The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-03-07


neutral magazine and weekly. They call
the latter o journal of Civilization" and
the former q literary periodical. Untilit
begun to pay to denounce the Democracy
of this country they toadied to At with ?
servility which was absolutely disgusting.
They denounced John Brown, disgusting.
They denounced John Brown, in 1853, in
the most savage terms, and had their paper
filled with pictures of the raid, designed to
show the love Of the negroes for their mas
tiers; and the atrocity Of old Browns bloody
attempt to sever the patriotic relation"
Even when the war was just impending,
when Beauregard had donned the Confed-
crate Uniform; when Davis was sitting at
the head of the new government, which
was certainly Us fatty in rebel then as ever
afterwards, they published the likeness of
those two persons, gave fatsering biogra-
phies of.them, and never intimaied hint
of disapproval of the work on which they
had entered. They showed then the same
spirit which they had displayed long before
when they embellished their Journal Of
Civilization with an immense woodcut Of a
brutal prize fight, because they could not
bear to resign the sixpences Of the shout.
der-hitters and blackguards Of New York
to their competitors Of the other pictorial
weeklies. They sought to appease the de-
cent portion OF their readers, on that oc
casion, by giving on their editorial page, q
flaming moral article on the wickednesS
and indecency of human creatures pounding
each other as represented in the picture.
As soon as the war had fairly broken
out and their Southern subscription lis'
was hopelessly cut off, they commenced te
print the most insulting abolition sheet in
the country. Not content with reviling the
people actually engaged in the rebellion
they have continued, ever since, to libel, by
word and picture, the great Democratic
party of the North. They have filled botf
"Weekly" and Magazine with sickening
sneaking tales, apparently the emanations
of one added head, designed to magnify
the virtues of the angular old maids of thu
East and to illustrate the .infamy Of thu
"Copperheads, as they delight to- call us
The plot of these stories seems to be KEEP
in type, and the adjeetives, love talk, de
scriptions of hospitals, scenery, ETC., filled
in according to the taste ofthe compositor
lis the simplest thing in the world K
write; one. Reuben Tarbutton goes sol
diering 1.-THE bounty in Reuben's district,
may remark, was $1,000 andyleaves Nelli'
lDoolittle disconsolate. Nellie devote
herself to knitting stockings for the negr'
troops until news comes Of Reuben's de
mise, which, of course, takes place in tn
livery middle CT the deadly breach. Nellie
! thereupon, having dried up her tears on he
lapron, concludes tc soothe Reuben's de
parted spirit by minister;ng to his compan
lions who are left behind and forthwith be
comes an army nurse. Finally, STE happen
to be wandering through the waraE OF
lstrange hospital when she hears familia
voice exclaiming, "Oh that | could bu
see Nellie, and die happyv' She. bound
forward, tears back the curtain, there is
simultaneous Reuben!" "Nellie!" ant
these two pure-hearted young beings ar
locked in each others arms.a Of course
Reuben wasn't killed at all. The stor
was invented by base Copperhead VIII
was his rival, and hadn't pluck enough Il
60 to the war. He was merely wounded b.
a 20 inch cannon ball in the chest-sool
gets on his legs-they are married-settl
down in o neat little cottage, with an ellgi
bic onion patch attached are blessed wit
q brood of healthy young abolitionists VIII
come by twins, and (here the moral sneak
rim ore steady purchasers Of I'LL the stuff tn
Harpers print. Fortunately it is in tn
power of the Democracy Of this countr
f who have bought, in past times, thousand
of books and periodicals with the name Q
the Harpers on them,I ito cut down this Gil
culation of this nonsense sensibly and RICH
/ speedily. That is the only way to reac
f such mercenary souls as theirs.