New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-12-10
POWER OF ATTORNEY.

| IL ID Icidttu OI plalnllu IN an assault t
that he wept piteously at the array of his
wrongs, as dramatically acclaimed by his
attorney, declaring that but for this
eloquent exposure of the enormities in
fiicted upon him he would ''never have
known half how badly he had been
treated" Advocate Ogden is performing
similar Office for Louisiana. He thus
blazons abroad the alleged degradation of
our State
There is rule in Loulsi ana, direct rule
OF the federal government, which is. of
course, obeved-no thing else; and under
this unnatural rule every interest is dying,
moral and physical civic, industrial and
commercial.
This is followed by the declaration.
"a wish to be heard" We never object
to any incidental advertisement of mans
business Or reputation, and the advocate
in this case has not exceeded the modest
limits OF Colonel Moody, the shirt king,
on his return from the conquest of under
clothing at Vienna. But Colonel Moody
upholds the prosperity OF his customers.
Advocate Ogden announces the utter ruin
of his constituency. Every interest is
dying" under the unnatural rule" Of
"the federal government. We admit
the advantage Of such provisional conces-
sions at the bar, or, indeed, at the bed
side. If a client or patient can be
extricated from Insolvency, or Saised
from the "good as dead" it is
legitimate buncombe that gratifes every
body. The poor devils from whose body
or estate the lien of debt or disease has
been lifted have no objection to the hum
bug. But we submit that Advocate Ogden
has no such right to disparage the bust
ness of our planters and merchants. He
has first comprehended in few words
fiction of consummate ruin. He then
says, 81 wish to be heard" He advances
to the door of the Senate Committee on
Elections and strikes thereon with his
mailed hand. 1t is opened by rather
grutf warden, who picks up the gauntlet
thus contemptuously cast, and, telling
hlu IN substance, ''young gentleman,
your case shall be attended to-, rather
1nceremoniously drops the parliamentary
oortcullis upon the defiant and disguised |
Knight. For the parliamentary castle is
also by exceeding valorous
lighters on the Republican side, who an
lounce their ability to maintain their
ause, SO that from the battlem ents of |
hat committee will be witnessed the tour
ley of the attorneys in close field, where,
n the opinion Of Senator Schurz, iances
vii be splintered and riders endorsed in
{ least ''twenty" combats of lung and
lmb. So that magnificent personal pro- |
oun l, which is the chosen blazon of Mr..
ogden, will have its pronominal and vica-
lous hands full for some months to come.
We trust the advocates have taken the
recaution to make their retainer and
ounsel fee payable by a per diem
for otherwise the zeal
the hotels, saloons and restaurants of
'ashington may consume them utterly.
o doubt the Committee of Two Hundred
nd Seventy have made all that right for
leir advocate. The Republican appearer,
ke the sturdy old republican Franklin at
e court Of Versailles, or the resolute ,
publican Marion with his pine log
Bile and potatoes for dinner, can live in :
cap quarters and with simple habits,
d SO can tough it out long time on the
ry little allowed them by the modest c
Venues of their constituents. But Sc y
usly, there was no kind of occasion why e
yocate Ogden should bave- published