Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-10-13
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Horrible Perjury by a Major
..t .-s51o, General. .uiaHlYo.
lFrOm the New York Frooman's JOurnsl.l

I'D. lfrom tne new YORK freouiRhG Jeurnhll
Dispatches from New Orleans announce
that Nathaniel p. Banks ex-Speaker, ex-
Governor, ex Major General and we hope,
es-sunt opihes, has been swearing in that
city Banks wanted TO practice Law in the
Crescent City, and to do so had to take the
oath sin such cases made ard provided" He
took the "iron clad law bath, which among
other Ingredients has THAI in it: II do sol-
smuly swear that l. N. P B., have never
directly or indirectly given aid or comfort to
the enemies Of the United Ststes' &c. Now
this same N. P. B., ex, &c, to our knowl-
edge has done more for the o. s. A. than
any other man that can be selected out Of the
thirty millions. Itcsn be shown conclusively
that N. 2. b. has given more laid aud com
fort to the "bloody rebels in their revolu-
ton against "the best government the world
ever saw" than any other man on the conti-
nent Let US see: Old Stonswall Jackson
got short of commissary supplies at Front
Royal Who furnished him with hundreds OF
thousands of dollars worth? Banks Dick
Taylor Chen and forever after the thorn in
his side) got hungry. and fed on his supplies
We wont tell how badly jackson thrashed
him. Mr. Greeley tells US of that. We trsns-
fer the story to the West. We 6rst hear Of
him organizing his great Texas Expedition.
| He starts from New OrleaDs with 10000
men, with all the pomp and circumstance Of
! glorious wal" He established on immense
depot of supplies at Braahear City. Dick
| Taylor, his old Virginian enemy, stubborply
contested his advance. After being beaten
at Camp Bislaw, by one-fourth his numbers,
he changed his base, q. g., Instead of going
| to Texas he went to Port Hudsoa leaving all
his immense supplies. Dick Tsylors wary
eye was fixed on this magazine He was hun.
gry--he must have bread. He let Banks 90
to Port Hudson but, early on the morning
of the 23d of June. 1863, he found himself in
possession of Banks depot 1000 prisoners,
and about $5,000,000 worth of supplies. 1t
gave Taylors "rsbels" clothing and supplies
for six months Taylor got hungry again,
and out of blankets His Commssary was
r soon to be on hand N. P. b. wanted cot
ton--cotton was to be had on Red River and
in Texas Taylor only had about ten thou
sand hungry rebels" Banks marched up
Red River with 55, 900 men. He carried a
train OF wagons ten miles long, to bring back
the cotton. Taylor caught him with his
3 corps separated fifteen miles. He attacked
: him at Mansfield, smashed up his caravan,
{ took all his artillery and about four miles OF
wagons, filled with coffee, sugar and paper
collars HaIn
N. p. B was driven ignominiously back,
and his cotton stealing xpedition-arranged
between tho rebel Kirby Smith and himself
was frustrated by the obstinacy of his old enc.
my Dick Taylor When N P. B. takes thai
oath again, he ought to count up the number
> of good ratioDs of -four, bacon. soap and
candles, sugar and coffee, &c--the number
: of good pieces of artillery, ammunition and
: small arms-the ounces OF quinine, &C., &C.
that he had given to the "Rebs."
Of all the monstrous perjuries that the
present system of hard swearing has furnish
= ed, there is not to compare to that of Majoi
a General Banks-'the best Conlmissary' th,
"Rebs" ever had-when he swore that he haC
never given aid and comfort to the enemy
directly or indirectly,