The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-01-23
Gov. McEnery' S Defense of Louisian

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Several weeks ago a party of Northern
Journalists visited New Orleans for the pur-
pose of viewing the Exposition, and Gov.
McEnery was called upon to deliver vel
come address. His remarks were thus re-
ported by the Picayatae::
He was glad 10 hail and to welcome dis
tinguished representatives OF the press, who
form. control and direct public opinion, and
who would now be able to examine for
themselves the character and condition of
our people, He was proud they had brought
with them the beautiful women Of their
country as well as its chiyalry.
It has been said that New Orleans Is Oh
trial, but this is not true. The reputation
Of its people does not depend on few hours
or days Of good behavior. Louisiana and
New Orleans have q history distinguished
in it's character, romantic in its incidents.
The people of Louisiana were the first on
the continent to make resistance to royal
decree when they sent a deputy to King
Louis XIV TO demonstrate against the ces-
sion of the province to Spain in 1862.
Louisiana has suffered more in the way
of evil report from her own children than
from anything that had ever been said
abroad. If you will look calmly at the
history of The State and city you will find it
ample to vindicate them. You will find our
communities much like thoee from which
you have come and hope viii make this
statement to the people of your own cities.
There is rot one State in the Union where
crime is punished with more certainty, and
there is no other State in which a snit can
be filed, heard by the lower courts and final
ly passed upon by the highest tribunal in
the space of six months. Law and author
ity receive as much respect in Louisiana as
in New York and Pennsylvania The peo-
pie here do, not differ from those of any
portion Of the country. They are citizens
of the same great nation; they honor and
cherish its institutions, and they worship
at the same altar.
Let the visitors from the North look on
our vast expanse of cotton fields, and see in
the gardens the beautiful flowers blooming
under the warm rays of a winters sun: Let
their ladies view their beauty mirrowel in
our tranquil and CLASSY lakes. See our no
BILE forests with their graceful draperies of
Spanish moss: behold our broad lands rich
with their treasures of waving cane and
golden rice. You can find nothing more
beautiful, and they invite the energetic and
Industrious Northerners to come and help
us develop the buried wealth Of our soil.
In our northern hills iron ore yielding
So per cent. of pure metal abounds, while
kaolin for the manufacture Of the finest
proclaim, and stone and marble sufficient
to build this city are found. Here are the
most wonderful deposits of salt, while the
climate if fault can be found in its perfect
delightfulness, is that it is a trifie too gent
al, inviting to repose. OF the 400 varieties
of valuable grasses 800 are found in Lcuisi-
ana.
We hope you may be impressed b. SO
many evidences of beauty and native wealth
and bear to your fellow citizens such infor-
nation as may guide their footsteps 10 this
favoraed land.
The Governor cordially welcomed the
visitors in the name of the people Ct Louisi-
ana to their Inequalities.