New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-24
The Ibervilie ConspiratOrs on the pefen'
from fne Donaldsonvllis Chief.I

sive.
From fne Donaldsonv1s ChiefI
! IN che ibervilA Pioneer and .Nescs Of sas-
| uiday last appears three column article.
! undoubtedly written by Judge Cole, as the
! grammar and composition are bOv& the
! standard of the editor OF tno organs which
! assumes to justify the ;,roce. dings against
! Hon. George B. Loud and reiute the state
neilfs Of this and other JOURNALS concerning
! the same, and which starts out with She
| eininous threat that the CAit' and the New
! Orleans REPUEIICAN have rendered thein-
! selves liable not only 20 criminal prosecu.
! tion., but also 20 civil suits for damages"
! this because they have been Sudacious
enough 20 expose to the world d meet anfa-
! iHOus scheme Of political persecution and
1 to demand that the perpetrators receive the
| Tetuke they so richly iaeri: FROM theiE supe-
F! Siors ia office.
Judge Cole and his friend. may as well
! understand a: once tina. neither the Chiet
| nor its New Orleans contemporary are TO be
| bullyragged by any such threats. While
| we .hAli endeavoc 20 do no man injustice.
] and will REALLY offer tul! reparatlOn for
| errors we may inadvertently make. We VIII
! not swsrve from the defense OF right o. the
| denunciatlon Ui wrong, though thousand
! load. OF Coal, upon d thousand BG,To'rs.
| threaten to fall upon oar devoted head and
crush us to slnithereens.
1
! the three-ccuinn ebull!tlon:
With the insinuation Of the Pioneer tina.
! there are several persons Interested III stop
! ping the prosecution against Mr.. Loud be-
| cause they have Seen implicated III the mis-
! deeds he Is charged with, We have nothing
| 20 do. Believing Mr.. Loud innocent, we
! regard this insinuatiO0 as false: likewise the
other one. that his friends attempted to
! sway the grand jury and the court officers.
or to prevent an investigation.
We are positively informed that the de-
| scription given of the condition OF Mr..
LIQUIDS books is base fabrication; two
pages OF one OF the books are pasted
together because OF huge blot OF ink,
| which can be plainly seen. and the lin
names. amounts" etc, exist only in the
vivid imagination OF she author OF the
Pioneers article.
The treasury books were taken to State
! Superintendent Browns office in pursuance
| OF the instructions Of that officer. Section
five Of act No. s. instructs division super
! intendents TO examine the accounts of
| school treasurers. and declares that none
| such shall be considered adjusted until SO
examined and approved by the division
or State superintendent. ar. Loud, Of
! course. could rot arlVgate to himself the
| authority 20 approve his own books and in
] pursuance of law anu instructions they
were forwarded to Mr.. Brown.
We acknowledge to an error in our state.
ment that 1.-The indictments were returned
upon the las. day Of the session Of the
court" rbi. mistake was the result OF /.
misapprehensi0n OF q clause n a letter from
a friend. which Ne find. upon reference
thereto since perusing the Pioneer, stated
that the return was made ''upon the last
day OF the session OF the grand jury" 1t is
true, as the Pioneer says, that the case was
70 hn-
cause Mr.. A. Talbot. senior counsel for Mr..
Loud. declared he was not ready TO pro-
ceed with .he trial, and would have nothing
to do with the case If tried at the current
term. Mr.. Talbot's reason for this is not
given. Perhaps he foTessw that no poss-
bic effort would save his client from convic
ton before such : partisan tribunal, even
though tie was as innocent. Vt crime as one
OF Gods angels.
The Pioneer complains oI the estimate
we placed upon the grand jury. This body
was composed of fourteen colored men, one
white man who could Eeitaer read nor
write. and foreman of French nativity,
uneducated in the English language. We
are assured that the fourteen colored men
will make oath 20 the following: J. No in
dictments were read or explained TO them.
.. No vote was taken 10 ascertain if d true
bill was found. 3. No member of the jury
handled any of the warrants upon which
the bills We're brought. The parish attorney
made Gu, the indictments and handed them
to the foreman, who signed them. leaving
the members in bissful ignorance of the
purport of their action. The jury was we'll
calculated to carry out the purposes of MI.
LOud's prosecutors, not that II desired to
further their iniquitolh ends, but the mem
bers were too ignorant of law 10 distinguish
the sharp practice Of the schemers.
We leiterate that the parish attorney is a
personal enemy Of Mr.. Loud's, and no repre-
sentations Of the Pioneer can induce us TO
believe he was not actuated by malice in
the course Of conduct he has pursued in the
matter. 70 be sure, he was in a great de.
gree influenced by the desires of certain
official whose diSpleasure ne feared to incur.
but we Opine he did ro violence 20 his per
soma, feelings in az sistipg 10 hUuiiiate Mr..
Loud.
The Pioneer is guilty Of falsehood in
stating that but two suTeties were offered
upon Mr.. Loua's bond. Four indictments
were first brought. and good and solvent
surety furnished by accused and accented.
The following day the parish attorney en-
tered nolle prosegui upon these four eounts
and had them brought in again. with the
second batch of twenty-five indictments.
and directed the sheriff to reject the former
sureties if they again offered. What palmer
proof of the malicious intent of the con
spirators can be desired than thi, About !
ten more persona were offered as sureties in
various amounts. but all rejected by the
sheriff before the trial Of the rule taken up
on him to show cause for such rejection.
Only two names were presented upon the
trial OF the rule. however, and uuder the |
rigid and arbitrary ruling of the court it
was deemed useless to offer others. unless u |
millionaire could be found. The special |
care taken by the parish attorney aud
Others to hunt up old mortgages upon prop !
erty that had been accepted as surety upon
other bonds. and the strict enforcement Of |
the almost universally ignored homestead |
exemption clause. shows evidence OF the de- |
termination to impris0n MI. Loud at all |
hazards.
The effort to show that the bond re.
quired by the court was not exOrbitant is !
lame attempt of Judge Cole to justify |
his action in this regard. Entirely ignoring !
that fundamental principle OF law-the |
presumption that every accused person is
innocent until proven guilty-he demon.
strates bis own malice against tine prisoner
by using the argument that the punish
ment for Mr.. Louds alleged otfensc is
'penitentiary and fine double the
amount embezzled." Couple this wi h the
very irdelicate proceeding of the righteous
Judge IN announcing IRON the bench that
he had heard that Mr.. Loud owned several
fine houses in Massachusetts and would be
governed by this TO some extent IN fixing !
the bond. and his partisan spirit is clearly
demonstrated. We are informed by per.
son coguizan: of the case that no fine is
required by the section Of the statutes
under which the indictments against Mr..
Loud are brought but Imprisonment is the
sole punishment. Judge Cole cites one
portion OF the statutes to justify his inde.
cent action under another.
The Chief made no such statement, as