New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-12-21
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The clemency bill recently offered by
Senator Kellogg in Congress embraces
large list of our citizens. Senator Kellogg
has evinced in most instances very judi
cious discrimination. 1t is very delicate
duty. at the present state of reconstruction
to select from the large list whom it has
been judged best from prudential public
j motives to disqualify from holding Office
deserving exceptions for Congressional
clemeHcy, through whom to excite a proper
emulation to live obediently to the
national laws, and rekindle the embers Of
patriotism in the South. General John L.
Lewis was formerly Mayor Of New Orleans
and in the rebellion was Major General
of Louisiana militia. He was not much 0.
a general, however. TWAS chiefly in the
times Of the cornstalk militia, on Sundays
and parade days that he fourished. He
used to gallop up and down the street with
General Palfrey on the fourth of July, and
the prints of his horses hoofs used to mark
the parade ground Of the old Place ddrmes,
now Jackson square, on training days and
reviews. George W. Nader was honestly
elected to our State Senate last spring,
but some how or another was ruled out,
and incumbents seated whose right to sit
under the Constitutional amendment are
much more doubtful than his. Ethan
Allen has been long connected
with 1.-THE notarial business in
this city; he is q quiet gentleman,
and not much addicted to politics. John
E. King was formerly Speaker of the House
of Representatives and Secretary of State
Of Louisiana. He is a citizen:ot St. Landry
and was elected to Congress in 1865, but
not admitted to his seat. John W. Fairfax
is a gentleman nov connected with the
revenue service. He is clever writer,
and has been connected with several
of the press of New Orleans, lastly
with the Times. Frank W. Lelesder-
NE used to be q lumber merchant.
He was formerly connected with the
Democratic party, but early Joined the
Know-Nothing movement, and was elected
an Assistant Alderman. He halls from
down East, in the State of Maine, but does
not rank as a carpet-bagger. James H.
Wingfeld, we believe, holds an important |
post on the jackson railroad. He was
formerly an active and very popular fire.
man. He deserves great deal of credit |
for having killed the Know-Nothing thug,
Logan, several years ago, and would be
still more deserving if he would kill few
more who still infest the city.
In the war he was an officer of the Fiji |
Regiment which left this city, with Hon.
Theo. G. hunt as Colonel and Henry
Forno as Lieutenant Colonel. Joseph P.
Hornor is the senior member of the law finn
of Hornor d Co., the successors of Durant
i Hornor, Of whom the latter was his
father. He has all the vigor and empresse-
nent Of his father, and is one of the most !
rising members Of the bar. He was taken |
a prisoner at Port Hudson, and was Sc
verely spoken of by the street corner Sc
cesh for taking the oath of allegiance and
returning to be exchanged, which was very
sensible on his part. In the celebrated
Street Commissioner controversy he defend
ed Baker and got him off beating Alexander
Walker and other legal luminaries. Philip
81. Winfree was Pointe Coupee editor,
and later was an officer of the Legislature
of 1865, and more recently Of the New
Orleans Customhouse. He has had much
experience in the public employment.
Emmett D. Craig is young lawyer in Com
mercial place, and emanates from New
Jersey. We do not know whether he Is
carpetbagger or not. Emile La Sere was
once member of Congress from the First Con-
gressional district. Later he was con-
nected with the Tehuantepec transit bust
ness. BE was man of great energy, and
used to do great deal of the heavy poll
teal work for Slidell, in engineering the
Democratic conventions before the war
The list contains some dozens of others
more or less known 1t is understood that
Senator Kellogg has selected the names in
the bill with the most scrupulous care
from the mass of disfranchised with view
to the encouragement of loyalty. They
all accept the civil and political equality Of
all men, at least 1880. If they do not, they
might as well; for the civil and political
equality of all men Is solemn fact.
LITERATURE OF THE SOUTH.