New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-07-02
IMMOLATES HIMSELF.

nd wicked.
1MidoLATEs HIMSELF.
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We notice brief statement on its travels which !
induces "a to announce positively that the Secretary
81 War il an absolutely unequalled operator in bread
Itusnot in the Eastern trade like the professionals
Who are speculating on their own eminent ability as
var, Weevil and frost bulls !" but in the Western
trade like genuine, true blue Democratic official
With both eyes wide open and fixed on the main
chance as keenly and nntirngy as those OF the gold
hunter plodding the plains are directed to the
lar OF summit Of Pixies Peak the signal post OF the
new Ophr luminous with the sunlight playing about
It's glittering crown Of eternal snow But We dgress
into snowy grandoquence of rhetoric which casts
certain halo Of glory about subject matter not
entitled to any such gorgeous nvesliture. We essay
10 pay simple tribute of justice to the speculative
genius Of that favorite son of the Old Dominion,
as the Constitution calls him, who is squatted
down snugy and warmly in the nest of the War
Cabinet as special adviser and conscience keeper
Of James w. yet not snug and warm is it but that
he fan would feather it by pucking financial plumes
from the despoiled American eagle. He grabs at
them with strong hand, plucking out hundred
thousand Of them at one little operation in bread
stuffs.
We defer to the evidence Of the Executives saga.
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city in selecting his cabinet officers for where in the
country could he have found man with more prac-
tical knowledge Of trade operations and Of the value
Of breadstaHs than " that favorte son Of the Old
Dominion whom he constituted Secretary Of War
and official head Of the army commissariat. His In
tirnacy with the business enables him to discover that
breadssuffs are actoaily worm szo oo pef nunule.
pounds IN Utah. and tnat tney coud not oe iurnsheu
there from the STATES az less COST tnan ossl
twenty.agns cents per pouno-a conc.us'on WINCH
he arrives az py al Sous Vi conscAen'ious' oiAi,
religious and patrlouc deoue.ons iroln hi sor's
astonishing and iacts Tue uofe REM
BILE because hunted DOWN Dy anu Anomn onis " nli'
self and lew otner Interested par'iss anu .uousn
there were several arrogant ana
obtrusVe men OF capitai WIZ assef'ou 'nas pleau
stufs could not properly De worth more 'nan ~ Nv
per hundred pounds deiavereo IN otan, ano an'
nounced themselves reaey ana anxious W ueAsel suo
materials for hoecake, Johnnycake, soittack anu
hard tack, loaf and biscuit 10 Uncle sam hungry
regulars in the great Mormon campaign AZ tna' con-
paratvey small figure, thelf oHcious interference
was very properly rebuked, when tney otered snas
bid on the advertised proposals py .ns oe'.er IN
formed and magnanlmous secretary OF war W 'ne
grandest aspect OF whose seitoenylng pasrAo.is ~
this matter we now come, for Notwithstanding ne
knew that breadstuns could not Do transported 70
Utah for less than s2s 60 per hundred pounds, ana
that it risky business at that, he was wiling TO
sacrifice himself to the good OF the country run
personal risk and save those uniniormeo persons
from ruin who were willing TO 90 the JoD lot " on
per hundred pounds! We are lost IN adm,rauon 10
contemplating the martyrllke devotion OF u nas
| favorite son OF the Old Dominion"
/ But further: this high-minded omclal, thinking,
perhaps that his sole appearance as the bidder ana
acceptor Of his ewn proposals might give occasion
4 for the wicked and malicious to make dlsagreeapie
remarks, and knowing that his martyr glory mgnt
be envied by others equally devoted' generously
afforded three Of his particular personal ana pouca
friends chance to come IN and snare IN me sacrf
~ ,,.,,a sroo, onneorno i, tbe business at
~ ,non,d hove rsce;vad none Of the high credit
.aha,, ~ i ortit,ed and which onr humble abili.
~. ~ ~. aavotaa n awaraino him had not a
.,ss a,so connec,ed With the commssariat in
~ afr araooaa the basbfnl Secretary
H. aI..,r;,,, ord no;nted him ont 40 the ex.
~. a...,o,,a, - uhnn, i, d,a the meed az nub
,;.. ,h;ot h;s tm;d sens;h,tv came near deriving
~. - M, ,h;s ooes 10 nrove that trne worth i
,,oaa., and retr;non Rnt fortune favored these
nariots thesc four breadstuf contract
as Msssrs Holiday Martin Russell and the secre
-. Irho.a nome Ala not annear !, for On far from
,a.;na anrt,;no thsv make sIno o0o : s1oo mn
= aos."6 ~ in' v >, =.
apiece. rms was all Missake, ZOE .hey in'enueu
lose money for their countrys good but the best IN
: tentions are often disappointed, and there was NJ
exemption in this case. That iavorlte son OF I'M
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