New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-13

| paper already as q mere Woodruff in
breeshes, and the penalty visited upon that
miserable demirep in New York city has
been invoked and should be administered
upon those here, who conceive that Jour
nalism aspires no higher than to wallow in
fa1sehood and scandal
The assaults upon the exemplary gentle
man and distinguished jurist, Judge DurelI,
| are so charged with venom as to have
aroused universal disgust in all quarters.
The Times has long been beneath contempt;
it is now beneath pity. Judge Durell is a
| sentry over our constitutional liberties, and
with the sanction of his own conscience, of
$1,000 LouisianiaDs, Of many thousands of
other loyal citizens, known as Democrats,
OF the Supreme Courts of the State and the
nation, of the chief executive of the United
States and his Cabinet, and indeed Of the
entire national sentiment Of the coun-
try. We conceive an imbecile i'm
parchment by the New Orleans Times.
that represents nothing but the pocket
that may for the nOnCe subsist it,
can awaken nothing but his compassionate
smile. What argument lies in the an
nouncement that he is a worthy son Of a
New Hampshire keeper Of a crossroads
tavern Z" We're such his descent, would
not all the more credit attach that he had
surmounted Disadvantages of birth and
low estate and risen to command the re-
spect and admiration not only of the citi-
zen, but the lawyer everywhere? But it
happens that his father was not the keeper
Of a crossroads tavern"
Edward II. Durell is the son of Daniel N.
Durell, member of Congress from New
Hampshire, afterward district attorney of
the United States under the administration
of Andrew Jackson, and yet later Chief
Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of
New Hampshire. SO much for the honesty
of the Times. No man could have attained
such eminence in New England State had
be not largely enjoyed the confidence of the
people by reason of his personal and pre-
fessional merits; and it may be somewhat
significant that the proprietor of the Times,
unable to earn the respect of his neigh
bors at home, immigrated here to en-
joy the mischieyous and disgraceful
license to which he is manifestly addicted.
And it might not be amiss to electrotype
one of his numerous ignatures-thousands
of creditors would readily recognize it-and
we know OF nothing else left by him upon
record that can awaken a more grateful
Renaissance. When he thumbs his fraud
ulent $50, 900 warrants and swears, he may
appreciate in some measure the pleasure his |
own worthless promissory paper has long
excited in this community. The indecent |
charge as to his Honor Judge Durell's sig
nature, that its "besotted letters fairly reel
with intoxication," was not made when c.
A. Weed besought that signature to his dis
charge as a bankrupt. Oh no, it was a
beautiful signature then.
The 'intoxication" is like the "cross-
roads tavern" puerile invention, and
wholly without truth or warrant We are
told that the judge "scrawIed the sigma
5ure," in condition of inebriety, at mid
hight. Is the proprietor wandering about
rs habit at night! 1t is certain that he
,alled at Governor Pinchbacks, and was ~.
politely left alone in room as an unneces-
ary visitor.