Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-10-13
CHEEK.

The Metropolitan Record thus chases
up, with a sharp stick, certain Louisiana
$50 called c'ericals
W. can think Of no other word than
this to characterize a public meeting held
at the Cooper Institute IN New York city
under the auspices Of a Rev. Mr.. Con
way, a Rev. Mr.. Newman, and other rad.
zeal byenas, to express sympathy with
the New Orleans Uniouists recently
massacred by rebel ~rufiaus iii the streets
Of New Orleans and to denounce the
President of the United States for sub
s%tantisl "acquiescerce in the outrage"
etc, etc.
Now Tue check Of the thing consists in
this-that Newman and Conway repre-
sent selves as residents Of Louisiana,
whereas the fact is, the former Is or was
a New York Fourth street parson( without
a fock) and the latter an Internationally
loyal "blatherskite," who is notorious
for certain crooked operations in connec-
ton with the freedmen's bureau, (see the
Fullerton-Steadman report) which some,
how he has never yet been able satisIac.
torily to explain
IF these bogus residents Of Louisiana
"will be a talking like good man Yer
ges in the play-let their talk clear up if
it can, the many disreputable things of
which they are said TO have been guilty,
while lording it over the people of the
Crescent City, under the protecting shad-
ow Of Federal bayonets. The people of
New York don't care about denunciations
of The President on the radical plan
don't care anything about the martyr
Dostie but they do care about know
ing how certain monies belonging to the
freedmen's bureau-while Conway was
helping to arun a" it-have never been
accounted for. We are all interested in
the money question, as we all pay taxes,
and If Mr.. Conway has any light to shed
on that subject, we shall all so to the
Cooper Institute ard listen to him with
patience. Parson NewDa1 too, has an
ugly record, which cannot be hidden, nor
whitewashed, nor vanished by cheap
rhetoric about the rights Of humanity
manhood suffrage or anything Of the
sort.
This is the same parson Newman who
levied upon the good-natured methodists
of Fourth street and Bedford street a
handsome sum of money to lay 10 q stock
of American flags with which to decorate
the New Orleans churches, Of which. be
and his took possession after the occupa-
ton Of that city city by Butler the beast.
Like Conway, be is q good hand at rails
ing the wind at other peoples expense,
and like Conway, also. his stock in trade
consists chiefly in the gift Of CAB, with a
heavy sprinkling OF hypocrisy and bogus
loyalty. We say it vas cheek and
nothing but cheek, which moved these
fellows to exhibit themselves at the Coon
er Institute on the occasion alluded to.
If the fact Of the meeting had been more
widely advertised (it was only in the Tri-
bane1, we have realizing a%pprehen-
sion :" that they would have had a much
more numerous audience than they had.
We guess q good many Of the New
York fremen would have been there
with their machines to play water on it,
in order to put it out. In this way, Con
way and Newman probably missed an
excellent shower-bath, which would have
cost them nothing.
There was another humbug figuring at
this meeting, likewise representing him
self to be a resident of New Orleans"
q doctor somebody. This fellow was
prowliug about the country o few days
ago, begging money to help him engineer
o school somewhere off South, "for the
benefit of the poor freedmen"-that is
for the benefit of himself and among
other gentlemen to whom he applied for
assistance was the President of the
United States, who gave him $780,
Straightway this miserable migrate posts
off to New York, and repays Mr.. John
son BY %denoHncing him as a renegade"
4 " traitor" etc, at the Cooper Institute
IF that is not cheek-radical cheek-what
is ii?