The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28

wondered what peculiar position in
| life Mr.. Bovee was best fitted to fill,
fbut when we saw him behind the
counter of his corner grocery, that
wonder left us.
Upon this the Patriot comments:
When we noticed the above, which
we copy from the Chief, published at
| Donaldsonyille, La, by Linden E.
Bentley, Esq, one of the youngest edi-
tors in this State. itreminded us of the
fact that when Shakespeare wrote the
line Consistency thou art a jewell
he must have made glievous error,
OF else the young and astute editor
of the Chief must surely have forgot
ten the fact, that there is jewel
in the man who is consistent.
1t is well known that the Chief
editor was one of the most prominent
advocates of the policy of the Hon.
Geo. L. Bovee, Secretary of State, at
the Republican Press Convention, on
the 10Th of July last, and was en-
ployed as editor, publisher and COM
positor of the st. James Sentinel, a
paper published in the parish of St.
James, and owned by Mr.. Bovee.
/ Mr.. Bovee as a member of the State
Constitutional Convention in 1864, as
a Deputy Collector of Internal Rev
enue, rs an Assistant Assessor of
Internal Revenue, and, finally, as
Secretary of State of this great and
glorious State of Louisiana, proved
! himself the peer of many men who
have occupied the same and similar
positions. Mr.. Bovee has differed
and probably does to-day differ with
lis in certain matters of public policy,
but that will not permit us to coun-
tenance any such scurrilous articles as
the above.
The remarks of the editor of the
Patriot are SO entirely incalled for
and so completely foreign to the sub
ject of our paragraph in relation to
Mr.. Bovee opening a store, that we
scarcely know whether to feel most
vexed or amused.
We plead guilty to being tone of
the youngest editors in the State,n
but are somewhat in doubt as to
whether the Patriot regards this as
our fault OF our misfortune. 4
We also acknowledge having been
an advocate Of the same cause which
Mr.. Bovee supported in the Press
Convention of last July, but little did
we expect our contemporary of the
Patriot to twit us with inconsistency
for turning against and denouncing
the Infamous Custom-house ring of
Federal officials who so hasely en-
deavored to pack and control Con-
vention of the peoples delegates in
their own interests by the use of
United States bayonets. Does the
Patriot intend to enupciate the ridicu-
lous doctrine that it is virtue for
man to persist in wrong course
for the sake of being consistent /? =.
We We're not employed as editor,
publisher and compositor of the st.
James Sentinel" "a journal owned by
Mr.. Bovee." The newspaper belonged
to the firm of Bevee & Bentley, and
our interest was the larger one. Mr..
Bovee did not own the material upon
which the Sentinel was printed-or if
he did, both he and Mr.. Joseph Witt
genstein are guilty of telling and act
ing a falsehood.
Our paragraph in no wise reflected
upon the manner in which Mr.. Bovee
discharged the duties of the various
positions which he may have held,
hence the latter part of the Patriots
article is as foreign to the subject of
which it intends to treat as the other
portions are.
In inditing the paragraph which
the Patriot so unjustly and unwarrant
ably designates as scurrilous,n we
intended, firstly, to chronicle an item
Of news, and, secondly, to compliment
Mr.. Bovee for his marked ability as
store-keeper. He may have been an
efficient member of the Constitutional
Convention he may have been an
honest and able Revenue Collector
he certainly was good Secretary of
State, until he allowed himself to
perform an act which was beyond his
powers or duties, but he is better
store-keeper; and we certainly hope
he will not he constrained to inform
the public through his newspaper that
we are the youngest editor in the
State, that Shakespeare wrote some
thing about inconsistency, that we
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