The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-10-01
Horrible Perjury by Major General

| Dispatches from New Orleans announce
that Nathaniel p Banks, ex Speaker, ex-
Govefa6f. ex-Maor-General, and, we
nope, er-eqat one,es, has been swearing in
thstcity
/ Banks wanted. to practice law in
the Crescent City, and to do so had to
take the oath Sin such cases made and
ItpFoVided. He took the ''iron. clad" law
Ioath, which among ather Ingredients has
this In it 81 do solemniy swear that n.
IP. b., have never directly or Indirectly
given aid and comfort to the enemies of
the United States, &c. &C., Now this
same n. P1B., ex, &C., to our kowledge
has one more for the c. S. A. than any
other man that can be. selected out of
the thirty millions. 1t can be shown
conclasively that n. p. B! has given more
aid and comfort" to the "bloody rebels"
In their revolution against 1.-The best
government the world ever saw" than
any other man on the Continent. Let
is see: Old Stonewall jackson got short
of commissary supplies at Front Royal
Who furnished him with hundreds qof
thousands of dollars worth =? Banks I!
D.ck Taylor then and forever after the
thorn-inlhis side) got hungry and fed on
his supplies. We won't tell how jack
son fhrashed HIM Mr.: Greedy tells us of
that. We transfer the story to the Yves.
We first hear of him organizing his great
Texas Expedition. s.i5aN
He starts from New Orleans with 3d.
900 men, with all the pomp and circum-
stances of glorious war;" He estab-
lished an immense depot of supplies at
Brashear City Dick Taylor, his old Vir-
ginian enemy, stubbornly contested his
advance. After being beaten at Camp
Bislaw, by one-fourth his numbers, he
changed his base, &C., instead of going to
Texas be went to Port Hudson, leaving
all his immense supplies. Dick Taylor's
wary eye was fixed on this magazine. He
was hungry-he must have bread. He
let Banks go to Port Hudson but, early
on the morning of the 23d of June, 1868,
he found himself in possession Of Banks
depot, 1000 prisoners, and about $4,000
worth of supplies. It gave Taylor's
'.rebels" clothing and supplies for six
months! Taylor gotlhnrgry! again. and
out of blankets! HIS .Coplpaissa1y was
cott6n--7cotton was to be had on Red river
and.in Texas Taylor only had about
ten thousand hungry "rebels."5 Banks
marched up Red river with $1,000 men.
He carried a train Of wagons ten miles long,
to bring back the cotton. Taylor caught
him with his corps separated fifteen miles.
He attacked him at Mansfield, smashed
up his caravan, took all his artillery and
about for mics Of ,eQgons filed with coffee,
sugar and pa},cf col5oS ,--z-.s-
n. P b was driven ANONYMOUSLY
back, and his cotton stealing expedition
arranged between the rebel Kirby
Smith and himself-was frustrated by the
obstinacy OF his old enemy Dick Taylor.
When n. P B. takes that oath again, he
ought to count up the number of good
rations of -four, bacon, soap and candles,
sugar and coffee. &c.-the number of
good pieces of artill ry-the quantity of
good ammunition and small arms-the
ounces OF quinine, &C., &C., &c, that he
has given to the ''Rebs."
OF all the INDUSTRIOUS perjuries' that the
present system of hard swearing has
furnished, there is not one to compare to
that of Major Gen. n p Banks-"the
best Commissary" the "Rebs" ever had
when he swore that he had never given
aid and comfort to the enemy-directly
or indirectly! lori