The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-11-25
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LIE CTURE
THE POET, PATRIOT AND PRIEST
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FATHER ABRAM j. RYAN SPEAKS 10
THE PEOPLE OF NEW
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THE PEOPLE OF NEW
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THE WHITE LEAGUE"
/ Last evening, eThursday, November
49, Exposition Hallwas densely crowd
ed with fully five thousand ladies and
gentlemen to listen to Father Ryan
At the appointed hour, General Ogden
introduced the reverend orator sins the
following words: Ladies and get1tle-
men-It is my high privilege to intro
duce to you the eminent diunetand dis
tinguished patriot, the Rev. Abram j.
Ryan. : '..a.3. .'#H.-n.iarHarG |l'4
Father Ryan then said: 'f.'., ~
LADIES AND GENrLEMEN--I atn cer-
tainly glad to see so many ladies and
gentlemen, White Leaguers, in New Orr
leans. l understand I have been at
tackled in d newspaper called the Repub-
lican. lam not in the habit of stopping
To answer those who are as innocent OF
argument as they are guilty of bad MAN.
ners. But if there be a reporter of that
paper in this house, let him come TO
this table; will give it to him and let
him report my lecture. s t
They think it very strange that I, as
priest, should have anything to say up
on matters which more or less pertain
to the political order of society. /, as a
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 political order
Of nations, if there ever comes up, q
question in the world as between race
and race, and the interests of one race
against the instincts of another, common
human interest. tells me, and as religion
doee not prohibit me, l stand by the
white race, and not simply from Ilatu-
raj reasons. 1t has built up the civili-
zatiop of the world, in the material as
well as in the moral order. 1871 -
Who wrote the immortal civilization
Of Greece? Who penned the eternal
poetry of Rome? Who built up our
modern civilization? 1t was the white
race. Therefore it Is, that it is not "a
matter of accident: it is not N erely a
local isolated matter, but it must be, the
law of Divine Providence, of history, as
it is a manifestation of Divine Provi-
dence that wherever the white race has
been; wherever the white hand Of the
white, man has been raised, monuments
of Intellectual labor, moral as well as
material, have appeared in the world,
manifesting its power and showing that
if history be manifestation of Divine
Providence, it is the divine mission of
the white race to march, in the van of
civilization to lead the entire world
From the days Of the history of Epami-
nondas, who stood in the rugged pass of
Thermopyla against Xerxes, to the days
when General Lee stood at. AppOmattox
Court House and yielded up the most
spotless sword that ever was. yielded,
the white man has given to the world
the grandest manifestations Of human
bravery. And from the time of Socrates
down to our own time, 1t was the pale
white brow that gave to the world its
philosophy, out Of which the world de-
duces its own intellectual life. Hence
it is for these reasons, apart from 9th
ers, that 1 have been induced to give
this lecture ard persuaded into occupy
ing most delicate position by the pas
tor of st. Johns Church-his persua-
sion being SO extremely strong that,
while know he ism sympathy with
the. White League, might suspect chat
he is in high membership OF the ,ssane.
As there areliso many ladies present,
and as the normal state of a latly's mind
is curiosity, and as SO many iadies,i l
suppose, have husbands, and those WHO
have not, I suppose, have sweethcarts
who belong to the White League, and as
| reckon, they would like to know the
secrets of. the; White League: without
saying whetherIL am a White Lacquer
at,all, l will satisfy andat the same time
disappoint their expectations by sayiHg
that they, have no secrets at all, but this
secret, the secret of right--a right which
rises in eternal tfnth--rises like a star
fixed in the broad ground of beautiful
and heavenly truth-risesl like a rock,
gray and grand and glorious, out in the
white sea of human opiniou--a rock that
!
-andltlie secret is, ttreirnown right
And this position of theirs they base up
on what? ....,.i'....,-f -. ..
do not wish to argue the matter in
tellectually, but to argue it upon facts.
What was the Government of the United
States founded upon?; Upon the law
aud the. right, and the fact; of reyolr-
ton. Revolution against wliat?,, Rev
olution against the power that .e4erted
its tyranny over them,n ltrea -. 1r,;
"A few old ladies and old maids in Bos-
ton, in the last century took a. notion
that they were fond of Tea, and they also
took a notion that it was entirely too
lear.I There was stamp, duty on tea,
and they gathered around thestable,( not
to reason, not saying that ladies' do mot
reason, but they generally have more of
will than of mind) men ,whopreasoned
and acted upon the principals that taxa
ton without representation istwrbng, is
false I'M theory, liz unhstin tpmetice.-
They petitioned, they. pleaded, qbntlthe |
Government of.England dialonot listen.
My friendsS mark me, L am RESPONSE
Bile to my churchG-about public opinion
care very 'little-lI7 am responsible to
MY church for every World say in re-
gard to the moral orfler--but my res
to her goes no further. Men
BY reasoning came to the conclusion of
what. was right and just nd,iegitimate,
ma that Under alflaws th erealWays ex-!
sted and always will exist, the right of
resistance against that which is wrong
50 they not only petition But ARGUE