New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-03
THE TRUTH COMING OUT.


at times as a substitute for reason, ana
even control the judgment OF people Tor
almost any purpose. But it IS after all
only yeneering "a gilded surface that can
not stand attrition. When Mr. Kellogg
took the necessary legal steps to prevent
being cheated out of his election, he was
met bv loud defamation. 1t was as
sumed that he had proceeded without just
grounds to seek q remedy from an impair
tial tribunal, and that Judge Durell had
granted his request without testimony to
sustain il, without the authority OF law
in a word for no valid reason whatever.
Our newspapers were filed with this sort
of defamation; our orators shouted 1t
from every little busting; our rum shop
patrons took it in with their benzlne, and
a committee of volunteers rushed OH IN
haste to lecture to the same tune IN the
Presidents reception room. The great
defect in the story is its utter want OF
truth. The very grave reasons for the ac-
ton of those who have been instrumental
in organizing the new State government
were published in the shape of incontro-
vertibIe evidence in the REPUBLICAN OF
Wednesday, and appear again to-day.
Again, when the creditors Of the pro-
prietor fthe New Orleans Times, becoming
impatient with the delay which kept them
out of their money, resorted to the only
legal remedy allowed them, another hue
and cry was raised that a free pres"
was in danger. If by this was meant that
one man can not be permitted to make
free with another mans money without
his consent, then we shall have to admit
the plea. The card of Mr.. Mckee and
the bill of complaint filed by Mr.. L. E.
Norton explain matters very clearly but
not much to the credit of the noisy de-
chalmers. 1t will be seen by the latter
document, which We publish this morn
ing, that grave suspicious Of fraud are en-
tertained against the various transactions
by which the title passed from party to
party. If Mr.. Norton shall be able to
sustain his allegations, the effect will be
not only to seize the whole Times estab-
lishment as an asset of the estate of Weed,
bankrupt, but to call to account those
who have been for years colluding with
him to defraud his creditors. The case
has at present very grave appearance,
and promises to result very disastrously
to the interests Of the estate of Mr.. King,
and threatens Mr. Hoyt, Of New York,
with serious consequences.
1t will be seen, therefore. that attempts
have been made to mislead and abuse the
public mind both here and at the North
in two very important cases, in one only
of which was there any political question
involved. The able and upright judge
who administered the law has been made
the object of venomous, malicious, cow
ardly abuse; his private character has
been falsely assailed, his judicial integ-
rity questioned, and his very genealogy
falsifed by those who dare not look into
the dark and damning proofs Of fraud,
perjury and wrong doing that
have been filed in his court. Proceeding
upon the hypothesis that negroes and
white Republicans have no rights which
a Southern Democrat is Bound to respect
they meet every charge with irrelevant
retorts. To the allegation that there
was a well matured plot to cheat the
voters of this State out of their
choice, they retort, Ignorant niggers. "
When we ask for our plain, legal rights,
they file for answer, ''carpet-bagger6
and adventurers We contend that
American citizens can not be thus an
swered. That no amount of assumption
of responsibility can consecrate palpable
wrong, or deprive honest men of their
rights. We are not to be thus put of.
The Republicans as party have, of
course, no interest in the. legal proceed
ngs against the Times, but every good
citizen desires to see the laws enforced,
md the officers protected in their acts
when they are clearly within the line of
heir duties. The two documents which
We publish to-day are sufficient 70 show
low baseless were all the calumnies sent
,ut by the discounted plotters against
political honesty in this State.