The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07
Elber't Gantt-.sA Case of Vet
fisOn.

Lifted for few brief moments into pure air
and sunshine by the accident of his nomina-
tlon, the loathsome thing whose name figures
and testers in the above heading was on the
18th ultimo re-plunged into the heap of com
post where for twenty years the public boot
had buried him. 1t was not less certain, an
hour after the stupendous blunder Of that
nomination had been committed, that that
name would be dropped from the ticket, than
it is now when Democrats and Liberals are
falling on each others necks in Joy at the ac
complished fact. Hence the confidence with
which we predicted that swift and solemn re-
paration would be made to outraged public
decency, in the now famous paragraph where
in we endeayored to reassure the alarmed
capitalists and property holders of St. Landry.
The promptness with which the Liberal Com
mittee acknowledged the blunder, and the
| alacrity with which they proceeded to make
amends by the substitution of a candidate
confessing the soap and comb of civilization,
while it absolves them from any completely in
| the fraud, shows also how cunning the artifce
which was employed to surprise their inno-
| cence. 1t is but simple justice to extend the
absolution to the great majority of the St.
Landry delegation i'll the Liberal convention.
Indeed nothing could have been further from
our editorial mind, when We charged that the
offensive nomination was the result of ID sue
| cessful ambuscade on the virtue of the conyen-
tion,' than the suspicion that those gentlemen
had waylaid that body. The German Gazette,
a leading Liberal organ, in an admirable edi-
I tOFial nurpnrtInp n ha luSGi f:II
ring under the very eyes of the writer, uses
the following pregnant and incisve language:
I'VE find these three Can't, Sloanaker and
Sheridan1 unexpectedly on the Liberal ticket,
and all three nominated for Congress without
even a majority Of the Liberals being aware of
the mastery trick by which it was accomplish
ed. We, ourselves, to be really candid, do
not know how it was done" The article of
which the above is an excerpt appeared in the
same issue of the Courier with our own pro-
| phetic squib, and the Conriers strictnres on
! the "aboninabe nomination." as it is now
called, We're intended merely as an editorial
nobce of the views of our able and patriotic
| contemporary on that aromatic subject. We
| believed at the time, believe row, and would
| be gratifed to be permitted to continue in the
belief that the CHASTITY joke was not of our
| pariShioners perpetration, but that the snare
was secretly set, and sprung with a sudden
ness which would have rendered any uncon-
eerted opposition powerless on the part of the
few members who were acquainted with the
character of the nominee. The attempt of the
writer in the JoarasdF' to bring the st. Ian
dry conventionists under the edge of our de-
nunciation of lis flvOrite tnow defunct) can
didate has failed, scandalously failed, as
should and will fail, ill the future, all efforts
the object of which shall be to SOW discord
and disatfeetior among citizens now enlisted
under the same banner and battling il the
same good cause. a. -... ua,.