Homer guardian., 1888-12-21
Homer, La,
Friday. Dec. 21, 1888
A Bloody Heritage.

4 Bloody Herltases
The Americans are proverbially
the most restless, nervous, upqulet
people in the world. Those pain
ters who possess the faculty OF
making caricatures of individuals
seem to discover, through the out,
er envelope of the human form, the
most distinguishing interior quail
tiles. and so present them as pecu-
liarilies dominating the entire pic
turc and showing through every
lineament of face and figure.
These carricaturist are specially
gifted with powers Of introyision
or introspection and of bringing
to light the secrets of life or
character. These cunning anal
ysts have always painted the typ
ical American rs q tall, thin, ner-
rous. person modelled upon The
American aborigines. Whether
u Yankee or a Southern slave
driver was to be delineated, there
was always the same lank, bony
nervous and intense looking indi
vidual of an uachanglng and char
acteristic type. The jack knife
OF the Yankee whittier, or the
bowicknife and pistols of the
Southern desperado, were added
to the paraphernalia of the figure
without altering its characterist.
les. The white American civil
lied as to dress and white as to
complexion, but always the same
grave, restless, intense man.
The Europeans who make up
the white population of America
have succumbed to the potent and
mysterious influences that pcrvadc
the conditions and control the laws
OF human life on our hemisphere
and they are being conformed to
the type of its ancient inhabitants.
But If we are to inherit their ply
sical conformation shall we not al
so succeed to their mental and
spiritual characteristics?
The Western Hemisphere has
been from the earliest times the
theatre of internccine wars, ofwars
SO bloody and ferocious that ma.
tions were blotted from off the face
of the earth and entire races of
men were extinguised. By whom?
There were no foreign invaders
able to cross the vast ocean vast.
es that separated the Nsw(?) world
from the Old. There were no
ships equal to the voyage. The
mariners compass was unknown.
Ptolemy had not then devised his
system Of astronomy on which to
base methods of reckoning ships
place on the trackless and un-
known seas. Perhaps vessel
driven By the fury Of the winds
might have drifted from the coasts
ct Europe to the Western wilds,
but 20 admiral was bold enough
to marshall a feet on any mission
to the tabled lands of the sunset
seas,
Cut off from all the rest Of their
race, the people Of the Western
Hemisphere, shut in with each
other, addressed themselves with
desperate zeal to the terrible task
of slaughtering each other, and
they did tito such purpose that
to day we may only conjecture the
vast extent of their sanganary
accomplishment. Colossal and
mysterious ruins with none to tell
their history, and the remains of
near thousand distinct languag.
es now possessed by a few broken
tribes, speak in strange but un.
comprehcnded terms Of mighty ma
tions and multltudes Of men who
have passed away. The hemis
phere is land of graves-name.
less graves of nameless peoples.
When the whites land ed on tho
shores Of America they found all
the tribes, at war With each 9th
er. So bitter was their hostility
that they readily made commo
cause with the strange invader il
order to crush their neighbors
Cortcz was enabled by the help o
the Tlascallans TO conquer the Az