The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-05-07
LETTERS FROM NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, !
May 8, 1921
EDITOR DEMocRAr-

The mills of fraudulent Hayes &C
cursed Government continue Il
grind. On yesterday morning W
A. Ponder, Delegate to the Constitu
tional Convention from Natchito
ches, was arrested in his room at thu
City Hotel, by United States Mar
shall, and conducted to Judge Bill
lings' Court, and put under bonds 0
$4,000. Mr.. Ponder's offence Is tha'
of bulldozing the Right Reverend
and black hearted, perjured mig .er
Ralph Blunt, last September in tht
Parish of Natchitoches. You vii
remember that forty-eight of the
leading citizens of that Parish were
tried and acquitted but a short timt
since upon tie same charge--Mr
Ponder beidg one of the indicted, but
was not arrested at the time, rs he
was in Georgia I learn from high
authority that Leonard intends tc
arrest every man in the State against
whom indictments have been found,
and If he can get money to pay wit
nesses, he intends to prosecute them
to the bitter eud, and that the post.
ponement Of the other cases to the
November term does not mean an
abandonment Of the prosecution par
ticu'ary, az he has the Governor Of
tho State to aid him in his atrocious
work Of infamy. Let him howl on,
justice VII finally triumph, for the
time Is Ia the near future when that
heayen.born queen will, reach down
aud lift UP tho bosnd, bruised sud
roken.hearted sons Of poor widow
ed Louisiana once more in the sun.
light OF hope. Persecution will bat
make the triumph the grander, the
more glorious, particularly when the
purer aud older Of the citizens Of the
State are to be tried and convicted if
possible upon the testimony Of such
peUured Williams and murderers as
The negro Blunt, and the worse than
negro, J. r. Hornsby. But enough
Il sicken at the contemplation.
/ have been q constant "looker on
IN Venice ia the State House for a
week, and to-day, at the invitation Of
The President, ! mounted the dias
With him, where had splendid
REV Of all the Delegates, and I must
,ay that the outlook gave q very fair
specimen Of the intelligence, man.
hood and chivalry Of Louisiana
There are very few old men, and but
fery few yery young men, but a very
argc majority appear to be Of the
ripe age Of manhood. There are but
lew long.wiaded brainless men, with
which most deliberative bodies are
;arsesl, and one thing was of a very
noticeable character, that during the
Whole week that / attended the Con-
there could scarcely be said
o have been a member absent from
lis seat. Your members are partic-
,larly close in their attendance, and
ny sympatliics were especially
'ronsed in their behalf when I re-
marked their pe,ilous propinqnity |
o Demas, Of St. John the Baptist
'arish, particularly my very kind
riend Bolton, Of Pineville. His
lesk .is in the Immediate rear Of this
representative Of .Ethiopia's curly |
ace" and the aroma that arises and
aturates the eiseumambient aif, isl
g tntolerable to the olfactories Of . |
|ecent white man as would be the
dor ola pole-catin close room, filed
nth refined ladies.
On yesterday, ! commiserated
'oor Bolton during q short philippe
fr. Demas was delivering IN the
Convention. Great pearls of briny
weat were pouring down his sable
heeks, his handkerchief lay on his
esk, moist with four-bit bottle of
ologne. whilst on his black neck,
ast beneath his close-cropped wool,
here crawled that ancient little All. !
,al that Burns immortalized in |
erse when lie saw it creeping on q |
ady's bonnet, and just behind him
'as Bolton, gazing now at the ''cree-
ing farlie," now listening for a mo-
,ent at Cicero Africanus, now turn
ng restlessly in his chair, now with
TO his nasal organs;
'hilst the purliens Of the orator be-
anne thicker with the horrible, nm
earable odor, until he led inconti.
emily to the gallery, 70 take one
eep inhalation Of that pure air God
ntended for man, in lieu Of the in.
arual ot3or Non,ss rvon A~x;t<;n e.