Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1883-10-18
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wAsHrserox, D. c., Oct. 18th, 1888.

WAsHIEGToN, D. c., Oct. 18th, 1888.
I Messrs. Editors While not intending to
balm notice the continued and easy billings
lite Of your odiferous correspondent, H. B.,
& or. in any way. cOntroverting his right to
ave and express an opiniun in a decent or
Aentlemanly way, however Objectionable and
erroneous that opinion may be, yet it again be-
oomesour painful duty to cali attention, brief
aly, to the fact that, in his apparent anxiety to
emit a few more new and additional misrep-
reservations, he again draws literally upon
that easy and convenient imagination which
has served him SO well (2) in the past. He
/ intimates thereby that the Postoffice Depart
ment FAvoRs "other lottery compaBies"
while Prescribing the Louisiana Company,
which is not the case. They are all placed
under the same ban, as regards the use of
the u. s. mails, without favor or partiality.
So, also, is ''the correspondence of all houses
Of immortality and haunts of vice, as well as
fraudulent business" excluded from the
mails by the postal laws and regulations of
the Department, when known by the POST
sos6cA Officials to be such. Again, H. B.
thii@s he has performed a most wonderful
feaA when he essays to reveal ~ the terrible
wiAedness Of the republican party in legal
ling this Louisiana Lottery ''fraud"---as
even HE now calls it---when that party held
possession of the State government. This
Is truly an important as well as a most dam
aging discovery. But, Ii. b., let's see
how this revelation" corresponds with the
facts in the case. The republican party was
fraudulently deposed from possession of the
Louisiana State government in March 1877.
Nearly three years thereafter, in Dec. 1879,
when the democracy held full sway, the
franchise of this lottery "fraud---as you now
to you 10 your credit, correctly denom-
ipate itz=.xas ipgraf;ed into the STATE Con-
sTITUTfoN, which was submitted by, and
almost exclusively voted for by democrats,
thus taking 1t out of the sphere of legislative
control where it was originally placed il you
please, "by the republican party" ~ and
thereby intensifying and perpetuating the
fraud. Il may he properly mooted ques-
tion, at this late day. however, as to which
party originally chartered this concern ''for
educational and charitable purposes" for,
during several years between 1885, in the
early part of which republican convention
was beesiged and shot out of existence by
the anti-lottcry democracy, and March, 1877,
there were several bodies who, at various
times claimed to be "the Legislature" OF
Louisiana with full legislative functions.
However, that may be- the original enact
ment of n "fraud, as you now call it not
withstanding its ''honest and fair manage
ment' by your good friends Beauregard and
Early, can afford no valid excuse for its sub
sequent Identification and perpetuation CO.
equal with and as A PART of their constitu-
ton by the Louisiana democracy. In con-
clusion, Messrs Editors, we cannot deny
ourselves the extreme pleasure of congratu-
latng the intelligent and fair minded of
your many readers and the community gen.
A,rally, ON the CONVERSION of oar "euphoni-
Aus'f friend, II. b. His friends, and mana
ers of the Louisiana State Lottery fraud"
pwever, may not feel much flattered at the
Jog and unexpected "about face of their
Mary's champion; and 'imbecile, as
lmay he--and we are not disposed to dis
Baeh this point with our more fortunate
friend, for whom there appears some hope
liter alive seem to have accomplished |
some good at least, and according to the
Fsaying of "the wise man" mot Fl. b. in |
Prov xxvI-l2, it would appear notwith- |
standing our undisputcd "imbecility," that
VIC still have a slight advantage over II. b.
And thus we leave him. H. s. b.