New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-11-29

convinced us, ground INTO our tOO ooey
going minds the gritty Impression from the
bly, in Tammany, Chicago beer, and South
ern negro rule), that ct last, and at least.
we must keep this country what 1t
was intended TO be; not q country TO
suit the Romanst, altogether. though
he 10 welcome. and shall be well
treated; not to suit the German OF infidel,
unless they are in the majority, though
they are welcome. and shall be we'll
treated. shall vote and help to make our
laws If they will learn to read the language
in which those laws are to be printed for
some time yet; that we do not propose to
change our national tongue. We are still
English speaking, American largely, pre-
dOminantly and by right, and to suit us.
the majority Of the contemplated heirs of
our fathers institutions. to suit lie, and not
the Frenchman, primarily, or the Spaniard.
or the MongOl, do We farm out this little
plantation between the oceans, and make
the legal fences that shall make us all good
neighbors according to the New Testament.
We can not try TO please verybody, or We
shall please nobody. certainly not ourselves.
If others do no. like the kind of country we
shall make, the world is wide, they are not
obliged to stay here.
Neighbors according to the New Tesla
ment-Yes. We are not quite ready yet
to Danish its morality from our statute
books, and from the characters of our
statesmen, its charity and justice
from our hearts and cOnsciences, its
letters Of light and golden sentences
our common schools. We will neither
frame iniquity into law. as sometimes
heretofore, nor frame religion into the law
of the land: but morality, and that the
morality of the Bible. Of Sinai, and the
Sermon on the Mount, we will frame into
the eonsciences Of the people, from their
youth up, and by it we will measure the
regulation height for the rank and file and
leaders of our hosts Of public servants.
Think of head Of department, that of the
| national treasures, the new secretary, the
bright, clean new broom, Bris;- ing with
virtuous purpose, stuck full of executive
energy for right, honesty and economy, the
| model secretary, swearing like rough in
his elegant office, at an older and probably
wiser public servant than himself. will
not repeat his language: you all saw it the
Of vulgar tongue who can read the dis
patches flashed over whole Christian
land: but it should as soon be heard from a
minister as from the highest officer in
charge of this nations gold and silver:
For that gold and silver are the Lords II
they are nybody's in particular: for he
| has loaned them to US.
We NAV be thankful, if, with all the wide
publicity forced upon the doings and delin-
quencies of men, the focal light Of the gen.
| eral eve burns like a sun-glass the finder OF
| their crimes, if the alleged otfenses even,
! that are not proven, make men wary, reveal
| q conscience in the breasts of us all, not
heathenishly stOlid nor yet "seared as with
| a hot iron,' but quickened, quivering with
! dread lest we also come into condemnation
| We may be thankful. that so many OF the
temperate class Of partizans have the hardi
| hood to rebuke their own party, because II
has shared too largely in the general de
moralization of fast playing, little working,
! and free spending: especially when thelI
rebukng it Just at the time they did, at the
! climax Of dissatisfaction at the South with
| its maneuvres or supineness, could be part
! ly meant and gladly taken as harbinger
of regeneration. not reconstruction, here,
provided, the Magi from out the darkness
OF the old Democracy will follow the one
| star Of truth, "peace and good WILL The
times have changed to an era Of unsec
| tional unanimity Of feeling, so far as votes
can express it, unknown among US tor the
| last forty years. For ten years the South
has been standing still, or receding, under
tribulations principally self caused: but
they and the North have been learning
lessons in political economy and morality
! which now all can practice together, if they
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others have grown to the wheel in faithful
ness, or stuck covetously to that they
handled. And if the coming new incum
bents have not the motives to seltcommanC
and studious enactment of the peoples best
will. it is not in human nature to be open t
such motives. nor i'll human events to sane
ton them. For this we will be thankful
that the pressure Of public opinion and pub
| lie intelligence could hardly be greater
toward wisdom: if only there can BE-
the menta! competence to elaborate OF
! execute methods for such vast and com
plicated interests and multitudinous details
We will be thankful. too. on the whole
for the infusion into our tigging spiritt
! and somewhat .aded organization. long
under the strain of rapid progress, the infu
sion of the untred temper of hope in thu
under party, needing its scope for educa
| ton: and for the infusion of European anC
African vitality, full fed. sun led, into oul
somewhat dried and exhausted nerves
Praying, that, when the wi ole mass of clay
comes oil the wheel of the Great Potter. HI
| may make it "a vessel unto honor" AND
not turn His hand and make it again ant
"a vessel unto dishonor.' May we no
nationally, and as wise men, give thanks to
day, though having suffered all these tribula
tons! For if we may not, it is because
they are too many for US. Nay. can we no
wrought patience, and patience, experience
and experience. hope! The hope that Their
is in us as people throughout the lant
the wakefulness to real issues. ant
the virie reserve OF purpose ant
of grasp to gather up all these. lesson
! of experience SO fresh and pain
fully in mind. and compact them il
national virtue. national identity AM
richness of character. Il clear generic typ
OF national individuality. whose feature
shall be fittingiy symbol;zed in the match
less nobility. the varionsness and refine
ment of our scenery, the depth and SPLENDID
| and delicious jutaxposition Of our resources
1t is not for nothing. brethren and friends
it is not for nothing, that Providence ha
permitted lis to run such gauntlet Of dan
gers. sublime and petty. seen and unseen
and come out still cool. collected. hopeful
'Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.
And as two years ago in this place ex
pressed the hope. that He would rattle
chasten us to our profit. than give us over t
be Joined to our idols in unconscious degrade
ton: SO would invite you to be Thankful
to-day that through the discipline Of tribr
lation though
| I'VE are not now that strength which IN old days
We thought to be:
'That which we are. We are.''
Nearer than ever.
! zone equal temper Of heroic hearts,
| Made weak by time and fate. but stYOn: IN will
To strive. to seek. to fluid. and not to yield"
| Not to yield that hope which maketh no
ashamed, that we shall some day be tina
single minded hunared-banded empire O
true manhood, which the land invites an
heaven commands.