The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-11-13
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Mat. Wells imported hireling, who
edits 1--WE the People" though he has
been branded on several occasions, as
"a lior, a bastard and a cocafd,n "a
maligner of the Hiring and tie dead,"
and IN every issue ofjalis dirty sheet
has been asked about his twin infa
mics, the Cartridge. box and Sitting
Bull" takes all these honors(?) easy,
lodges them like a miserable sneak
a"d car, and in every number of his
ratiical sheet, which he, was imported
to edit for a purpose, repeats some
equally malicious falsehood, and tries
to palm it of on this community, as
truthfalein some regards, and this
new fiedged lie is. always personally.
in favor Of his master and owner,
Mat. Wells. There is no telling how
many ofithesr base. in famies old Mat.
has been stuffipg down him, and he,
poor plant tool and lick spittle of that
Returning Boarder, sits down, dips
his quill in gall, aud gets off some
venom against some one. AS an CIV,
idencei of, this, old Mat. has been
chatting freely with, him; about the
var and particularly, when he was
Boss here in March and April 1864,
under Banks, and was answering to
The name of Lieutenant Governor of
Louisiana, and among the many mean
and, cowardly acts committed by him,
during that "reign, of Terror to all
good Confederates in this Town;',he
boosted, but o. The wrong side, Of
''takinga newspaper man, ont of jail
that was Editing the aDEMooR AT."- =
And his, plant. and spbseryient tool,
This Editor off'We the People," in
his issue of this morning, gets it.of
as part and parcel and close to his
campaign lies.h9m1o'ei siln ~
1--WE care not to. brand, rs q liar a,
thtiee'bianded malicious iar-and de-
famer, but,arc forced, n this connec-
moh, totell this paid and, pensioned
viper of liars that thisslast; one only
adds TO his Infamous career here of
less than. four. months, aud 10 tell
him to state to the public that Mat.
Wells, in March,, 1854, with 10000
yankee bayooets at Aisfback, and less
than 80 able bodied men in this Town,
did have "a newspaper man that was
editing the DEMocRAT" arrested and
confined in the Parish ,Jail,n and sim
ply did it because he had the power
| to do 1t, to hhmiliate'a a man who had
never harmed him, except to be his
Rtaveterate opposite lin politics; and
that Mat. w ellis did tliisIac through
| a written request, as :Lieutenant,
Governor Of Louisiaua,'a tn Brigadier
| General Grover, q! ISs Az Command
Ell Of, the Post here ii; 1861, and in
that request he1includedt the names
Of some ten other citizens. with that
of, the imam THAT wa' editing the
DEMoCR AL" and tlies7, too, were ar,
| rested and lodged in Jail. This wri
ter could tell much more of this
matter, hut it is one of Mat. Wells
had acts Of his bad past, has nothing
ito do~w with tue present canvass, now
Elrawiug to close, vidtoriously
to the cause still espoused and cher
Iished by ''the man who edited lhe
DEMOCRAT in 1861 and is only no
lticed now to clincli tile last nail ii
the coffin Of lies Of the Edisor Of "W'
the People" This latter is tb'
truth, the, whole truth. and nothing
but the truth, and the story Or insin
uaJttio,inn : about it is base fabrication
and as far from the truth as eve
Mad. Wells and Tie Prince Hal O
liars, the Editor Of eve the People,
ever reached. ''''''' ; :. - go
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