158 FRENCH AND ANGLO- AMERICANS. [CHAP. XXIX. 



two colonies two centuries ago, and they have never 

 swarmed off, or founded a single new settlement. 

 They never set up a steam-engine for their sugar- 

 mills, have taken no part in the improvement of steam 

 navigation, and when a railway was proposed in 

 Opelousas, they opposed it, because they feared it 

 would let the Yankees in upon them. When a rich 

 proprietor was asked why he did not send his boy to 

 college, he replied, Because it would cost me 450 

 dollars a year, and I shall be able to leave my son 

 three more negroes when I die, by not incurring that 

 expense. &quot; Dr. Carpenter informed me, that the 

 Legislature of Louisiana granted, in 1834, a charter 

 for a medical college in the Second Municipality, 

 which now, in the year 1846, numbers one hundred 

 students, and is about to become the medical depart 

 ment of a new university. The Creoles were so far 

 stimulated by this example, as to apply also for a 

 charter for a French College in the First Munici 

 pality. It was granted in the same year, but has 

 remained a dead letter to this day. 



One of the passengers had been complaining to 

 me, that a Creole always voted for a Creole candidate 

 at an election, however much he differed from him 

 in political opinions, rather than support an Anglo- 

 Saxon of his own party. I could not help saying 

 that I should be tempted to do the same, if I were 

 of French origin, and heard my race as much run 

 down as I had done since I left the Balize. 



A large portion of the first French settlers in 

 Louisiana came from Canada, and I have no doubt 

 Gayarre is right in affirming that they have remained 



