The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-04

sIander Of the People Who Exercise tho
Highest Tolerance.

Editor Democrat THE Chicago Times
ID authority for the statement that
member Of Hayes's Cabinet, In discuss
ing Louisiana affairs, asserted substan-
TALLY that the people Of this State, being
education or feeling In sympathy with
the people of the other States, posses
sing the irrationality and lack OF logic
OF people who are governed by their
PASSIONS" are unworthy of the bless
ings of constitutional government,
should be outlawed, and declared be-
yond the pale Of humanity itself; in
short, have no rights that Republican
Cabinet should respect.
y That Republican statesman (?), who
seemingly has o proseriptive right TO
ignorance, prejudice and stupidity. may
OF itself be unworthy OF observation
But these crude opinions, held by q
Cabinet minister, become Of overwhelm-
ing practical Importance to us-and are
Of importance also In not being CON
fined to ministers Of State, from whom
not much ID expected. but are held by
thousands aud possibly by millions OF
people in the North, who, In their de-
probation OF other races, exalt their
own, greatly to their own satisfaction,
no doubt. This is another exhibition OF
the pharisaical spirit which permeates
the Republican party-that party OF
high moral ideas-that party and that
people who proclaim everywhere, II
am holier than thou" which, carried
to ite legitimate consequences, has in
| tlioted 30 many ealamities upon the
country.
That the Latin races to whom we owe
all our modern civilization, who occupy
the highest places In painting, sculpture
and architecture, the certain tests Of
advanced civilization, who in the whole
circle, of sciences stand pre.eminent,
purest taste in all that adorns and
exalts human life, and elevates 1t above
the routine Of daily drudgery; that this
race which has produced more men,
pre-eminently distinguished In every
department Of tho arts, in science and
| literature than any other: that
this race which hos taken the
lead in profound philosophical
thought and recondite speculation !;
that has produced O Gallileo.
q Michael Angelo. o Raphael. q Voltaire.
g Descartes, Beccaria. u Dante. q
Tasso, d Cervantes, a Laplace. a Napo-
leon and thousands of others-a race.
which in its mercantile energy estab-
lished commerce and led the way to
maritime enterprises and discoveries in
hitherto unknown regions Of the globe,
compared to which all other discover
les were utterly insignificant. That this
| great race of men should be etigmatized
as unintellectual and counseled to be
outlawed for Its intellectual inferiofity,
| by any one in social position above O
swineherd, almost passes human belief.
| Notwithstanding the verbiage we daily
nf hn ~ A.,
or Anglo.Saxon race and their being the
pioneers Of human liberty and constitu-
tional government, the Latin race were
their predecessors even in this. They
established republican and enlightened
governments In Italy, which existed
until crushed out by foreign subiuga-
tion. They established constitutional
governments in France and in Spain Of
the most liberal character, which exist
ed until standing armies-those sworn
enemies to human liberty-crushed
al government has existed for a longer
period in England, It was due not to
superiority Of race, but to her insular
position. And we must remember that
the first germ of the constitutional gov
ernment of England was planted by
Simon de Montfort, one Of the Latin
family. But this depreciation Of the
Latin race Is all bosh, which has no
countenance In history, and lives only
in the ignorant, stupid and intolerant
craniums OF the pharasaical Puritan,
who, having no Inherent merit Of his
own, boasts OF his race by depreciating
that race which has made him every
thing by which he Is distinguished from
the savage.
But men Of the calibre Of this Cabi-
net member are not only oblivious to
the teaching Of general history, but are
grossly and culpably ignorant OF the
history and condition Of their own
teeuntry. louisiana, and its people,
and their history and sufferings, is
utterly unknown to them.
Were they to come here, they would,
In the descendants Of the much despised
Latin race, see people of refinement
and education, intelligent, hospiteble
and brave, remarkable for their strict
integrity and punctilious sense of
honor-a people, as a mass, whose word
Is In all circumstances inviolate, and
whose pledge, If once given, even by
implication, Is as sacred as an oath.
And such Is the tone Of public sentiment
that no man would be tolerated In So
ciety who was unfaithful to his word, or
who failed to redeem his verbal pledges.
The honorable character OF our Creole
merchants has become proverbial. A
subterfuge among this class, or the
people at large, to avoid the ful-
fillment Of promise would bring
eternal Disgrace. This people, instead
Of being the mere creatures of passion
or impulse, as represented, are quite
the reverse. And it is astonishing now
Northern people especially those in
political life-from their stand point,
can stigmatize this people as irrational
and impulsive. OF all the Southern
people they exhibited the greatest re.
luctance to sever their connection with
the Union, and it has been doubted that
even after the connection was severed
by the convention if g. majority OF the
people approved it, or took decided
part until Lincoln's proclamation and