The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-07-22
Loyal Loot.
HOLY HORROR OF H. G.
IFrom the New York Wo,

From the New York World.
The holy horror of the Tribune over the
late "loot :" in Abyssinia, where Napier's
soldiers are said to have stolen mule loads
OF books and pictures, and even to have
carried away the censers and chalices oil
churches, inspired that shocked iourna, to
utter an entirely new conundrum, tu-wit
the following:
!" Having done their best to reduce
Abyssinia to heathenism, these christian
conquerors have the grace to keep their
plumber in their pockets until they are out
OF theScountry Do the annals of war
furnish another instance of such delicate
rapacity ?"
We should say that they did. Fer in
stance the cart loads of books stolen from
Southern libraries during the war, the
plate, pictures, pianos, baby linen, and
spolls generally, were for long while sur.
reptitlousiy shown only to loil friends in
New England as rebel trophies. The
mere robbery of libraries the stealing of
communion services from churches; the
theft of the silver candelabra from the al
tar OF the Jesuits' Church of the Immacu.
late conception in New Orleans when
Butler was commandant the sackine of
private houses and the general turning ND
IN ten States of the sell of kitchen gardens
IN wild search for rebelious silver ten.
pots-these are minormatters, mere triHes.
IN comparison with such outrages as the
burning OF churches in Columbia and At
lanta. 1t was reported in the late Protest
ant Episcopal Convention OF South Caro-.
n
that one denomination were burned in that
State during the war; indeed, church
burning was as much passion with the
vagabonds and bummers of the army as it
was at the North some years ago, when
what is now called the Radical party was
known as the Native American party, of
which Colfax was prominent member
The historian of the American conflict in
for presidents which rival the
recent loot IN Abyssinia can find in the
late war ITO restore the Union" wholesale
instances of robbery and plumber, the like
of which are not to be found among the
annals of the Feejees, or head-hunters of
Borneo. The sack of the magnificent
State library at Baten Rouge, Louisiana,
and the burning of the splendid building to
cover the theft, the plumber of Arlington
and the general lot of family relics which
were heir-looms from Washington the
thefts and robberies which marked the
whole march Of the army throughout the
South, are unparalleled in any history of
civilized or barbarous nations. We need
not name single individual loyal Lazarus
who went South expressly to deplete the
pockets and plate corsets Of the disloyal
Dives. His name might be Butler; it
might be Dow; it might be Jones in all
probability it was a name of some such
sort. The ,brigadiers who went to the war
beggars and came home millionaires may
be counted by hundreds. With these men
'loot" was a synonyme for loyalty, and
their patriotism was plumber. The Tri.
bune knows as we'll as we do that the
thefts of certain loil Generals at
the South during the war are only family
paralleled by the loot in Abyssinia, and
are only equalled by the Wholesale plumber
of the peace patriots whose super-loyalty
manifests itself in the astounding Radical
delalcations and robberies which now al
most daily develop in Washington.