New Orleans Republican., 1873-08-29
HISTORY vlND1cAyED...AND OURSELVES

HISTORY V1ND1CATED.-.ANO OURSELVES
In an article intended to show that the
alleged corruption Of this State and city
government which the Republican ad-
ministration is laboring 70 correct is not
alone Of to-day. We cited the tradition of
the Houmas land claims. To this the New
Orleans Herald replied by denouncing
these traditions as ISLANDERS: vile SLAM
de.s." This was followed by a free use Of
yituperative epithets. In vindication Of
our memory We extracted the acts Of Con-
gress verifying the charges Of completely
between the Senator of Louisiana and the
fraudulent claimant Of the Houmas lands.
Il also showed clean, out-an-out repeal
Of the snap-act upon the poor settlers Of
the Houmas lands. This provoked from
the Herald ala additional shower Of
abuse. 1t denied :iat Mr.. Slidell held
any interest in the Houmas lands
at the date Of the act OF OF its
repeal. Having verified the fraudulent
enactment, we now propose 20 offer the
opinions OF the people interested in the
Houmas grant, as to the fidelity Of their
senatorial representatives We will cite
the period that they charged Mr.. Slidell
with an ownership Of twenty thousand
acres Of the land titles confirmed, and add
also the open assertions of leading jour.
nal Of the day, that his colleague. Mr..
Benjamin, had given him the benefit of
lawyers trick TO promote his interest.
We shall, therefore, set over and assign
20 these electors Of Houmas and their
successors the epithets which have been
bestowed by the Herald upon the REPuB.
LIcAS. We have Sindicated every state
ment, and the Herald, II influenced by the
eourtesies OF justice Of the profession,
should mike acknowledgment. It has at
tempted &c cry down as ''vile. slande.'
that which is vouched fos by three hun.
'dred electors Of Louisiana and practically
confirmed by an act Of Congress. The
conductors Of that anonymous sheet. the
Herald, rail out al The liberties taken with
them. Pray, who are they? The New
Orleans Times was conducted for years in
cooperation with certain much decTied
me ssuYes. II defended, and its p1oprieto,
was . stockholdeR under the Slaughter.
house charter. Il never denounced or ex.
posed the legislation which increased the
public debt. It was the Fusion advocate
Of him Who vas called the father
Of all these latter enormities. Sud-
denly the Times went under. Instantly
there emerged another Times, which
claimed 70 have saved from the wreck all
the brains which had animated the con.
cefn. The ingfatitude Of zobbing week
was SO palpable that the attempted cap
tu9e Of its patronage entirely failed. Then
the same Times disappeared. The same
concern moved out on cross street,
adopted another name aud played viz
tuous. Its very free and hippant use Of bill
lingsgate soon exposedits unfounded claims
to respectability and showed the same
proclivities that had driven the New Or.
leans Times into change Of administra-
ton and of programme But aoiO these
parties are has never been made known by
authentic advertisement.
But We are not to be driven or diverted
from the vipdicatiol Of bisto1y Of our.
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