Note 142 — Chapter II
Reading edition
Annual Cyclopedia, 1869, 394. The Bee dismissed it with the following terse comment: “Nous n’assomerons pas nos lecteurs de cette prose peu intéressante. Une analyse succincte suffira pour leur faire connaître ce que dit M. Warmoth.... Après avoir distillé son venin, le gouverneur aborde les affaires sérieuses.” Jan. 5. The Abeille or Bee had English pages at this time, a fact which accounts for both English and French excerpts.
The Crescent was no more kindly: “This portion of the message is strictly and narrowly partisan, a tissue of bold, unqualified assertions and of self-evident exaggerations which would be indecent even in a campaign document; a weak but spiteful jumble of accusatory phrases in which there is but a single pretense to an argument, and that so puerile and idiotic in its fallacy as to be simply ridiculous.” Jan. 5.
“The Governor applies harsh terms to our people. He attributes to them all the violence which may have existed in the State. Does he really think that he himself and his associates have had nothing to do with this excitement? Have the publications made by Republican papers, speakers, and writers contributed nothing to these troubles?” New Orleans Commercial Bulletin, Jan. 7, 1869.