Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1879-03-22
BATON ROUGE, La, MAR. 90, 1879.
We MUST HAVE TIT Is OURS.

pearances, the youngest--the Capi
tOlian-bids fair soon to become tn.
first. It's typographical appearance,
is unexcelled by any paper in tn,
State, and friend Leon yields til,
quill and shears with such ability tina
the same may be said Of its contents
Fight the good fight, Leon, and never
cease, until Baton Rouge is the CAPT
tal Of the proud old Pelican State :
Abbeville MeridiOnal.
Among the many utterances Of the
press bidding us urge that the Con.
vention ratify the majority vote giver
in favor of Baton Rouge for State
Capital, none are more appreciated
by US than those coming from our old
and tried friend, Addison. We have
been enlisted in that righteous cause
many months, and no,c that we arc
backed by the mmistakable will Of
the people, we mean to stand to il
until the representatives Of Louisiana
shall have obeyed the admonition ex-
pressed at the polls in November last
Aye, the politicians must not look to
the maintenance Of the Capital, amid
the pleasures and the Injuries that
the Crescent City affords. The hum
bic citizen who bears the burthen Of
taxation imposed upon his all for the
support Of our State government, de-
mands that while he labors at his
plow or in the workshop, his repre-
sentative will have the patriotism and
public spirit to diminish the charges
that weigh upon the commonwealth
by every measure that will afford
relief.
It Is no new experiment; with the
Capital at Baton Rouge o class Of
men will come to the General Assem-
bly, who are not seeking a sixty days
frolic. They will come to work for
Louisiana, outside Of the corrupting
influences Of q large city, and the hun
dreds Of thousands Of people who stay
at their country homes the year round
will no longer have their interests sac
riiced in order to afford one hundred
and twenty men, and Messrs. the State
officials, q luxuriant sojourning place.
The time has come when every man
will be expected to do his duty, and
in order that this may be done, all
selfish motives must be thrown aside.
Every patriotic Louisianian must
remember those days when our SOL
diers marched to the battlefield bare
footed, ill-clothed, half fed, and with
out pay, Offering up their lives to
maintain our liberties, and the honor
of our State. No such sacrifices are
demanded of the representatives to
the State Convention. They are ask
cd only to frame q constitution that
will restore good and economical gov
eminent, In order that the march to-
wards our common happiness and
prosperity may be taken up at the
very earliest day.
The very first reform measure to be
adopted is the restoration of the Capt.
tal to the place designated at three
different periods-AT BATON ROUGE.
The people Of this parish, on last
Tuesday, honored the editor of the
CApIToLIAN, by electing him rs one
Of their representatives to the ap-
preaching Convention. We frankly
admit that 1t is because Of our known
zeal in the cause of this restoration
that we have been selected. Yes,
friend Addison, with Messrs. HEBRON
and YOU'VE, zoe 'cill be there, ready to
remind any representative of the peo-
pie who might SO far forget his duty
in this particular, that Louisiana has
decreed that the Capital must and
shall be removed to its ancient site.
We do not expect to find a single
man opposing the insertion of the
clause affirming the verdict rendered
at the polls, for we believe that the
people throughout the State have
elected none other but those who will
fearlessly obey all their wishes.
We 60 to New Orleans confident Of
success, Addison, and we expect to
find among those fighting at our side
the worthy delegates of "old Vermil
ion," whose views we know that you
surely express.
A widow intending to succeed her
husband in the management of a no.
tel, advertised that "the hotel will be
kept by the widow of the former land
lord, Mr.. Brown, who, died last sum
mer on a new and improved plan"
A coroner's verdict reads thus: "The
deceased came to his death by excess
i've drinking, producing apoplexy in
the minds of the jury" A country
paper says: "a child was run over
BY wagon three years old, and cross
eyed, with pantalets on"
Whenever man begins to feel that
he is so great that the country is
standing in the middle Of the road
waiting for him to come by, it is
about time for his friends to look up