Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1876-05-13

Hence no interchange OF civilities bet
ween us,-little George you please.
But taken as u whole | rather like
that article, because, OH analysis, under
IL fair and impartial test. any logical
mind will agree with me III the conclu-
sion that it amounts to Il qualified plea
of guiIy, to the charges made by our
committee, against Bovee's alminiStra.
ton.
The Sentinel man says: acknowlcd.
sc my mistake in saying that ! had re-
ceived only $500 in Currency, when l
had received S1SOO.-But what of it
Did we not make Il good Use OF the mo-
ney, by applying it, the Vachcry Road
fund to the payment of the Court House
Bond Interests: Is there any harm in
misapplying atunde What are you g,um.
bling at!
1t is true that we paid al13O,s5 to the
Sentinel job Office for printing in one
year.
1t is true that we paid aS9,:D for a
small rox hospital, which was
built, and that we don't know what be-
came of the lumber.
1t is true that, when %canvassing for
lSs lASll\sClS lDO1stlllH lCCVlNVA Pay
from the Parish at - Il day.
1t is true that we paid NJ. Marks, who
is not an attorney at lac, fees who could
only he allowed to a Jaeger. Is he not
one of us?
1t is true that We paid Sill to suhdi-
vide the Nachcrie Road into lots, for the
purpose of selling the whole in block to
Fred. But what oft. He had the scrip,
and we needed it.
acknowledge to have done all those
things, but what do they amount to!
Why! "Amy sane man arin pronounce the
achoie batch e,cccdingly ti'irolous and IN
arorthy Of y o much prominence" :
"Please your Honor, | plead guilty
to petty larceny, and this cruel and ezra
tic Frenchman wants YOU to make it
out Grand Larceny."- kAow now that
his heart is not in the right placc."-he
is al out an out tyrant.'
In candor l must confess that, ut this
piteous cry, my heart reverts back to its
right place, and | see that | have not
had "enough of the milk of human kind
neSS.'
While ! look at poor little George
standing before the Ju1ge-Public OPT
nion-looking guilty, it istrue, but withal
so repentant, so detected, with his hair
~disheveled, his manly face unwashed,
his shirt ragged, his eyes mournfuliy
cast down, his Shiny hand grasping his
empty carpet-bag, | find that our com.
mittee has been too hard indeed on the
poor miserable lad;-and | must let him
alonc,-nay, must beg mercy for him.
"Jndgp, don't be to severe on him; it
is only petty larceny after all!-Nlmt
of it if re and his clums did take some
of the money of those creole taxpayers!
They are all descendants of cl1atic
Ftenchmen, who came here before the
cession of Louisiana to the best govern
ment the world ever saw. Why don't
they so home, their belle France. What
right have they to be here jabbering
their gumbo french! Were they not
Eslave-owlicrs too. and rebels too! What
right have they. and their committee,
and their miserable ilmpudent Louisia-
nais to be growing SO!
"Why! your Honor, cast a look OF
pity on poor little George; let him off
this time; | will warrant that he will
do so no more, no more. "IIe has sut1.
cred enough. "Don't You see that the
little sucking calf has been weaned too
soon! Poor thing! he was sent to grass
before lie had hardly sucked the pap.
That naughty dairy man Kellogg
took away the good old COW Kcrri-
gam, and put in her place that wild thing
Yates, who is starving little George and
his brothers. Let him off, l beg you!
George will do so no more, no more: he
is in favor of making call taxes payable
in currency" Sc as to stop any other tcl-
low from stealing" amt you George!
; Now, George, go in peace! a blessing
to you and yours from the crack-brained
and crratic french carpct-bagger!
Now for a look at the other mag-pic,
the noisy amt pretty Morris Marks.
This bird had been Gagged by the LOui-
sian0is some time in march last, but it
seems that a few more feathers having
been picked from him by our committee
!, OH finance, lie ~tintters in his cage and
chatters very impudcntly at aGentil.r
In a card, dated at DOnaldsonville
April oath. 1876, and published in his
friend Bovee's Sentinel on may 6 last,
NJ. Marks, with all the sense Of wound.
cd dignity, q complains of the disrcs-
, pectfui manner i'll which our committee
!; treats his august name in their report
published i'll the Sentinel oil the 22d. of
april last, and says that.h he would like
J to be Inspected by them. (Nithout Gen
tll.) That Gentil! A Gentle!
He generously absolvestl eotllermem
bers from any wiltul intent to perpetra.
| te the great outrage upon his official pn-
, rity OF character, and lays the whole
blame upon Gentil-a Gentle to him.
who hates him SO much that he would
! destroy him if he could.-That GcDtil!!
: have not seen any of my colleagues
OF the committee since the publication
Of that miserable etfusion Of NJ. Marks.
| But feel authorized to say that they
will not feel complimented by the insi-
n~uation that they could have been weak
or inconsiderato enough to lend their
names to q document which they were
not ready at all times to endorse, and
t that M. Marks request to be inycstigat-
ed by a committee OF his own compost
! ton. is as indelicatn aS II ia imnertinaut