The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-04-13
stop My Paper !-..An Indignant Georgian
Goes for the COnrier.JOnrnal.
To the Editor of the Courier-Journal:

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SrAKKvILLE, GA, March 2l, 1872.
Stop my paper! Stop it! do not,
can not, will not allow you to pursue
! the course which has characterized Your
| paper since ] became Il reader of its
columns twelve months ago, without
ordering you to stop it.
Sir, you have charged loyal men in
high official positions with corruption.
You have never ceased, in season and
out of season, to indulge in scandalum
magnatum towards our President even
charging him with Il disregard for the
precept established by Washington in
his letter to James McHenry (vol
eleven, page 1872, of his life and writ
ings by Sparks), SO far as that letter
alluded to Major Lewis. Stop my pa
per!
You have used irreverent and oppro-
brious language towards gentlemen
from New England and other North
ern localities who have come South
as political cvangelists. Stop my pa
per!
You have charged that robberies and
other high crimes and misdemeanors
Were protected, fostered and emcour-
aged by the Government. Stop my
paper!
You have disturbed the peace and
quietude of distinguished Southern
politicians by denouncing them as the
scum and dregs which had been up
heavcd by the boilings of the political
cauldron, and gravely intimated that
not one out Of four Of the loyal South
erners in Congress could spell "unin-
telligibility" at sixteen trials. Stop my
paper, sir; stop it!
You have further charged, you SLAM
derer, that not one in twenty of the
aforesaid Congressman has intelligence
enough to make a third-rate bailitf,
respectability enough to be admitted
into ''good middling" grog-shop socie-
ty, or honesty enough to be permitted
to associate with Il genteel company
of New York sharpers. You have said
it in substance, and you must stop my
paper!
You have stated that the desarvetlly
oppressed, ropc-leserving rebels of the
South, crouching beneath the heel of
power which, in the plentitude of it's
amazing mercy, yet spares them-yOu
you have stated that these rebels would
not rush with frenzied madness upon
the thick bosses of John Bulls buck
Ter, in case he fails to pay for the little
aid he gave them in the Alabama bu-
siness. You have unb}ushingly de-
nounted, detained and vilified the
Kuklux bill and the majority report,
and opposed the righteous political
doctrine of allowing the Presidency to
become an heirloom in the Grant fami-
1y, and its lesser Offices to become an
nuities and perpetuities in the hands
Of the collateral Grants, Grantors, and
Grantees. Stop my paper!
You have denied that the words
yourselves and our posterity" i'm the
preamble to the Constitution of the
United States had any reference to the
blacks; denied that they are capable of
political lSelf-gOVernmelt; have sustain
those wicked and unholy missiona-
ries and members of the Colonization
Society who assert that, if left to them
selves, instead of establishing the
wisest and nobleSt of governments, they
will relapse into the lowest order of
heathenish, harbarism, going naked
and subsisting on lizards and reptiles.
You awful sinner, you have said all
this III substance, and you must stop
my paper!
Sir, when with the light of history
you look upon the present, and har-
Dor a single doubt that under the aus
pices of our most benign American re-
publicanism the blessings of free gov
ernmcnt are destined ere many years
to cover the earth as the waters cover
the face of the deep-to make broad
their phylacteries until they embrace
the north pole, the south pole, and all
the balance of the pine poles and oak
poles and polecats and tadpoles-when,
! say, you do call this and morc,'
with what stentorian sounds can use
appropriate harshncss in laundering
into your rebellious and unrcpcntant
ears the tiat-stop my paper! STOP IT!!
STOP IT!!!
In the name of Justice, Patriotism,
Philanthropy, and Spinner, ! order
you to stop my paper-at Starkviile,
Lee county, Georgia-oncc a week from
the present moment until
"lIeavcn's, last thunder shakes the earth
below
ann may you find mercy for your soul
and the two-dollar bill which is incIos-
cd for the benefit of your body.
NITTKEIL J. WARREN.
Wonders Of Chemistry.