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



cal college in the Second Municipality, which now, in the year 

 1846, numbers one hundred students, and is about to become the 

 medical department 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 Municipality. 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 cre- 

 ole always voted for a Creole candidate at an election, however 

 much he differed from him in political opinions, rather than sup 

 port 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 ori 

 gin, 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 comparatively stationary, because they 

 carried out with them, from the mother country, despotic maxims 

 of government, coupled with extreme intolerance in their religious 

 opinions. The bigotry which checked the growth of the infant 

 colony was signally displayed, when Louis XIV. refused to per 

 mit 400 Huguenot families, who had fled to South Carolina, 

 after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, to be incorporated 

 among the new settlers on the Mississippi.^ 



Notwithstanding the marked inclination of the Anglo-Saxons 

 to seek no other cause than that of race to account for the alleged 

 stationary condition of the Creoles, I was glad to find that one of 

 the most intelligent citizens of New Orleans took a more hopeful 

 and less fatalist view of the matter. I observe,&quot; he said, &quot; that 

 those French emigrants who have come out to us lately, espe 

 cially the Parisians, are pushing their way in the world with as 

 much energy as any of our race ; so I conclude that the first 

 settlers in Canada and Louisiana quitted Europe too soon, before 

 the great Revolution of 1792 had turned the Frenchman into a 

 progressive being.&quot; 



Among the Creoles with whom I came in contact, I saw many 

 whose manners were most polite and agreeable, and I felt as I 

 * Gayarre, Hisloire de la Louisiane, torn. i. p. 69. 



