New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-10-05
Five Hundred Thousand,' StreuR.


A few days since we had occasion to no.
tice the patent manifold correspondent,
Colonel James Dugan, in a facetious way.
That gentleman responds in person by
| bringing us a printed circular letter, such
as he sends to country newspapers which
have an aggregate OF live hundred thou
sand readers"
Following our facetious style, he compli
ments the REPUBLICAN in this wise:
The New Orleans REPUBLICAN is the best
paid and the worst edited newspaper Of
which the South can boast. Deriving, as it
does, its entire pap, sustenance and support
from the taxation of the people; with
circulation of less than two thousand, and
those all officeholders (''those circulation"
are all otficeholders]; dependent wholly
upon the brains of outsiders to furnish its
paucity of readers with rehash of stale
information; with its ablest and most &C.
complished attaches in the scissors depart
ment,' it nevertheless sets itself up as the
model newspaper of the South, and with
unparalleled audacity and unblushine ef-
frontery, assumes to criticise the action Of
those who have the independence and man
hood to oppose its corrupt and vitiated
tastes. Its policy can be summed up in a
few words:
/. A vehement and hearty opposition
to the administration of General Grant and
his appointees, with fixed desire to carry
the State against his denomination next fall,
should he be the choice of the national con-
vention of 1872.
2. To use every means in its power, how
ever disreputable. to disrupt the kepub-
lican party Of this State, as it has already
attempted, by striving to ALLEVIATE the COL
ored race.
3. A settled determination to extract the
last cent from the pockets of the taxpayers
of the State. SO as to swell its ill-gOtten and
dishonest gains.
4. To constantly cry ''stop, thief!' when.
in fact, the valuables plundered are safely
deposited in its own Golfers.
5. To impugn the motives and assail the
the characters of all those who do not fall
down and worship its Moloch, its little god.
its master and largest stakeholder, whose
cognomen is Governor Henry Clay War
moth.
6. To puff railroads. corporations, compa-
MES and all other enterprises SO long as
their projectors will pay up the blackmail
invariably required on such occasions.
1t is the only kind of praise that we could
accept from the influential agent of the
Customhouse crowd, whose pen Yields
surprising power over an immense territory
and among readers of spurious Republican
and genuine Democratic newspapers.
Our Mr.. Bates, which his name is Isaac
seriously objects to the implied censure,
though expressed praise, Of the scissors
department" and thinks it poor reciprocal
ton for the courtesy he has invariably ex-
tended to the colonel, in affording him every
facility to examine the scissored exchanges
Following the extract we have quoted
comes this paragraph:
In conclusion Of this matter, should the
REPUBLICAN desire to join issue on this or
any other subject, we are willing to leave
the verdict, both as to veracity and hon
esty, to those who are competent to decide.
and we engage to prove that where that
paper can boast OF its two thousand, we
are able to show that over five hundred
thousand persons will read this exposure of
the malice, corruption and vindictiveness
Of that comparatively effete publication.
The circular letter is addressed to
Editor" and closes as follows:
The above correspondence is sent on the
same terms as heretofore.
Please remind your mailing clerk that
your papers have not been sent regularly to
JAMES DUGAN & CO.,
New Orleans.
We shall not undertake to deny any of
these apparently grave charges-from the
first to the sixth-since they will reach
five hundred thousand readers, according
to the author of the Crescent letters,
whose only reward for writing and dissent
mating them is small clerkship in the
New Orleans CustomhOuse.
Colonel Dugan has sold himself to Casey
cheap, but he sells his letters cheaper,
since they are gratuitously furnished to
many country journals. whose conductors
throw them into the waste basket, as is
quite evident from the addenda reminding
publishers that their mailing clerks have |
failed to send their papers regularly to the
address of James Dugan & Co., New Or
leans.