New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-05
Especial Cepondence Of the Republican, I
A DAlN NEW ENGLAND.
'OsTON, December 90. 1876

When / 70 this morning it was ye
dark. A lawas needed in order to bel
form the firasks of this one DAYS doingt
As the routof this daily life represent
the averagse of the large majority o
New Engls folk, and as it represent
also the life of the social forma
ton of Puritan land, pro
pose, with permission, to give you
readers tfecord of to-day as on.
leaf taken u the ordinary existence O
ordinary pc here. In doing SO, wisl
to state thsas reared on a slave planta
ton at th'uth, and graduated in my
course" odolence, waste, selfishness
and self-inence in the hott Is and cafes
of Europe. hould also add that the New
England We. near Boston, in which ]
live is the 'antipodes OF Paris or of the
Fifth avenf New York. Such a thing
as a ''servafor instance. is not knewn
in the towIhere is not a family whose
annual exItures exceed $1,000 a year.
Many weli9 people live on 5000 land
rear and etc children on that), while
others livefortably ON $3.50 to $500 a
year. Wes laboring community.
My first this morning consisted in
making thee, having no servants and
keeping nolp." This was "cold" work
as we'll as work. But cold and snow
and ice haOe conquered, and this could
only be dog going at my task with a
will. BY tine the fires we're made it
was light eh to extiuguish the lamp.
By this tim children were ready to en-
joy the fredress for breakfast. Break
fast over aB house in order, the next
thing in or my work in the city. And
here l am ilton with thous aads of other
workers, "iing off this letter to the
New OrleaEPUBLICAN. Soon the light.
ming expreill bear this communica-
tion whirlihrough Worcester, Spring
field, New, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washingtoshmond, over the "AirLine'
to Atlanta.ence as the pigeon hes to
Mobile anew Orleans, where nmble
fingers willsfer this scrawl into lear
type impres, and where the lynx-eed
proof readel correct errors and suply
deficiencies where the driving forcef a
great printitablishment will reprodce
in neutrality-suspicious. the messagef |
hope and cbf courage and brotherhol
which a onveholder standing in NJ
sachusetts to his black brother |
Louisiana, ing him fear not, but
stand flrm;av ave faith in his own man
hood, faith I'd, and faith in the death
less fidelityhose who have linked the
fate of theintry with his.
The hau time-killing, sunshine-en-
enjoying Ger of the South may ask
what does amount tol To which
reply, that tally life of labor, of tem-
perapce, of uest, of nature, this bind,
ing of the v,ements to the will Of man,
necessarily Ices a force which in time
will eat oltOot out the self-indulgent
civiliz stionle cavalier Furthermore,
this picture manly, selt-reliant, self.
respecting, sted labor life which l have
drawn furnthe key to the solution of
the Sou'heroblem. II reveals the
secret of Nngland influence, and the
source of halth. l am free to say that
l would ratve here in Massachusetts
as day er for life, and breathe
the air Oertv, than to dwell in
Louisiana ,n income of SIC, 900 year,
| if my Loui life deprives me of the
right to thfd speak and act as free
man.
| This leaf a Southern's life of daily
labor in Musetts should teach every
intelligent federa:e another lesson:
That lessosists in the fact that the
educated hg people of the North can
never be BIT into sympathy with the
pride and mess which the pro sla very
spirit repre When the issue between
the coloreOrer of the South and his
Confederatmaster is fairly made, the
Northern ker" will side with the
Southern Ser" In taking this side the
Northern will not place much stress
on the qu of "race." He will care
more forat" than for color. The
"sweat" liam honest labor life will at
tract his gainst all the 'color" line
arguments q Southern Confederate
may addD him. This leaf from the
daily if an intelligent labor
ing mamie North should teach
the Sout Confederate another les
son, anat lesson is that New
England most surely range herself
under theblican banner in the great
centennisest which is approaching.
In doing will stand for everything
which is , the cause of the political
brotherht man, against everything
which so caste and the selfishness
and pridGast and unnatural and in
human tion between man and his
brother A government of the few
for the ftvhich the many sweat and
toll withpe and without rights, is q
thing abstsblished. This kind of
governms old as despotism or human
selfshneut q government which |
blesaes W, in which labor life is re.
fined anred and beautifed, in which
woman ,and mother, as the conpeer
as wels companion of man makes
earth &C through the sweetness and
purity a sanctifed maternal love
throws cry home, however, humble
and Ov' lot in life however lowly,
a gOveIike this resting in the sacred
rights rsal humanity is the ideal for
| which gland has labered, and bled
and prGod grant that her labor be
not in God grant that the martyr
blOoda1l ages for the advancement
of humay bring forth it's final and
goldege within. God grant that
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