Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-09
L0U.SIANA'S CRE0LES.
A sKErCu OW THIS RFNAhKA-
BILE Race OF PEOPLE.

SlruuF-What Crei = Native m" 10
tire Mann 4. IN = ~ to say or AhaiA
TIE ReCe Tor" from French 'w span
is, or French and GT mar or . rehch
and Rattan PerO~tsEe.
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o.. e. +bo no, d. i..+s-nrota tim
O"''H ~ ' 80.
Which lhe F"ro C'Note ud7
counm les where the Creole rs not owl
e-,varat writer's have Given their detri-
TONS ,,.a copco,t,opz who claim I'd tbat
...,.. ,5.<,.bod hoe
Iue77 " el' 1"'l CN'
there" bul' 81" Il 'it'''' ~i'' '"''
failed to met q sin-ie one Wnca vas
feitbril to rho traditions which the word
,,,oh+ "a convor elsewhere and does I'M
O.@". g...,. r..,o omar
ply al nome a'"
reason ban % can my '''N'T is an -N"i'
rican CitIz born I'M Lou'si ma, from me
Maria 70 of pie father. 7gho w's also porn
~ Lon siou8. from f thor vho re-i1en ~
louisiana but WHO had been born I'D
Andal"sia ~H'is. and WHO'S. ancestors
there. MP { e lad 'er, were q SPA lardt-
and my famty not necessarily my Guns
TAM name Is as spanish as can be. Now.
on tine maternal sid | am "a Creole e.
cause IN DO tber was born tn l. uls
from the marriage of her mother, ais
born I'm Louisiana from p mQther wbo was
rcsdin1 in Louisiana. but who he'd been
born ina the French colonial fo-sn ssOns,
and who's. ancestors mp the lad were
all French, ani my m 'jh7r's famiy lnot
necessarily her Chrisfian) name IS as
French rs can I've. On the maternal sid re-.
my fathers mother was born mere IN
Louisiana from q father also horn here
whose fsthrr was q German, residing
here, hut whose father had as ancestors
persons upthe ladder II born io q maj Y.
On the rat rnal side now my mother had
for father man residing IN LOUISIANA
but born In France, waose ancestors were
all French and whose name IS as as french
as could be. But both on my laihrFs ara
mothers side ~" 'neuaEe mas been SPOKEN
since The birth of those oi then ancestors
as were born IN LOUISIANA, from the as-'-
citation originally which Louisiana hal
with France before - was ceded to the
United stat s., except the French IAN
guage, which has uni ormN b9on thHt c'
the fam ~ circle and family hearth. My
Genea ogy S the 2onaal1g Of every Gre
ole oi Louisiana. We are al born rom
French AMI Spanish or from French and
German parant9ge. bot never from trenc
and An. c-e7Non pareuia-e, nut often
from freHeh ard Italian aih1atlon.
Wheno it olows that the Creole is es-
seutialy 'n-."rdort of The Latin races.
None o. lr M mhars have EMERGED
from 2 hd Ireland Nova scotia
Can t3' colonial states ot this
cou Der the domination OF
Greet b . H. fh' olsureul>hing les
tur-. 't"cHn the creole ana
Am one negatives and the
oth. .0n an AHglo-Saxon an
cg~t
Ihu $50 -n r r-ly ~" "s 70 their
aOcfstra nr "; as 90 vac est, me
CreDl s n' Il tm rcaus Of Louis ana arc
as wealthy IS tNa Othe". as cultivated nd
refined, SIS ofHcptfd aHd polished as po-
liticai and com wereial as the other, Grt
they an speak Inc Enaji4h 'a0guage af
correctly as their Amer. tTcthren. in
busin IS cr ~ocietN-but Wren Mt houe.
in the family Giro and st the family
table. the Crcoles speak but French.
Engfish prevail ~ the American house
hold only. a diAeren g iu this respect
however, must be drawn between New o.
lears Creolps aud tre Ire0les OF the coun-
try rarishe--the iatt r., with less faril-
ties. art-l IS .yquantei with the I'm hsh
lansuage, 20 ere x exclusively FranoN
with hut few f. ue-their uev0
papers helm y .n.0s. itn yrrsally ruhlIshed
n Fruch. rtol.qs. in Ntw Otleaee.
y hare TIE Greco s, IN q population o.
258. 000, number about, mad wei M
100 Coz thereo. they have hHt one news-
paper puhlshrd Ia Their ancestral
LANGUAGE. Thy have bed. and continue
e. hold, with thoir American brethren,
the highest off ,os 90 sfotG and parOchial
Importance, f.0m the Governor down.
The present Governor is an American:
his predecee sor was Creole Of French