The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-05-06
LETTER FROM BATON ROUGE.


BATON ROUGE, La, May 81, 1877.
Editor Morning Star;
| Why have you no correspondence from thil
place Is it because politics takes up the time
| of oil or does each await for some one elst
| to write your Now that Louisiana breathel
| the air of,freedom once again intend to write
| you occasionally, not about politics, for l an
| no politician, nor about crops, for I am &c
| croppist, bat short items regarding almost
everything that in my humble opinion would
| interest your readers.
The past week has been one especially in
teresting to onr people. First in the order oil
time was the marriage last Tuesday of DR.. T.
j. Buffington and Miss Ii. C. Conrad, ut st.
Joseph's Church. The Doctor is one of our
best physicians, an old resident of this city,
and formerly one of the most prominent mem
bers of the Protestant Episcopal Church of
this place. For several years past he has
gradually been coming towards the true fold,
and after mature elaboration and full in.
struction received into the Church by
Very Rev. c. Delacroix some weeks since. The
marriage at q uptual mass was most IN posi- n @,
fact admitted by all present, both Catholic
and Protestant. We feel that q union thus
begun cannot be otherwise than blessed by
God.
Immediately at the close of the Mass, II NJ
u spontaneous outburst of joy arose from our
little city. Bells rang, cannon were fired,
steamers threw their bunting to the breeze
and even the little ones chimed in with their
bells and shouts for Nichols and Louisiana. 1t
was gala day-every one felt it, all partook
In the merry making-and why not Think
that for fifteen long years the heel of the op.
pressor has been upon us, and we have, as it
were, been sinking lower and lower, and to
have all this removed 80 suddenly, was
indeed cause for joy, and keenly the people
felt 1t. AT night serenades, fireworks, etc.,
marked the joyous event. But it is useless TO
mention more, as the rejoicing was not con-
fined to Baton Rouge alone; you felt if, You
saw it, as we'll as every one throughout our
loved State.
Thursday, the SIb, was Decoration Day.
Our gallant citizen soldiers, the Zouaves and
Pelican Rifles, were on hand, and, along with
largo concourse of citizens (the ladies were
there, of course, God bless them), headed by
the Independent Silver Cornet Band, visited
tho cemeteries to decorate the graves of our
solders with flowers. At the Magnolia |
Cemetery an address was delivered by Rev. |
Mr. Linn, Presbyterian minister. 1t was able
and appropriate, notwithstanding the fact that
the orator did not side with us during our
struggle.
How time gldes along 1t is now twelve
} ears since tie close of the war, and az other
generation has alreG dy grown up. Alas that
some of them should regard the defenders of
the Lost Cause as the greatest and most guilty
of rebels, that they should almost feel ash a med
that they are the offspring of the wearers of
the gray. This should not be. /, for one, &C.
ceptinE the final result of tho war as a fact,
and acquiescing fully in it, have never for an
instant felt my conscience upbrad me for the
part took in the struggle, nor would l for
worlds have my offspring SO falsely educated
as to blush for the deeds of their countrymen
in the most glorious and one Of the most
righteous contests recorded the pages of
history. FAITH.