The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-30
sruLTIFIED JOURNALS.

The New York Evening Post, the Chicago
Tribune. the Cincinnati Gazette and Cincln-
natl Commercial are the most stultifed papers
that ever came under our observation. They
have done their utmost, through thick and
thin, aad fds aut ngas, to maintain in per-
petual mower the men who have misgoverned
the country for the past four years, and now
thew denounce the corruptions which scan
dalize the government and the laundering and
laundering policies which affiict the people
According TO the Post, the legislation of this
party, whose ascendency it has so persistently
labored to perpetuate, destroyed our COM
merce, so that if we had ships we should have
nothing to carry in them, and In all that
vitality concerns the national wealth and the
welfare of the people has produced San in
tolerable condition of things" And the same
paper adds "Suppose the Republican party
goes on as it has gone SO long? Suppose 1t
puts off reform suffers that combina-
ton of knavery and ignorance which
has made our tax system to tinker at it and
make it, if possible, yet worse? What them"
Why, judging from the past Messieurs of the
Post, you will, as heretofore, exert all the
ability of your journal, using every unscrupu-
lous appliance of party strategy, and vehe-
mently appealing to "loyalty and to "pat-
riotism," to dissuade the people from rising
in their Indignation and in their might and
hurting from power the knaves and igno-
ramuses who have, as you truly assert, de-
stroyed commerce and brought about IAN
intolerable condition of things"
The special object of denunciation with the
Cincinnati Gazette is the corrupt completely
with railroad land public land swindles of
pious, patriotic creatures of the Ashley,
Pomeroy and Harlan stripe, who are pulled
into opulence by pious SWIVEL and patriotic
rant more wondrously than Falstaf was
pulled into corpulence by signing. Thus
edifyingly does the Gazette record its appre-
citation of these unctuous and gorgeous types
of Radical rascaldom:
We have to say that we know of no classyof
beings too vile TO include secretary Of the inte-
rior or a senator who uses his Office TO rob the
country to enrich himself who disgraces his gov
eminent by cheating the Indians out of their lands,
for private speculation, when his Office makes
him their guardian who amasses great wealth,
while his country is bleeding at every pore; who
in his countrys agony makes the profession of
patriotism what the blunt Samuel johnson once
called it, " the last refuge of a scoundrel;" who
in the joy of rapid rise from poverty to riches
by the improvement of official opportunities,
views the distresses of the people torn by civil
war with serene indifference.
The time is coming when the shrinking ofpaper
values will reveal the burdens upon the people in
their real weight, and then the sight of public
officer who upon a small salary has in few years
accumulated great wealth will be popularity
odious; when the riches procured by peculation
will DO logger have glitter that hides the means
by which they were gained; when the official
robbers of o bleeding country-Yorse tnan the
hyenas of the battle-feld-will find themselves
and their ill-gotten riches subject to moral judg-
ment that will force them to seek seclusion aud
make their pampered children ashamed Of their
paternal name.
And when the predicted time shall have
come what will be thought of the party
which, in the blaze of fortune and power,
has bred corruption as spontaneously as a
dead dog in the sunshine breeds maggots, and
what will be thought of the journals which,
like the Gazette, SHINING against confessed
knowledge, have assisted to fasten the hyena-
teeth and claws of this party upon the bleed
ing country?