The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-02-28
Is THE GOVERNOR MAD?

Is LIE UVERNUR MAI?
1t is said that "whom the gods wish to
destroy they, first make mad Now, fthe
immortal deities single out men for destruc-
ton, and then make them mad, what must
not be the utter humiliation intended for
those who have been mad from the begin
ming? That Mr.. James Madison Wells,
F." governor of Louisiana, is as crazy as
a bed-bug," and has ever been crazy, we
are certainly charitable and humane enough
to believe. For, on NO other reasonable
hypothesis can we account for the strange
and unaccountable things which are the
objects of his daily performance. To say
nothing about transactions in former years,
which would argue any man crazy, or about
bis desertion to the Yankees, which we
could call by worse name than madness
if we were not the most charitable of indi-
yiduals, he has done enough within the
past three weeks to send any other man to
the Lunatic Asylum. When the General
Assembly had passed the Election Bills by
an almost unanimous vote, and when Pres
ident johnson, the Governors great buga-
boo with which he used to frighten ignorant
men, had signifed his intention MOTTO an
null the election, any sane man would have
yielded to the wishes Of the Legislature
the people and the Federal Government
and have foregone the humiliation Of see
ing the supporters Of his peculiar views
reduced to zero. But the Governor, as we
have said, was a mailman, and scould see
nothing; SO he vetoed the bills, with what
results we need not recapitulate.
The "Governor" might have stopped
here, and yet have been unable to success.
fully resist a petition for his introduction
But, like most madmen, the more crazy
things heidoes, the more crazy things he
desires to do. In order to counteract the
mischievous tendencies of the election bills
his Excellency goes to Judge Durell
whlemethe dslectaBle President Of the I'M
mortal jayhawkers' Convention, and be.
seeches him to call that renowned assembly
of concentrated wisdom and virtue togeth.
er, for the purpose Of solving the difficulties
by which our State affairs are surrounded
Now, IN order to understand the height o.
insanity to which the conduct Of our de
mented Governor would seem to demon
strate his ascension, it must be remembered
that the august Democratic and Conserve
| tive Convention" which anfnrled the Wells
banner to the breeze, came before the peo
pie with the proposition, as its campaign
Shiboleth, that the Constitution Of 1864
was the creature Of fraud, violence ani
corruption" thereby leaving the necessary
inference that its creators were fraudulent
violent and corrupt individuals. It mus
be remembered also that Mr.. Michae
Hahn. who came into being as the creature
|of that Constitution, and Mr.. 3. K. Cutler
under whose resolution the Governor is
now endeavoring to convene the jaykawk
ers' Convection, have been denounced time
and again by bis ExceHency as enemies O
the State; although it is a very difficult
matter for an outsider to see why it is that
these gentlemen are SO much worse thar
Mr.. Wells himself, who ran on the same
ticket with Mr.. Hahn and succeeded to his
office, when that gentleman was elected
illegally as Mr.. Wells then thought) to the
Senate ofthe United States. Mr.. Wells
then, is throwing himself into the arms Of
the Convention Of 1864, of Hahn and Gut.
Ter, and all the other niger worshippers
having become profoundly Disguised with
the "bad men, who elected him to the
office of Governor. Isn't he mad?
If the gods are to destroy those whom
they have made mad, Or who have been
mad all the time, the people Of Louisiana
need not give up all hope. There is fair
prospect of their getting rid of their crazy
Governor, Of the crazy Mayor of New Or
leans, and of the crazy Senators, whom they
were instrumental in sending to the Con-
gress of the United States.
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