The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-07
A Novice Cracks His Whip.

use the whip rather awkwardly
and without decision. They strike
to one side or the other, handling
the whip as if it were dangerous
engine capable of landing them
into eternity, or sprawling upon
the ground. Our neighbor of the
Intelligencer, unable to decide
whether he could use the War
moth or Dunn steed better, has
been driving, since the late split,
a sort of mustang, flee-bitten,
stray pony. Inasmuch as he has
Jared we'll, being sort OF out
slider whose wind nor speed excl
ted no rivalry, he has concluded
that he drives a noble racer of the
best blood, and that he drives
him we'll, and he has therefore
acquired spunk sufficient to faunt
his colors in the face of the main
contestants and their hackers, and
this he does after this fashion
Neither the abuse heaped on
Gov.Warmoth by one wing of the
party, nor the ephithets thrown at
Lieut.. Gov. Dunn and his friends
by the other, can lead to any
good results, and the time will
come-and that soon-when the
masses of our party will throw
overheard any man or set of men
who have taken any part or lot
therein.
AS a whip, the driver of the
Intelligencer has succeeded very
wen with Warmoth's encourage
ment and support; but we greatly
fear, now that he imagines he has
acquired a little skill, that he is
driving headlong to perdition.-
Suppose the mon who have
thrown "ephithets" at Dunn and
his friends had never taught our
neighbor how to bestride a horse
and had never given him a horse
to bestride, what would he know
about cracking the whip? Sup
pose he denounces Warm oth's
enemies for heaping abuse on that
virtuous young man, how is he to
make friends of the cOlored ele-
ment whose belief is that Dunn
is Il second Messiah We fear he
has played the deuce with his
toy. He has cut Col. Jno. Ray
in the face, who has s'heaped
abuse on Warmoth," and he has
wounded the feelings Of Chief
Justice Ludeling, Judge Caldwell
and others who have thrown
"ephithets'' at the negro Lieut..
Governor of Louisiana.
More than this, he has endorsed
himself. He has read out of the
party-''and that SOON almost
every leader OF the Radicals in
this State, nearly all of whom
have either abused Warmoth, or
thrown "ephithets'' at Dunn, and
has thus completely buried the
the party in this State upon
whose willing back he has been
so prosperously carried. But
place a beggar on horseback-and
the result has passed into a pro-
verb!
We should be pleased if 1.-The
masses of our party auould
throw the contending Dunn and
Warmoth leaders overheard, and
promise, when the command
comes, to heave overheard as
many as any other man of equal
strength. The old Ship of State
is very nearly run down by the
pirates who have raised their
deaths head and cross bones at
the masthead, and we are anx-
ious to see q legitimate COM
mander and crew take charge.
But we want no boarding party
composed of hospital rats to be
our companions in the attack.
Let them stick to their plasters
and their cruel, their crutches
and surgeon certificates what
the occasion requires is men with
mems honest hearts in their
breasts. Still, our neighbor may
use his little whip, if he will,
and blow his tin horn till it
splits. He may, after all, con-
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