The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-11-07

I. tncy volunteered TO perform the laDOl
|, generally put upon detailed men, 70,
the sake Of the outdoor exercise which
was the consequence of it.
., We throw out these suggestions sim.
i. Eply for the purpose Of exciting the en-.
quiry whether there may not possibly
/, he some plan devised for the ameliora.
: ton Of our present mode Of dispensing
criminal justice. ,s-
new ORLEANS CORRESPONDENCE
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7 ~ New ORLEANS; November 8.
Editor Democrat IL presume your
readers have noticed the grand fare-up
} in Massachusetts, arising out of char
ges Brought against General N. P.
Banks Of drunkenness during his polit-
zeal visit to Portland, Maine, recently.
1t appears that Banks was invited-to
J Portland by the radical Maine liquor
law men in order to give eclat to their
proceedings. On arriving, Banks was
so full he had to be supported from the
train to the hotel. This beastliness
was observed BY thousands Of the t,s6-
pie Of Portland who had assembled at
the depot. Nor did his frelic cease
there: he was drunk during his entire
stay; he was maudlin on the rustrum !;
and had to be "toted" to the cars on
his return to his native district. These
facts were brought forward at the con.
vention for nominating congressman,
and the charge substantiated by re-
spectacle personal eye Witnesses
Banks loftily denied the Impeachment
he offered to submit his case to Jury
to be appointed by the convention, and
called upon God to witness that not
only was he not intoxicated in Port
land, or on any late occasion, but that
it was physically impossible for him to
have been drunk there. A man Of
standing in the community thereupon
rose, and with an almost equally SOL
emn adjuration declared he had seen
General Banks in the helpless state
consequent on deep drink, and if Gen
eral B. would appoint one expert, and
he another, the two to select an umpire,
he would undertake to prove to any.
body's satisfaction that what he had |
advanced was true. Banks again be.
strobe his high horse. declared that he
would not put himself on a level with
his accuser by accepting his proposition,
and by an apt appeal to the prejudices
Of the crowd carried the nomination
amid enthusiastic cheers for himself
and groans for his accuser. ..,->,,,
A Boston correspondent of the Chi.
cago Tribune Thoroughly radical) says:
: IA far az the charges against the General
go, there is no donbt, at least among wen in.
formed people, Of their truth; and indeed
Banks friends in pirate conversation, and
the newspapers trhich sustained him, yiriuallv
admit IT.; and there is hence all the neors reG.d
son to admire the aadacity ,chich meet the,n,f
not as an equally unscrapuloas but less dayiaa
politician in similar plight ,could hare done,
NTH temporizing evasion, but ,cith pointed.
ostentatioas and emphatic denial. It is worth
nObody's while to push the charge to An
investigation, and SO it will probably rest.
gliding gradually into oblivion as time
passes on, and leaving General Banks not
. whit damagedin the general estimation
There are three points in the above:
|. The charges against General BANGS
IF habitual drunkenness are true. 2.
In his denial Of the charges he told ,
lie. 8. The people in the moral, vir.1.l
,us and temperate State Of Massaclu- &
'etts admire Banks for the manner in
Which ne met the charges; that is they 4
'dmire falsehood, they honora man for :
MS impious adjuration Of Almighty God $
o q palpable lie, and neither drunken. \
less nor falsehood, cowardice nor THEY q
ng, nor all four combined, can iniure a "
avOrite in their estimation. 2aaIt
How the North and the South can be i
% utterly antipoaal in their sentiments v
pom human worth and human degra. a
lation, is a matter which the mind of 4
nan cannot explain. With us, if Gen. e
raj Lee, with all his genius, had been b
poltroon, ora lbertine, or a rogue, In
iothing could have rescued him from t,
ontempt and infamy. At the North, {
men of the names Of Banks and Butler, a
ames linked with no virtue and a thou O
and crimes, are exalted to the pima "
Ee Of greatness, not for any heroic deed e
any commanding ability, but merely d
n an exhibition Of the most disgusting 81
Ffrontery and disregard of principle m
nd honor hitherto unknown in the bis. "a
Try Of the country. b,
AS have often declared in previors "
tiers, the one dominant aspiration Of A
'e radicals is the plumber and ruin Of hi
le entire South. Deleada est Cartha. az
,, was Cato's unvarying daily remin-
'r in the Roman Senate; there is rich. CT
there is pil'dge IN the South, and zoe be
ast haze 1t all-'ce haze ,ron it BY con. be
TEST, is the sleepless idea Of the North. pr
n pack. Whether to kill the goose at VI
ice, or whether to pamper her for q al
ason until she regains her incubatinp
,WerS and then roh shor ,,osx 10.