Weekly Phoenix herald., 1884-09-25
THE CITY OF eSDASSz
New Orleans city where
 Religion Kuieth-

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 20, 1884.
 ED. HERALD:-Ncw OFl,an is, without doubt, one Of the most Tee ligi )us cities in America-that is larger propOtion of Ter people arr church>gners. The Latin race pre- domi ating, the tcndt n"y is mainly reward the Church of Rome, al- though other sects arc well r' pre- se. {, q.
 Tine early priests of Louisiana dis tingu. shed themselves in the field IS well IS the pulpit. Theirs were some Of the first great successes m agriculture. In 1727, when the UrsulInc Nuns and Jesuit Fathers a.riv,d in the colony, the latter Were assigned lr:.ct of waste land, mainly mprnss and swamp, lying above he city. They drained and cleared ahd cultivated tils land until he Jesuit's plantation came |" be known far and wide fSr it's thrift and opuleuce. In 1G63 King Glenn eni XII expelled the JesIits from the colony and confiscatcd their lands, which were cut up in dozen plantations and sold for some $1S0, coo.
 Only onc, in thc Who'll history Of Louisiana do we find Hint of per >. Cuiion on the part of the church. When plain old mettcr>of- fact Este ban Miro was Governor of the c,,lnry. 8 priesily agent of the Holy Inqui-ition, called to rrque-t that a file of soldiers be p,actd it his dis posal. The Governor sent squad wLo seized the priesi and shipped Jim to Havana This was the f1rsi of the Irquisition in Louisiana- and the lasi-
 Two years after the Unined States purchased Louisiana the first Prot estant church was erected. A gen> erous Jew, Jeudah Touro, gave he ground and the legislature l. granted the master and wardeDs permission te run lottery for the purpose of raising this edificc. which since then has twice Leen rebuilt and is BOW to be torn down and rebuilt further up town. This chu. ch is Episcopal, A few years afler tue Presbyterians got lottery permit ard erected a grand buI ding, which has echoed with the cloquence of tie Revercnds Sylvester LaTncd and Theodore ClaPp. Is it wonderful that with such examples the New Orleans public looks lenien'ly on lotteries in general? ChurchNlovers as the New Orleans people arc they never attempt to inquire into the tenets Of their next door neighbnrs. A mans religion, it is held, Is his OWL business and does not concern the public. Fortunately here, the churches have always had wise and liberal lcaders-men of good will iowa ds all good willing men.
 We have in the past two years be- held an Episcopal Bishop as a moulner ov,r a negro boy at d funeral; n Jewish Rabbi wedding his favorite neice to an uncircum- cised Christian; Presbyterian doc tor of divinity preaching the funeral sermon over a Rabbi's dead chlld-
 Do not such specimens ofrcligious feeling in a city where clutches never uaurcl speak for the enlight- erment and toleration of the Great Queen City of the Sou h-the great Exposition grounds of the continent. It is well that such facts as these should go cut to tIe people of all lands They will correct erroneous impressions Of the people and lead them to take mere thorough In- tc'est in the great Exposition 10 which she invites all he world.
 This grand evcnt-perhaps the grandest in its arms and extent of any in our country, is near at hand. and the exhibits arepouring in from all corners of the country and the world. The scene at the Exposl> ton grounds is now more than at tractive; it is compu sive As the 1 eye turns from Horticultural Hall, with its myraid pancs n glass playing diamond cut diamond under | the dazzling sun of Louisiana, to the majestic repose of the Main Building, at whose tower top floats | proudly the fig of united people, 1 q feeling Of infinite satisfaction sud | denly supeIvcnes and the anticipant ! thought arises that, when the peo- 1 ale's real representatives from Maine to California, strolling beneath this roof If thirty-throe acres, shall be> hold Americas giant industries dis> played in more than royal rivalry, | how truly they can cxcla;m with honest pride: "'ro be sn American citizen IS greater than of King"
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