The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-21
DON PIATT ON SENATOR WEST.
from the Washington CAPITAL. 18th inst.

lrrom the washington capital, 17th inst.
Our friend Senator West, now of Lousian,
and late of somewhere else, sent our editors
! on ASSASSINATION to the clerks desk, and ha
r 1t read as an infamous encouragement of tbs
fearful crime.
We think it strange that our intellectus
friend should so mistake u.s. We do nc
l encourage assassination. On the contrary
we utterly abhor and detest, and detest an,
abhor this detestable way of terminating life
by the side Of assassination we prefer spino
meningitis. There is no slow torture, such a
reading the Congressional Record or an agri
cultural report, that we would not rattle
suffer than assassination. 1t gives one so lit
tie time to arrange ones atfairs-and GU
affairs are very much confused-and that
nothlng to the confusion our creditors would
suffer were we suddenly taken off in the
bloom and beauty of manhood
We did not advocate assassination, We
earnestly deprecated it. And yet our Senate,
West capered and cavorted and chasseed owe,
the floor of the Senate in holy horror of our
supposed instructions.
| We gave nothing Of the sort. The vocife-
| rous Senator, who seems of late to have found
his legs and voice, and only needs now to find
little brain to max regular senatorial son
of thunder. strangely misread our admirable
article. We have suspicion our friend read
it after dinner, or perhaps after smelling the
breath of the Administration. He saw a dag
ger in the air.
Is this dagger which see before me?
(Roll on the FIR in dagger" with wild
roll OF the off senatorial eye on the "me.'O
The handle towards me hand
Come, let me clutch thee
Long slide, three stamps and snort.
/ have thee not.
Sixteen jumps, interspersed with snorts
and growls.)
And yet see thee still.
(Annotators here say that this means that
Macbeth should make all the noise, the dag
ger being Silly
Art thou but
dagger Of the mind; false creation
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
This is somewhat difficult, for it presup-
poses brain. But the close is grand, and SO
=:
There's no such thing:
1t is the bloody business which informs
Thee to mine eyes.
Which means that it is all bloody nonsense.
We deprecate assassination, so long as we can
lave investigating committees and our Dodoer |
Dawes, that long-eared Cassius whose lean
lnatotay reminds one of a wolf on end, ami
mated by hate and hunger, cold, cowardly
md malignant, vampire who sucks charac-
er from others without benefting his own.
1t is all bloody nonsense to say that we en-
ourage assassination. We have been preiu-
Iced against that sort of violence since the
light when two members of the Presidents
amlly-a son and brother-in- law-came to
ur house to knock us in the head in the pres
nee Of our household.
When that became known our Senator
Vest did not send things up to the clerk
esk to be read. He did not waltz round aud
owl bit. On the contrary, we believe our
Test. U. S. S., foreman, be careful of that
U, } thought the affair rather good joke,
nd treated it in light, cheerful and agree
ole manner. True, there is, we admit, ;
'me difference between knocking out
re brains of poor pen-driver, miserable
tltor, and going a cunning for an Admins \
alton. To no one would the difference be
ore striking than our West, U. S. s., (keep S
l eye on that ~ we don't want to be I'm 5
Were the Administration to
OFT IN delirium tremens, or die suddenly of !
20 plexy, (hardly likely, forthat requires "a !;
ain for the blood to break upon,) or demise
this new epidemic called assassination
the air, all glory would die out in the
est, and the impenetrable gloom of forget
lness and obscurity fall upon this patriotic /
OtectOr OF his Alcoholic Majesty L