The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-06-14
aR. CABLE AND THE cRRoLRs.

A Creole who recently attended one 0i George W. Cahle's reAdings. thus ex- presses himsef in the New Orleans zfwes- DrmArsf:
 An astenssve aad interested listener the other evening al Gsunewzld hall. to Cables readings frem his works, claim yous indslsence. to express the feelings experienced on tAas occasion by one ot the tew Creolss present
 am emheldened to do co. because so much regret has been expressed hy the papers and Mir. Cables trends, at the absence that evening of th.s class of our popolatlon. which he has applied himseh so portray above all osheaR i ccaiess thst uas earned asAy ey the greaa talent he displayed. Ills posers of observation and of deliaeatioa, has porsic apprecsauon and picturing of our Loa,s- ianA scenery. hs str,king representation ot the charAesers Ae selected tos the oc- casion rom among the Americans and the Creoles that are made 10 live in his writine4 charmed me exceedingly. He revealed himself in unexpected bEilhaney. supasaias the most favorable esumate had formed ot him. from his personal ap- peArance, and the expectations 1 had read of his lectures and writings. l had never read any of his woiks aad l iei, determined to soon make up my neglect
 l left the hall. however. with other emo tions also. Feeling proud that the American pAr of Louis,ana's population had added another celebrity to the many our Creoles had placed on their states roll of honor. feis regresiul that Cable should have conhned hls selections and delineat,ons altogether to ihe lowest grades of the Creole population. Iudg- ing them by the language he places In their mouths, they are what we would call " Cadiens,- -" Chacas,- "Choupics," PAiasas,' MulAnoes, Negroes l felt that on an occasion 90 import, nt as that of first lecture before . New Orleans audience, where he expected to meet a population which unfortunately is being mlsiudged fro U his writ nes, if there exist in his works pages devoted to de- lineAtions Of the higher types of our Creoles, some of them should have been read. A proper regard for the best class of that population should have led him to place such pages alongside of those he presented, that no stranger should leave his readings believing that he had seen the Creole population depicted in a fair light. That no one should believe, even allowing for poetic license, that a character such as Narcisse's, speaking Creole pa,ois only, was a standard among the class of our young Creoles who composed the :. Louisiana Zouaves. or Chasseurs-a-Pied,r or that any of the officers of that command were no, AS high m intelligence, education, morality and manhood, as the best of the Amer can class that served their state al the same time. l acknowledge the truthful. ness of the Creole characters as far as he depicts them. ooncede that they are vivid, hying but protest al such peing raised above their proper level, and made to appear as representative type. ot any other than the class the autho. has chosen 10 use for purposes of fiction or for the market in which he expects the best sale for his works.
 protest at the absence from this iirsi and sole reading in New Orleans, of an, representation of those types of Creole talent, intellect, education, culture and manhood, which are so saliently ex. e1npiiied by a Charles D. Dreux, ar Adolphe Olivier, Charles Gayarre, and a host of others Men who, though then negro nurses and servants hao lulled them to sleep with Creole melodies such as Cable attempted to chant, and man, others he never heard of, besides the English language in which they were hi. equals, possessed the French in a degree to have passed for Frenchmen in Pari. itself Take the history ot Louisiana from the days of Audubon down, and the higher types of Creoles challenge any other class or race on its soil 10 a com parison of intellect, of education, c talent, of patriotism, of devotion to the highest attainments of civilization.
 1t is not fair, therefore, whether to sui the purposes Of the author, or for theatn. cal effect, in one whose wogks are sup posed to show the true characteristics of the Creoles of Louisiana, that he should leave impressions on any public that this the oldes, part of our population, appeal in their highest types in Jules; or Narcisse : that they speak negro French or Creole pasois; that they ar, ignorant of the Engiish language O. literature, or of the French. Whethe intentional or net Cable's writings havs left this impression on the general pubic north. His reading Thursday evening lel this impression on a good many O his hearers, and if not dispeiled, remains slander upon . populafion, who's higher types in intelligence, in educ aiion in culture, in refinement is taste, in tact in ali those delicate asszinments and feel ings that constitute the acme of eniight cnment still remain, If not the sapsTiors the equals of any in Louisiana; a ciasi that has been, time and again, cxtollet by the best judges here and abroad fol the qualities above cited--a class who though not to-day decked with the gansi display of parvenu splendor, still retain in their retirement all that made ths salons and hospitality sf our anfe-bellun homes and plantations, provesbia through the land-that is, modesty ana education, benevolenoe, adabilisy and re I 6nement
 My old negro nurse oten repeated ss