
and sunny ettiorescence OF SHINING ana un'
withered culture under the skies OF Greece
and Jtaly. we had our early political sages.
orr classic orators and truly noble states
men. grandly moulded, that sprung into
being finished and complete. hero every
one. A Socrates, in franklin; Mil:lades. IN
Washin ton: ThemstOcles, in Jefferson: AT
ist,des the J u.s., in Jackson; Webster, Cal
houp and Clay, q triumvrate unexcelied by
any three in Rome. We had rapid growth
of generous wealth. The Southern States
are dotted thick with stately and roomy
residences of planter, whose riches were tns
succulent produc: OF virgin soil married
TO barbaric labor. The Mississippi, as IT
lies heavy on the map. like flexible gold
chain flung crooked down, is strung thlckly
through it's windings with cleaning homes
embedded in the green, where Tree hearteo
hospitality" downright domestic ENJOY,
ment. youth, beauty, social brllllancy and
pleasure lived off the first years OF the Ke
public at running pace. with bound
ing Observation-Disclosures angry eye over
a PROSTATE slave or Northern newspaper
And then too in the North,
Somewhat back from the village street
Stands the old fashioned country seat.
Across its antique portlco'
blest memories
'ther shadows throw"
that recall a seemingly nobler, more
natural unfolding of character and fuller
vitality, q less selfconsciOus, less nervous
social and political economy than the pres
emit. Up to the time that the two branches
of the family tree threatened by their very
weight to fall apart and split the trunk
our growth was of that comfortable, un
conscious kind which long -limbed, sleeping
bows have o'nights in the farmhouse cham
Der. But the morning comes and the ma
tronly call Of wisdom to blowing, fence
building and stumr-pulling will not let then
steep. we udu tuo oiu oA"oACuS" 0A
charred stump Of slavery to pull out. OF
that field could netheI be plOwed or moved
without breaking the machinery of govern
ment. And here was q disagreeable tribu
latjop at once. in the talk and agitation tina
were getting rife. 1t was hard to get alOng
with, W. preferred to comfortably picl
our teeth. unexcited by such conversation
The miserable screamers and thundere's
would intrude then. selves. for example. int
the glorious annual meetings ot the Amer
lean Board oi Foreign Missions. and twans
their discordant street organ. whii'
the elegant harmony OF that occasion wa
mnvins on. amt more than one trul,
nobl. Old saint or minister present would
sc,wl and make pectsh remarks afterward
The churches were viltied for their silence
bv a few almost blasphemous takers. Wit
racked the nerves of good women. Ih
great Presbyterian body divided the gre.
heads and gold headed canes largely from
the young and spry preachers who We're no
averse to new and spicy line OF though
for ali ethical sermon occasionally. Ana TN
South-the South was mad under the lons
lash and loud crack Of the tongue o
Phillips, or Garrison, or sumner. II wa
disagree bic. nltimed to many. fanatical-
took the down from tue peach OF our repose
twas raw. bad scolding; it was tribula
ton. But that tri5ulation provoked re
action. The heart of the nation turne'
over. A part went for slavery. secession,
monarchy. anything to get away from tina
horrid spirit OF radicalism. of uneasy, fussy
determined meddling with private institu
tions. Aud q part went for unity with o
without the bone Of contention. In th
midst of the struggle Lincoln conceived tn
idea OF contiscating back to God, its right
full owner. all the property in men held b.
the insurgents. And go the system VANISHED
in thin air at the stroke OF pen.
This left us at the end with no hiatus II
our constitution. with ro congested adhe
sion in the body polite around an aliel
growth embedded in it. Its fbres all raj
free and clear at last. For the first tim
the principles Of the declaration. the cOnsti
tuition and our acts all read straight. an,
read alike. And for that, people North AM
South. white and black. were undisgu'sedi.
thankful
The tyibulation of tongues had been for
gotten az ligh: thing. drowned in tn
deeper trouble Ut the open field OF blood
shed and the thunder OF battle.
But again we stood apart; and there wa
nothing more to be exploded on either side
whether powder. rhetoric. or peculiar no
tions and institutions. For the heroisn. tn
perseverins selt-devotiOn and abandon o
the Northern soldiegy. they We're thankful
OF the vaior. the cool and able strateg.
and bold dash of their well strung men ant
chivairous officers. their great commande1
the South were and are to this day proud.
But y great was means great destruction
Above all. great civil war is destruction
Of unnamed values, that never were ant
never will be :ue;ed out upon the palm. tn
counter or the pier. A house divide,
against itself is solemniy threatened witt
unnreven.ahia desliaiiOn. family feut