The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1870-01-05
New York Tribune On the Homer Iliad.

The New York Tribune, Of late date, contains the
following
There is place in Louisiana absurdly called Ho-
mer and there is newspaper printed there still more
absurdy called The Had. Such, at first blush, would
be the udcious readers opinion of this concentration
of classicates but he might possibly review his YER
dict and reverse it. when he to be intimately &C.
quainted with the wit and wisdom the and re-
fnemeat, the superiority in generals and in particulars
exhibited by the conductors of this modern antique
The objection however, which would arise upon even
cursory perusa Of this fragrant sheet would be that
1t Is too potent and too puDgent for human natures
daily nose. 1t is, in fact, chemical curiosity of
newspaper, as shall presently demonstrate and it
Is the only one which we have which, by the
mysterious law of association reminds US of bone
boiling establishment in the tullneSs of its fragrance
we may as WE'LL IN the very outset acknowledge that
this Publication processes be Republican in its poll.
tics from which the inference may be drawn to our
disadvantage, that it is necessary for Republican
to be as dirty in Louisiana Democrat in NewYork
Only promising that the editor OF this typographical
bouquet is member of Congress, we proceed to an
analysis of his odoriferous manufactures.
For some reason-we do not care what for it would
be time wasted to conf lecture it-there is not merely
to the knife, but to the bullet, the bludgeon
aud the splrting of venom between the Homer Had
and another newspaper called the Claiborne Advocate
Hostes thus far we believe, are confined to brisk
interchange of ephets and the small shot of vituper
aton-we would say billiDgsgate only the poor fish
wives have already grown clean mouthed by compar-
son. in our estimation "Allen c. Hill saws the Had
the hefty goose of the Advocate displays in his dirty
sputteringS continued uneasness in regard to educa
ton" He fears adds his enemy, that the colored
people may learn read and write" These are fears
| that, confess should share with Mr. A. C. Hill
if the educated black could avail himself of no better
reading than the newspaper before U.s. and could not
write decently than its editors We do not want
the freedmen of Louisiana to be taught chrography
merely that ink may be wasted and clean white paper
more than spoed-that they may, in print call each
other buzzards bottle belied oads skunks wild bulls
big hogs and british, harebraned pulling dogs. These
all geological titles which the ingenious Blackburn
lavishes upon his foe. There is nothing particularly
original about them-they are specimens of rather a
hackneyed style ofscoldng. Heaven help the negroes
if they 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 Advocate speaks of heas
Now Naaman of old was mighty man in Syria, but
he a eper. So with the Naaman of the Clai-
borne Advocate. He is indeed mighty man in the
Land of Claborne-yes, nifty man-but he is very
filthy. And yet he speaks of feas. And why need
he fear heas? One would not survive in his seethng
surface longer than would a gnat on the crater CT
Mount VesuVius!n
whole broadside of stuff like this appears in
journal which processes to be devoted not only to
Politics and News but to Civilization and Ltera-
ture." If Louisiana is to have no nobler aid in her
struggle for regeneration and reconstruction her case
is 0rorn one indeed This ill-bred and undeserv-
ing newspaper, we learn from an announcement in
the van of its columns is The Official journal of the
United States" it is of the State of Louisiana and
the Parish of Claiborne" If the General Government
is in any way responsible for this weekly compost of
vulgarty and abuse, pray the General Government
for its sake, well for the sake of the Repub-
can party sraghtway to wash its hands of the respon-
sblity. If we cannot maintain the peace and dignity
Of the Union in Louisiana without such an utter degre
dation Of the Republican press as this Homer Had
imports, we should cease to talk az least of its dignity
If now, when the war is over, our only hope Of fu-
ure peace is in the social regeneration of the South,
why should paper calling itself Republican and
I" The Official Journal of the United States be thus
permitted to bring disrepute upon the national charac-
ter, and to hinder the work of reconstruction while it
undertakes to advance it? The editor processes to be
genuine Southern Unionst. Of men of this high
claim to consideration have never failed to speak
in defence, whenever have thought them uDjustly
or ungenerously treated but newspaper like this
Republican journal of Louisiana does more to
silence us than all the logic of the CoppeGheads and
all the lamen ations of the unreconstruced