Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-12-14
THE FAC END OF JOURNALISM

Since the elevation OF Senator
Pinchback to the position of Lieu
tenant Governor, the National Fag
that disgraces the name of Repub-
lican has poured forth q torrent OF
abuse and vili6cation against the
new Lieutenant Gozernor unwar-
ranted by facts and unilstided by
the ethics of decent journalism. In
that sheet falsehood has followed
misrepresentation, and scarcely has
one calumny gone ont before an
other Islander has followed it. Silent
contempt must cease to be dumb in
the midst of such outrageous per-
secution. No one with manhood
beating at the heart can stand for
ever the rheum of a set of sneaks who
whipped out of the Republican party
have found their only resource to
consist in the vilest display of
venom compatible with the viper,
nor can reason produce silence.
though its pure light shows US all,
that personal vituperation is always
the low resort of those who have no
other argument at their CALL and is
q characteristic of q blackguard.
From the time Mr.. Pinchback was
pronounced Lieutenat Governor
until the very hour at which we
write, the Fag has not ceased to
snarl and show its teeth which,
making evident as it does that the
Fag End of the Republican party
have been so soundly beaten, that
pitching dirt is now their last hold,
vet calls for q rebuke from every
man, interested in the extifpation
of all barbarism. The writer's and
promoters of such emanations live
in q glass house. We know their
. record. If such were not the
Gaze the great zeal in be.
half of their present afiliatior
would lead, OF itself, to suspicion
Whatever Mr.. Pinchback may have
done hastily, he has never sacrificed
his principles, his country, or hi
kind. Nor has he sold out his adj
herents or his friends. True he hat
always contempt for set of NEAR
white men, who, while they curriet
favor with him to procure politica
influence, at the same time would
hide to walk with him in the street
He has even now a loathing for
hypocrite that DISCUSSES his malic
in O fawning cant, and who onl.
shows the devil in his heart whel
!. it will no longer serve his purpos
to play the saint. Though willin
IS to acknowledge the Providence G
God, MIR. Pinchback never carrie
" the politician and the preacher ur
r der the same skull. A Republican
the straitest sect now, he was one i
the past. He has never left hi
home for place which his peopl
r.. refused to accord him. He is ne
disappointed, nor is he sufferin
from a sad attack Of veto. III
policy rs reform" and already b
has severed, pulled up by the roo
the dead beats" of journalism j
this State. He would not ccntinu
such an outrageous nuisance in Il
premises of the Government. Hel
is the cause of the whole bushes
These journals so ruthlessly cut
in the prime of life were the pa
upon which these people Of the Fl
- subsisted. As to any and ali aspe
IT'S sions on the official conduct of n
to Pinchback, we cast it in the teeth
nv thosewho utter it. The editor of Il
he Fag cannot prove himself honest
calling every other man a thief, n
is it possible to show he is right
- denouncing his opponents, as,
" the wrong. "He who first los
., his temper has lost the battle also
w. and if gentlemen" are made OF su
material MS showed itself in t
:. columns Of the Fag let us oil tray
=. in the opposite direction.
-, If "the Pinchback supporters re
resent nothing in Louisiana" who
do the Carter men represent?
fugitive from his adopted State, Il
nat would be Governor, according
ew the Galveston papers, cleft his COT
en- try for his country's good"
I'LL home he cannot command q corr
OF rails guard, and could not be ele
ed an acting sub-assistant dept