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VOLUME I. NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, SUNDAY OCTOBER S2, 1871. NUB
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PROSPECTUS
OF
The Louisianian.
In the, eudevor to estallish another
RIpubhurn journal in New Orleans,
t.. pr,.tors of the Lou'tasrz,
hr r-e t, tell a uneeesity which ha,
... lvl. ,, L::,l enuetimes painfully
f,,t t f, -:4t. In the transitiou state
rf olIr p. ,l,' in their struggling effort?
t. ntaru that position in the Baod
1 ., wi,."h we conceive to he their
u, ."t. r.garled that much iufor
i n., ýuil.mure, encouratlaeient,
,1 n ., i r.proof have been lost, i:
S..... "" ,if the larok of a mediun.
, .. ih i the.,. deficiew'ies riglht
M ",'t:. 1. We' shall strive to make
t". 1 i .- t.i-s a d~ iderdrum in these
POLICY.
.t. ''lr LrcttI indirates, the Lotn
: ay sutl be " Rli'ij,',i,'it at (t
S7". I ,.ifr.lJlI pir. mn'l,'s" W',
i: elv,,e,,t" th., so, urity ,ad enjoy
r.. ic ,l,.i li, W rty, t-he abln -
+i'. reLtvy rf :il v: u before the law,
uld an impartial distrilbution of hon
or and Jatroungo to all who merit
thoun.
,.vairous of alLaying auilao,.ties, of [
o!lieeratiung the memory of the bitter 1
p.t,of promoting harmony and union
among all clanes and between all in
ter.,'t., wo shall advocate the removal
of all political disabilities , footer kind
[,-. anud forbearance, where maliguit
-" ie.,'atment reigned, and seek for
!riruoas and justice where wrong and
'plpr,+ion prevailed. Thus united in
ou, aams and objects, we shall conservt
o.r !,:.t interests, elevate our noble
h',te, to an enviable position among
,'Letr States, by the development u
,ir llihuitable resourtnes, and secure a
t-j fi hentl.fte of the mighty changes u
to the hbitory and condition of the
1i0l'p and the Country.
1iLv ig that there can be no true i:
Lh,,rt. without the supremacy of law, ~
ie shah, urgn a strict and undircrinmi
Crang adminiStration of justiceb.
TAXATION. le
We shall support the doctrine of san
a"iatable division of taxation among F
S L%5.v, a faithful collection of the tr
S s economy in the expendi- 8
turs, conformably with the exigen.
',I of the htate or Country anud the
dhage of every legitimate obliga- r
hon.
EDUCATION. in
* ,ll s~utain the carrying out o!
L provia4,1s of the set establishing m
'onurmon chool system, sod urge,
SIpararnouut duty the ednucation of
or youth, as vitally connected with m
t1 USl enlightenment, and the seen
i'y odt shility of a Rbpublican il
I-'N.AL. .
a. a am us manly, indep.at,
41 iudicios conduct, we shall strive
h . our paper, from an ephem-.F
N, lad temporary existence, and ,
lh it upon a basis, that if we wi
rot " ommand," we shall st salls
rtb "des ,, er ocem . i
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POETRY.
:RY THE NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS.
ti JO3 L rTAMAN.l
IT
O miracle of beauty, why dost thou,
Quickened and nourished by the warmth
a. and light,
Ba, Hide from the sun the lustre of thy brow,
And show thy splendor only to the
night?
Ferest thou last the garish glare of day
)r. Dischloe some feck upon thy snowy cup?
Or is it pride, when other sowers are gay,
That makes the hoard thy peerless
beauty up?
Or, out of kind regard and modesty,
Withdrawest thou until the day is done,
That lilies may not die of jealousy,
Nor roses blush to see themselves out
shone ?
Or dost thou choose, for thy selectest hour,
- The season when the stars look down
on earth,
That they may know, by thy resplendent
power.
What beauty in this lowly place has I
birth ?
* Through all the livelong day, like a fair
bride
Who woul! not quit her coy and maidon
ways,
ter When the night comes, thou drawest veils
as, aside,
And then the dusk grows lustrous with
thy gaze.
But why so transieut? Tarry till the dawn.
te Or dreadlest thou to stayand be despised,
auowing that what is often looked upon
In apt, alas! to be but lightly prized?
iThen lot me view thee, touched by no
re ret,
r- And iath. me with the fragrance of thy
it breath;
i Shi:tr. in thy rioh arr:y while I forget
SHow ue,.r aplrouach they splendor and
1. thy death.
J short-lived glory ! most transcendent
l blo.a, ! f
e i The beauty of thy dower is more to me,
i' cause thlu wilt be sought for in the
And tun t, Lecan.e of thy fragility.
P--lL---------------t'
, FREIERICK 1l1OISI.S
BY IHON. 1ENRY WILSON.
S [(Coantinued fromn our la.t.]
' Having completed his year with a
n- Mr. Corey, he was hired out to an- t
rit other and more humane omaster. a
But the iron of slavery rankled hin t
of sais soul, anud he could not endure it'
cr ,ts galling restraints, however soft- t,
n ,ned by kindness. After long a
Srumitnation upon the subject, and v
Scounferences with four or five of his ct
Scomnpanions in bondage, he pro- a
Sposed and planned an attempt to e
r escape. Betrayed, however, by a p
1 confederate, they were prevented a
from carrying their attempt into t
execution, arrested, and imprisonet:* n
Instead of being "sold South "--tl
that dreaded alternative of success, ti
g which held back thousands from Ii
it making the attempt-he was sent at
-again to Baltimore. Being nearly #
s murdered by the carpenters of a al
e shipyard, because of their jealousy A
of slave competition with white fi;
e labor-a crime for which no indict- ti
ment could be found, though sought, at
oecanee no whilt~ witnesses would il
testify against his brutal assailants ec
-he was sent to another yard toloz
learn the trade of a caulker. Be- h
coming an expert workman, he was al
permitted to make his own con- m
tracts, returning his week's wages
every Saturday night to his master. M
At the same time-which was of a
more importance to him-he was co
permitted to associate witn some an
ree colored men, who had formed I as
a kind of lyceum for their mutual co
improvement, and by means of Ni
which he was enabled to increase
materially his knowledge and men- qu
tal culture. All of this, however, wt
did but increase his sense of the az
essential injustice of slavery, and a
make him more and more restive hii
under its galling chains. Accord- wi
ingly he made his plans, now suc-t
cesful; and on the third day of
September, 1838, he says, "I bade g
farewell to the city of Baltimore, Oa
and to that slavery which had been t
my abhorrence from childhood."
For prudential reasons the partien
lars of his mode of escape were n
withheld from the public knowledge on
as they were of little comparative th
importance; whlile, had they been
known then, they might have com
promised some and hedged up the an
way of escape of others. a
Landing in New York, a home- ee
less, penniless, and friendless fugi
tive, he thus describes his feelings:
".In the midst of thouesands o my
fellow-men, and yet a perfect stran
ger ! In the midst of human broth
era, and yet more fearful of them
than of hungry wolves! - I was
without friends, without work, with.
out money, and without any definite
th knowledge of which way to go or
where to look for succor." In the
midst of his perplexities he met a
sailor, whose seeming frankness and
honesty won, as it deserved, his
confidence. He introduced him to
i David Ruggles, chairman of the
Vigilance Committee, a colored gen
tleman of much intelligence, energy,
and worth, who, by kis position an,
m, executive ability did much for his
neople. He advised him to go to
at- New Bedford, Massachusetts, as
sisted him in reaching that city,
r, and introduced him to trustworthy
- friends there. Here he was em
,t ployed, mostly as a day laborer on
the wharves, encountering the same
shameful and unmanly jealousy of
colored competition that had nearly
cost him his life at Baltimore; and
which would not allow him to work
en at his trade as caulker by the side
of white men. Being a professing
Christian, he was interested in reli
gions meetings, where he was ac
customed to pray and exhort, a
practice which probably had some
thing to do with his wonderful sub
1 sequent success as a public speaker.
The first demonstration of his
eloquence which attracted public
attention was at a meeting mainly
y of colored people, in which were
considered specially the claims of
the Coliuization Society. Here
began to be emitted specimens of
:hat fiery eloquence from his caps-.
St cious soul, burning with the tn-!
fading and indignant memories of
c the wrongs, outrages, and the deep
injustices which slavery had inflicted1
on him, and which it was now in
flicting upon his brethren in bonds.
Of course, the few white Abolition
Iists of New Bedford were not long
in finding out the young fugitive,
appreciating his gifts and jpronise
Of usefulness, and in deviei:tg ways
h of extending his range of effort fo,
their unpopt;lar cause. Attending
an anti-slavery convention at Nan
tucket, he was persuaded to address
the meeting. His speech here seems
- to have been singularly eloquent
b and effective. Among those present
was Mr. Garrison, who bore his
is testimony, both then and afterward,
- of "the extraordinary emotion it
0 exerted on his own mind and of the
a powerful impression it exerted upon
ia crowded auditcry." He declared,
0 too, that "Patrick Henry had never
wade a more eloquent speech in
the cause of liberty than the one
, they had just listened to from the
lips of that hunted fugitive." Nath
t aniel P. Rogers, editor of the Herald
if Freedom, thus characterized a
speech made by him the same year.
After speaking of his "commanding
Sfigure and heroic port," his head
that "would strike a phrenologist '
amid a sea of them in Exeter Hall," 9
he adds: "As a speaker he has few
equals. It is not declamation; but
oratory, power of debate.... He8
has wit, argument, sarcasm, pathos,
all that first-rate men show in their c
master efforts." 1
This language, especially that of
Mr. Garrison, seems extravagant
and the laudation excessive; nor
could itbe accepted asa general
and critical estimate of Mr. Douglass
as an orator, great as his powers
confessedly were and are. His
Nantucket speech was unquestion
ably one of those rare bursts of elo-i
quence, little less than inspiration,
which are sometimes voachsafed to r
a man in his happiest moods; when i
the seaker seems to rise above
himself and to take his audience s
with him. Besides, there was cer
tainly much in the circumstances
and surroundings of thatmeeting
to impress the minds and stir the d
senaibilities of such an assembly. p
On that isle of the sea, at some dis
tance from the mainland, it oould
easily imagine a picture of the na
tion overshadowed by the dark
cloud of eslvery, and prostrate be
eath a despotism, presing alike fo
on the slaves at the South and on
their advocates at the North. In
deed, the latter had jusrat pas
through a baptism of firem and blood,
daring those fearful years of mobs
and martrydom, which had meas
urably ceased, but had been snc- ,
ceeded by what the earnest Abii
tionist deprecated more than vr
lence-and that was the general r
npathy which then reigned. f
Lv. a o otSmii
an- Our Minister to Liberia.
th
em On the 19th of September lasts
vl Hon. J. Milton Turner, our Minis
th- ter to Liberia, was received by presi
dent Roye at the Executive Mansion,
SMonrovia, and made the following
remarks:
t a
nd "In compliance with permission
his granted me by your Excellency, I
tnow have the distinguished honor I
the of entering your au~ast presence in
en- the capacity of Minister Resident 1
and Consul General froni the Uni
ted States to the Republic of Libe
ria.
to "In obedience to the expressed
as- command of your good friend, the
ty, President of the United States, I
hy take great pleasure in making
M- known to the Republic of Liberia
on the sincere desire of the Govern
no ment of the United States tostrength- '
of en and perpetuate thestate of friend
rlv ly feeling now so happily ex
lj isting between the two countries.
rk "The Government of the United
de States will be pleased with the in
ag creased development of the equita- J
li- Ile commercial relations now exist
1e- ing between the citizens of the two
a countries. I cannot allow the pres
e- ent opportunity to pass without of
b- fering to your Government the con
"r. gratulations of the country I have
is the distinguished honor to repre
lic sent. In the true spirit of progress
ly you have planted upon these shores
re the get- of a Republic that is des
of tined not only to develop a civiliza
re tion worithy of the respect and ad
of ruiration of unborn generations, but
a. by means of the Christian religion
n- to debarbarize and benefit for al
of most immuediate usefulness thou.s
p auds of human beings whose intel- o
I lects are to-daLy debased by the de
n- structive potency of heathenish su
e. perstition.
a- He concluded with renewal of as- h
ag surances that it would be his pleas
e, are to cultivate the most cordial
sI feelings between the two Govern- t
!es ents.
'r The Liberia Regisr says of the h
new minister: "It is a matter of
a- considerable import that the honor
able gentlemen is the first black
] representative that has been acered
it ited to this Government from the
t United States. We sincerely hope
is that the honorable gentleman's stay
.1, may be extended indefinitely, and
it that the American Government will
E through her worthy representative,
'n understand and feel that, though
' her offspring has arrived at the
r years of maturity, yet she does not
n fail to remember the 'rock from
e which she sprang, and the cistern o
e out of which she was dug."'
-Exchange.
of
a QLITIEt OF A 00D COtLLECTOR.
th
d Is on time to a minute when the br
,t debtor says '" core to-morrow at 9 fo;
o'clock." hi
Sits on the steps and waits for ci
t his return when he says, "I am just al
a going to dinner." to]
Insists on stepping out to make ti
change when the man "has nothing ly
less than a twenty." tic
f Will go to an "old stager "every he
t day for a month with a cheerful he
countenance "about that little ase- tel
l count"
SDoesn't mind edging intoacrowd
Sto ask a fellow.
Will take a dollar in part if he
. can't get ten in whole, and "credit
.it" with thankfuIl alsority. fo
Always suggests a cheek when the fo
money is not in hand, as he cm get
it "cashed" to-morrow.
Always has that aeonat "on top"
so the man can make no exenue for
putting him oEi
Don't mind asking for it imme
diately after being "treated "-or n
pleasantly entertained.
Is never in a hurry, "can wait
till you get through."
Cuts off the retreat of the dodger oti
by croessing over to meet him, or
follows himn into a store wherhe he,
goes to hide.
Can cough or salute when the i
"hard case "wants to pass without
seeing him.
In fine-is patient as a post,
eheerftl uas a dackl, sociable as a fle,
bold mas a lion, eeether-proot as a
rubber, cuning ap a fo, and wqaeh. 433
ful as a spariw-hiwk.
ICdvmbu Indar. as
Moral Gemas.
mt Make your home sunshiny and
ie- happy, if you want to make it at
ii- tractive. The young heart is boil
on, ing over with glee and frolic. God
ing make it so, and it is your duty to
accept it and provide means for its
an innocent recreation. Youth is the
I period of impression and imitation
or and then holy aspirations are most
i rapidly developed. Provide them
wt books and papers and pictures and
i- and lowers at home. Letyour chil
)e- dren feel that their father's house is
the dearest happiest spot on earth;
and as they pass out into life's activ
he ties and responsibilities, let them
remember the home of their child
hood not as the place of bitter words
a and hard drudging where they sim
_ ply ate, and drank, and slept, but
h as the sunniest spot in all the past,
- where their sweetest and holiest af
fections linger, and where all their
truest aspirations and their noblest
e principles were fostered, formed and
tined.
A wise man will never rust out.
As long as he breathes the breath of
life he will be doing something, for
himself, his country, or prosterity.
Washington, Franklin, Howard,
Young, Newton, all were at work al
most to the last hours of their ex
istence. It is a foolish thing to be
lieve that we must lie down and
die simply because we are old. The
man of energy is not old; it is only
he who suffers his energies to waste
away and permits the spring of his
t life to become motionless, on whose
hands the hours drag heavily, and
to whom all things wear the vest
ment of gloom. There are scores
of gray heads living to-day that we
would prefer in an important enter
prise to those young gentlmen who
fear and tremble when shadows ap
proach, and turn away at the first
harsh word or discouraging frown.
d- a
I .:azed upon the face of an old
man whose cheeks were furrowed
with many cares, and upon whom t
old age had set its seal, and whose l
hoary locks told that youth, with its
fascination had forever fled and as i
I listened to his tottering footsteps, ,
each footfall seemed to say-pas- t
sing away. I stood beside the couch ,
of a beautiful girl, upon whose check t
the hectic flush of the fatal destroyer ,
d -consumption--could be seen, and i
as the setting sun threw a flood of t
glorious light upon her face, her G
faint moan seemed to say-passing o
away. All earthly things are pas- o
sing away. The sparkling fountain, s.
the towering mountain, the gorge- it
ous snow-clad hill, that tower to ,
northern skies, are all passing away.
The drunkard is the most pitiable
object in creation. Losing by in
temperance, his natural spirits, he
fies to artificial stimulants to recrnit
them. Each dose, like a slow poison t
e brings him nearer his end, while the p
folly that has taken possession of k
him still draws him with all the s- ,
rcinating powers of the rattlesnake, tc
Salong the fatal path, till the sure c
tollower of intempersnce-an an- p
- timely death-carries him o scarce- ;
I ly lamented by his nearest connec- ,
tions. He leaves the world in which a
he has been useless, and almost as
Shelpless and as ignorant as he en
tered it--Exchange. D
Psy~chiace Faree.
Writing about this mysterious
force, bMrT. J. Gillingham says:
Two weeks ago a patient applied.
for an artificial arm. The natural
arm was taken off just below the n
shoulder.
"Csan you feel your hsd, asked
'"Oh I yes," maid the patiat.
"Allow me to try an oxperi- 1
He took a small electro-voltale C
battery and ~apied one pole td the e
deltoid miiche of the arm and thei
other to the stumn
• Oh, sir, my Jaud I" he zedsim
ed, w.taan expressio of a . D
"I can't see yor hand ; where is
"Why, down there, sir."
"Where, mt good man 1*
"Wh, down tlhis, where it ed
tobae. . ko*wIhavegot it, for[
efel itplanernq thanal ,vmdid
that you have a hand and arm as
perfect as ever, though its mate
3d rial covering has been in the grave
at- some years ?"
il- "Ye, sir."
o "Now put your stamp against the
to wall. Where is your hand now '"
its "Why. sir, it is out through the
the wall, on the other side."
n hAither eld MEt'sa Werk.
sm
ad BSecretary Boutwell's last monthly
4. statement shows a still turther re
is duction of the public debt of about
h; $13,500,000, and increasing the re
duction for the two years and seven
11 months of General Grant's admin
d- istration to nearly $265,000,000.
de This diminishes the annual interest
n- on the debt about $800,000 more
ut yearly, and makes the whole annual
decrease of interest $15,750,000
Every month since General Grant's
iinauguration has shown a decrease
st in our interest account of half a
id million of dollars-that is, each
month during that time the peo
it have been requierd to pay half a
of million of dollars less interest than
r they paid the month before. And
this reduction will undoubtedly
d continue while the Republicans are
in power, if the resources of the
- Treasury remain as they now are.
While Republicans have been di
d minishing the national debt at the
1 of more than $100,000,000 annually,
the copperhead Democracy of New
L York city have been increasing the
is debt of that city at the average rate
of full $35,000,000 a year. And so
d they are plundering the people 1
wherever they are in power, and so
a they will plunder the people of the
r nation should they ever regain con
trol of the National Government.
[Vew Nbational Era.
A BauTIFUL IDL.--Away up
among the Alleghanies there is a
spring so small that a single ox on
da summer's day could drain it dry.
d It steals its unobtrusive way among
n the hills till it spreads into the
1 beautiful Ohio. Thence stretches
away a thousand miles, leaving on
' its banks more than a hundred
villages and cities and many a cul
tivated farm ; then joining the Mis
b sissippi, it stretches away some
k twelve hundred miles more, till it
falls into the emblem of eternity. It I
is one of the greatest tributaries to
'f the ocean, which, obedient only to
r God, shall roar till the angel, with
one foot on the se and the other
on the land, shall swear that time
shall be no longer. So with moral
infuence-it is a rill-a rivulet-.n d
oeean, and a boundless and fath- s
omless as eternity. S
Octavius V. Catto. A
This gentleman, one of the vie
i tims of the riot on election day in
Philadelphia, is another addition
to the long list of martyrs who have
been assmasinated for their fidelity
to the principles of liberty. Mr.
Catto has, during the campaign in
Pennsylvania, labored sealously in L
the work of preparing the colored
voters in that State to understand
the issues dividing the two parties,
and thereby called down upon him
self the envenomed malice of the
Democratic party in Philadelphia.
Mr. Catto was a scholar and a
geteman, having been for a long a
time a teacher and Principal in the
Colored High School of Philadel
phis, quiet and inoffensive, but firm
and able in bis advocacy of th pmi.
ple of t Bapablima pmty. The
doabt, oidere Mr. Cato a man
in their way, one who had the abili
ty and will to expoes the soihistr
f the "new departure," whereby t 0
I was vted wouid Ih dswn
from colored men inIduiiet nam
bar to place that party of nmurer, 4
and its accompanyg crimeln,
ma power. Believing this, i
were put upon the track of Mr.
ICatto, and on election day as e
quietly pasmed along the street he
wau shot dead. Shooting elarpl
men Ifn Philadelphia seemed to be
the edes. of the day cm Taiey
Dephaq, pe in w tIe jgat toe
aoppeoed to the avilis and tpoo
smatimed and Iupbkalbyith.
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