The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-07
ADHESIVE CONWAY.

Parson Conway writes to the Picayune that
he intends to stay in Louisiana, and that no.
body has greater interest than his in the
prosperity and grandeur of the State. There
is nothing like these carpet-bag Radicals for
sticking. I" Jew David's Hebrew Plaster +"
used to have an extraordinary cohesive
reputation, and &c Spalding's Prepared
Glue" was supposed to be unequaled for
converting hopeless fractures into per-
manent conference. But Stanton and Roll
Inns have driven the famous plaster clear
out of mind by the manifestation of their in
comparable sticking qualities ; and for main
tanning the connection between Radical
carpet-bagger aud a plundered people Spald-
ings glue cannot be mentioned in the same
day with a good fat Office. Of course Con-
way will stay in Louisiana-of course he has
an interest in the State-he has the normal
interest of carpet-bagger, to draw salary
to which he has no moral right, and he will
stay just SO long as he has a chance of draw
ing it, and not day longer.
The Parson, in the course of his letter,
relates an anecdote of a supplemented coun-
try gentleman who gathered the opinion from
the newspapers that the Parson was, not to
put too fine point on it, ga id rascal, "
and so expressed himself, unknowing of the
sacred presence in which he stood. What is
the Parsons object in relating this incident
does not clearly appear. Perhaps he takes a
natural pride in having attained that peculiar
pre-eminence which evoked the objurgatory
and depreciatory ejaculation which he at
tributes to the supplemented country gentle
man-an ejaculation, it must be confessed,
more emphatic than elegant, and more pro-
fame than polite-but the probability is that
he intends to lead supplemented public to
the conclusion that newspapers are entirely
unworthy of credit, in that their opinion of
Parson Conway is by no means fattering
to that itinerant and prehensile ecclesiastic
Now, we respectfully submit that this is as
Stunning the point at issue. Yet, after all, how
could mendicant carpet-bagger help display
ing his essential Characteristic. Having no.
thing else to beg except the pardon of people
whom he had slandered, he naturally begged
the question. If Parson Conway had brought
forward some reliable testimony or some good
reasons to show that the opinion of the news
papers and the public was unjust-something
for instance, TO offset the evidence of Steed-
man and Fullerton's report-his anecdote
might have been relevant, and the simple
minded gentleman might have been induced
to believe that he stood in the presence of
sacerdotal saint. But, like others of his
class-lke all "trooly loil' patriots and expon-
ents of avid carpet-baggery, the Parson seems
to pride himself precisely on those things
of which other people would be most
ashamed. The public regard him as an in
truder and carpet-bagger, which is the sum
of what the public regard as offensive and
contemplate; the newspapers refe.t the
opinion of the public; supplemented coun-
try gentleman resolves this opinion into the
expressive and comprehensive formula of
I'D rascal" and Parson Conway relates
these circumstances as if they were some
thing very much to his credit. Ordinary
people would consider them exceedingly dis
creditable; but who can account for the in
tellectual vagaries and the moral obliquity of
yagrant and mendicant carpet-baggery