New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-24
NOT SATISFACTORY.

| Inc InneS makes very 1eeDie response
to our demand for specific proof of its
slanderous charges against the Governor.
Perhaps the time was too short to obtain
credible witnesses, and, in the absence OF
reliable testimony, it comes to the stand
itself to answer our questions. Hence the
&eebleness of the response.
In reply to the request that the Times
| would 'show US wherein the executive
was a virulent and INSCRIPTIONS partisan, .
it starts Off d Ia Sairy Camp, in gush OF
volubility, in which the only idea dis
cernible is that the Times has said so, and,
therefore, it must be true. If repetition
of a charge without proof sustained it, the
Times would have made out its case. I'm
fortunately for our contemporary, some
thing more is requisite. To be successful
in politics, no more, per Sc, implies
the use Of improper influences to
accomplish it than the accumula-
ton of fortune implies fraud il the
Spectator. Ii was never pretended that
the Governor was intallible in his appoint
ments. Bad men will creep into the best
of places; but to say that the Governor
was interruptions, because an agent was
| discovered unreliable. would be an unfair
| Judgment, against which the Times would
! be the first to disclaim were it subjected
! to a similar test But for the sake Of al
gument, we accept the charges Of the
Times: and what then? Admit that the
| Governors action in regard 70 Oliver was
| inadvisable; that the appointment of
Evans as tax collec or Of Tangipahoa was
iniudicious these are but two mistake
the executive has made in his four years
administration. There can be none otter,
or the Times would have mentioned it.
1t is true that about the time the Slaugh-
terhouse bill WAS up in the Legislature
something was said by tie opposition
press injurious to the reputation of
Messrs Carr and Devices, in which terms
very similar to ring managers and venal
characters were employed about them.
But upon that occasion they were so ably
indicated by the Times, and held up as
such beautiful and shining lights Of le9is-
lative probity and virtue, that the Gov
ernor may be pardoned, if accepting the
guarantee of the Times, his confidence was
Won No person ever thought of ques-
tioning the disinterestedness of the Times
Al I
rrobity of that journal could not be COM
promised, because its owner and prOprie-
tor was tie chief party in interest i'll the
Slaughterhouse bill. Indeed, such inju-
riors suspicious could not be entertained
il the face Of the fact that the majority of
our population were uncharitable enough
TO denounce the Slaughterhouse scheme
as a swindle and fraud
But the Times, like Uriah Heep, will
have its little joke, despite what politi
clans may say or DO, and it jocularly re-
minds the Governor that he purchased an
interest III tie REPUBLICAN at q very low
figure-less than par stock value, indeed
and has since reapel great benefit from
the investment. Ii the Governor con-
fessed to tie soft impeachment, he might
say, in eXtenyating the circumstance, that
il the beginning of his career he did not
enjoy the advantages Of some of his con-
temporary propretors; that his oppor-
tunities for accommodating fortune were
less assured than they would have been
were lie q cotton s1cculator daring the
federal occupation, operating under the
assured protection OF the department COM
mander OF the gulf and his euterprisiug
brother. Nor had he the distinction OF
bringing to his aid tie privileges and in
munites Of the bankrupt law, and emerg
ing from its golden meshes the prospective
proprietor Of journal like the Times.
Unfortunately for the Governor, all his
political predictions were Of that assured
and individual character that, Will being
a New England hlue-light Republican,
hating slavery and abhorring Shareholders
as the denominations of the earth, lie never
could have contrived to become the owner
OF States-rights, fre-cating, Southern
journal, and hold himself out to the world
as the peculiar and only exponent Of
Southern sentiment
But, like our noighbor, our article has
grown longer than We designed, and we
must therefore wait for further develop
ments, trusting that the Times viii enable
us in future to contine ourselves 70 spe-
cifc charges and abstract issues.