Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22

and your carpet-bag associates. In sub
8 ance, your accusations are that he and
his Administration, being in completely
with treason, favored the right of the
States to separate from the Union at
pleasure, and, in the interest of the seced-
ing States, denied the power of the gen
eral government to maintain its authori-
ty by force. The message honestly quot"
ell proves exactly the reverse. But yOl:
suppress all that it contains upon thos"
Subjects and quote certain sentences relai
ting to IL totally different matter, namely:
the right of the general government to
make aggressive war upon State, and all
the people thereof, without regard to their
] personal guilt or innocence. Because ths
| shows that the constitution has wisely
withheld this power from both the Presi-
dent and Congress, you SLY that he aban-
doned and denied the other powers which,
| in fact, he asserted and claimed in that
| same message
do not ask if this be a fair way to d.
| fame q man whom death has disarmed of
the power of self defense, for I suppose
that, in your eyes, it is eminently proper.
You have no doubt that it is ga wise discrr-
ton, like that of Wells and Anderson wheli
they transposed the fignres on-the retur''
| from Vernon parish. The trick, to bc
sure, is perfectly transparent, but y""r
mental calibre is just small euoug to let
you think that ev N a detected fllsehoo'!
is better than none.
Nor would 1 advise you to cease your
| vituperation of tile dead Presidenv. HIS
memory is intensely hated by many pow;
erfrl persons to whom his dignified and
vrtuous life was a constant reproacli;
TO SANDER him is the surcst way to curry
favor with them, and they can assist yon
to get Il foreign mission or some other
office for which you are equally unfit.
Lose no opportunity, then, of being super
serviccable. Take every occasion to load
up as much dirt as your little cart ca"
carry; and, however far it takes you ont
of your way, drive around and dump ii
on the grave of Buchanan. 1t will not,
disturb his repose, and no doubt 1T Will
increase your chances of promotion very
much.
II is always mOre-or less awkward t"
speak of ones self But you nave drag
ged my individual life into this discus
sion, and falsely accused me of gross
, misbehavior. 1 shall make my defense
with as little egoism as the nature of the
case will permit.
You have positively averred, published
= and proclaimed that adopted the views
3 of the secessiOnists and entered into IL
=, ''devilish cunning" conspiracy with them
3, to destroy tho Union: that brought the
'saccursed Administration" into this trai-
o torous combination, expressed the opim
ion that each State had a right to sep"r-
ate from the Union at pleasure, and dc
= | cla1ed the government destitute of all
: power to preserve itself by coprel;ing
J. obedience to it's laws, with much more t"
u the same effect.
: To this 1 oppose my explicit denial. /
: declare that all you say about me in this
" connection is perfectly and entirely false,
+ not only in it's genereral tenor, but in
every detail. No act that 1 ever did, no
line that ever wrote, no word that
ever spoke can give the slightest support
e. to any one Of your charges. On the con-
: trary, all my utterances, public and pri-
G, vate, are Numerically the reverse OF
Ut this.
" Up to this point have been willing te
I'd excuse you on the score of incapacity
,e You con]h not be expcc' cd to see the I'M
constitutionality Of the Returning Boart
of law, or the legal right of the people t'
j. choose their own. electors, or the dishon
r. esty of altering election returns, or tin
mt rule that fraud makes void whatever i
if taints by it's touch. In quoting tin
". Louisiana court to prove principl
&C. Which it did not mention, perhaps yo
It's only repeated like Il parrot what other
he said before, without knowing what /
us meant When you asserted the conclu
:" sivcncss of the Returning Boards actls
wv on the authority ofthe statnte and ju
,c- dicial decision, you may lave omltte
on the words ''prima flcie' from your rem
,ot dcrny of both, because you thought tina
ID conciusirc and prinla facie were synonym
an o,1s terms. You probably did not writ
ri that part of your article which mos
or falsely accuses ne of admitting and ju:
ISL tifvin" the murder of Innocent and hell
an. less people by thousands. All your mi
tc statements upon tho Florida case coul
SILL be accounted for by your lack of log;
IN, knowledge. Even your misrepresent;
YER ton of Mr.. Buchanan might I've conside
,tc ed the unavoidable blunder of q mario
l mind struggling with a subject beyon
lri its comprehension. But this Islander
ace me is a different thing. Giving you cree
the it for as much lgnorencc as you can po
the lilly plead, and making all allowance II
his the curious mora, stiuGismUs with whic