New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-03-25
HON. JOHN MUTUALLY,

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We mentioned this wandering minstrel
the other day, not as being himself OF any
especial importance, but because he was
put forward by the Democratic central
committee as the exponent of their views
The inference was perfectly fair that II
they publicly invited this orator to repeat
his speech they adopted it as an expression
Of their sentiments. We at the same time
noticed the fact that Mr. John Mutually Is
the same man who fabricated the enormous
libel that one million bales of cotton were
lost to the crop of the last year by the
speeches delivered in portion Of the cot
ton states last spring by Hon. Henry Viii
son and Hon. William D. Kelley; that this
magnificent piece Of misrepresentation was
published in his paper, the Metropolitan
Record and that it was copied with ap-
proval by copperhead journal in New
Orleans, to the great disgust of all truthful
men, and the inextinguishable laughter Of
Carondelet street.
We quoted some remarks from Mr.. Null
lally's speech, not that they were either
novel or edifying, but because we desired
our readers to know what kind of opinions
were those which the Democratic central
committee were anxious to have repeated
in Cur mids'S
Thereupen Mr.. John Mutually, errO-
neously suPposing that we meant TO take
some notice of him, publishes in the col
umns of a contemporary a long TRADE, in
which he rcars against US Cf we may be
pardoned for Hibernicism) like an Irish
bull-of Bashau. He talks about false
hoods, but forgets to explain his own tre-
mendous tale about the million bales Of
cotton. He speaks about the great re
action now going on in the North" but
forgets to speak of the late election in
New Hampshire. He accuses the
REPUBLICAN of misrepresenting,
and in the same paragraph he coins the
SANDER that the REPubLIcAN is supported
by the freedmen's bureau! We are aware
of the powers of the Celtic imagination
we are not unmindftil Of the graceful fancy
which gilds even the mendicancy OF the
" foinest pizzantry in the wurald," but We
must say that in all the annals of fiction we
have never before met with any statement
quite so remarkable as that. The freed
mems bureau has expended good deal o
money in feeding people, both black and
white, who had been reduced to starvation
by war melted by the rebels, of whom
Mr. Mutually is now the champion it has
been busy for some time in the useful duty
of watching over both the rights Of the
planter and Of the freedmen under a new
system Of labor--a system which is work
ing admirably, to the great modification 0
the copperheads, Of whom Mr.. Mutually il
the mouthpiece but to say that Majol
General Buchanan is engaged in aid
ing, assisting, or Substituting the
loyal press OF Louisiana in general, oil
the REPUBLICAN in particular, is to exhibit
rashness of statement which even q
Camp street Journalist might deprecate.
AS Mr. Mutually evidently desires to be
noticed by us, we will give him some in
formation and some advice. The existence
of the REPUBLICAN is no mystery. 1t is th'
organ of ninety thousand loyal voters. I
has large and rapidly increasing eircu
lation. It has no lack of paying adver
tisements. It's job Office is one of the bes
in the city, and is crowded with work. A
business enterprise it is sue
cess; and this success is gratifying
because it is the result, not of trucking t.
prejudices, not Of bartering away our man
hood, but Of advocating those broad prin
ciples Of liberty and justice which ar,
sure sooner or later to triumph.
And now for the advice. If Mr.. Mullall!
will return to New York, chasten his to,
fertile imagination, prune down his to-
tawdry rhetoric, cease to do evil, learn t,
do well, stop abusing what is noble an,
advocating what is vile-in short, if ne viii
totally change bis character, and emplo!
an intelligent editor fitT upss HE paper, tn
Metropolitan Record may in the course 0