The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-04
NON rGATr EXPLAINS.
And Makes Apologies, such as tn ey are
TO his Critics.
TCor. Cincinnati Enquirer.l

to his Critics.
ECor. Cincinnati Enquirer.l
I have been considerably disgruntlet
at the number OF gigantic intellects tina,
have lately ooncurred In pronouncine
me a lunatic or an idiot. It Is quite hui,
initiating: 1t Is, indeed. Think of the
Heavy Halstead, our Mewrah, solemnly
pronouncing me an idiot, and how cha
grined 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
said ought to be taken to some Sc
questered spot and knocked in the
head. Thanks, that were quiet, easy
and sure death--to me. j won't say as
much for the editor. / feared that he
would suggest drowning in one OF his
canals, where the mud Is emblematic OF
the corruption through which they were
obtained. The death then would be, as
my friend Sir Edward Thornton ex-
presses it. "rawther nawsty," as the
learned editors life Is. ..,..
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
people who live by the consent of
George Alfred is perfectly amazing. He
has private cemetery Of his own, that
Is crowded with eminent men punctured
to death by this terrible fellow. There
Is comfort in knowing. however, that
he has D. way OF writing his victim into
life again. It would not do, you know,
to run short of men to slay. He killed
Morton, o. p, in one editorial In the
Capital, when we first started that sheet
then he had computations, and eulo-
gized o. p. into lie again. He assailed
Boss Shepherd In the deadliest manner,
and then kindly set Shepherd on end,
and not only praised him In good choice
phrase, but became his poet laureate,
and very nearly killed him again with
his eulogistic lines. My letter would be
q mournful list Of great length were !
to chronicle all the eminent men slaugh-
tered by this young man. But while he
assails me for shocking his moral sense
and offending his high culture, I have
grim satisfaction Of proving to q
stupid world that George Alfred
has moral sense and some
culture. What fight have had dur
ing the last ten years in trying to make
an obstinate world believe he possessed
those precious gifts. What a wonder.
tul young man he is was SO proud
to call him friend. l remember once
giving his pondrous volume, entitled
The Old World Compared with the
New" to a distinguished Englishman
who wished to study our institutions.
My friend took q long time to get
through; but he did at last, and then
told me solemnly that the only differ
ence between Europe and America
that he could find from my
book was that the Old World
did not have what the
New World possessed, and that was
George Alfred Townsend. George Al
fred consigns me to q slow and painful
death. It is that I retire to the shades
of Mack Cheek and improve my
breeding, sobriety, consistency, truth
fulness--in word, all the higher morals
as found in George Alfred himself by
profound study OF his works. prefer
the Indictment, trial and possible peni-
Tertiary. While being shut in q lonely
cell would have the comfort OF know
ing that this pround young man would
be shut out. ID. /.