. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . e gigantic white steamersarriving and departing; and the irrepressible negro slouches sullenly by with hishands in his pockets, and his cheeks distended with tobacco. You must know much of the past of New Orleans and Louisiana to thor-oughly understand their present. New England sprang from the Puritan mould;Louisiana from the French and Span
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . e gigantic white steamersarriving and departing; and the irrepressible negro slouches sullenly by with hishands in his pockets, and his cheeks distended with tobacco. You must know much of the past of New Orleans and Louisiana to thor-oughly understand their present. New England sprang from the Puritan mould;Louisiana from the French and Spanish civiUzations of the eighteenth one stands erect, vibrating with life and activity, austere and ambitious,upon its rocky shores; the other lies prone, its rich vitality dormant and passive,luxurious and unambitious, on the glorious shores of the tropic Gulf Theformer was Anglo-Saxon and simple even to Spartan plainness at its outset; thelatter was Franco-Spanish, subde in the graces of the elder societies, self-indulgent and romantic at its beginning. And New Orleans was no more and noless the opposite of Boston in 1773 than a century later. It was a hardy rosewhich dared to blush, in the New England even of Governor Winthrops riie Archbishup AND HIS COLONY. 21 before June had dowered the land with beauty; it was an o cr modest Choctawrose in the Louisiana of De Sotos epoch which did not shower its petals on thefragrant turf in February. In Louisiana summer lingers long after the rude winter of the North has doneits work of devastation; the sleeping passion of the climate only wakes nowand then into the anger of lightning or the terrible tears of the thunder-storm;there are no chronic March horrors of deadly wind or transpiercing cold ; thesun is kind ; the days are radiant. Wandering from the ancient Place dArmes, now dignified with the appel-lation of Jackson Square, through the older quarters of the city, one mayreadily recall the curious, ch
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