The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-14

reasons of its good fortune. Iowa's en-
ergetic emigrants In Texas produce
almost astonishing results, This flow
from North to South, from Northwest
to Southwest, Is inevitable and neces-
sary. The man born in the hard eli
mate Is the man to develop resources
under the influence Of tho soft climate.
He comes with his stock of strength in
reserve and smiles at the drawbacks
which discourage the sons Of the soil
who represent the third and fourth gen.
GRAFTON of jewellers there. Missouri was
first settled up by men who had i'm
mense energy. Nerveless and yielding
people would have had no chance what
ever there. AS much grimness and in
tensity Of purpose Is needed to subdue
New England hills. After a time, the
stock, unless it is replenished, begins to
show signs OF loss Of energetic quail
ties. Then comes the new descent from
northward to southward, and all goes
we'll again, The Northern German
pours into Texas and Missouri and
Southwestern Kansas, and does good
work there. Curiously enough, Italians,
Slavs, Greeks, do not gravitate towards
the points which would be thought
most congenial to them in America.
Destiny seems to push the hardy and
pressing ones into the gentle and lux
uriant climates.
There are almost infinite varieties in
the Southwestern character. It has
given evidence of the most exalted he
roism and the most contemplate bru-
tality. 1t offers the spectacle Of strong
culture side by side with profoundost
and most objectionable ignorance. 1t
shows you whole communities even
more law abiding and Arcadian than
the mass Of towns In New England, and
at the same time places before your
vision robbers stopping railway trains
and filching from express cars and pas
sengers' pockets, or mad crowds lynch
ing innocent men because OF their de-
sire for vengence is stronger than their
sense Of justice. 1t admires the pathetic
but adores the grotesque. 1t always
expresses itself in roundabout speech,
but does not intend to make its meaning
ambiguous. Sectional, it fancies itself
national and calls the others narrow.
In fifty years it will rule the country.
But it's hold can only be brief. 1t will
drop away, lose It's influence and return
to its section to reCuperate. Or course
in half century it will have suffered
enormous notifications. BY that time,
despite the ferocious and bigoted Con-
gresham, who is more Of pagan than
the pagans he seeks to expel from our
shores, John Chinaman will not
only have made much Roadway on the
Pacific coast, bat will have invaded the
Southwest. It is reasonably certain
that his reception by the rougher classes
in that enormous section Of the Union
will at first be exceedingly lively. But
he will win his way, and will plant the
affairs Of his 10000 deities on the Texas
plains. We shall see what head way the
native Southwesterners make in Gus
ing" the amiable, albeit eccentric John
in their local crucible. The Southwest
ern character affords the right Of bigot-
ry and largest liberty Of thought side
by side. 1t Is led into abstruse philo-
sophical study, overfiows in Kant Clubs
and in societies for the propagation of
positivism, carries free thinking to the
dizzy verge Of materialism, and at the
same time In another phase shows al
most fanatical devotion to the Church OF
Rome, multiplying her schools, her
churches and her dogmas by the side Of
the liberal institutions which make
States great and preserves them so. 1t
INDUCES In refined courtesies and all
the evidences of high civilization, yet
permits barbarous private yendettas,
and closes both eyes when the duelist
sneaks under cover to evade the law and
do his foolish work. To. day it would
not countenance border ruffianism,"
but once upon a time it did,
The Southwesterner has not made
himself SO we'll known as the Califor-
MAN, but some day he will be studied
carefully, and will afford richer mate
rial for the romancer and the essayist
than is to be found on the Pacific coast.
In grotesqueness he is superior to the
Californian; there is more imagination
In his composition, he "drops into
poetry as Mr.. Wegg did, easily and
with certain grace, even on the most
ordinary occasions. He exaggerates
exactly as his Pacific friend does
neither one could give the other any
points in that game.
The antique residue OF rebellious
spirits in the Southwest still strives
against progress and the nineteenth
century, but it may fairly be said to be
less and less effective yearly. Currents
roll over it, and soon it will be forgot
ten. The man Of the Southwest in the
future, however much he may be modi-
fed from his present status, will be
UniOnist and patriot; of that there can
be no doubt. He will learn to believe
in the whole country. The foreign
world will have met him face to face,
and he will understand that it is for his
interest to maintain national and State,
as we'll as individual credit.
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