Year: 1870

discover it. Now my distinguished friends,
Roselius, William and Randeii Hunt
(whOse hearts in days gone by beat IN unison
| to mine). when such men as Henry Clay
lived, and such sentences as ne uttered were
appr sciated by-us all must admit the truth
OF his celebrated expression, that "he pre-
ferrcd IN he right rather than to be Presi-
dent of the United States" As they have
been accessory to the proceedings which
have compelled us to ply i'll other ports our
vocation, call on them to show above their
own signatures whether this act, which
| and others stigmatiZe as unconstitutional
and harrassing, is SO or not. When that
wish Of mine is complied with, l will meet
them on equal grounds, fearless of the issue
which public opinion will take.


As to the antecedents Of Judge Dibble on
the question at issue, l intend to say but
little. A few days ago had the felicity Of
hearing that gentleman remark, from his
judicial seat that whether the injunction
was or was not right, he would maintain it,
or words to that effect. The manner in
which he spoke of Judge Bradley on the
occasion at once convinced me that, to use a
vuigarism, hope for an amicable arrange
nlent was about 'played out" under his ad-
ministratiOn. ! then proceeded to Judge
| Durell's court, where a case was being pro-
| ceeded with under the civil rights bill; but





| find that. in few moments after the case
| was called, the presiding Judge, during the
argument of Judge Cotton for the defense,
interrupted him by asking him where was
the law creating the SlaughterhOuse monOp-
oily? The advocate replied he had not the
act with him. He then asked the court if
he had not read the act. negative reply
was given. Similar questions and replies
transpired in relation to the decision of the
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Judge Bradley's decision. l retired from
the court in frame of mind something
bordering on disgust


With regard to the slaughterhouses as
they at present stand, and the proof of the
Crescent City" being not of sufficient capa-
city, /, as business man-aS Il salesman-
would much prefer to give that slaughter
house monopoly all that they can make out
of us during the next three months, if they
will take that and be satisfied, permitting
us to slaughter at our own side of the river,
and be amenable to the same restrictions,
thus hOnOrably competing with them on
Free Trade and Sailors Rights principles.


1t seems to be "a prevailing idea, and one
strongly advanced and maintained by the
Times newspaper, that they are going to
furnish beef much cheaper by having the
slaughtering done at the Crescent City -
but how, ask, can it be possible that men





the amount that the same parties were pre-
viOusly paying!


Another idea, and one advanced for the
last twelve months, is to the effect that
there has heretofore been a monopoly with
the butchers in order to prevent people of
certain nationalities engaging in the busi-
ness, and selling at what price they please.
This, most emphatically deny.


Mr. Weed. the proprietor of the Times, has
exhausted all the denunciatOry adjectives in
the English vocabulary in his attacks upon
tian, l AM not more partial to them than to
any other people of any country or cline
under the canopy of heaven. Although
they are east under a cloud, and placed as
targets for the irony of the Times, they are
yet our fellOw-citizens and cO-equals-men
tally, morally and physically not unequal
to their traducers. This humble need Of
sycOphancy, that l have found them as
honest and as upright in the principles of
trade as any of their would-be betters. If
they are American citizens. why then curtail
their civil privileges! They are men and
Christians, why then stigmatize them as in
feriors! They are, generally speaking,
as honest as business men of other nations.
Why then attempt to infringe on their com
mercial rights The same journal that





the GascOns may, in twelve or fifteen months,
style me brigadier-general of cOlOred people,
provided their rights be assailed. In one
word, l love to advocate the doctrine OF the
Declaration of Independence, .'ALL MEN
ARE EQUAL" SO far as they come under the
law. My doctrine is to punish the guilty
and reward the innocent, who are pure and
humble, for We are promised they will be
the exalted in the kingdom of Heaven.


/, as a man, have no political aspirations,
except to advocate the broad principles OF
liberty and truth between all mankind. 1
support no man for Office unless he be hon
est. Whatever may have been his former
proclivities, the time now is at hand when
we must know no mans official claims from
the fact of his being Republican or a
Democrat; but, in the language OF DR..
Franklin, let us ascertain " Is he honest! Is
he competent p for the truth is palpable,
that both Democrats and Republicans cul-
pably erred in the last Legislature, and that
bribery was practiced and openly permitted,
few having the manly courage to denOunce
it, then said, that rather than submit to
that gigantic monopoly, the Slaughterhouse
act, we of the three parishes had better pay
the seventeen mOnOpOlists three hundred
thousand dollars to destroy it than suffer
its existence for twenty-five years.


COMPLAINTS innumerable have been Oc-
curing, from time to time, to the effect
that certain State officers have been en-
powered with too much authority; that
they refuse to remove from offices appoint
ees whose infamous conduct is palpable;
that some prefer pecuniary presents to the
establishment of law and order in their re-
spective States; and hence, that did they
but fee a certain amount, be 1t never so
large for an avariciOus disposition, and alb
dicate that their abdication would be agree
able to every one except to their immediate
friends.


From all I know of the workings of this
monopoly there is no one particularly Ill
favor of it except those who have money
ed interest at stake There are three par
ties who seem to be thus directly interested,
namely, the stockholders bull-dr1vers and
the inspector, my friend, Thomas Mcknight.
The first party are interested because they
have large mOneyed interest in 1t, some OF
which was given them to advocate it; the
second party because they receive fifty cents
a head for driving the beasts, whereas at
CavarOc the cOnveniences are such that that
occupation is not required; the third party
because he honestly cOnfesses he finds it re-
munerative to him-a fact in keeping with
seemingly disinterested persons holding
more exalted positions and who advocate it
on similar grounds.
If Judge Dibble, who issued the dam
nable order which consigned to the
river the carcasses of seven hun
dred animals, had been present when
the markets were found to be denuded OF
meat, when the orphans were deprived OF
their Sundays veal and the public de,
prived of their accustomed supply, if he had
been present and heard the denunciations
of all upright persons against his
horrible conduct, he would, were he
Satan himself, have been moved to COM
nassion. But he left the city. leaving in