St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-03-04


to be ashamed and not proud of.
| In Europe, those who are descended
from the rutiians who slaughtered the
largest number Of their fellow crea-
lures, during the middle ages and
since, are proud of their blood. Those
who shed most human blood are gene
rally the ones who have proud descen
dants those who are great according
| to the standard of the Prince Of Peace,
rarely have proud descendants. In Eng
land, everyone who claims lineage
from follower of William the Con-
queror, it matters not how low that
follower was then, and robbed a Saxon
Of his heritage, is pulled up with "the
pride Of blood" In Ireland "the pride
of blood" is pretty much played out;
the main question there is to get little
land to live on and something to eat.
In Scotland the bare-legged highland
gillies were completely saturated with
"the pride Of blood" they were always
proud to do what their lairds ordered,
right or wrong.
In this country !" the pride of blood"
exists in a modified and subdued form.
The country is not old enough for it to
be in full bloom. "The pride of Blood"
without considerable worldly goods to
nourish it, does not flourish here. A
penniless count is not of much consid-
Grafton, except in the eyes of a few
foolish women. Over eight hundred
years have elapsed since the Normans
robbed the English; and now the pride
Of blood, on account of this robbery, is
above par. Here, it was only the other
day that the Vanderbilts, Astors, Gould,
Stewart, and others got SO immensely
rich; and they were no-bodies before
that. All of our great men were no.
bodies when they started in life, but
by some chance they happened to be
rightly bred. In two or three hundred
years from now, if the Vanderbilts can
keep the money in the family as the
old Commodore intended, they will be
somebody and can then boast of " the
pride Of blood" In Virginia where the
F. F. VS.. dwell, there used to be good
deal of "the pride of blood;" but the
late war which destroyed property as
we'll as life, and brought poverty which
is great leveler, has toned it down
considerably, it is said. 1t, this F. F. V.
pride of blood, originated in peculiar
way: the first settlers were mostly
men, and poor ones at that. They
wanted wives, and the ships brought
over lot of poor females from En-
gland, who could not pay their passage.
The Virginia farmers bought them for
wives, and paid in tobacco. The pref
test ones sold for one hundred pounds
tote-of tobacco; and from these
were descended the First Families of
Virginia. The common people of Vir-
GINA descended from those whose
beauty was reckoned at less than one
hundred pounds of tobacco.
Until since the war "the pride of
blood" was always at the boiling point
in any black niger that belonged to
an F. F. v. What was felt by the
owner was intensified in his slave, to a
three-fold degree.
What many persons call breeding"
is merely raising" education. Breed
ing is an exact science as applied to
beasts but it's rules cannot be enforced
with human beings.
We publish a communication to the
New Orleans Times-Democrat, which
says dogs were made property in this
State, by all act of the Legislature in
1853. We do not see why an act of the
legislature should be necessary to make
dogs property, any more than it is to
make horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, etc.,
property. When person oauns a dog,
it is certainly his property ownership,
ipso tacto, makes property OF anything.
Dogs are property beyond doubt; but
some object to the taxation of dog
property. Horses and even persons are
taxed why should not dogs be 7 There
is no reasonable reason to the contrary
and according to Gov. McEnery's in
structions to assessors, they are bound
to assess dogs. They should be taxed
adj raloren,, or by poll tax of fifty cents
or one dollar each. Being property,
the law makes it imperative that they
shall be taxed and the resulting bene-
fit of taxing them will be, fewer dogs
and little better quality. "
Col. Eustace Snrget, who was Gen.
Richard Taylor's chief Of staff during