The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-08
The Advocate, a weekly paper published in
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The Advocate, weekly paper pubhshed In
thi3 city, is very much incensed at some re-
marks in the CRESCENT on a recent report
maize by one Hatch, superintendent, or
sontething of that kind, we believe, OF that
beHefcent Institution, the freedmens bureau.
The Advocates article is entitled '"Insult to
GeA. HATCH" and in the course of it the
CRtscEsT is accused of speaking disrespect-
fully of that official In what the insult con-
sists, or the disrespect, we are not informed;
but we are left to infer that it is involved in
tho expression one Hatch" by which we
designated the person who superintends the
freedmen's bureau in this State. Perhaps, in
consideration of his exalted station and i'm
portance, we should have spoken of him as
"tSo," instead of "one !" but we really were
not aware that he is so distinguished person
as to require reduplication as mark of recog-
milton. We must confess that we never knew
anything of him, except through his occa-
siopal intrusions into print, as the author of
some feeble attempts to discredit the people
of Louisiana. For all we care, he may be
"seneral !" and for all we know he is Zone
Hatch" still.
We certainly meant no disrespect to him in
our brief comments on his report but we do
not perceive that he, or any of his party, are
entitled to Difference and respect from the
people of this community. They regard the
people of Louisiana as enemies they treat
the people of Louisiana as enemies; they
SANDER the people of Louisiana on every oc-
casion, convenient and inconvenient, relevant
and irrelevant, and they expect the people of
Louisiana to respond to these delicate atten-
tons with display of deferential courtesy
Now we do not propose to corroborate the
hbels of zone Hatch, and confirm the accusa-
tions of his partisans, by recognizing them as
entitled to any other treatment, or any other
consideration in this community than the
treatment and the consideration which this
community bestows upon them, If it is q
part of the superintendent duty, as an OF.
fetal Of the United States, to find pretexts
for the continuance of his pet Radical insti-
tuition he cannot reasonably expect to rid
himself of the odium which that institution
has incurred among the people whom to OPP
press and worry it was expressly devised.
The Advocate says: General Hatch
needs no eulogium from u.s." Very likely; but
he gets it, nevertheless. We may say that
he needs no eulogium from us and we may
remark, in addition, that he would not get it
if he needed it q thousand times. The Ad-
vocate likewise says: ''His firm and decided
action in the late disturbances in our city,
has given offense to the CRESCENT and the
Democrats, but he is too patriotic to be in
fluenced by them, and too great to be injured
by their unmanly and contemplate innuen-
does"
The Advocate is in error. Neither the
CRESCENT nor the Democratic party know any
thing of General Hatch's firm and decided
action" during the recent troubles, or of any
other action on his part, except that involved
in the writing and transmission of his politi-
cal telegram. He may be a very great man,
as the Advocate intimstes, but we insist that
if he is to be considered ''grest, the world is
more replete with "mute inglorious Millions, q"
and guiltless Cromwells than ever Grey imag-
ined of the cemeteries of England, and the
United States has more Washingtons and
Jacksons than would populate half the towns
in the country.