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VOLUME 1. NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA, s8U' fDAY AUGUST 6, 1871. . nI. ,
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The Louisianiam.
Ii tlu (l4lrC1'iltor to establish another
l:.i.iuLli.lu jurnl0'L1 iin Now Orleans,
tt, thvr Tii, trit of the LOITINIANIAN,
Il,,... t ill a uecessity which ha
t,, ii 1titL'. 'loi, 1 i,4nloietimes painfully
,it t, ,\ it. In the transition htate
t .nur pI,,e', in th4'r it strnggling efforts
i :,tt;ili thl.t piitionl in the Body
I',,lm,. I I.illh we conceivo to lie their
dii, it i. r, :.rl,'1 d that much inform
itinul, ituidiiinti,! e iouragement, coun
h I a:lil ri pIroof have lbeen lost, in
t",.l4) In,. lie of the hack of a medium,
th,,ih hih li'l'th, edeticiencienmight
Il,,:e silh,,. Wu nshall strive to make
thI Li ,l ' siNIAN ita tdiis'i'drtltul in these
POLICY.
A iir i ,wtt, indicates, the Lo0us
".ti.I.t 4) hll 11)o " Rt7,ttll c',t i (tt i l
bIANIAti hll lie Rqoduliimu ia' all
/,,,,,, 4,,, ,, rll cir"cu/ i o crhtiIc sii" W e
hi.iIlI i dio,,uto the security and enljoy
i. ,t ,I Ilerl:ul civil lil-srty, the al54d
,1t, , ,ility of all men Ibfore the law,
tl, ,1 iiipa,,rtial disth'ilutioln of hon
,,i d it il.patroun.e to all Mill mlerit
j."iriouvi of all:iying iniiii itid ', of
!,lit.erating the memory of the bitter
1i,.4iof ironimtting hiiaiiiitony :ili41 unionl
onllg all clasies land between all -in
ti, i ,~t. we shall advocate the removal
,i ,II lpolitical disabilities , foster kind
. . anld forbearance, where malignity
s,l lr .litlinllt reigned, and seek for
i, 1ii lland justice where wrong and
,I,.I'11in prevailel. Thuiullited in
S1 :Ailiis 14 objects, we shall conserve
t, iht,-,t iltoreits, elevate our noblle
.lnt,.. ti :1 einvitlable 1ismition among
i."i i-htr StatAs, by the development
I,' I- illilnitadle resourees and secure
t.' hill hltltfiLt of the mighty changes
: t histitory and condition of the
1 ', and the country.
1; living that there can be no true
Ii., hiV ithol,lt the supremacy of law,
i, .hall iir'. a strict anlld undiscrimi
Lnu, fl auhllnistraltion of justice.
TAXATION.
VW. h'lll tuillort the doctrine of an
'Iiit;1,l, division of taxation among
.ll, I..,1 a fu;ithful collection ofthe
t, I, iui,, vcinonly in the expendi
tll',i conlfrlnllfrl y 'with the exigen
r.1 at tIh, Sltid or c4untry iand the
hsna.:r,, ,of every legitimate obliga
E:DUCATION.
V, shlu:ll sullstain the carrying out of
tl.: 0r,\iillns of the act establishing
'i ('iIii,, scheId system, and urge
l : I'ur. llanlt duty the edutcation of
Ior yillth, ia vitally connected with
1 ', ir anl lilght nent, and the aeenr
t ild statility of a Republican GOV
FINAL.
IUL a p. ,0rous, manly, independent,
,.I ulllicijus (COlilnllt, we shall strive
l rn'ilie li, r Ilpa'r, from an ephem
.1, :,Il hitenprary existence, and
'tlliih it up1n1 a bhis, that if we
'iiliit "viiniand," we shall at aill
,'l!ts t doserve" success
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LAWS
-OF THE-
STATE OF LOUISIAWA.
[PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY]
No. o9.
An Aot
( (I tinued frman Las, Ni, m-r.)
See. 22. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That upon the organization of the
Council created by this act, it shall
be the duty of the Mayor and trus
tees, treasurer and controller, and
all other officers of the city of
Shreveport, to forthwith turn over
and deliver to the Mayor and Coun
cil as created and constituted by
this act; all books, papers, records,
documents, moneys, bonds, notes,
and every description of movable
property whatsoever belonging to
the said city of Shrevoport: and in
the use of or under the cortrol of
any of their respective departments
and that if any person holding un
der the city of Shreveport, as con
stituted previous to the passage of
this act, having possession or con
trol of any property or effects of
any kind whatsoever belonging to
the said city, and shall refuse or
neglect to forthwith deliver up the
same to the Mayor and Council,
created by this act, he shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,and
punished by a fine not exceeding
one thousand dollars, and imprison
ment not exceeding six months.
Sec. 22.)le it further enactet, etc.,
That all laws or parts of laws, in
conflict with this act, be and the
same are hereby repealed.
Sec. 24. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That this act shall take effect from
and after its passage.
[Signed GEO. W. CARTER,
Speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives.
SSigned j OSCAR J. DUNN,
Lieutenant Governor and Pr'esident
of the Senate.
Approved April 27, 1871.
[Signed) II. C. WARMOTH,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
(iFo. E. ]BvEf;,
Secretary of State.
No. 101.
AN ACWE.
To ratify and confirm a compromise
made between the city of Shreve
port and the assignees and repre
sentatives of the Shreveport
Town Company in relation to
property in said city, known as
"The Batture property" a' rati
fy an ordinance of the Maydr and
Trustees of said city, adopted
January 21, 1871.
SzErcox 1. Be it enacted by the
Senate and House of Representa
tives of the State of Louisiana, in
General Assembly conveyed, That
the compromise made by the city
of Shreveport on the one part, and
by Messrs. Nutt and Leonard, agents
and attorneys of M. D. C. Crane,
James H. Pickett, W. R. Carter,
Amelia M. Hord, Robert L. Gilmor,
John (irigsby, L. B. Grigsby andti
Ann M. Jenkins, administrators of
succession of B. Jenkins, the as
signees and representatives of the
Shreveport Town Company, on the
other part, be and the sameIc is here
by fully ratified and confirmed, and
the parties are herby authorized to
carry the same into effect
See. 2. Be it further epactod, etc.,
That the ordinance adopted by the
Mayor and Truees of the city of
Shreveport, at an adjourned meet
ing held on the twenty-first January
1871, relative to said compromise,
be and the same is hereby declared
to be fully ratified and confinrmed,
said ordinance being as follows:
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Trustees of thd city gf Shreveport,
in legal assemblly convened, That
the proposition made by the as
signees and representatip of the
Shreveport Town Company through
their agents and attorneys, Meesrs.
Nutt and Leonard, which has been
filed of this date with the c. y re
sords in relation to a compromise
between said assignees and repre
sentatives and the citj of Shreveport
of all matters at issue resulting
from conlicting claims to the prop
erty generally known as the b1t
ture particularly designated and
described on two maps of same,
this day filed with city re..rda, be
and the same is hereby accepted.
Be it further ordained, etc., That
the City Surveyor be and he is
hereby instructed to proceed at
once to make a survey of said bat
ture, and to lay off same into suit
able blocks and lots, reserving pro
per streets and alleys, including in
same the property said city recently
recovered from F. C. Walpole, which
is portion of said batture.
Be it ordained, etc., That a space
or street shall be left open on the
immediate bayou and river bank,
and that all future accretion thereto
shall belong to the city for public
use.
Be it ordained, etc., That the city
and said reprusentatives shall pay
parties having an equitable claim
thereto for improvement on proper
ty recovered from F. C. Walpole,
the same to be valued by three dis
interested parties.
Be it ordained, etc., That the
property acquired by Mrs. S. C.
Head from the city shall remain in
her possession until May, 1874, when
the same shall be by her delivered
to said city and representative, to
gether with all iuiprovements there
on, without any compensation; and
in lieu of said property Mrs. Head
shall have the right to select and
take as owner the same quantity of
ground from the block to be laid
off on the west side of Bossier
street, said selection to be made in
the middle of such block, and ;ot
at the corner thereof; provided,
that said Mrs. Head accepts in wri
ting the terms of this ordinance.
Be it further ordained, etc., That
after survey and plat of said bat
ture shall have been made as here
inbefore provided, all the lots there
of shall he sold at public auction on
the following terms aid conditions,
namely, one fourth cash, balance in
equal payments of one, two and
three years, for which purchasers
shall give notes, with approved per
sonal security, bearing. eight per
cent per annum interest from day
of sale, and secured by special mort
gage waiving benefit of appraise
ment on property sold.
Be it further ordained, etc., That
in accordance with the proposition
made by Messrs. Nutt and Leonard
agents and attorneys, one-half of
the proceeds of such sale shall be
received by them and one-half by
the city.
Be it further ordained, etc., That
the sale shall be made on or before
the fourth of May next, 1871.
Be it further enacted, etc., That
Sany suits brought to evict parties
who are or may be in possession of
I any portion of said batture shall be
I brought by Nutt and Leonard at
the expense of the parties whom
they represent.
Be it further enacted, etc., That
i this ordinance and compromise shall
be submitted to the Legislature of
the State of Louisiana, who are
I hereby respectfully requested to en
act a law ratifying and confirming
the same.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, etc.,
SThat said act shall take effect from
,and after its passage.
[Signed I G(EO. W. CARTER,
Speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives.
[Signed] OSCAR J. DUNN,
Lieutenant Governor and President
of the Senate.
SApproved May 4, 1871.
[Signed] H. C. WARMOTH,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
Gan. E. BovEq,
Secretary of State.
COMC HORROR.
A Boston exchange is responsible
for the following Itory:
A short time since a man appear
ed at the Boston City Hall, request
Sing an interview with the chie of
V"What can I do for you?" inqnired
Sthe ocial
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t "Can I speak to y privately?"
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"No one win bear ms?'
"No."
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a "Well, then, liaten. As I was
-cteing the Comm.o hat night,
saout twelve Obd.k, Is[m aweman
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SPom4I".'
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POETRY.
TO-DAY.
BYT . E. CARPEINTR.
Don't tell me of to-m row ;
Oive me the man who'll say,
That, when a good deed's to be done,
"Let's do the deed lt-day."
We may al command the presest,
If we act, sa never wait ;
Cut repentance is the phanton
Of a past that comes too late !
Don't tell me of to-morrow;
There is much todo today,
That can awoeramenesVqird
If we tha tae s away;
Every moment has its duty;
Who the futire can foretell?
Why put off until to-morrow
"What to.day can do as well?"
Don't tell me of to-morrow:
If we look upon the past,
How much that we have left to do
We cannot do at last !
lb-day--it is the only time
For all upon the earth ;
It takes an age to form a life
A monment gives it birth !
LECTURE
Br REV. H. H. WHIa.
THE ASSASSINATION OF PRE
SIDENT LINCOLN.
MSrTINr OF THE COLORED CITIZENS AT
THE BAPTner CHURCH LITuE
ROCK AwtLsas.
A meeting of colored citizens was
held at the Baptist Churbh on
Gaines street, last evening, under
the auspices of the Lincoln Memorial
Club, to commemorate the death of
Abraham Lincoln. The proceed
ings consisted of a lecture by Rev:
H. H. White, and singing. We
present an abstract of the.lecture
below.
The theme upon which the speaker
dwelt was,
LINCOLN'S GREATEST ACT.
He said,
LADIES AND (EWrLEUEN:--I am
going to address you upon emanci
pation as the greatest act of Abra
ham Lincoln's life. It has been
very aptly said, that, "The deedn of
time are governed as well as judged
by the decrees of eternity. The
caprice of fleeting existences bends
to the immovable Omnipetance,
which plants its foot on all the cen
turios and has neither change of
purpose nor repose. Sometimes,
like a messenger through the thick
darkness of night, it steps along
mysterious ways, but when the hour
strikes for a peopleror for mankind
to pass into a new form of being,
unA*n hands draw the bolts fromw
the gates of futurity; an all-subdu
ing influence prepares the minds of
men for the coming revolution;
those whol plan resistance find
themselves in cenflict with the will
of Providence rather than with hu
man devices; and all hearts, and
all understandings most of all
the opinions and influences of the
unwilling, are wonderfully attracted
and compelled to bear forward' the
change, which becomes more an
obedience to the law of universal
nature than submission to the ar
bitrament of man. Every enlight
ened, reflecting, candid mind eoannot
fail of seeing the handof Providence
creating, moulding, directing and
pressing forward to finaleoamuma
tion, the events which constitute
the epochs of the history of the race.
And to fail of discerning an emi
nently benefienet qmd in iwihich
the rapidly suaeeding evmnts of his
tory enlminate,-a purpose emhrac
ing the highest good of the entire
family of man, argues a adaeas
so stultifying to the moral seae as
to be unworthy the lower order of
the animal creation. All the works
of God are diistinguiebed by gradual
developmenti but his phrpose
though like comets they take leug
circite, will corni round at last;
and in their falfillment the heart 44
mankind swellsa.with a miglo~y.
So much may,be truf mid of
the rise and fall of the institation
of American 8Sarery. That Provi
dAmne pammitted it, none can
that its complete or
_ -, all miut
pronimate .use
mawa grasped by kee
Ipsemeny in the developmenat oof
~ivie uinpmO With what
does the world now ae
Iota the L ... cith
peros and work of Jesus of Naza
re And while the tragedy of!
Oalmsry discovers motives, princi
plea and.purposes the most wicked I
in the direct causes, on the part of
the Divine Being, that history, en
riohed by the grand theme of Re- 1
demption, reflects principles , and 4
motives the most holy and most i
geneuous; and all is said to have I
befn by hie "determinate eonscil I
and Iorknowleie." 4
.emnmaber that history, with
the record of all its catastrophes; I
all its marvdeous, inerutable events,
its intellectual struggles and crises;
all its devolopments and absorp
tions, governed by laws, Eternal
and unchangable, is but the recordi
of the unfoldings of the human
mind as it progresses through dark
ness to light; from ignorance to I
knowledge; from the slavery of
precedent, to the, noble liberty of
pure and perfect intellectual Free- i
dom. The epochs of history may
be regarded as the way marks of l
progress-the highest andl most ad- I
vanced points gained by the ever- 1
restless and progressive mind of
man. Ever seeking higher, fuller
and nobler existence, though long
burdened and oppressed by multi
form wrongs and injustices, and
forsooth bears the galling load for
centuries, it burst asunder the
gyves by which its vitals were
throttled; casts off the grave clothes
of the past; comes forth from the
tomb of conservatism and plants
itself on the next grade higher in
the scale of a nobler existence.
The revolution of 1860-C,5, in this
country, was inevitable. Goethe
says, "If you plant an oak in a
flower vase, either the oak must
wither or the vase crack." Some
men tried hard to save the vase,
but Providence let it crack, and
preserved the oak. No nation can
live under the influence and opera
tion of two antagonistic ideas. A
single idea only can be homogene
ous to a community of interests.
The nation started with the declar
ation, that, "all men are created
equal," and endowed with the in
alienable right to liberty and its
corollaries. That is a just idea. In
1789 the seeds of dissolution were
sown. The doctrine, that any class
of human beings is created for a
condition of slavery, is preposter
ous and false. It portends disas
ter, shame and death. Free labor
and equality,. Aristocracy and slave
labor, are antagonistic ideas. As
oil and water will not mix, so these
can not be harmonized. Brought
together and fostered under the
aegis of the same institutions, they
naturally breed llscord and con
lict.
Jamestown and Plymouth Rock
never could agree. In 1815 Anti
slavery agitation was commenced.
Waxing warmer during the apace
of fifty years and becoming general,
a crisis in National affairs was
reached. The .Democratic party
strove intensely to arrest, circum
vent, and crush liberal and just
ideas, but at last broke into a gen
eral quarrel and split During the
campaign of 1859 the Bell-Everett
party operated as a kind of sweet oil
correlative to the Douglass wing of
the Democracy. Thus aided, the Re
publican party triumphantly elected
Abraham Lincoln, and carried
Plymouth Rock to Washington.
Born west of the Alleghanies in
the cabin of poor people of 'Harden
coonty, Kentucky, whose parents,
as his biographers msay, could neither
readnor write, hemanaged to ob
tain what may be regarded as parely,
g American education. thM
day to day he lived thei ebf the
American pecople~sri a itelight,
reseoned ii- reasen, thought
ith itaty power of thought,"
;b or-t forward and upward by
the spirit of ree institutiues felt
the beatings of its pojhu eat,
ad s was in a sM of
nanre,. a - the west, the son
of A-pj3" the a·rdent friend of the
, wand at th oppreaed. Taking
th'Declaration of Indepedaee
paees teompendium of his poicuial
widenom, he tdied and etm
deeply into the mtimremte of WC.
iagtom, Jetruu med the leadig
Statmea of their day. To every
African race, as being socia y, mo
rally and politically wrong. The
men of the Revolution, whose great
thought conceived and gave birth
to the nation pMaeed away. S3e
ceeded by a new generation blinded
by the lustre of wealth, to be ae
quired by tl culture of a new
staple, Massachusettswasuconfrnted
by Virginia with the doetrinb that
the slave system was wise, Ptovi
dential and good-benefbieatb the i
oppressed and highly tbsea to
the oppressor,--an eminmet h
archal concern. As
"The evil which men do lives after them,
While the good is often with their bones
interred."
so there is no data from which to
calculate the immensely illy resUlts
of a false conception. The law of
reproduction governs thought as
much as nature. Every thing, both
ib nature and thought, reproduces
itself in a great multiplied form.
The tree bears fruit after its kind
and so do the vine, the reptile, the
animal and the herb. In like man
ner every thought and every action
ripenus and multiplies its seed, each
according to its kind. As in the in
dividual man, much more in a na
tion, righteousness exalts, and
crown with glory and life; while the
reward of sin is misery, shame and
death.
The spirit of evil is keenly alive,
intensely logical and audaciously
persistent. Seeking consistency in
a bastard science, the South looked
for and found abundant means by
which to establish slavery in the
bulwarks of American law; to work
it into the organism of rising States
and to fix it in the public sentiment
of the Country at large. Complete
ly dehumanized at the South the
negroe's manhood was reluctantly
acknowledge at the North, in theo
ry, but discarded in fact. Territo
ry, for the spread of the curse, was
demanded, and half of Mexico giv
en. Command of Stite and Na
tional Legislation was sought and
gained. Courts of judicature were
subordinated, and the forensic arm
.of the gwvernment Ient to its aid.
Through cunning, plausiblei ntrigue
Judge Taney's notorious decision
was obtained and the sentiment of
the Country, brought to crystalize
around that most unjust, strange
and unnatural opinion.
But these aggressions on the one
hand, and Anti-slavery agitation on
the other, woke up the nation, at
last, to sober reflection; and slavery
touched its downfall. That was a
glorious day (or America and the
world, ,when the proclamation of
freo4om was made in 1863. Heav
en shouted, "Sublime!"
"Angels rejoiced, the earth was glad
And praise surrounded the throne."
True, it came as a war measure,
but, with a single exception, liberty
has been always a child of convul
sion. Nor can we believe that the
total abolition of slavery in this
country could have come, except
through the critical conjuncture of
National affairs caused by the war.
How ditl the French slave trade go
down? "When Napoleon came
back from Elba, when his fate hung
trembling in the balance and he
Swished to gather around him tlhe
sympathies of the liberals of Eu
rope, he no sooner set foot in the
Tuilleries than he signed the edict
abolishing the slave trade, against
which the Abolitionists of Englad
adl draneehad proetesja twen
ty years in win." Tilave system
of Franes wevabowh maid convul
sion. 'rla stormr that rocked the
,yt of stab almost to foundering
under the Provisional Government
of 1848, snapped forea the i
of the French slave. So of Mdin
sad south Amerion ea o
and s of every oher when
libetty, civil or j has been
.achieved, l e in 1834, wheat
ntgua to the monwrl dignity
of e 5 hemr slaves without
the'slaedding of blood.
Although it came through the
agonies of civil war the anameipa
tea act of Abahma [4i yor
greswetmis uranpmals42l4e a
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