The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-12-23

this amid the salvos Of artillery and the shouts
Of the people of the Second Manieipslity.
Behold the scene to-day! What forests OF
masts, stretching away around the curve and
lost in the distance. We used to have 'little
sister" named Lafayette (all cities, like shipa,
are females, you know that sat all the live
long day and night for years on the banks Of
the Father Of Waters bemoaniDg her lonely
fate. It was somewhere about Jackson street,
believe I have looked for her often. but she
is nowhere to be found. Swallowed up, sup
pose, by the march of improvement, leaving
not q trace behind to tell Of her beanty and
her dreams of conquest. Alss "Delenda est
Carthage"
The Queen City marched along, and 10 all
is changed in the Fourth District! What
change in forty years! What magnificent
churches adorn it now! Look &C the wonder
of architectural skill displayed in the erection
of the magnificent churches of the Redemp-
torist Fathers alone, their converts and asy-
lums Truly the Fourth District was, and is
still, the Paradise Of New Orleans. Population
kept pace with Improvements up to the year
1860. At that epoch New Orleans etood forth
in all respects q "Queen Of Beauty" unsur-
passed. Indeed the whole South ran wild with
joy at boundless prosperity everywhere with
in her borders, and to our city, and to every
Southern city, tswn and hamlet the words of
Solomon would then have applied with awful
force and warning:
"Rejoce, o young man! 20 young and
princely South y in thy youth, and let thy
heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and
walk in tho ways of thy heart, and in the
sight Of thine eyes; but knos0 tkoa tAat for all
thess hiass God 1iH bring thee into jsdgu.eat ;"
That judgment camel Fsur thousand mil
lions OF dollars were instantly stricken from
the sum total of our assets, and we lay bank
rupt in purse, bat, thank God, not in honor
nor in hearts of oak" and arms and nerves
of steel! No; we accepted the result-our
universal poverty-as coming from tke Hand
of God, and with clean hands we began the
hercuiean task of regeneration and q new life
We of New Orleans have been too slow, tits
true, in working ont our own salvation, while
others, more fortunate in means and localities
have outstripped MS in the race over our own
fields. We are now, thank Heaven, just begin
ming to realize our isolated situation. Situated
amongst plenty, We are almost starving. God
and nature have done everything for New Or.
leans. Oar position today is proud one, if
We will but view it Alright.
The mighty Father of Waters will never
cease to lave the beautiful feet of this his
Queen, his favorite Queen" ss he passes on
ward and is soon lost in the mighty ocean
below rs. Here he will bring his richest tri
butes forever, and lay them at her golden feet
Oar Queen is great and beautiful now, but
o what beauty will she be when, in . few
short years, abe extends her arms and spreads
out her beautiful fingers to the noble Rangers
OF Texas, ,reJ s:rr.ing on by myriads to come
up to Ter loving heart, ana snv-s meeE hef
smiles and her princely beauties!
When the men of New Orleans put their
shoulders to the wheel in earnest the golden
car of progress will move on to Alexandria,
thence up the golden Red River to Shreveport,
thence on to Marshall, Texas, and thence on
and OF, through ard all over the mighty En-
pire State, and lesping her western boundaries
the iron horse will not cease his lightning
speed until he is stopped by the Pacific Ocean
before him! Brave hearts and strong arms
will accomplish all this in an Incredibly short
space of time, and then Louisiana may we'll
boast her glory and her strength, for her pa
triotisn will be patent.
What constitutes Statei
Not high raised bal Element o labora mound,
No but men. his .nIiBded men,
Who do their duty, know their riEhrs
And, knowing, dare mAintain!"
Men who don't stand aud lament over
past hopes nor belittle their own glorious
Inheritance. Never fear but capital will soon
flow to our rising city, and invite strong
nuscled labor to work harmoniously with it
This we really want. Oar banking capital
should be ~ least doubled now. Commerce
and trade require it even today. Grain is
coming from the West coffee from the South
in immense quantities, and then comes-nay,
it is now here-thst sweet handmade of COM
merce, tie "Factors' Warehouse Bank" with
her books open, ready to receive the autographs
Of her friends, and she offers in return Eve
million of dollars, to be used for their good
and for the good of sll classes of citizens of
New Orleans.
The merchant, the importer, the manufac-
turer, the sgriculturist,t the warehouse proprie-
tor, will emile as they come to her doors. and
the most cheering smile of all will light up the
face of the lsborer as he nightly receives his
jost, unErudged and well-merited reward for
| labor honestly performed, through the inatru-