New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-19

| ests from the political schemes of the North
I cru Democracy. LIST them do this, and
they vill soon see a new order of things
! prevailing in their State. Capital will
dow into the State. Emigration will
follow capital. Social control and political
security will stimulate individual enterprise
Labor will get its just reward, and where
labor is protected, rewarded and enlight
| ened there is always to be found prosperity
as the sure result. &.
Death OF Hon. Joel Parker.
The telegraph briefly announces the death
Of Hon. Joel Parker at Boston at the age Of
eighty years.
During his long life he has been distin-
guished as holding far beyond the average
length of time two most honorable posi-
tisn. For twenty years he was Chief
Justice Of New Hampshire, and during that
time there occurred . conflict Of law be-
tween the Supreme Court Of New Hamp-
shire and the Supreme Court of the United
States. which was 60 we'll sustained by the
tenacity and learning Of Joel Parker that
all the ability Of the exceptionally able
Supreme Court was at last, after three
trials, unable 70 enforce its original decree.
Like Kent. when the allotted time came, he
lett the bench for the professors chair. but,
unlike Kent, he left no monument of his
wonderful research and genius. Save in
the memory Of hundreds Of students, Who
watched his lips with reverence. . few scat
tered pamphlets published only for motives
Of the hour, and . vast pile Of the aecum-
mulated notes OF half . century Of labor,
he has left nothing to guide the scholar in
the path he trod so nobiy. If somc kind
and able baud is intrusted With these notes
the world may yet learn that great lawyer
lived and died, aad made . mark more en-
during even than tho series of decisions
contained in the New Hampshire Reports
He was Royal Professor of Harvard Law
School. and his principal topics of instruc-
ton, equity and constitutional law. It was
his habit, in tho latter years of his term, to
announce to the students that his final lee
ture would be upon matters and things in
general, and constitutional law in palticu-
lar" and these last lectures are marvels of
studied comparative analysis and bitter
SARCASM Of current political events. Three
of them have been published. He was
chary Of personal advice to students, but
occasionally would utter something that
might refer to . minute detail. or have the
widest scope, but in either case sunk almost
deep enough in tho mind to become . rule
Of conduct. lie was the first to break the
great law triumvirate, composed of himself,
Emory Washburn, the MASTER of tho law of
real property, and Theophilus Parsons,
theauthor of the beet work on con-
tracts, and . voluminous writer on mer-
camille Law. At the conclusion Of twenty
years OF service, he delivered his last lee
ture and resigned. This faculty, aided by
Hon. Richard Henry Dana, as lecturer on
international law. and afterwards rein.
forced by Judge Holmes, Of Missouri, made
tho reputation of Dane Law School IN.
equalled in the country.
In politics Joel Parker was originally
whig. He found in the Republican party
of 1856 sufficient to take him from his pro-
fessor's closet to deliver carefully pre-
pared lecture in aid Of Fremont and Day.
ton. when the Whig party Of Massachusetts
had ceased to exist. If memory fail not,
his last paragraph contained something
like: "And it will serve to show that tho
Republican party is not party OF revolu-
ton. The forked lightning that plays
along their line is tho electricity OF free
principles, and tho thunder that rolls along
their embattled front and echoes back, No
further extension Of slavery is good sound
constitutions! Whig thundor." This ad.
dress caused public controversy between
Robert G. Winthrop and himself, in which
the last letter was written by him with an
unsparing pen. Yet whom the conflict be-
tween Andrew johnson and Congress
shook the country, in an address at the end
Of . term he said to the law school, after u
denunciation of measures before the coun
try, unequaled in csustic logic: IL am no
admirer Of Andrew johnson, but I honor
him with all my might for his firm and
courageous devotion to the constitution"
He always tried to help the weak-tho
uuUcK uUS IN tuO ASut. AAAS oyhtp0eAAoo
were with tho brave and honest, for
he was brave and honest. too. By
his contemporaries he was honored, by his
juniors admired, by his students rover
enced. To all his vast stores Of learning
were open: to every one he gave sympathy
snd aid. With some appearance Of natural
reserve, his interest vas easily awakened.
and the reserve vanished. As 10 the for
tune Of al lawyers who devote themselves
exclusively to their jealous mistress, he was
not rich in money. But he was rich in the
gratitude Of Thousands Of clente, rich in
the memory of thousands Of students, and
rich in learning, years and honor. He was
. visa. good aud great man.
New Election.
Acting Governor c. c. Antoine will prob
ably coon order an election to take place in
the parishes Of Grant and Ouachita. In
Grant tho vacancy is caused by tho expuf.