The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-10-16
A POLITICAL PHARISEE.

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The EditOrof the Opelousas Courier Us.
sumes to be the White League, which
surprises no one, however, who is &C.
quainted with his unboundcd conceit
For him to think that he is the embodi,
ment of the White League party, and
that all the members Of that party live
and move and have their political being
in him, as Wiggle. tails in q big cistern OF
water, is perfectly consonapt with this
largely developed idiosyncrasy Of his,
To underestimate others and still more
oVerestimate himself is as natural to him
as for 8 young duck to take to the water.
WeneverpropOsed or invitedany discus
sion with him. 1t is o str0aU that be has
stuck up for his own purposes. He dis
casses others, but does not like to be dis
cussed himself. His ragged and patched
black-and-tan political record is too yul-
nerable to be discussed with comfort to
himself, and hedodges by assuming to be
betterthan other people. We invite this
editors attention to instrumentation he
favored us with, Oh Sunday morning
after his convention, on the sidewalk
between Ealer's corner and ThompsOn's
liverystable, and to the requests he there
made of us as to how we should favor
his political plans in our editorial con-
troll of this paper. II he is too good to
discuss with us in public, and makes a
stratC opportunity to- show and express
that he is a political and social Pharisee,
Why does he discuss political questions
and ask journalistic favOrs of us in pri-
vate9 We shall not now review his
record aforesaid, to shOw that Il record,
political publican though we may be, is
winter than his own. We voted for a
niger once but he nominated him first,
and we voted for him Gas he also did,
because that niger was his nominee.
All is not gold that glitters; and more
than one has crept into the White League
to cover up a black-and-tan record.
This editor and ourself being members
Of the same Masonic bodies. from Girard
Commandery of knights Templar down
to Humble Cottage Lodge, and members
of the same Christian church, and closely
allied by family ties, we think it shows
q sad lack of moral scruple in him to
make such persistent efforts to excite
the hostility of the white people Of the
parish against us personally, when until
recently we have worked together in
politics, and when he knows that NOR
ally, socially, domestically, and pratic-
ally if not professionally in politics, we
are as white as lie dare pretend to be.
We are content with our lot, and only
ask to be let alone. AS long 8 he
breaches his own righteousness, we have
nothing to say but he has no right, to
preach damnation. He is not our
judge ; and he should pull the beam out
of his " eye. before he presumes to
look into ours after NOTES. ~,
The printing law was not enacted by
the Kellogg administration, but during
that of Gov. WarmotI; and the editor
of the Courier advised rs to take the
contract to do the printing under War
moth. It is the same law ROW. Besides.
the McEnery government gave out print
ing contracts to Democratic papers, an
der this same printing bill, for publish
ing the laws as well as parocllial adver-
We have never had any contract
to publish thelaws under Gov. Kellogg's
administration. In 1872, the editor of
the Courier was o Republican just as we
were, We did not flop with him into his
White League folly, and this has been
the sum and substance of our offence.
He wishes to crush everybody who wont
dance to his fddling. In assuming to he
the political Warwick of st. Landry, the
most sacred ties and obligations must |
not stand in the way. All these must
be sacrificed on the altar of political "a
in the lust for power.