The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-12-05
HISTORICAL LOUISIANA.
October 2sth, l7ss. and September l4th, 1874
HER ILLUsrRIoCs SONS IN ART, SCIENCE,
LITERATURE AND ARMS.
Mobile REGISTER. Nov. al

late our brothers of New Orleans upon, the
advent amongst them of q new, ardent, in
telligent aud daring ally for such an one
shall prove the new French paper, LIE
September), the first two Numbers of which
are now before Us.
At the head of it's editorial columns stands
the name of Albert Fabre, ESQ, well known
to the French American Press as one of
the most refined and chivalrous members
of the great Bohemian" family-not that
BoheB,e to which the vile and lying scrib-
blers and "cheraliers d iadustrie' of the |
Harper gang claim to belong, but that ele
CANT. refined, pure Bohene which has made |
Tue name selected by our brother of the |
quill, "The Fourteenth of SEPTEMBER is |
pregnant with its aim and sternly porten- |
tous OF its grad self imposed mission-the
REDEEM ption, the delivery, of poor, bleed |
ing Louisiana from the saackles and fet.ers
which black r I'd calism has rudeiy forced
on her fair liuo s.
Noble, glo!i"us, but suffering Louisiana
Twice in her history has she given striking
instances of her devotion to right, her love
of country, her contempt of death.
As the Prophet charged Jerusalem with
CHILLING prophets" SO may Tyranny charge
l. 1nisiana with driving from her borders
the brutal rulers whose: claims had no
other supper, than foreign bayonets. Is it
not strange that even her own sons, her
| looked the fact that twice within few
years more than ceutury-in October,
| I765, and in September, lS74-the brave
! cons of that old French colony drove away
with shame and terror the Governors, which
| Spain in the first case, aud Congress in the
second, had by fraud and violence imposed
upon her gallant people.
1t was on the Goth of October, 176S-pre-
cisely one hundred aud six years, one
month and fifteen days before the terrible
events which drove Kellogg from his
usurped seat-that the French coonists,
maddened to desperation by the ins"leut
rule of Don Antonio de Uiloa, yet without
any hope of assistance from soutside, rose
| in arms against that proud representative
of proud Spain and forced him and his vet
eran bands into the Mississippi. where they
could hardly find safety on board French
| frigate.
Then, after the victory, came the calm
deliberations of those who had just risked
their lives in defence of the principle of
free government then their eyes were
imploringly turned towards that migrate
full France that had bartered them away to
Spain, in order to pay for the orgies of a
debauched King. And, as if fate had pre-
ordained the great rule of retribution, the
very Minister Choiseul-who shamefully
bargained away that fairest jewel of the
French crown, after nearly century,
atoned and paid for his crime with the
blood of one of his own descendants, the
gallant Charles de ChoiseDl, a native South
Caroliuap, Lieut.. Colonel of the 6 III Louis
lana Volunteers, who fell at the head of
his spartan band in the attack on Port
Royal in 1862.
Then it was that the bold Llfreniere
conceived the plan of "Republique de
FAmerique," aud prepared a Constitution
which, even in these days, would be deem
ed an acceptable compact for society OF
freemen. But, alas before the dream
could even assume, a dim but discernible
form, the terrible awakening had broken
, in upon the unfortunate victims for then,
, in 1863 as in 1874, however swift had been
tho punishment of her tyraats, no less
swift aud terrible was the vengeance OF
their masters aud on the 2i.h of July,
1863, General Alex ander O'Rleliy, with q
large fleet and larger army, sailed ap to the
} .'Balize," and soon afterwards cast anchor
before the doomed city-at the very same
: spot where, in 1862, ninety three years
/ llater,-Butler the Beast and Farragut cast
anchor.
e Shall-we recall what followed how
=. with devilsh Hypocrisy, O'Reilly uttered
: first words of peace and forgiveness how
q having lulled the suspicious of his victims
he induced them to return and meet him al
= his own house in grand ball, where, in the
! midst of the festivities, his rough soldiery
y rushed in, manacled the hands which but g
!, moment before had been grasped by hii
8 OVID, butcbering in the fury cf the first at
g tack the unfortunate and brave Vlllere II
e the very arms OF his young wife, Whoee IN
d FAINT son was covered with the gore of his
q noble father; how, very few days after
= wards, a court martial-lke that which the
IT cowardly assassin, Butler, convoked tc
hang the innocent Mantord-condemned t.
be shot within twenty-four hours, Lafre
Mere, Mazan, Marquis and their compau
o ions in the bold attempt to establish on th
g continent-eight years before it was ever
q dreamt of by the British colonies-tht
10 first American Republic.
!, Thus-on the 18th of September, 1871
is the gallant descendants of those martyrs
% rose in arms against the vile usurper, Kel
9 logg like their ancestors, they drove hin
= to the walls of a United States customhous
a and scattered his myrmdons and their de
&c graded leader through the alleys and by
u ways of their redeemed city and then
, also-as in l769-a hostile fleet, a hirelinl
70 army were sent down by the master of thu
Is dethroned tyrant and "order" was made t
e reign in New Orleans, as Dombieschi mad
u it reign in Warsaw-the solitude of TIN