The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-07-15

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dignation among the oppressed people OF
that unfortunate State. McCartiie, Of the
Vicksburg Times, is terrible in his denim.
citation Of the tyranny. We give the FOL.
lowing specimen bricks from his paper Of
10th ult. f
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For this act of tyranny, insolence and
outrage on the part of our new fedged DIES.
pot, Gen. Mcdowell has neither apology
nor the shadow of excuse. It is gross,
wanton and outrageous exercise Of unbri-
died power. of brute force, which is as dis.
graceful as it is indefensibfe. It will he
seen that, in his order removing Humph-
reys and Attorney General Hooker. Gen.
Mcdowell does not follow the usual course
OF tyrants, and give a reason for their re-
moval! We commend this prudence in our
new satrap, for while it is bad enough to be
brutal tyraDt, it is much worse to be a
liar, and we are glad to chronicle the fact
that Gen. Mcdowell seems to have more
| respect for his uniform than Ord, Sheridan,
Sickles, Pope and Meade have manifested.
1t is something, in these days, to find a
Major General in the army who does not
deem it necessary to add to other dishon.
oring crimes the disgraceful one of false
hood.
In removing Governor Humphreys and
Col. Hooker, Gen. Mcdowell has sought
to degrade two gentlemen who are as much
above him as the stars are above the dull
clods OF the valley. In all That ennobles &
man above brute-in all that makes life
glorious--in intellect, in courage, in manli-
ness, in heart and scul Benjamin G: Hum
phreys aud Charles F.. Hooker soar in
realms far above and beyond the foul and
murky atmosphere in which General Nc
Dowell grovels. They are his superior in
all things save the power which the bayo-
net confers, and in the retirement into
which he has forced them, they look down
with ineffable scorn aud contempt upon the
tyrant who, clothed with "little brief au-
thority," has expelled them from the Offices
the people conferred upon them.
Let General Mcdowell exercise his pow
err while lie may, for the time is coming
when there will be "none so poor as to do
him reverence" It behooves him to use
dispatch, "for the night cometh when no
man can work." General Mcdowell has
entered late upon the arena of despotism-
he has been laggard in reaching his Sat-
rapy-the laurels of dishonor have had
and sedulous reapers in the persons
of Meade, Sheridan, Pope. Ord and Sickles |
but ifhe will bestir himself, we doubt not
that the chaples which is destined to I
encircle his classic brows will laugh to |
scorn the withered bays worn by the cow
ardly miscreants we have named. Let him
not dispair-industry and energy can ac-
,omplish wonders and new gleauings from
old he::as may vet astonish the seekers for
nfamy and plumber.
A LAW STUDENT FOR ArToRSEY GENL
Capt. Jasper Myers, the ignorant block
lead appointed Attorney General by satrap
Mcdowell, has been the BOBBY Judge Ad-
locate of one of General Gillems military
commissions, and as such has been the
mock and scof of the boys of the profess
ion in this city for months. We doubt if
he BOBBY ever read a dozen pages Of
Blackstone in his life. We know that lie
pplied to General and Judge Harris for
permission so study law in their office!
md yet this ridiculous creature is to-day
Attorney General of the State by the ,
race OF Mcdowell! Comment is useless.
THERE MUST BE. ANOTHER TURN OF THE
hexe had mysterious givings
ut for some days-utterances attributed
0 distinguished military gentleman-that {
the people Of Missippi deserue to have
ne screws frightened upon them, and it will +
9 done soon." So SO The turn in the .
crew has been given, and the heads of twod
allant gentlemen, two battle-scarred SOL i
iers, are rolling in the dust. Patience, ma 7
ence! The time will comet ,ciN come, :
ome, when our oppressors shall be brought
Nv. This year, 1868, is the last of despot-
IN and misrule. Military satraps and car
et-bag vagabonds will take their departure n
the same time and on the same train
ALAS Poor MISSISSIPPI THE once Il
roud State of Mississippi-the State that n
IS given to the councils of the nation
Prentiss, Walker, Quit e
an, and Davis-the State whose sons n
on for the arms of the Union their bright
It laurels and their greenest bays, to-day
30 PROSTATE in the dust beneath the arm r
heel of an ignorant and vulgar despot
en-. Irwin Mcdowell, a pauper from the Ii
arity school of the nation. has signalized
$ advent amongst US by ruthlessly tram II
ing upon the last vestige of the sover-
ynty ofa once free and Independent State "
thin ten days after his arrival upon our VI
il, and without seeing, or having had an At
portunity to see, anything upon which
base his action, this miserable sycophant fa
s stricken down Chief Magistrate and h.
Attorney General, whose unbending
mness. unquailing courage, and lofty dig or
y of character, have commanded the az 81;
:tioi of our own people and extorted the
Iniration and respect of our foes
Thirty years ago, when an outrage upon
r State was contemplated by a reckless
ljority in Congress, Sergeant s. Prentiss,
on the floor of the House. told that ma
ity to go on in their work of infamy, to