The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-04-11
THE PRE>l0RN AND THE
KNAVES.

KNAVEs.
The foulest den of thieves and ad-
venturers that has disgraced the Fed
eral civil service system, for years
past, il to be found in New
Orleans. Everybody has heard of
1t or seen it or smelled it. Il
Is flled with knaves OF every color
and race, from Hlttentot to. Down
Easter. It's occupation is theft, and
Its delight consists in corruption. 1t
interpOses alike in municipal, State and
Federal elections, and honestly in
none. Public morals and private vir-
tue alike are sacrificed by tie corrupt
villains aggregated in this costly den
OF -S's-.so-o- P-a-ing it-
ever told to beware OF entrance there ::
and of brothels and gambling bells,
there are none comparable in knavery
and brutality to this horrible resort
known as the NV Orleans Custom
House. We do not pretend 10 as.It
the justice of the multitude which
gives the cavernOus structure of stone
this hIdeous fine, but there is no spot
on G IDS globe so infamous in the eyes
Of the pc pile as this, in which all that
we eat and drink and wear, and con-
sumo, is taxet that knaves and adyeu-
turers of high aud low degree may
riot in riches. II there were no other
reason for the odium that attaches to
the tart system, OF Indirect and
cowsrdly taxation, by which the gov
erning class rob the governed,
when the latter are UNCONSCIOUS
OF it, this debauched domicil
OF knaves would make the laws and |
policy sustaining IL forever detestable.
IL makes perjurers of the taxed and, |
worse still, spies and informers, and |
thus thieves, of the tax-gatherers. But
1t was not the law and lis hateful sys
TEN of pollution that befouled the ten
ants Of the New Orleans Custom House.
They were invested with office because
they were thieves and election mana.
gers and bullIes and ballot-bn * suffers.
and because they had distributed brides
for Warmoths and KeIloggs and Pack
ards, and those other exceeding good
men who came nth to use the limo.
cent negro in seizing offices. These are
the most infamous of imm grants, and
thee have been chiefly honored and
clothed with Office by the good and
wise and psternal government at Wash
ington. They have been the allies of
another body having its representatives
In the New Orleans Custom House.
'fhese'a are the sneak thieves who, hav
ing rendered excellent service to Conk-
ling and Blaine or Butler, were not de-
cent enough TO be given postoffices or
custom house .lerkshipi north of the
Ohio, since they would disgrace the
member of Congress who procured such
appointments. They are the mesnest
of ward politicians thus sent into
exile in the South by congressional
magnates, and 9uariered upon South
ern Federal courts, postoffices and Gus
tom houses The enmity of congress-
men to Hayes is due to the fact that
the President is slowly dispensing
with the services of these depraved
rascals who have especially sfH cted
the city Of New Orleans Grant made
Southern Federal s,necures aud custom
houses Botany Bay for his own and
his friends unworthy underlings, and
1t is no wonder that she Impending ex.
Pulsiou of the powerful throng has in
spired the eloquence of Howe,
aroused the rage OF Coukling and
wounded deeply the selishness and
vanity of Blaine. We have no special
direct interest in this shameful system
OF governing these provinces. Texas
has been Fortunate in men sent h,ther
to discharge duties of which the peo-
pie here, il seems, were wholly un- 9
worthy but Nswo leans aud Louisiana
have been stripped of millions aud re- I
duced to pitIable poverty and corrupt
ed aud degraded by a government of q,
thieves instituted by this depraved cus
tom house until the children OF New Or
leans are 10 exile every where. We hope e
the President will bud some honest
gentleman, soue one of the few who
his net been polluted by an sli-absorb- |
ing system Of pollution in Louisiana, 5
10 reform abuses and deal honestly anu
fairly with the people of Loulsiana.
These have been corrupted, It is just =
to say, by universal, unblushinz
schemes of corruption. aud the task OF
making proper selections rs surely most
difficult. But Blaine aud Cinkling
md the rest, who have heretofore
the State and dispensed Its I
patronage, have no right tn criticize or !
aud so diff ult is the proper
discharge of the duty of selecting
that We should be chary F,
Of eriticlsm even il the President
Tue people persist in oeliev- 1
ing that be wishes to do night even {
when he blunders most egreeiousiy, as l
be will blander II be Sc d Packard ,
back 20 the New Orleans Custom
House.
GES. MExIA of the city Of Mexico,
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