The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-05-30
Our New Orleans Correspondence.
New ORLEANS, May 22d. 1874.
To tie Editors Of CoMcasiax

and 9TH respectively. he desires t.
thank you for your courtesy. and t.
add his feeble but hearty echo to tn
loud voice Of applause, which so gen
orally greets the birth and baptism
of your bright and beautiful bentling
The children. of political literature
born in this age Of Chaos and OLE
Night" are in general such sick!,
specimens of oangrene and garbage
that il is an event as welcome as i
is rare and unique, to hail the ad
"ven4 of one born with health ant
hue pure and indebted, away W
from the niasmatic fats of Caucu!
upon the shining heightsof Caucasus
It was happy thought of yours
Messrs Editors, to fix the cradle O.
your neogil upon that natal and
true mount of vision of the white
man +; and a still happier one to cal
it by name SO distinctly suggestive
and significant.
The Caucasian, in its very imprim.
atur carries q most falicitous formula
to express the whole high argument
of the duty and destiny of the race.
The present anomalous condition of
affairs, by which that duty and oles-
tiny have been SO long obscured and
confused, must Of necessity be ephe-
neral and is dueoin great measure,
to oursown supine apathy, and even
work our criminal completely in re-
gard to it There was no occasion
because the result of the war was ad-
verse to the slavery of the negro that
we should abjectly accept as its cum
ulative issue that the white man
should absolutely exchange condi-
tions with him, or what has been far
more fatal, that he should eagerly
admit his equality and solicitously
court his alliance. But this in that
evil moment Of dependency, incident
upon our defeat, we did. We made
haste to propitiate the favor of our
conquerors by recognizing the new
Idol they had set up in their selfish
greed and hypocritical humanity, and
even preposterously sought to rival
them in the frequency, the fervor and
the opportunities of our devotions.
The unholy worship has had it's nat.
rral result. The idol has turned
from the stupid Log, which he was
at first into devouring Stork. His
Deity has not been dignifed-but
his devotees have been degraded and
destroyed.
The Press, which is the Priesthood
OF the people, have been the most
frantic and the most culpaPle in this
deplorable lapse from the worship of
the true faith. They have too gen
orally bowed the knee to Baal, and
zealously swung censors of adulatlon
nnd offered sacrifices of shame at his
shrine. They have incurred the
curse of "eating the broken meats
that have been offered, and by Undue
ing the people to partake of the same
prohibited diet, have involved us all
in the ruinous rigor of the anathema.
Is it not time for us to repent and
forsake our apostacy, to discharge
our imbicile Heresiarchs and to turn
back to that clear and candid Evan
gel, which the Caucasian, and q few
other journals, as our own little New
Orleans Bulletin for instance, now Sc
faithfully and fearlessly proclaim? II
is a most cheering sign of hope and
promise, to see such vigorous cham
pions springing up in their young
true full armed might, to do battle
with the Powers of Darkness, which
have SO long overshadowed and de-
fled our high places. And a still
moro cheering one to note the en-
phasis and enthusiasm of the popu-
lar applause of your efforts. Fear
not that they will fail to support
you to the end of the chapter, what
ever it may yet contain. You are
young and feeble yet. But the day 4
of small things is not to be dispised
The Cony is feeble folk, yet have ,
hey their habitation in the rocks :
The cloud no larger than a mans
aand, debated into the hugo nimbus,
which refreshed and restored the I
and and people, parched and devas- ,
'ated by three years Plague of Fa- =
nine and of Drouth. The little stone
that smote the Image became a
and filed the whole earth" s
We want no moro blind leaders of {
he blind tumb'ing us all into filthy
litches of Fusion and negro affilia-
ion. You have shown us the true l
'auses of this most calamitous crisis. '
Rem teligisti acer. The mair4 one is e
rue skin deep. It is case of con- r
used compilations simply. We have >
n your cry against that abomination,
caution and an illustration.
o formose puer, minimum ne crede p
olori! Alba ligustra cadune, vac n
enia nigra leguntur. Oh white v