New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-09

hands of Northern men. They had also taken
into their hands the cause of popular education.
An excellent public-schco; system had been e~
tabshcd. Massachusetts man was the slpc'h-
tendent of schools. and the school board con-
sisted wholly OF Northern men, one oil my coIiege
classmates having borne specially active part III
the service At later time | found tnat ov'
Louis had been indebted % immigrants from New
England for the organization, management ana
endowment OF educational Institutions OF every
grade.
The portions of Ncw-0rleans occupied by the
remaining Spanish and French population. which
was confined chiefly to one section OF the CITY,
of poverty STAYED off and impending rather than
already fe. in its Beenncss. They retained the
habits Of Incidence engendered by hereditary slave
holding without partaking in the renoyating IN
fuences Of Northern immigration and enterprise
suppose that it was in accordance with spanish
prodilecton rather than as the direct result OF
slavery vet still in harmony with the non-pro-
gressive character OF saveholdiDg population, that
on a Sunday morning, on church-door, there APP
peared huge placard advertising Tor the att sI
noon a bull-hght at Algiers. on the opposite side
Tn nv VOYAGE I'D the Ohio on that Journey ]
had an object lesson forced upon my sght whic zen
an ant-slavery lecture. On the hentncky sac
Of the river the clearlnas were rare, strag2gnns
and Unlocking. with mere shanties Tor dweilhgs,
and the villages small mean, ana poor. on tnc
Ohio side we were constantly passing neat, we,-
fenced well cultivated farms. with comfortanc
dwelnghonses and the VILLAGES nda o spes a
ready great city, and as not then delaced oy
coal-smoke. more beautiful than II is now; ana
Covingt0n. opposite TO it on the hentuchy siie;
although about its coeval. seemed century uehino
On my way home from the South and west IN
1914 | made my first visit 10 Washington, now
second in beauty 10 no city In the w9rlu ~
was then mere quagmre, with pubhc builulhgs,
respectable houses and shantes dotted down. az
il seemed, promiscuousy. though really on proaI
streets now magnifcently broad. that had peen
surveyed and laid ont. but were for the mose
part without sidewalk or pavement ana Win
| improvement. 1t had then been - the seae
| of government for forty-four years. Had Ike
| district for the National Government been ceaed
| by Pennsylvania, New-YorK, or any other nom
| slavehOlding State, in less than quarter OF o
| century there would have sprung up city, OF
| which the Nation might have been proud ana 10
| is certain that since the abolition or slavery
Washington has made in every five years greater
/ advancement in everything that indicates good
| taste, prosperity and enterprise than In any
| twenty years of its previous existence. -
| John Tyler then President i called on
| him. and | cannot forget that in my brief hall-
hour / heard from him what / am sure that
| should not have heard from Northern gentleman
| of his standing. His manners were both cour-
| teOus and kind and he aid not swear TO me or
| at me- but there present fippant young
man, the editor Of an ephemeral Boston newspaper,
| whom he must have instinctivey perceived TO DO
| of profane turn Of mind. and in talking with
him he transcribed the outside limits Of reverenc
| speech. The President is expected, indeed, So
| cally. to become all things to all mon bat the
line should be drawn somewhere, and we pigho
| not unreasOnaby demand that it should be SO
| drawn TO exclude oath and imprecation.
| think that Northern President, If not Of blame
| less life, would have known enough TO. keep his
| lips clean in his own reception-room in mixed
| society; but swearing at slaves | suppose, seemed
natural, and this miserable habit would have been
| Of Spontaneous growth in the relation between
| owner and bondman.