The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-06-14
[CoMMUNICATED.]
HARD SnELL AND SOFT SHELL

Mr. EDITOR IF your valuable
columns be not Overlooking | trust
You will give room in your pres
ent issue to the following midnight
lucubrations, brought about by the
calm dose of the stiffness Of that
when the worldly business
calcu!ating-day loses its in
fuence Ger the self reflection of
how the previous day has been
spent-as was Titus custom. This
rara auis, among Roman emperor.s
said Owe lost day" upon re-
membering that no overt act of
justice had been done by him on
that day as upon others. / am
brought to these reflections by all
that is now going on both in The
Parish and. State line of public
duties. We see our glorious Con
vention coming out strongly for
reform in every department Of
government and our new officers
answering nobly to the same call
10y calling out for "facts" and rot
the fiction law-qnibbles" that have
been styled legal justice for the
last fifteen years under the War
moth! Kellogg regime. The Stale
Debt Committee has made a deter
mined stand, and the kid" turns
out a determined Ram" to butt
for the taxpayers Of Louisiana
those poor sheep who have been
so accustomed to be feeced by the
fiction.law, that even yet, the soft
shells are willing to let their wool
go again, by wholesale, to the in.
fuence Of compromise and bond
ism. When we recall to memory
the "manipnlations" of the Slaugh.
ter-House and other legal sells
of our ex.regime Legislatures we
are by no means disposed to give
ear to the Picayuae against Mr..
Kidd and the majority of the state
Debt committee j; for we distinctly
remember how invariably the said
Pic. always treated the ex-quibble
Dictator Warmoth with its incest
touches Of the kid-glove, and we
are by no means unprepared to
see Pic. again along side of thai
innocent bond-sellerv who brazen
ly boosted that he could land pro
badly did) buy up his" legislators
with the exception of a single
Moncure so much for the
Opposition Of the Picayune tt
our Ram" In defence Of the
State Debt-Kidd Committee | shall
ask but one single question ant
let it stand togbring forth its OWL
Ianswer Of facts Have not til,
"innocent" buyers aud sellers O
oar State conte-ted-bonds airead,
received the real amount Of casi
invested ? And il such be to-
case, it is now the pound of flesh
that is demanded Let foreign
innocent ShyIocks reap the hat
vest that they hava helped tin
scallawags and carp0 baggers /,
SOW when taxpayers were berid
den by legal squibbles and bayo
net rule" which are one and iden
teal in facts Of law" since tn
inauguration of uH sFic,ion-law
constitution of 1885," If we cal
not have common law" for on
our basis, as in the model constitu
ton Of Georgia, let Us at leas
have a grain or Two of common
sense added to our statues which
are based on the '..ciyil law" Of
tyrant that destroyed his owt
country by his ambition, he keep
ing theae statues to be added to
at any Minute, to answer his IN
rannical purposes--.lust as hai
been done here in Louisiana 70
the last ten or fifteen years b,
non-elected extortioners dignifee
b, the names of State Officials
10 such an extent has this corrup
ton existed that, even now, W,
see how very soft in almost ever
instance, the elected officials of thu
present hour are in regard to ex
brolher-oficials of the Warmotf
Kellogg regime. WAsee this i,
the embezzliug suits against thas'
officials and we might wonder
did We not remember the wisdom
Of Eugene Sues hero Jacopo, wht
never couI1 'ha Surprisa1 with hi