Year: 1866

@hu communists, Who insist that property i


merely the creature or creation of society, an,


therefore may be rightfully abrogated by its mem
bers. We have entered purposely upon thest


details because 1t will he seen that the local stu


alton of our river parishes, upon such a stream a.
\ the Mississippi, has rendered necessary egis


ation which may not be the same in other coun


tries. Hence, therefore, although the front pro
/ prietor is absolute owner of his real estate into
the very middle of the stream vet the use of the


river bank for the public, is reserved in full and


cannot be obstrueted by him in ,any man.


neri consequently he has no right to erect


any buildings or any structures upon the
immediate margin, which would interfere with


any such public use, and we therefore much


questionthe power of any front proprietor to an alb


soute enclosure of any of his bature lots or other


river front or levee domains. When our supreme
court laid down these decisions, we doubt that
they toresaw the ultimate consequences to which
they might lead, in course of time and under the
pressure of events; however, it seems very eyi.


dent to us that the universal acknowledgment of a


similar basis or doctrine upon the nature or the
rights of the ground or soil ownership will be in
direct opposition to what might be termed the
ultimate freeson teaohings-that is to say, the
SSth
the course of time we should again land upon the
same platform upon which once stood the indie.
pendent knights and barons of the olden Empre
of Germany, when such freehold owner, even in
the humble condition of a coal burner (collierD \
might say to the emperor that he was his equal
and peer, and far above his court and camp fel
lows, however bedizened with golden chains and
diamonds? Now let our readers not suppose that
we have too much sweryed from our subject we
know that we are upon the banks of the great
Mississippi, and for that very reason delight to
recall facts of ancient history Here in this &ew
world, upon this comparatively but recently dis.
covered and settled country, (for, after all Ponce
de Leon landed in Florida but about the same time
that the great reformation took root under Martin
Luther say 1913 we say it is not to be wondered
at that most marvellous transformations NAV now
take place upon these hitherto almost unhistorical
shores


Now that the States of North America, even the
British Possessions included, have started upon a
new and most extraordinary career, it would be
against all historical probability against all logical
inference, to suppose that events will come calmly
down 70 their former peaceful developments. No,
LET US be, On the contrary, prepared to perform
our part in these greatdramatic evoutions upon the
delta of our world renowned river. Let us do our
share in giving proper direction to that yet un-
known state of civilization or social organization,
which irresistibly will make its course, or burst
forth in our very nidst.


What we have beheld in far away countries
social reformatory cenyulsions-are now in store
for US, unless we undertake to guide and direct
them, with all the modern forces which the genius
of our country has placed at our DISPOSAL. In such
manner the valley Of the Mississippi, and more
particularly, its great pusating heart the immense
deltapolis, or modern renovated New Orleans, will
find itself at the head Of that great social move.
ment which has just received its conservation by
our first magistrate, the pilot at the helm Of our
also renovated commonwealth, in his restoration
message. Aye, the question of the day. the solu-
ton Of the capital and labor problem, will find its
practical development upon the very shores of this
ancient Meschecebt-the father of waters or
foods.