The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-17

Our exposition Of Il was not. to my knowledge.
Thought or said to be erroneous by any member
coin Administration. adopted It In all its length
and breadth; T2 this day no lawyer Of average
candidly put in dissent It is SO manifestly
| agree to it.
ONE WAY TO EARN FOREIGN MISSION.
| Such being the true state of the case. as tte
record shows, you assail the Buchanan Admin.
istration with filthy abuse. and charge Mr..
6 aye d a9s 3hy VIII
held and expressed, but with criminal acts OF
Apart. from the palpable falsehood of these
n, lit pms your attempt to critcise man
n IKE Mr bnchanhn Is unpardonaby presumpt-
eondc ho eren Judgment upon his character
worth straw. Doubtless he had his share Of
fnap but how could youtel his faults
lent alteration OF election returns is the exer-
Gise OF g wise discretion" You believe the Lou
tional you believe It right to QUOTE q iudietaI
DECISION f2r principle which the case does
s mot de9adtai IN hoy then can any moral
man whose life was upright. pure, and patri-
oticI Your faith in and affection for the Gear car
nature to vilfy Buchanan, who was in ali things
tnelr opposite. His intellectual as well as his
nnn aan n puts YOU % widely apart
him. [ do not wish to exaggerate his magr,is
tude or your littleness and ]. could not II /
scribe The difference between you. III HYPERION pe
and l gatXf etoWering eagle and the housing
feet the builder Of the solemn i tem aTar Anal
the fly on one OF lis. columns-none Of these
trte Smiles gives an idea of the Unreasonable
| distance which separates you from him. No
body expects the scurvy politician who bushes
himself with fixing, UP false election returns
| to understand the thoughts, motives or acts Of
the incorruptible magistrate, whose walk is on
! the mountain ranges of the law.
Let us look for moment at your method of
1 81 10 and brxtr,
worthy y Is OF you and your carpet-bag assoc
eiates, In substance, your accusations are that
with treason, favored the right Of the States to
sepa2rate from n the Union at pleasure. end in
power of the general goyernment to maintain
its authority by force. The message honestly
quoted proves exactly the reverse, But you
lects, and quote certain sentences relating to a
totally different matter namely. the right Of the
upon q State. and all the people thereof, with
Because he shows, that the constitution has
Presid and Congress. you say that he aban-
doned and denied the other powers which, In
iait, he asserted and claimed ia that same
do not ask if this be. a fair way TO detame a
man whom death has disarmed Of the power Of
sell defense. for suppose that, in your eyes, it
Is e wise discretion like that Of Wells and
the return from Vernon parish. The
trick. to be sure. is perfectly transparent.
let you think that even detected falsehood is
better than none.
Nor would I advise you to cease your
memory is intensely hated by many power
fn persons to whom his dignifed and virtuous
life was constant reproach. To SANDER him Is
the surest way to curry favor with them, and
they can assist you to get q foreign mission or
some other office for which you are equally un-
servceable. Take every occasion to load up as
much dirt as. your little cart can carry, and.
around and dump it on the grave Of Buchanan.
1t will not disturb his repo8e and no doubt It
Will increase your chances of promotion very
much.
1t is always more or less awkward to speak Of
f 2nes sell; But you have dragee ed my individual
Of gross msbebaVor. shall make f nv defsnse
with as little e9olsm as the nature OF the case
You have positively averred published and
proclaimed that | adopted the views of the Sc
cessionists and entered into q "devilish cum
Union that brought the "accursed Admins
tration, into this traitorous combination, .ex-
pressed the opinion that each State had a right
declared the government destitute OF all power
to preserve itself by compelling obedience to its
TO this oppose my explicit denial Ideclare
that all you say about me in this connection is
perfectly and entirely false; not only in its gen.
ever did no line that ever wrote, no word that
| ever spoke can give the slightest support to
my utterances. public and private. are diamet-
riraiy the reverse Of this.
Up to this point have been wiling to excuse
you on the score Of incapacity: You could not
be expected to see the unconstitutionality OF the
returning IN Board law or the legal right of the
honesty Of altering election returns, or the rule
that fraud makes void whatever it taints by its
a principle which it did not mention, perhaps
you only repeated like parrot what others said
before te without knowing what it meant, when
statute and a judicial decision YOU may have
of both, because you thought that
conch1si9s and prima ffaeie were. synonymous
your article which most falsely accuses me of
and justifying the murder Of inno-
cent cent and helpless people oy th9psands All
could be accounted for by, your lack Of legal
ks1n u Even your Misrepresentation of
7oidable bunder Of narrow mind struggling
With subject beyond Its comprehension; But
you credit for as much Ignorance as you can
possibly plead. and making all allowance for
ne cnF2as moral or; seossns with which you
1ou, that here you have Uiltutly broken the
ninth commandment.
MORE GAMBLING
lManifesty, you sought, most diligently for
I ba ns 10 snow mat had been opposed to
tgainst the right of the government to execute.
is own laws. The further you went in your
he calumny which you had predetermined to
liter. and you found absolutely nothing, for
nothing existed, to sustain It. But. true to the
0 make what you could not find. You took nv
opinion of Nov. 20, 1860, and there you saw an
Exposition Of the subject precisely the opposite
i that which you wished to impute to me.
Then You falsifed the, record, suppress sed what
actually wrote and attributed to me senti-
nentS which never entertained or uttered
Jour account Of the paper and its contents is
lot only different from, but directly contrary to.
II that is contained in the paper itself
This is bad enough. but that is not the worst
I IL. In order to give some show OF authen-
CITY % your false, version of my. opinion you