"Of the typical population of Lonisiana, also, a special mystery 

 seems to be made, Imt Lonisianiaiis liave much reason to be proud of 

 their historical descent. They have a history as authentic and as 

 valuanle as the annals of tjie Puritans of Mnssachu setts, or that of 

 Cithoiie Ma]ylaiid. The rearing of the States' I'olouial structure by 

 one nation and its blending into colonial dependance upon another, 

 contains no special mystery. They nre hospitable, brave and gener- 

 ous people, whether tracing their history back to French Bienville or 

 Lausatt; to Spanish O'iJeily or Salcedo, or to American Claiborne. 



Thar is the native State autonomy, which, blended with Engli.-sli. 

 ri.sh. and Scotch emigration and the descendants of the Cavalier and 

 Huguenot settlers from Virginia, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama and 

 (lie Carolinas, make up the population of Louisiana. A people exhib- 

 .riug all those finer traits which betoken the cultivation of noble tra- 

 ditions and refined associations, evidenced in the generous hospitality, 

 . iie chivalric spirit, the punctilious courtesy, the knightly hand, the 

 ( Tiristian knee, the clean firesides and the holy altars eherished in the 

 henrts and homes of as proud and pure an aristocracy as the world 

 has ever known." 



