New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-12


York : IT * men vho, under the name
Of aDemocncy, have ruled the people q
that city and State with iendishnesa
more terrible than the thirty tyrants Of
ancient Athens, and with mercilessness
compared with which the acts Of the most
notorious freebooter or highwayman are
an innocent recreation.
This Tammany Ring, consisting OF
William NJ. Tweed, alias ''Boss, or "Big
Six, Peter B. Sweeny, alias Bismarck.
Richard B. Connolly, alias slippery
Dick" and A. Oakley Hall, alias ''O'Halr'
(this latter being renegade Republican,,
are the four principal characters who have
been the instigators of all the villaihy and
corruption that has cursed and almost
crushed the people Of the Empire State
and city.
They have plundered the public treas
ury, demoralized Christian societies, SUBJ
sidized the press, debauched the judiciary,
prostituted the executive and Legislative
branches of the State government to base
and nefarious purposes, and have polluted
the purity of the election franchise with
fraud, perjury and forgery unparalleled in
the history of any people. They have
sought to extend the influence Of their
wickedness beyond the State where it had
'fourished, and boast that they intend to
place their tool, John T. Hoffman, in the
highest place within the gift Of free
people. This iniquitous junta have been
the cause of the disaffection and dis
honesty that have crept into and nearly
ruined the Republican party Of the city Of
New York. These men and their tools
and myrmidons were fattening on the
spoils flched from the hands, brows and
pockets of tax-burdened. people. Mil
lions upon millions of the public money
was used to adorn the harems, stables and
city and country palaces of these modern
Neros and Caiigulas. The tide of iniquity
and corruption was deepening and threat
ening to engulf the hopes and expecta-
tons of all lovers of honesty, virtue and
patriotism when all looked dark and drear,
and when the people began to despair, that
noble defender and protector Of the peo-
pies rights and privileges, the New York
Times came to the rescue, and manfully
maintained the cause of truth and justice
against the desrotism and oppression of
this Tammany Ring. In this contest this
paper needs the countenance and support
of its honest contemporaries while it is
engaged in the laudable labor of exposing
and holding up to the public contempt
and condemnation these political vam-
pires who have SO mercilessly robbed and
plundered the people. And, in so doing,
these Ring" masters have sought and
are seeking in every way to intimidate
and crush this brave champion that en-
tered the lists to destroy this political
hydra that is carrying terror and destruc-
ton through the country. This Tam
many faction have resorted and are resort
ing to every means to buy off and silence
the exposures which are constantly being
made by and through the Times, of the
plans, acts, designs and doings Of these
political rascals, but all to no effect. In
relation to these efforts, Mr.. George Jones,
the principal proprietor of that paper, in
q card recently published, says:
Believing that the course which the Times
is pursuing is that which the interest of the :
great body of the public demand, and that
it would be base betrayal of the public to
turn aside from that course until an honest
government and an incOrruptible judiciary
are restored to this community, no n,Oney
that could be offered should induce me to
dispose of single share of my property to
the Tammany faction, or to any man asso-
ciated with it; or, indeed, to any person or
Rather than prove false to the public in the
present crisis, l would, if necessity by any
possibility arose, Immediately start another
Journal to denounce these frauds upon the
public, which are SO great scandal to the
city; and should carry with me, in this re-
newal of our present labors, the colleagues
who have already stood by me through a
Ong and arduOus contest. Even if the
Times could be silenced by some fresh abuse
If judicial authority, as believe it can not
De, it would not cause q weeks cessation Of
he exposures which we are making Of the
rauds committed by the ''Ring." l have,
rom the first number of the Times, taken |
90 active part in its management, and |
EEL too deep a sOlicitude for its good name,
20 dishonOr it by making it the advocate of |
and corruption. pledge myself |
10 persevere, in the present contest, under |
Ill and any circumstances that may arise, |
through good and evil report, in success or |
n failure; and even though the ring" and |
is friends offered me for my interest as
many millions of dollars as they annually |
,lunder from the city funds, It will not |
hange my purpose. This determination is.
have every reason to believe, shared by |
ny cO-prOpriet0rs, and by the staff who act |
With me in'the paper.
These be brave and manly words, and |
hould be heralded through the country
s an example for other honest jour-
lals to initiate. This "Ring," like all
ther imperial despotisms, desires 81
ence that it may accomplish its wicked
nds. Therefore it strikes at the tongue
hat SO boldly proclaims the truth. Its
eadliest enemy is free discussion, and it
vould stife it at all costs. If it can not
'ribe, it will bully. The Times has
teadily continued to expose the purpose
nd methods of this nefarious ''Ring.
hat paper has constantly and pointedly
made known to the people the measures