Governor Moore seizes the pork
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch November 9, 1861:
A Righteous man.
The mania for speculating upon the necessities of the poor is prevailing to an alarming extent throughout our Confederacy. All over the country there is a set of peculators and speculators, that ought to be branded with the mark of public reprobation. We want to see this thing put down, and if the example furnished below is followed in our own and every other Southern State, it will not be long before the evil is in a measure eradicated:
The Governor of Louisiana issued an order the other day to seize all the pork held in New Orleans by speculators. The object of the Governor is to pay a fair price for it, and furnish it to those who need it, at living prices. The graceless rascals had monopolized the article, and were forcing the people to pay them fifty dollars a barrel for it. The Governor did right. We say it emphatically; and would like to see all such rascals treated in the same manner. A few soulless men are determined to amass wealth out of the misfortunes of the country, and they ought to be marked so that they may be known through all coming time, as Shylocks of the basest stamp.
Thomas Overton Moore served as governor of Louisiana from 1860-1864.
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