The weekly Louisianian., 1872-11-02
R-ECKLEsSNEss AND IT'S RE-
SUITS. 4

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; popular confidence in such editors
integrity, and it encourages a dispo
ation for the circulation of scandal
1t is deplorable that this practic
prevails to such an extent amonl
the Democratic dailies of New Or
leans; and that too in matters ant
qualities that demand the utmos
scrupulousness and honesty in deal
ing with character and with men.
For instance q man hitherto en-
joying the confidence and respec'
of his neighbors and his fellows tho
roughly under the tongue Of gooi
report, is selected on account o.
known and approved qualities, as g
representative in some official capa.
city; and forthwith the city editors
not the paragraphists, net the SEN
sational contributors, not the police,
or the gossip reporters, but the
editors proper, the men who are
supposed to act with caution and
deliberateness, lend willing ears
and promptly use facile pens in the
vili6cation of private character in
the robbing a man of his good
name, purely and exclusively on ex-
parte accusations, on the malicious
and false representation of some
INSCRIPTIONS partizan, with as little
scruple as they would crush a gnat.
Now, such conduct must frequently
meet with refutation and ~execration
and involve the perpetrators in the
loss Unpopular respect in the integrityof
the Press. 1t also produces another
evil, it encourages a disposition to
resort to any means for the defeat
Of a mere political adversary.
That such practices are abomina-
bic have been SO universally known
and admitted that no journal pre-
tendingt to responsibility or aspiring
to the confidence of it's readers, the
conductors of which claim to be
gentlemen, that is to have some re-
gard for the conventionalities of
life, and a higher respect for the
sacredness Of private character, and
q cultivated abstention from acts
Of malice and contemplate mean
ness, can indulge in such practices
and escape the penalty which is in
evitable. So largely and so reck
has this practice been in
in by the Democratic papers
If New Orleans, thatfor the truth of
my allegation to be found in their
columns some evidence outside OF
5he statement is invariably sought.
The habit Of falsely charging vice,
immortality, theft and other crimes
persons known to be free
rom these vices, has naturally rem
Tered the public incredulous, and
;hus the responsibility of a power
and honorable institution is =,
sacrificed by being under the
Of men who disgrace their .
{
These remarks are especially
to-day by our observance 1
+ an allegation in Thursdays Pr &
ayu,ae. It accuses Mr.. Brown, the {
candidate for Superin- q
of Public Education, of a (
opposition to "organize the degra- t
alton and the final destruction of 6
be public school SYSTEM" when the J
ritter has no more foundation for ]
be utterance Of any such falsehood a
nan he has for saying he is a good y
What reason in the b
'orld has Brown for the commits a
ion Of ) single act that might tend t
, the final overthrow of the school ,
? Are the colored people t
OF more exclusively dependent on a
10 common schools for acquiring r
than the whites, and b
oesn't Brown know it? But, pshawl
ae above is only the latest speci- t
zen Of that bitterness which mad b
ems men, and that intolerance p
hich loves to perscute. Therefore II
eg away and take the response
i]ity. X
1rThe telegraph announces the {
sath of Mrs. Horace Greeley. Il "
as known that the lady had been v
for some time, but her friends o
lerished some hopes Of her recov-
,, till she was seized with chills :,