The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-27
Mr.. OASTELLANOS, SELAH!

The epidemic has come and gone. It has
left to many @ one OF us an inheritance Of
helplessness, Orphanage or Wdowhood for
which we must care most tenderly. TO 'tem-
per the winds to the shorn lamb is as much
q Christian duty as to meet and overcome the
'froarlng lion that seeketh whom he may de-
vour.' We do not propose to shrink from our
responsibilities. The DEMOCRAT has de-
veloped an orphan--a poor, homeless, house.
less, friendless "waif and stray" who hath
''no one to love-none to caress" him. We al
lude to Mr.. Castellanos, whose card appears
In our paper this morning. He has no organ
no paper to defend him, and hence we have
taken him up and now we propose to do 1t
unto him after the manner the usual unso-
| phisticated stranger may expect to be dealt
with in this very, very wicked world.
| We have given Mr.. Castellanos hearing
| He has found an asylum In our bosom, as 1t
were, and IL We choose to bring him up
Shy hand,' as Pip was reared, let him not
complain IL he fails to find a sympathetic
Joseph in our household
Like Mr.. Larimore, Mr. Castelanos has his
desires and aggrievances." They are set
forth In his letter. He tells us how he was an
ganiation arose out of the dsbandnent of the
Wings, and how, through all these vicssi-
| tudes, by that instructive perversenegs which
Poo tells us in Inherent in all men, he loved
our fellow citizens of foreign birth. He then
goes on to justify the organization Of native
born citizens into societies, secret and other
wise, on the ground that the Democratic party
has never 'froWned'' upon similar organiza-
tions among foreigners of the same nationality,
but, on the contrary, has availed itself OF
these societies to control the German or
Irish, or Italian, or Spanish vote. He, be-
sides, assures us that he has always been
Democrat, and, consequently, has always
thought these things all right-has approved
of them, participated in them and got his
share of the results.
This is honest and candid. But his candor
does not end here by any means, He "freely
and canddly' admits that "some year and q
half ago" he did join the Native American AS
ISOLATION, But. adds Mr.. Castelanos, "those
who have been instrumental in preparing the
garbled truncated expose have not had the
fairness nor the justice to say that for nearly
O. year, long before | ever thought Of becom-
| ing a candidate for any office, my relations
and connection with the association had
ceased
We are afraid Mr.. Castellanos Is inaccurate
In his dates and ideas OF time. We have the
record, and it shows that Mr.. Castellanos was
an active member OF the Native American
organization, and operated with it as late as
June % of the present year. The last men
tion Of Mr.. Castelanos In the published pro-
ceedings Of the Native American organization
| ,F |,
appointed on constitutional committee as a
member thereof from the eleventh ward.
| His name no more appears until July 26.
| In the minutes of the meeting Of that date we
read that "Cnstellanos, Noland, Dumont, Ben
HARRISON missed three meetings-dropped."
Mr.. Castellanos' active association with the
Native Americans, then, ceased July 26, 1873.
Yet he complains that the anonymous hire
| ling of the press" who furnished our data not
only failed to mention the exact date OF his
expulsion from the order, but also that he re-
| fused to lie about it and make it happen q
year sooner than it really occurred. The
aforesaid Anonymous hireling" gave the
record, and that speaks for itself, for us, for
the Anonymous hreling" aforesaid and for
Mr.. Castellanos.
| But, as Josh Billings once observed "where-
fore all this thusness" on the part Of Mr.. Cas-
tellanos? He has justified the Native Ameri-
can organization; then why should he have
abandoned it II he believes In it, why does
| he not stick to it? What merit is there Ia his
quitting 1t !? What relevancy or importance
In the exact time of his dissolving his connec-
tion with 1t !? We confess our inability to see
any force in his complaint against our "anony-
nous hireling." Again, says Mr. Castella-
nos: "It Is to the National party that owe
allegiance and tealty; with its fortunes have
linked my own, and with it am willing to rise
or fall"
Now, we propose to show-and we speak
by the card and no one knows 1t better than
Mr.. Castellanos- that the National party and
the Native Americans are one and the same,
and that the amalgamation occurred during
Mr.. Castelanos affiliation with the latter
close communion.
On June 7, DR.. Sam Walker offered a pre-
amble and set Of resolutions, setting forth the
"Exigencies" Of the Native American Asso-
citation and the necessities" that compelled
| it to facilitate" the organization of the
| NATIONAL PARTY, and resolving that the
platform and principles of the NATIONAL
| PARTY as adopted in several States of the
| Union "be and IS hereby adopted BY this
GRAND, COUNCIL OF NATIVE AMER
ICANS as the Constitution and platform, upon
achich zoe shaU organize or establish the
NATIONAL PARTY OF LOUISIANA. (See pages
II and Is of our pamphlet)
| Here it is In black and white, and il Mr. Cas-
tellanos is not satisfied we will furnish him
the original records. It is too plain for argu
ment. The Native Americans Red Warriors,
Thugs, Plug Uglies, or whatever the secret
combination chooses to call itself--of which
Mr.. Castellanos was member, organized the
National party, of which Mr.. Castellanos Is a
member, and to which he processes ''alle-
glance and fealty," and all by Mr.. Castellanos'
guilty knowledge and Of his malice afore-
thought and by his connivance. The intent is
proved and Mr.. Castellanos knows what that
amounts to in the trial of man accused of