The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-02-12
VIEW ORLEANS CORRESPONDENTS,
New ORLEANS, !
Feb'y Z, 1921

New ORLEANS, |
Feb'y Z, 1871 |
EDITOR DEMOCRAT d.
l am in no frame Of mind to write |
to the DEMOCRAT in my usual yer
bose style. Breathing, as I have
been doing for over a month, the
poisonous exhalations Of that accur.
sed sink of iniquity, the Custom
House, / would feel degraded, but
the inhalation of the polluted atmos.
phere has not been voluntary, but
forced upon me, by the peyured and
salivated lips of one j. r. Hornsby,
the lowest of all low and dirty vii
lains, that ever cursed community,
in the shape of man. Degraded is
not the word-tiow could I feel de-
graded, when I k'sos0 all of my PEG.
pie co-extensive with the limits OF
The State, are with me in this hour
Of political persecution for their
sakes. No! palsied be the tongue
that would breathe the infamous
word, degradation in case like
mine. No! no! a thousand times
no!-for / say it now, and dare re-
peat it. that what did, would do
sgain, were the doors Of thousand
penitentiaries open to receive me;
and the screaching of their hinges
would be more dulcet music to me
than the diapason Of a thousand
lutes. No! I feel that / could leave
no prouder legacy to my child than
to have worn the striped clothes ola
public malefactor for doing my duty
and maintaining my manhood; yea,
for trampling and crushing beneath
my heel the idol. "Policy," before
which so many Of our people have
bowed in humble and blind adora-
ton, and offered up : purer and no.
lier devotion to the god, Principle
But / am rambling. / propose to
epitomise Of what has been done and
what is going on, without boring your
readers with what they might term a
sickly sentimentality.
The trial of the Tensas prisoners
has been set for the 22d inst, those
| of Natchitoches for the Oath, and
the Caddo ones for the Goth. The
Hornsby prisoners appear to have
been overlooked, and no day was set
to try them. 1t is supposed BY
many that the reason for this appar-
ent oversight is, that Mr.. Leonard,
the United States District Attorney,
does not think he will be able to con.
vict on the solitary testimony of the
Infamous Hornsby. Those gentle.
men (the Hornsby prisoners we're
arrested early In December, and their
case oxght to have taken precedence,
and there must have been some rea
son to have caused the District A.
torney to have passed it over with
out notice. al bien! nous Uery0,.s.
Suffer me to remark en- PEASANT that
it has been discovered that fourteen
| (14) Of the United States Grand Ju.
rors, who found true bills against the
citizens Of the Parishes, are upon the
pay rolls Of the Custom House!!-
Indictments are being found daily
Ivy the still sitting Grand Jury, but
have heard of none against your
Parish. ! learned from a Radical
to-day that the average indictments
were about twenty daily. and tina,
about fee hundred would he arrested
in the Parishes, and the -Mal would
not be without toll for months TO
come. Let them grind on say ], tho
,lay Of retribution must and aoilt
come, for the vulgar aphorism de-
clares shat every dog must have
his day." The Tensas, Natchito-
chcs and Cad,lo prisoners have e.n
ployed Lnzenberg and ex-United
States District Attorney Beckwith
to defend them, which may be pro-
per step, but don't think so, from
the fact that the United States Gov
eminent, !. e. the powers at Wash
ington, have given orders to their
menials here, that these men must
be convicted, guilty or not guilty.
And 30 I fear it will be. Judge
Woods gave a lengthy decision on
yesterday, which / send you, over
ruling the demurrer IS to the juris-
diction Of the Court, and I ought to
have statSd it to you in tie outset Of
my letter, but "better late than new
en-" says the apotIegm.
The Custom House is in turmoil
on account Of the recent changes
George L, Smith, a dirty carpet-bag-
ger, had his head taken Of a few
days ago, and General G. S. Badger,
the Post Master, appointed in his
place. Il came like a clap Of thun-
der In clear sky, for he had not
the least suspicion that the Presi-
dent thought him incompetent, for
he had been faithful over both a few
and many things. General McMil-
len has been appointed to the Post
mastersbip, vacated by Badgers pro-
motion.
| I have had several Interviews with
the leading Democrats here and they
all say that the City will send pure
and good men to the Convention
President Tully, Of the State Cen.
4 trail Executive Committee, said to
me that the party were q unit upon
that point.
| The citizens, go far, have been
very kind to Us, particularly in pay.
ling our board at the City Hotel
which, to the praise of those big