The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-08-20
VOL v Monroe 0uacha Parish La Saturday, August 1870

and many of it's worthy members
thought this assumption of his
Excrescence was "rather crowding g
the lnOuners''-andu upon the oc-
casion of the Qualification" last
Tuesday evening of the shameless
farce of an election, those gentle
men marched to their usual place
of assembly and protested against
the whole scheme of usupers as un-
generous, arbitrary, undemocratic
and dishonest.
The President, be it understood,
is a worthy and active young col
ored man, short in stature and by
no means stalwart in frame. He
denounced tho whole proceeding
as a swindle, until at last his Ex-
crescence, beginning to apprehend
that the Ward might repudiate its
spurious delegate after all, in
chOler clutched the President by
another collar.
His choice Of an antagonist has
usually been discreet, but al
though apparently safe of master
ing man Il third his size, he soon
discovered his error. The Presi-
about the gubernatorlal lapel and
for Il moment there was a pause,
all awful pause. The gubernato-
rial frown, the bristling Of the
gubernatorialm moustache, the glare
of thS gubernatorial eye were
alike in vain. The little ex-Presi-
dent proceeded to relieve the Cow
ernOr of the trouble of holding
him in clstody-and in a method
SO short, sharp and decisive-that
he, the Governor, looked like a
sick Shanghai dropping before Il
lively little bantam. But as the
members round about began to
inquire rather loudly if that was
the style of fighting he adopted
tin assisting to re-establish the
supremacy Of the Union," the
Governor felt that he was doing
himself injustice.
"A gain he reared his head and
after stationing three of his pals
in front of him by way of defence
upon the little, unarmed Presi-
dent, he drew, it is said, sword
half way out from his cane in the
same valiant way he kept draw
ing a blade during the war. But
as even this show of prowess did
not daunt the little President, who
still sent in verbal hot shell, the
Governor concluded that he had
made an eGregious ass as well as
a knave of himself and just then
happened to remember that in
view of an engagement elsewhere
he shouldn't have come to bel
"ratified'' after all.
On the whole, we think, howcv-
er, that the Governor has done
himself as much credit as usually
attends his POLITICAL Schemes
we do him this justice gladly.
We can't say much for his mar
tial exploit, but we admit that a
man who can't take a chap of his
size and even then can draw a.
sword upon one unarmed, is as
much a soldier as in the wanton
disfranchisement of several hun
dred voters he is Republican and
an honest man. The brave little
President is but one in tho large
Radical van which is soon to move
upon the Vicksburg of the State
Administration. We beg the Gov
ernor's pardon for mentioning
Vicksburg,-we don't want to add
to his burden of SORROW.
Since writing the above, our
friend Gardette, the ex-President|
of the Club, got out a warrant in
the First Justice Court, and al
deputy constable proceeded to ar
rest the Governor. William Baker
and ID. +. Kirby Oh the charge of
assault and battery, whereupon
the Governor, arbitrarily assum-
ing to be. above legal process, as
he had already assumed to possess
the power Of assaulting a colored
man for rightfully denouncing his
fraud, declared that he would not
submit to the indignity of being
arrested.
The deputy then retired, stating
that but for instructions not to
take the accused in custody if he
resisted, he would have made the
arrest any way. What right had
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