New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-10-21
NUMBER 1876.
George ID. Prentice and the Louisville
journal,

To the E11ors Of he Com-ier-It would be
scarcely necessary, under ordinary circumstances,
loE any decent man to notice the vile scurrilties
Of this most viilainous Of all newspapers but am
inpelled now to say few words concerning itand
lis editors. r aae7 % ~ o. I
For weeks after left Kentucky last April, for
the purpose Of aiding in the defence of Virginia,
am told that its daily theme was slander and abuse
OF me. saw none Of its Issues, but this abuse
stopped as suddenly as rain spring does, when
bereft Of friendly clouds. ! never knew Why-my
ather, an Old man, one day walked into Geo. D.
Prehtce once ana the abuse stopped. What
cogeut argument he used know not Lately its
columns have opened upon me a bombardment Of /
its sanderous filth. AS many of my friends have
doubtless been compelled since the suppression |
of the Courier to read this vile sheet in order to
gain the current of the day it is perhaps ne
cessary that should say something to them upon
the resumption of your paper, and whilst correct
ing any erroneous impressions which may exist |
about myself take occasion to say few plain
words about this journal concern and its Abolition
editors. The insidious breath of slandeT defaees
the pnress character, pntH the foul moisture is |
wiped of one would cleanse mirror and leave
the shining surface as bright and clear as ever.
have been intimate with this loathsons wretch.
God forgive me for such crime, for now view it
as an almost objectionable sim .. ..'.
The last six months Of my acquaintance with
him, up to last November, enabled me to gain
better conception of his character than all my
previous intimacy. ] had believed him capaSle OF
generous thoughts and impulses, some feeling
of friendship and gratitude, and had labored zeal
ously, and Terhaps with considerable success, in
aiding to build up his paper. During the last six
months of 1860, however, / began to study the
creature. Creature is the word, for under the SEM
blance of a man he hides the soul of the most alb.
ject cur, want of spirit which even ouse would
scorn to acknowledge. all the vile passions and lib
idinous desires which desecrate mans nature: the
will to do evil, but happily counteracted by Prov
Dental impotence. Providence has permitted the
loathsome viper to crawl, half living upon earth,
to continue his pollution of society, but laid his
hand unerringly and heavily upon him, as warn
ing to others. With strange incongrHlty this mans
intense avarce and eeaseless eagerness and thirst
ing for gold, is only equaled by the thrtless Law
shness with which he poIrs it out to crafty his base
and morbid appetites. Besotted with constant de-
bauches, until his health would demand q tempo
rary cessation from his orgies, this driveler yet
commanded power which has ruined Kentucky
and will cause the slaughter OF thousands of her
SONS. r.. ,.... I e.. a-s- l.s5ty- - VI -F7sy
Their blood will be upon his head, |, and the curses
of million distracted mothers, wives and orphans.
will yet scream over his guilty soul their denuncl-
ations when he shall have met his just doom in the
lowest depths Of hell. studied this man care
! fully, for had begun to suspect him and his de.
| signs. His callosity is une4ualed. He never had
heart, and shoald do gross injustice to that re-
spectacle vegetable if should assert that he wears
| turnip inside of his breast The ties Of kindred
or friendship the feelings of gratitude or respect
| which others have, form component part OF tb;
| mans character. All are swept away and set a
defiance when conflicting with his pleasure or HI
will. No mans wife, or sister, or daughter, woult
! be sacred with him, whatever the debt OF grattud
or obligation might be, for he would attempt tn
evil which the passions of his heart would prompt
unmndful of the impotence which now would tol
| him. .- .ss5
| It almost makes me blush to acknowledge tina
| | ever could have associated with such creature
| foI should doubt my own integrity and suspec
my loyalty to the South if his pen should now trae
| a word in my commendation. -~.er " e.
Connected with this creature last year, beeaus
| pf he Offi
canvass for President l saw him often in his maud
lin fits, alone, and then unwilngly learned tn
true character of the .man--I shall not wound tn
feelings of many honest people, who yet remain i
ignorance of the fraiity of dearly loved relative:
whose imprudence in former years, this vie sc
ducer, in his drunken moments, would insist upo
exposing to me- Many poor school children, rl
| mad for poetry, had thrown themselves contdingi
into the arms of this creature with admiration fo
his poetical genius, and his arts ever had bee
turned to misleading them. He would insist up,;o1
+ reading to me letter after letter from these sill
moths, who had 1uttered round flame, lndee
scorchng to them, but he always avoided the meT
ton of one, who sinking beneath shame and rt
morse, had preferred suicide rather than bear d:
grace His yearly tours of lecture were IN
r trumphal marches of the modern Juggernaut, be
9 meath whose wheels the silly worshippers Wer
, crushed, and thrown out, and blighted, and bere
of virtue; id thought and will, If not in Dee!
Thank heaven, nearly all of his victims were Nort
ern women and not Southern. This atrocior
h wretch thus unfolded to me his villainies, which,
Il Il exposed, are damning enough to cause his dealt
9 | even though he had thousand lives. Herein
the secret Of part of his profound magnity toWart
. me. Unasked for he had told me too much OF h
past life, which might give me power to lnjure mn
y | and he saw that despised him.
i knew that Kentucky up for sale, and thu
= | the despicahle wretch could barter her oil eltht
a way. Though all my sympathies were ever vii
. the South, yet temporarily concealed my re
. feeling in order to do service in her cause, and
n kept up my association with the Journal, al
f wrote for it gratuitously still, as had done II
a a years Finally he told me, long before his pap
4 dared to take such grounds openly that he was 4
a the North, if all the Southern States secede
n Carefully this hTachayel (for his cunning equa
l. the arch iends( had planned his skllltul plot. =
"a Misrepresentation and lies against South Caroln
,t whilst protesting devotion to Southern interes
IA were fast alternating the minds of many sl his rea
to ers from our section, and preparing them to ma
"a | war against our Confederacy, because South Cal
III lima was a component part. His devlish ingenu
'1 has been too successful; and to-day half the 81
porters of Lincoln in Kentucky are lighting agall
al South Carolina. Believing that the end justin
w w the MEANS sounded the note of alarm throughc
ho the South, and wrote letters to many friends u
as | ing them to buy him at once, for knew he COY
nj be bought, and was willing to give him big PR
nd fixed it at 100000, and offered to give SlCo
IA nv friends would subscribe the balance. lie hi
~ tated for weeks, and finally Lincoln bought h
oa Unfortunately, my friends were too sanguine
Ia Kentucky, and underrated the strength OF
ID. man and his fellow conspirators, or Kentucky
,e ha and then sold like sheep in the shambles.
at Erect and defiant, she would have graced
so brilliant Southern sisterhood, and her star wo
have shone the brightest of all in the consteatl
at instead of being dimmed and disgraced by
es present humiiatng condition. could and Wo
,s have bought this creature, and thus have sa'
On | Kentucky if my advice had been listened TO. !
IN. | gold the miserable miser has betrayed even
.a coins cause and has sold thousands OF pistols
70 | our friends, which our gallant soldiers soon
sfs use against the mercenary hordes hoverlng ~
co our borders. But am doing wrong, perhaps, |
;, to sneak of this editor. Possessed OF more tina
a. womap's timdity without any of her virtue, ht
vi vi n craven of the deepest dye, and never resen
,1e a an insult or gave reparaton for wrong Capa
"a r | of no action which an honorable man might I'll
1 -, in q 6t of drunken courage he planned the assas
uss ation of the Couriers editor and even then fla
TO accomplish this purpose, though supplied '
a., almost an arsenal. Fears for his personal sa
'n0 predominnte over every other feeling. Last wi
{: / burriedly entered his office, where he sat all
less and found him covering upon the hearth, willis
t of circulated, DON'T strike me.n would as s
have thought Of striking a crouching spaniel W
OF had hidden itself behind me from fear OF Its I
has ter's whip.
nd For some special object Providence permits
oks as well as other vicious reptiles, still to cnH
at the earth It is one of the dspensatons OF Pf
vas dence to allow every species of noXious insect
100 buz their brief career away. When the truti
history is vindcated, this mans epnapn VIII