The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-20

would arise upon even oursory perusal of
this fragrant sheet would be that it il too
potent and too pungent for human natures
daily nose. IL is, in fact a chemical curiosity
of newspaper, as we shall presently demon
strate, and it is the only one which we have
ever seen which, by the mysterious law of
association, reminded us of bone-boiling
establishment in the fulness of its fragrance.
We may as well, in the very outset, acknow-
ledge that this publication peofesses to be
Republican" in its politics, from which the
inference may be drawn, to our disadvantage,
that it is as necessary for a Republican to he
as dirty in Louisiana as "a Democrat in New
York Only promising that the editor Of this
typographical bouquet is member OF Con-
gress, we proceed to an analysis of his Odorifs-
rous manufactures.
For some reason-we do not care what,
for it would be time wasted to conjecture it
there is not merely war to the knife, bat war
to the bullet, the bludgeoa, and the spirting
of venom, between the Homer IJtdd and an
other newspaper called the Claiborne Ad00-
cate. Hostilities thus far, we believe are
confined to brisk interchange of epithets
and the small shot of vituperatson--we would
say billingsgate, only tho poor fsh-wives
have already grown clean-mouthed, by COM
parison in our estimation. "Allen @. Hill, p"
says the Nidd, ''the hefty goose of the A6p0-
tinued uneasiness in regard to education"
''He fears, adds his enemy, 'that the colored
people may learn to read and write"
These are fears that, we confess, we should
share with Mr.. A. G. Hill, if the edu-
Gated black could avail himself of no betcer
reading than the newspaper before us,
and could not write more decently than it's
editors. We do not want the freedmen of
Louisiana to be taught ohirography merely
that ink may be wasted and clean white paper
worse than spoiled-that they may, in print,
call each other 'buzzards, ''bottle-belied
toads, "skunks," wild bulls" ''big hogs"
and ''brutish hare-brained pulling dogs"
These are all geological titles which the inge-
NOUS Blackburn lavishes upon his foe. There
is nothing particularly original about them
they are specimens of rather a hRckneyed
style of scolding Heaven help the negroes
if they are to take their primary lessons in
civilization" and refinement from such an
educator and champion That we may be
thoroughly understood, we transfer one gem
entire-
"The Naaman OF the Adrocate speaks OF meas.
Now, Naaman Of old was mighty man in Syria, but
he was leper.' so with the Naaman Of the Clal-
borne AdpOcdte. He is indeed mighty man in the
land Of Cla1bOrne-yes, nrty man-but he is very
filthy. And yet he speaks OF fleas. And why need
he fear feas? one would not survive on his seeth-
ing surface longer than would gnat in the crater OF
Mount Vesuviusv
"A whole broadside of stuff like this ap-
pears in a journal which processes to be de-
voted not only to ''Pohtics and News, but
to 'Civilization and Literature. If Lou
isiana is to have no nobler aid in her struggle
for regeneration and reconstruction. her case
is forlorn one indeed This ill-bred and
undeserving newspaper, as we learn from an
announcement in the van Of its columns is
''The Official Journal of the United States, F"
as it is of ''the State of Louisiana and the
Parish of Claiborne" If the General Gov
ernment is in any way responsible for this
weekly compost of vulgarity and abuse, we
pray the General Government. for it's own
sake, as well as for the sake Of the Republi-
can party, straightway to wash its hands of
the responsibility. If we cannot maintain
the peace and dignity of the Union in Lou
isiana without such an utter degradation of
the Republican press as this Homera Ht0d
imports, we should cease to talk at least
of the dignity. This kind of newspaper
was common enough at the South before
the Rebellion; was the continued breeder of
personal encounters, of fights in the streets
and of fights in the bar-room, of wayside as
sasinations and all manner of bloody and
desperate deeds. Ultimately they were the
ill-omened birds brooding over the egg of
treason until they Matched it into spasmodic,
but most mischievous life. If now, when the
war is over our only hope of future peace is
in the social regeneration of the South, why
should Q paper calling itself Republican
and ''the official journal of the United States
be thus permitted to bring disrepute upon
the national character, and to hinder the work
of reconstruction, while it undertakes to ad
vance it? The editor processes to be 6
genuine Southern Unionist. OF men with
this high claim to consideration we have
never failed to speak in defense, Whenever
we have thought them unjustly or ungener
ously treated; but newspaper like this IRE
publican" journal of Louisiana does more tC
silence US than all the logic of the copper
heads and all the lamentations of the unre
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