The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-03-14
Dan Piatt Explains.
AND MAKES APOLOGIES. SUCH As THsY -.
TO HIS CRITICS.


TO HIS CRITICS.
have been considerably disgrantl.a
at the number of gigantic intellects thu,
have lately conourred in pronouncin.
me a lunatic or an idiot. 1t is quite ba.
initiating; it is, indeed. Think of N.
Heavy Halstead. our Mewrah, solemnlv
pronouncing me an idiot, and how chop.
rined he must feel when he remembers,
giving me employment on his journal
for three years.
And then the editor Of the Gazette
who pronounced me not only an idiot
but nuisance-a Sunday nuisance
and said l ought to be taken to some u.
questered spot and knocked in the head.
Thanks, that were quiet, easy and
sure death-to me. won't saw A.
| much for the editor. feared that ba
would suggest, drowning in one of his
canals, where the mud is emblematic Of
the corruption through which they wer,
obtained. The death then would be, az
my friend Sir Edward Thornton ex.
presses it, "rawther nawsty," as the
learned editors life is.
l see, too, that my late conduct has
shocked the moral sense and disturbed
the cultured soul Of Geo. Alfred Town.
send in the Graphic. You have no idea
how this worries me. The number OF
people who live by the consent of Geo.
Alfred is perfectly amazing. He has
private cemetery of his own, that il
crowded with eminent men punctursd
to death by this terrible fellow. There
is comfort in knowing, however, that
he has way of writing his victim into
life again. 1t would do, you know, to
run short of men to Stay. He killed
Morton, 0. P, in one editorial in the
Capital, when we first started that
sheet; then he had computations and
eulogized 0. P. into life again. He as
sailed Boss Shepherd in the deadliest
manner, and then kindly set Sheph, I'd
on end, and not only praised him in
good choice phrase, but became his poet
laureate, and very nearly Rille, him
again with his eulogistic lines, Ny
letter would be mournful list of great
length were to chronicle all the emf.
nent men slaughtered by this young
man. But while he assails me tor
shocking his moral sense and offending
his high. culture, L have grim sarisfac-
ton of proving to stupid world that
George alfred has moral sense and
some culture. WHAT fight have had
during the last ten years in trying To
make an obstinate world believe he pos
sessed those precious gifts. What
wonderful young man he is! WAS 80
proud to cali him friend. remember
once giving his pondrous volume, enti-
tied "rhe Old World Compared with
the New" to distinguished English.
man who wished to study our insli,u-
tons. Ny friend took a long time to
get through; but he did at last, and
then told me solemnly that the only
difference between Europe and America
that he could find from, my book WAS
that the Old Torld did not have what
the New World possessed, aud that was
George Alfred Townsend. George AL
fred consigns me to slow and painful
death. 1t is that retire to the shades
of Mack-a-Cheek and improve my
breeding, sobriety, consistency, truth.
fuluess-in word, all the higher NOR
ais as found in George Alfred himself
by a profound study of his works.
prefer the Indictment, trial and possible
penitentiary. While being shut up ina
lonely cell would have the comfort Of
knowing that this proud young man
would be shut out.-[Cor. Cincinnati
Enquirer.