New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-18
BALM OF 4 THOUSAND flowers

there still more absurdly called "The Had"
Such, at first blush, would be the Judlcious
readers opinion of this confederation OF classi-
calities; but he might possibly review his YER
dict and reverse it, when he came to be init
mately acquainted with the'wit and wisdom
the reason and refinement, the superiority IN
generals and in particulars, exhibited by the
conductors Of this modern antique. Inc
objection, however, which would arise
upon even cmsOry perusal OF this ira
grant sheet would d be that 1t Is too
potent and too pungent for human natures
daily nose. 1t is, in fact, 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 a bOne-boiling es-
tabshmelt in the fullness OF its fragrance.
We may Is well, in the very outset, acknowl-
edge that this publication processes to be " Re-
publican in its politics, from which the In
ference my be drawn, to our disadvantage,
that it isas necessary for Republican TO be
as dirty in Louisiana as "a Democrat" III
New-YOrL Only promising that the editor OF
this typographical bouquet is Member OF
Congress, we proceed to an analysis OF his
OdoriferoB manufactures.
For sore reason-we do not care what for 1t
would betime wasted to conjecture lt-there IS
not mercy war to the knife, but war to the
bullet, tn bludgeOn, and the spirting OF venom,
between me Homer Ilidd and another news
paper caled The Claiborne AdrOcate. Hostlll-
ties thus ar, we believe, are confined to brisk
interchane of epithets and the small shot of
vituperabn-we would say billingsgate, only
the Door ish-wives have already grown clean
mouthed by comparison, in our estimation.
"Allen { Hill" says The Iiad,S "the hefty
"goose The AdrOcdte, displays in his dirty
"sputterlgs continued uneasiness in regard to
"educatin.r Gle fears" adds his enemy,
"that th colored people may learn to read
land wre." These are fears that, we confess,
we shout share with Mr.. A. c. Hill, If the
educated black could avail himself of no
better rading than the newspaper before us,
and coul not write more decently than Its
editors. We do not want the freedmen
of Louiana to be taught chirOgraphy merely
that in may be wasted and clean white
paper wrse than spoiled-that they may, in
print. all each other "buzzards," "bOttle-
"belliet toads," "skunks," "wild bulls" big
"hogs,' and "brutsh, hare Drained, pulling
"dogs. These are all geological titles which
the ingenious Blackburn layishes upon his foe.
There is nothing particularly original about
them-hey are specimens of rather hack
neyed style of scOlding. Heaven help the
negroe, if they are to take their primary les
sons n civilization and refinement from
such IN educator and champion! That we
may be thoroughly understood, we transfer one
gem entire:
9Th, Y,,n,n Of tn, irooat ,p.., Now Smsn Of old
Syrs but eper' So with the NAAman
Of The Cdirns lie indeed mighty In the Land Of
CAborns-y, nifty very shy And yet be spea Of
And need fear ssn One wou no, survive bis ssth
iag surface lager THAI would the crater Of Mount vs'uTia
"A whole broadside of stuff like this
appears in q journal which processes to
DO deyOed not only to politics and News"
but to Civilization and Literature" If Lou
isiana is TO have no nobler aid in her strug-
gle for regeneration and reconstruction, her
case isl forlorn one indeed This ill-bred
and undserving newspaper "a we learn from
an Announcement in the van of its columns, is
"The Ocial Journal of the United States"
as it is IF "the State of Louisiana and the
"Parishof Claiborne" If the General Gov
eminent is in any way responsible for this
weekly ompost of vulgarity and abuse, we
pray tn, General Government, for its own
sake. as we'll as for the sake of the Repub-
lcan patty, straightway to wash its hands of
the responsibility. If we cannot main
tain tn peace and dignity of the
Union j Louisiana without such an utter
degrada)n of the Republican press as this
Homer lad imports we should cease to talk
at least the dignity. This kind of newspa-
per was common enough at the South before
the Rebllion was the continual breeder of
personal rencounters, of fights in the streets
and of ffhts in the barroom, of wayside assas-
sinationsand all manner of bloody and des-
perate eeds. Ultimately they were the i'll
Omened ,irds broodng over the egg of Treason
until tho Matched it into spasmodic, but most
mschievus life. If now, when the war is
over, on only hope of future peace is in the
paper Cling itself Republican and "The
OGicalJournal of the United States" be thus
permitte to bring disrepute upon the National
charactel and to hinder the work of recon
struction while it undertakes to advance it
The Ed,r Processes to be genuine Southern
Unionist OF men with this high claim to con-
sideratioI we have never failed to speak in
defense, whenever we have thought them
unjustly ungenerously treated; but a news
paper lib this Republican" journal of Loui-
siana doe more to silence us than all the logic
of the Coperheads and all the lamentations Of
the unreOnstructed