New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-30


IN painting, sculpture and music, authors,
EDUC atOrs, and newspaper employees, COM
posftOrs Clerks. ook-keepers, saleswomen
and cashiers.
There is a much higher consideration
than merely to relieve the public from the
| care and cost of the weaker sex. Society
| everywhere depends on the character of
woman tor its liberties, happiness and pros
| perity. The dependence of a man upon
| others Is a bitter and degrading sensation.
| but rom this there a Thousand avenues of
! escape. The dependence of woman is
| hopeless bondage. She can not resist with
out exposure. She can not withdraw with
| out mourning danger, worse, perhaps,
| than the oppression to which she is submit
| ting. What, then. can satford woman
| more true independence and an honorable
| control OF her own actions than to enlighten
her mind, cultivates her tastes and employ
her skill!
| III this endeavor to reinstate the Southern
States III their federal position, and 20 re-
| vive tho social happiness which has been
| impaired by social necessity, it becomes
| necessary to utilize all the dormant and
| undeveiOped resources of the intellectual
| and physical world. Tha mineral and
metallic mines contain within them latent
| power and capacity for wealth. The water
fall that leaps idly in the solitude may
surround itself with happy and productive
! homes. The spacious harbor may shelter
| the carriers who exchange commodities
required by the reciprocal needs of nations,
| but the undeyeloped power of the human
| intellect eNcels all these in its dynamic
| tor3e and its possible productions. 1t en-
| bodies and involves the development Of all
| the rest, and of far more than all resources
| combined-the freedom Of man from men
| tai bondage, and the development of a
! higher freedom hereafter.
| Ia this development, in which exist such
| consequences here and hereafter, society
| should employ all accessible agencies
IL should educate all up to the highest con-
| sciousness aud capacity for comprehending
| the inestlnabie values Of liberty and saliva
| ton. There is none so weak none so hum
! be- that they may not be made workers in
this great eause, and better members or
| society,
| Every member of society entrusted with
| the right TO choose or be chosen to sepre-
sent society, should be qualified for such a
| trust by the highest education Of which the
| individual is capable.
Every member OF society who can sro-
| duce by bis arm or intellect any addition
TO the common capital or common defense
| should be utilized.
| Every individual whose vote may lnfu-
| ence the character of the laws, or whose
| arm may be needed in the public defense,
| should be enlightened, and should be in
| structed in the Institutions he may be re-
| quired to defend.
| The education of all, the EMPLOYMENT Of
| all, the diffusion OF prosperity, and especially
| of permanent property among all, creates
| that devotion to individual, boundiup with
social, interest which men call patriotism.
The strength OF society depends upon the
content of society, aud this upon the con-
victiOn of all. that to each is accorded right
and protection, with the proud conviction
| that each contributes TO the measure Of his
| or her ability the best return for the protec.
| ton, the property and the employment
! afforded.
Education and intelligence, then, is a
| source OF wealth. 1t actumulates capital,
| attracts population, promotes morality and
religion, and furnishes the State with the
means of maintaining its liberties snd pro-
| tecting its acquisitions.
| To the Southern States these attributes of
! intelligent industry and cordial co-opera-
| ton is of especial importance. Compared
| with other sections, they are feeble in po-
| liIicai power and dependent for all com
modities required By highly civilized
| people. 1t is TO be regretted that they are
| also so divided in political sentiment as to
| be imDotent for any enter prise requiring
| cordlai combination. We see that the rivals
| who have diverted so much of our COM
| merce into unnatural channels can suppress
| and restrain their antagonisms of politics
| or religion and agree to truce essential 70
| the welfare of ali. L would be important
| to initiate them.
| The destinies of this city are obvors.
| They consist in the exchange of the pro-
| ducts of industry in the valley of our noble
river and the basin OF the lakes against the
commodities native to the tropics. Whether
| those who conduct this commerce will real
iza the foil fIuition of this theory or de
| yolve IL upon successors is but question
OF interest TO The present business genera
| ton The result is inevitable.
Three times already has the business
language OF those who occupied the site of
this city changed under the reGuisition of
| a progressive development. There is no
reason TO apprehend further change ia
this respect, but there is every ground to
render it probable that a class of Americans
will gradually succeed to the situation who
appreciate its ext gencies and its advantages.
That the class which develops that des-
tiny must avail themselves of every advan-
tage of educated intelligence is inevitable,
because it is an element and an agency
everywhere indispensable to produce the
result demanded here.
POLITICAL APPLICATION.
If this essay has been successful in de-
monstrating its theory, it has proven that
upOu tuc wealth. prosperity VI Dbdlc
depends It's consideration in any form of
government. New York has no more alb
stract rights than Delaware, vet the rule of
participating in the common power of con-
STRUNG the common constitution, being
dependent upon the relative representation
of States, ana as all are bound to obey the
construction of the greater number, the
relative influence of these two communities
is very much as their relative wealth and
hapc ha MI hor- of
public will locate themselves according to
inducement. those States which offer indus
trial, and intellectual inducement to polrl-
lation, with adequate guarantee of law, will
acquire the greater number, and with them
the greater political and military ability to
defend and represent their own construc-
ton OF their own acts and rights.
Would not, then, the political economists
and statesmen who assume to advise the
true course Of Southern restoration do well
to estimate calmly and earnestly the posi-
ton and prospects of the Southern States
The remedy of political revolution Is fraught
with the doubts of all popular controversy.
1t may result to shift the burden from one
shoulder to the other without diminishing
the weight or enhancing the ability to bear
it. 1t is difficult for a State or States, feeble
in political numbers, to revolutionize by
force or sympathy the action of numerous
nation. Whatever may result in diminu-
ton or non-accession of population Occa-
sions a proportional diminution of political
power.
Would it not be better, then, ths. parties
should agree, like mathematiciaus Or attor.
neys at law, to strike out all equivalent or
immaterial quantities, abate all unnecessary
issues, and unite in so far as union ray be
possible without derelictiOn of principle in
such measures as may promote the common