The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-08
LETTER FROM A BULL-DOzED PARISH
"A Pnir Of April E00ls-Red stick Politics.
.rhe f,ODOr Line Fading Out-Acts Import
ing Acknowledgment Of the Nichols
government.

ing Acknowledgement of the Nichols
Government.
BATON ROUGE, April s, 1877.
Editor Democrat 49, We left Clinton
Sunday morning. The lean judge, look
ing anxiously towards the sky, as IL he
was In vain endeavoring to !" read title
clear In that direction, remarked: /
fear we will have rain before we reach
Baton Rouge to-day" IL never rains
on Easter Sunday" sententiously re.
IL the buggy BY the side Of his lean
brother--in law. l, the aforesaid lean
one, did not feel altogether. assured by
the ruling Of my learned brother, but
giving the Sunday the benefit OF the
doubt. drove off. "There go couple
81 pharaoh's Sort" remarked q young
man or the Arm OF Walker, Dolfttle &
Co. as our wheels slowly revolved
southwark. "How so p" asked by
Islander. Because" replied the young
chair. bottomer. they are the fat and
lean kline"
Revolving these irreverent remarks
iii my mind as we rolled along, l began
d few observations upon the demoral-
lied condition OF our people generally.
] called attention to the material con-
dition of the country, the thriftlessness
OF the people, the careless waste Of re-
sources, OF comfort and competence
evidenced by implanted houses, dilapi.
dated fences, pastures that should feed
hundreds Of cattle and thousands OF
sheep made waste places by bushes and
hriars, and that strongest PROOF OF q de,
clining civilization-bad roads. But all
these, I said, were material deficiencies
that few years Of thrift would repair;
a few years of industry would renovate
and rebuild these waste places in few
years this road OF thirty miles may
be transformed into a railroad
FOR this livery horse there will be
the snorting steed OF steam, and
this ", buggy, Pullms a . palace palace,
all the way from Clinton to Baton
Rouge. with the railroad for Its street.
"A lovely cottage, whitewashed and
every acknowledgements hill, aud these
old Bedge fields will be alive with living
herds and bleating sheep. But proceed
ing all material advancement there
must be a return to a healthy moral and
social condition. 1 remarked that the
worst sign of the Generalization Of So
ciety was the evident loss Of respect In
old and young, and In those OF pre- |
vious condition, for the law and the OFF, |
GERS of the law--the constituted repre-
Bentatives OF the State. Iquoted those |
well known lines, "Ill fares the State,
ETC., and others equally appropriate. / |
had grown out Of long years
of mal-administration on the part Of
the ignorant and corrupt and incompe-
tent officers OF fraudulent State |
that men would |
know In time the rightful prince.
but that hitherto the very wheels
Of Justice had fallen into the ruts that
ignorance and incompetency had cut II
Here slam bang went the off fore wheel
into d deep rut In the road. The buggy
came to sudden standstill, and over
the dash rolled the .corpulent
COURT, bedraggling his ernline, as he
,alled his ample broad-cloth coat. tails,
ID the slnsh the drizzling rain Of the
night before and the dust of some few
Try days had created.
Dash your moralizing; dash it., you
1Rd better attend to your own duty;
What the country wants, dash 1t, Is more
work. and less talk more doing and less
elling how 1t ought to be done; dash It,
was half sleep; give me the reins.'
The Court then, slowly climbing into
be buggy, assumed control and eau
iously drove on.
oOIu6 JGu ILLUS HUH DhbOu lbOuk6s |
he rule so authoritatively announced
~ my learned brother in the beginning
i our journey was suspended, and the
est Of our weary way we dragged along
through a fearful storm OF rain that
HE'D the mud holes and smoothed the
Dad to lake, and swelled the bitches
nto roaring. tumbling torrents. Look
ng more like drowned rats than re-
orm Judiciary, we arrived at Baton
Rouge. The comforts of the
vERANDAH HOTEL
Don dissipated our discomforts of the
pad.
Yesterday was election day for city
Ifficials, Aldermen and Administrator
i Finance. I visited the different poll
ng places; all Twas quiet and everybody
eemed to be enjoying the highly priced
,rlvilege OF casting a ballot. The color
Inc and even party lines seemed to be
by the voters, black and
White, as the result of the election shows.
Al colored man, Moliere Lange, a
,ortant city office, Administrator of 1
rinance, over worthy gentleman who
opposed him. heard the remark from
many white persons during the day that
1ange had held the office for several
ears, had proved his honesty and
apacity and should be retained in the
osition on the new political idea that
] Is we'll to let we'll enough alone. The
ldermen elected were all white men
nd Democrats, ....-.s.ve5-s.
In the evening I visited the Court !
louise. Judge Charles McVea was pre-
ding, with full corps Of officials and
lembers Of the bar, all recognizing and
citing under and by virtue Of commits
|ons from the Nichols government. i,
In the trial OF white man accused Of
ae murder of another white man, the
lry was composed Of both races :
1ually. The foreman Of the jury was
colored man. He has been In attend :
nee on the court since its opening. and,
am informed, has made first-rate y
lrnr After n short retirement. the !