The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-16
THE DEAD OF THE FOURTEENTH OF
SEPTEMBER.

At the Opera-house meeting on the Four
teenth Of September, the chairman, Mr.
Lafitte, read the following resolution, which
was unanimously adopted:
Resolued, That a committee OF fifteen shall
be appointed by Gen. Fred. N. Ogden, and o
which he shall be chairman, which shall bt
known as the Monumental Committee o.
September Fourteenth, who shall be charged
with the duty. of securing the ground at The
foot OF Canal street and with raising the
funds TO erect q suitable monument thereon
In commemoration Of the day, and Of the
dead of September IA. 1874, which committee
shall be announced by the chairman through
the public prints.
This resolution, we are authorized to say,
was prepared after consultation with the sur.
viving comrades and friends of the citizens
who were killed in the fight of the Fourteenth
of September, 1874 There is a matured and
determined purpose, therefore, our readers
may feel assured, to carry out the object
specified The work will receive, without
doubt, the cordial aid and support of our peo-
ple, and will be speedily accomplished. II
would have been brought before the pub.
lie earlier; but those who have it in hand,
possessing an unfaltering faith in the early
redemption of Louisiana from the power of
the wretches who defiled her high places, and
the bayonets which sought to degrade her
sovereignty, deemed il best to wait until the
day Of redemption came
This monument should be erected, and ii
should be one worthy, in richness and gran
tieur, TO attest the gratitude of our people and
to honor the martyrdom of the heroes who
fell fighting for the honor OF Louisiana
and for those great and, we trust, undying
principles OF liberty enunciated in the De-
claration of Independence and embodied in
the American constitution. The men who fell
on the Fourteenth of September fell fighting
in the same cause and for the same rights for
which the heroes of the Revolution fought and
fell. If to either be due the award of superior
heroism it must be conceded the men Of Lou
isiana. The soldiers of the Revolution were
sustained by three millions Of people
and their oppressors were forced tC
send troops thousands Of miles across the
ocean to subjugate them. But the little
band Of heroes on the Fourteenth of Sep
TENDER, 1874, were arrayed in defense of the
constitutional rights Of their fellow-citizens
against the power of this mighty nation, and
not friendly voice was raised beyond their
own State to cheer them in their struggle
When has the world witnessed heroism which
surpasses this2 Insensible to honor and dead
to all that is noble, generous and brave in hu.
man nature will be a people when they fail to
commemorate it. or preserve the record of il
In brass or marble as well as in that more en-.
dearing form-the songs of their poets and
the lessons they teach their children.
Let our fellow-citizens, then, contribute
generously to this work Let them unite in
erecting monument worthy of men who
fought for their rights and died in defense Of
their liberties. The long night has rolled
away. the day of our political redemption
has come at last. Citizens of Louisiana
shall not monumental shaft arise proudly
in its light 10 attest the gratitude OF the
living, and to pe'rpetuate the glory of those
who died for those principles of liberty with
out which life is too mean and poor thing
TO desire2