Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1874-11-28
THE LECTURE GF TIE POET,
PATEIOT AND PRIEST.
THE WHITE LEAGUE.


day evening, the day set apart by the
Committee Of Seventy as a day OF
Thanksgiving for Loulsiana's deliver
ance. The BUllctm says that fully
five thousand people listened to the
reverend orator, who spoke as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen | am GER
tainly glad to see 50 many ladies and
gentlemen. White LeaguerS, in New
Orleans. TApplause,] l understand |
have been attacked in newspaper
called the RepubIicaa. l am not in
the habit Of stopping to answer those
who are as innocent Of argument as
they are guilty of bad manners -
+ Cheers. But if there he reporter
of that paper in this house, let him
come to this table; | will give it to
him and let him report my lecture.
They think it very strange that |, as
q priest, should have anything to say
upon matters which more or less per-
tain to the political order Of society.
|, as priest in my duties, do not lose
my rights of citizenship. My cradle
was rocked in the South my grave
shall be dug in the South. And while
in the moral order the nations are but
one in the Christ Of all, in the politi-
cal order of nations. if there ever
comes up a question in the world as
between race and race, and the inter-
ests of one race against the instincts
Of another, common human interest
tells me, and as religion does not pro
hibt nc, | stand by the white race,
and not simply from natural reasons.
applause. 1t has built up the civil
lization Of the world, in the material
as we'll as in the moral order.
Who wrote the immortal civiliza-
ton of Greece? Who penned the
eternal poetry of Rome? Who built
up our modern civilization? 1t was
the rhite race. Therefore it is, that
it is not a matter Of accident; it is
not merely local isolated matter, but
! it must be the law Of Divine Provi-
dence, Of history, as it is 4 manifesto
ton Of Divine Providence that where
ever the white race has been where
ever the white hand of the whitc man
has been raised, monuments of intel
lectual labor. moral as we'll as mate
rial, have appeared in the world, man.
ifesting its power ald showing that if
history be a manifestation Of Divine
Providence, il is the divine mission OF
the rhjte race to march in the van OF
civilization to lead the entire world.
From the DAYS Of the history OF
Epaminondas, who stood in the rug
ged pass OF ThermopyiG against Ner-
ycs, to the lavs when Gen Lee stood
at AppomattOX Court-llOuae and
yielded up the most spotlcss sword
that ever was yielded applause, the
,rhite man has given to the world the
grandest manifestations Of human
bravery. And from the time Of Soc
rates down TO our own time, it was
the pale white brow that gave TO the
world its philosophy, out of which the
world dcduces its own intellectual life.
TCheers. | Hence it is for these rea.
sons, apart from others, that | have
been induced to give this lecture and
persuaded into occupying most del
icate position by the pastor of St
Johns Church-his persuasion being
so extremely strong that. while
know he is in sympathy with th'
White League, ] might suspect tha
he is in high membership of the same
AsMere are so many ladies present
and as the normal state of lady
mind is curiosity applause and a
so many ladies, | suppose, have hus
bands, and those who have not, | sup
pose, have sweethearts who belong tC
the White League, and as reckon
they would like to know the secret
of the White League, without sayin!
whether l am White Lacquer at all
will satisfy and at the same tim
disappoint their expectations by say
ing that they have no secrets at all
but this secret, the secret of right
right which rises in eternal truth
rises like a star fixed in the broa
ground of beautiful and heavenl
truth-rises like a rock, gray an,
grand and glorious, out in the whit
, sea of human opinion-a rock tba
rises grander than the foam of passio
and the secret is their own right
And this position of theirs they bas
, upon what?
r do not wish to argue the matte
Intellectually, but to argue it fror
facts. What was the Government Q
the United States founded upon ?
- Upon the law.ind the right, and th
fact ofrevolution. Revolution again:
). what? Revolution against the pow
e er that eXerted its tyranny over then
a A few old ladies and old maid
d laughter in Boston, in the last Gel
: tury took a notion that they wei
. very fond of tea, and they also too
o q notion that it was entirely too dca
$ There was a stamp duty on tea, an
Il they gathered around the table mot
reason, not saving that ladies do n
reason, but they generally have mo
of will than of mind) men who reaso
ed and acted upon the principle th
: :. taxation withou: representation
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