The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-09-04
NEW ORLEANS CORRESPONDENCE

NEW ORLEANS CORRESPONDENCE.
New ORLEANS. September 2nd, 1875.
EnIroR CHIEF:
The country bummeys of Democ-
racy, like jacks in the box, will rise
up when the string is pulled, just to
let outsiders know of their where
abouts. Alexandria was the scene of
peculiar freak On Sunday, August
22nd. The office of the Rapides Gas-
cite was disordered, the type scattered,
and portions Of the press removed.
It is almost needless to state the pol
itics of the paper, because only one
class of newspapers are ever subject
ed to such treatment, and preside
stroying, night-raiding bummers have
never been claimed by Republicans,
or traced to hiding places in their
ranks. 1t requires an organ of the
White League, sheet of which the
Alexandria Democrat is a specimen,
to uphold the cause of the bummers,
and to apologize for their conduct at
the expense Of every decent sentiment
proper to the OCCASION. The Demo-
crat wants people a thousand miles
away to believe that Republicans de-
stroyed one of their own papers for
political effect, and tells its home
readers that the Gasette was an insig-
nificant paper and its loss is matter
OF small consequence. 1t is, there
fore, difficult to determine which is
the greater outrage-the destruction
of the Gazette, or the Democrats de-
Tense of the White League bummers
! who took a hand in the affair. 1t is
not probable that any thing in the
columns Of the Gazette could excuse a
midnight raid. Ex-Governor j. Mad
ison Wells, the owner, may be OBJ
noxious as Republican,, but he is
certainly an amiable gentleman. He
needs no vindication, while the brain
less bummcrs who sought to annoy
him have but added to the lawless re-
pute of their section, and covered
themselves with infamy. The GAG
cite will continue to be published at
Alexandria, as it ought to be, and let
it be hoped that the dishonest, con-
temptible allusion of the Democrat to
its unfortunate neighbor will not be
initiated by any journal in Louisiana
laying claim to responsibility.
Another instance of indignity to the
Republican press, is the sacking of
the Louisiana State Register and South
,cestern Adpocate, both published by
Amos s. Collins, in Carrollton, a sub
urb of New Orleans. The first was
the official Journal of Jefferson parish,
the latter the organ Of the NJ. E..
Church North. The Office was en-
tered OH Sunday night last, the type
pied, headlines carried away, and
portions Of the type thrown into the
street. It is difficult to ascertain the
reasons for this act of vandalism, and
they must be developed hereafter.
Mr.. Collins is on summer tour in the
North, and will be surprised to learn
that such animosity could have been
harbored against him. He is all ex-
Federal SOLDIER a Republican from
conviction, and carries in his body
the bullets of an honorable battle
field as we'll as the heart of a true
gentleman, He is a property holder
and public spirited citizen, yet this
is the second time he has been vic
timized by mob while publishing a
Republican paper; the first occasion
being the destruction of the Register
at Marksville, Avoyelles parish, in
1868. A reward is offered for the ap-
prehension of the guilty parties, but
their prosecution should not end in
the courts. A generous public opinion,
having no party limits, should find
expression from one border Of the
State to the other in condemnation of
this barbarous warfare upon the Re-
publican press. The mobbing of the
Southwestern Advocate will be heard
from with effect in the North and
West where its editor acquired a fair
reputation before he contempt ated a
residence in Louisiana, and nothing
short of the arrest and conviction of
the scoundrels who wrought their
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