The weekly Louisianian., 1874-08-22
TEE VEL ORLEANS TINES

fessed reformer, has, strange TO
say, confined its attacks exclusively
upon colored men; Notwithstanding
there is such abundance of game Of
q higher order to be found among
the very class represented by one Of
the proprietors of that paper, and
one of it's editors. Scarcely an issue
of that paper has appeared since it
came under itspresont management,
but has contained severe attacks, and
in some instances. gross misrepre-
sentations Of co]orod officials. Gov.
Antoine, Superintendent Brown
Treasurer Dubuclett, Senator Pinch
back, and every other prominent
colored man have come in for q
of abuse from this disxeputa-
bio aud mondacious sheet; which
like the Welt in sleeps clothing is
attempting to rob this people and
community, under, pretense Of being
a reformer hopeing thereby to cover
MP it's own infamies,
One Of the proprietors, Mr. Ohas.
! Clinton, Vice President Of the Y. II,
Christian association and a modern
would be roformer made his debut
by turning up a candidate for Audi
tor before the Radical Republican
Convention at Baton Rouge, and
succeeded (rumor says) in securing
the nomination by purchase; and is
now making an unrelenting wal
upon the Honorable Antoine Dubu-
clet, the nominee OF the Republican
dparty for reelection as State Treasu-
FER, because he. Mr.. Dubuclet. OPP
poses the Auditorial ring and refuses
to 10 Il party to the robberies con-
tomplatod by Messrs> Clinton and
Co., It is a we'll known fact that
this Same man Clinton only. escaped
impeachment by the Legislature last
winter by supervising by improper
means the report of the committee
appointed to Investigate tho affairs
OF his Office.
Another proprietor and the. chief
editor, one Stoutuaeyer, On imported
adventurer--not q citizen Of the
United States much less Of the State
Of Louisiano,-who occupies the
lucrative position, OF the handsome
salary of $4,000 per annum Of solici-
tor to his immaculate brothor-in-law
Clinton, and stranger, with no in.
tercst in this State, except the paper
which is being used to Willy our peo.
pie, white and black, and which will
DO sold out rs soon as their term o.
Office shull expire; a man who when
MI. Clinton, had to mako good .
} defalcation US ub-Treasurer Of tho
United States, offered TO bride u U
v S. Senator to get his influence tt
t pass Il relief bill. The idea Of sucl
: persons setting themselves up as
censors Of their botters, puts to
! shame every exhibition Of effrontery
and brazen impudonco ever known
We claim that the meanest, mos1
1 dishonest aud disreputable colored
man in tho State Of Louisiana, will
his colorod skin, is q thousand time'
= more preferable than these adventu
, rous knaves who have como liz
Q the grasshoppers; have eaten III
every green thing and IRE as hateful
, to tho community as the lice and 10
Gusts that were sent upon Egypt
81 We con only express our cou
tempt Of these frauds upon human
? ity by quoting the language of
~ contemporary applied Ito one o
lo their ilk who says: "But what cal
h we expect from men of their strip
70 it wonld be as absurd to look TO
anything good in Satan as in them
We might rake the: depths belov
"a the lowest depths in'hell's bubblin;
cauldron Of slimiest rottenest TO
forty million years; claw out, on
# by one, with Satan's steel pointe'
8 digits every particle of festcrinI
"a filth in tho great clubhouse pits 9
J. the buried city of pandemonium
fish forever for lost putrid souls il
;c the yawning abyssos Of despair, wit
barbed hooks and a patent twis
from Satan's red-hot tail and "
J. could not fish up another Clinton
q or another Stoutmeyor."