New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-10


which il may be said the nastier the
sweeter), NJ. De B. srsse. He lie truly
one Of this people," with family 60 old
that his line extends back in fathers and
grandfathers-so far in grandeur and great
ness, that it could reach around the world
and tie. His blood is not mixed, til ough he
perchance has little Spanish, and little
Choctaw, and a little Portuguese, and g
little Greek, aad a little of the Jones family
he is of French descent, was born in Louis
lana, is pure Creole, and lives down on the
Bayou St. John.
Now, expected him to take the afirma
tive, but he didn't. He was bitterly op
posed to the mixed mathematics being
taught in the public schools. He believed
in having that science administered like
whisky--straight. He wanted no adultera.
ton Of the article now, after the schools
had been drinking it in, clear as the Pier
can waters, for scores of years. Did any
one cay that the mixed mathematics were
an advance upon the pure that the teach.
| ing of them now was sign of progress in
the public schools The speaker would
reply by fat denial, and would maintain
his position. if necessary, by short swords
He would dislike to see the high school de.
graded like the grammar schools, where
the fractions taught were vulgar, and the
maps employed were colored; where some
OF the new teachers we're said to be green
and the pupils afflicted with freckles. No
he would have all things pure-pure as his
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But the legal argument was totally
eclipsed by an chronological one that fol-
lowed. The speaker held that things mean
and base" and mired up could come only
from persons incased in colored cuticles.
All were pure at first, "the human family
having a single origin but, while thus
pure, they attempted to amalgamate. This
Is exactly the crime which God so signally
rebuked at the Tower Of Babel" Rebuked,
howF By making this one pure people go
forth as several peoples, instantaneously
talking English, French, Spanish, Dutch,
Hindostanee, kickapoo, Chaldaic, etc. IF
the ancient languages were instantaneously
gotten up as curse, why should we think
that the modern ones, with their diabolical
constructions. have had any different or
better orlginf) While the speaker depre-
Gated the penalty inflicted for the sin of
amalgamation committed when all were of
one race, he was opposed to have things
in stata quo ante Babel. While he didn't
oeiie'e 'ha' Languages nave grown up be-
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