The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-09
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tafns o personal card, signed by Mrs. e. j..
Holbrook, denying that since her connection
with the proprietorship of that journal she
has ever herself borrowed any money from
any one, either Radical or Democrat, or that
any one has done SO for her. Certainly the
article in tho DEMOCRAT, to which Mrs. Hol-
brooks card Is intdhded as reply, was not
intended as an attack upon that estimable
and accomplished lady. Even If the Demo-
GRAFT could be little enough to engage in con-
troversies or quarrels with ladies, we have
been too often enchanted with the beautiful
poetical contributions OF Mrs. Holbrook to the
Southern press to be willing, under any cir
cumSaDGes, TO assail her or make her the
subject OF harsh criticism or unfavorable
comment This lady's exquisite contribu-
lions to the literature Of the South, not less
than her sex, eommends her to the ten
derest regard Of every Southern gentlemen.
With Mrs. Hobrook, therefore, the DEMO-
CRAT refuses to enter into any controversies,
and Notwithstanding her denunciations 1t
persists In expressing for her personally sin
cere respect, and for her literary genius real
admiration.
The relations of tho DEMOCRAT, however,
to the indecent old man who In the same
issue OF the Picagmte prints an abusive card
over the signature Of George Nicholson, are
very different. This detestible and antiauat-
cd fraud, who for many years has been a
party to the management Of the Picayune,
squirming under our castigation, and dread
ing the judgment Of regenerated public
opinion, seeks to shield his own responsibility
for the iniquitous career of that journal dur
ing the past twelve years. by attempting to
screen himself from responsibility with the
shroud of the dead.
There Is not a long time citizen Of New Or
leans who does not know that, during the
period intervening 1861 and the present, the
Picayune has Off and on been the tool and
instrument OF the oppressors of Louisiana:
that 1t was subservient to Beast Butler; that
1t was the apologist Of Warrnoth, and that 1t
was. the stipendiary of Warmoth, Kellogg,
Packard, Herwig and Dibble. It is equally
we'll known that during that period-one of
debauchery, treason and infamy to the Pr
dy,ne-Geo. Nicholson was an active, potent
and trusted participant In the management
Of that journal. II no one had been respon-
sible for the scandalous career Of the Picay,Aae
during the period referred to but the dead,
our pen would never have sought to revive
the story of so much disgrace to New Or
leans journalism. But there are living parties
who were participants in the business, and 1t
Is our right and duty to fix the responsibility
upon the living
II Is easy now, for even the most conserva-
tive and subservient journal, to roar for
Southern rights and Democratic principles.
GxxlA H. 4lxe.
the fence-straddlers, and the
sneaking policy men, has been wony the
fight Is over, and 1t requires no pluck now to
shout for Democracy and Southern rights,
and to denounce Packard Kellogg, Warmoth |
ind Herwig. But the honest and thinking
part of the community will not be easily |
hoodwinked they will bear in mind that
The Picdyune, in the darkest hours Of
The struggle, and when Geo. Nicholson was |
It's business manager, was the apologist Of
The worst enemies of the State; that IL then |
borrowed money from Kellogg and Herwig, |
and dared not denounee it's benefactors ec-
,ept IN the honeyed phrase prescribed for its
use.
just previous to the Fourteenth of Septem-
,er, the day on which many Of our fellow-cit-
zens gave up their lives In contesting the ar
,itrary power Of Kellogg, the Picays.ne, with
leo Nicholson as it's business manager, bor-
owed $1,000 from Kellogg, to pay off it's prin-
ers, and thus became the beneficiary and
DOL Of the vilest enemy this State ever
thew, under whose direction and for whose
In power the citizens Of New
orleans. whose martyrdom we are now pre-
,aring to commemorate, were butchered in
,ur streets.
Mr.. Geo. Nicholson is exceedingly indignant
It our denunciation Of his journal, and in his
renzy, in one sentence, declares that our
harges are untrue, and in the next casts the
and the shame for the acts
harged upon q dead man. "Your state
nent," says he in substance in one
entence, that the Picayune has placed
tself under obligations to Radical thieves Is
alse" and in the next sentence he attempts
o evade the weight Of this charge by saying
hat the man who was the manager Of the
'icay,me when the Infamous obligations
we're incurred is dead, and that, for making
he charges, we are ghouls feeding upon his
corruption. "Oh shame where is thy blush 7"
We made no charge against the memory Of
he dead. We have not invaded the sanctity
# the grave. We have charged simply that
leo. Nicholson was an active and potent part
Ter in the management Of the Pcay,uae when
hat journal borrowed money from Kellogg,
Ierwig and Dibble, and Mr.. Geo Nicholson
neaks out of the vile responsibility by at
empting, in most ingenious manner to
brow the whole responsibility upon the silent
enant of the grave. "Your statement is un-
rue" says Geo. Nicholson, and in the next
entence he exclaims in substance, "The re-
for these acts are with the Dead
md you are ghoul to attack them."
But let us be done with this vile and indie
ent old wretch. A lifetime of subserviency
ruculence and journalistic debauchery has
endered him insensible to shame, and we
heerfully surrender him to the arms OF the
notorious infamy which he seems system