The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-22
GUILTY..

GUILTY.
Our readers, particularly our in
terested Town ones, have had their
attention called by communications
and in editorials, to the mismanage-
ment and looseness and carelessness
in the proceedings CT the present
Board of Councilmen of our Town;
and our columns containing these
structures will bear frank testimony
to the courteous and rightful Ian
guage which has been used in the
handling of the subject-matter; and
at the same time are printed wit
nesses to the offer of their free and
willing use as a medium Of reply to
the parties supposed to be aggrieved,
or in their own words, attacked.
Our Town readers and Taxpayers
are no doubt surprised, to use mild
term, how these charges, made in
the true spirit and in behalf Of the
constituents of these officials, have
been met, have been lodged, have
been bulldozed around Town by the
fawnipg lickspittles Of the guilty
ones, and honeycombed with the vi
per-venom of puerile SANDER and
defamation by the very ones who
should have faced them in the spirit
of frankness, fairness and like homo
rab.e men. But we are free to confess
that we are not only surprised, but
that surprise is ironclad with pity
and contempt for individuals, who
can so easily throw of the garb of
decent manhood, and assume the
despicable one of malice, hypocrisy,
and the vilest. and lowest instincts
which ever guide poor humanity to
the gutter!
A local communication in the Ga
sette, of less than FIVE lines, signed
j. B., is the flnger-board and unerr.
ing mark aimed at US, in what
should be reply, in these columns,
to the structures in the two last is
sues of the Democrat. And that
very short communication, handed
in to Mat. Wells Journal by j. B.,
is the full evidence and reason why
we head this article Guilty! It be-
trays its paternity, it's puerile weak
ness and pitiful lodging and shirk-
ing, and they knew full well, when
they accepted the too lenient courte~
sy of the Editor of the Gazette, and
brought forth that mighty intellec
tual outpouring Of less than Eve
lines, that it contained we'll matured
and base SANDER and vituperation,
and had nothing to do with the dis
cussion, and they were only convirc.
ing the people of their guilt, or the
charges of guilt, and like the sick
dog returning to his volnit, they are
at home in the assumed role of
black, yards and wopld-be DULLES.
We owe no apology to our readers
to the turn this affair has assumed,
but regret exceedingly that these
present structures should be forced
on US, and promise them that we
shall pursue it fairly, legitimately,
and that knowing our rights, we in
tend fully to strike for them, and
not abandon what was our honest in
tention, to strive to cure growing
evils and mismanagement, which are
fast becoming epidemical. And in
conclusion we state, and state frank
ly, to j. B. and his Warwick, that We
have no malice in the matter, and il
in this article we have written in
plain words, they are words of self
defense forced on US by their dirty
attack, and further more let then
remember, and bear in mind well
that there are yet plenty of glass
houses in Alexandria, in which
among others they have ''loca
habitation and a name," and that ,
less missile than brickbat viii
break every glass in them.
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THE extra river mail so graci
ously accorded US, and which was Il
have left New Orleans on last Wed
nesday, on it's maiden trip, failed dr..
80. The Post Master of New Or
; leans had no orders from Washing
ton concerning it, hence he refuse'
a la red tape to deliver it to tn
Dawn. But at the Shreveport en-
red tape did not shove in, and th
Post Master there delivered it to tn
: Bonnie Lee and we saw it com
ashore safely on the back of the mt
> latto who always wears the gree
: apron.