New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-10-10
The Gov. wells Indignation Meeting.

The Gov. Wells Indignation Meeting.
meeting of citizens who had supported the
Union during the war. of citizens Of Northern
birth, "new.comcrs, y and the public generally.
last night helda meeting to consider the charges
recently made BY Gov. Wells against the city and
State. The house was densely crowded, and the
utmost interest was manifested in everything that
was said and done.
The meeting was called TO order bv A. r.
Bacon.
Jas. p. Freret, ESQ, was placed in the chair,
ana Messrs Samuel Bell William Henderson. g.
Tis1ale Newton Richland. Samuel Mcconnell.
GEORGE RuIeff and Henry Wood were chosen vice
presidents. a. B. Bacon was chosen secretary.
The object of the meeting was stated by Mr..
Frer6t to be refutation Of the charges contained
in Gov. Wels,s extraordinary letter, and. in read
5nr tbis document he stated that little did he ex-
meet ID find a man born upen the soil. whose
father was sipner of the Constitution of 1872
when Louisiana was admitted into the Union,
characterized to-day as traitor to Louisiana
Messrs Barker, Henderson, Mcconnell, Ruleff
and Roselius were then appointed a commit.
lee 10 nreDare an address TO the people of
the United States in refutation of Cover.
nor Wellsrs charges. Mr.. Roseltus then ad.
dressed thes meeting: We had not, assem-.
bled TO refute the charges of those who traffic in
defaming the character of the city and State: ii
was to DENY the assertions of our chief magis.
trste: it was to refute statements which falling
from his, Inns which stherwise would be regarded
as uroyen facts: it was to show that the execu-
tive Of the state had unknowinply or willingly
misrepresented us. When the man whose duty is
TO protect tells the people that we are murder.
ers, these reports are elsewhere believed;
and we have met this evening for the pur-
pose Of investigating those charges. We are
charged with being disloyal; does the gov
ernorruean by the word that we are SO to himself
We swear no allegiance to any man; but we do
give our allegiance to the majesty of the law.
(Appause.3 We do proclaim, here and every
where. that our loyalty is the profoundest and
deepest reverence for the laws of our country
That is ourlaw and allegiance we know Of none
other Since the close of the late unfortunate war
no statehad more conscientiously and carefully
respected the paramount law than the State of
Louisiana, (Applause9 Are the people of Bos.
ton more loyal than we e?--of Philadelphia and
New York; loud cries of "No.m Letthe manner
in which thew had conducted themselves for the
last eighteen months answer that question. Was
true that the community was divided into
Union and disunfon men as had been asserted? |?
Ihe man that now ueSlfeQ TO 0lsSeVef the Union,
he did not know and he defed either the COVER
nor or his friends to show an instance. He was
told certain anonymous letters were in the hands
of General Sheridan, telling certain citizens to
quit this State but were the citizens generally to
be held responsible for this? Were there no mad.
men in any of the New England States? These as.
sertions were based upon some half-dozen false
and absurd and nameless letters which had ulti.
matelv been sent to Gen Sheridan J1.
The charge that no Union man could remain
here without danger to his life, wes the basest
fslsehood upon the earth. Is it true? (Cres Of
"No.n) Let me call attention to fact, which ali
of you can bear testimony in support of: Property
IN the city of New Orleans within the last
eighteen months has doubled in value That store
Of the corner Of Union and Carondeet streets, be-
longing to the succession of my lamented friend
Mr. Hawkins, before the war would not have solt
for more than $4,000 or s25,OOO Five months
ago it sold for 5000 Other property of the
same succession brought nearly eight times wha
it was intrinsicay WORTH or three times its value
before the war. There were many ptRer instances
Look at the rents. In the SEW Messrs. Tomp
kins Co., at the corner of Canal and the Oh
Levee, their rent had been increased froI
s25OO to $4,000. Another evidence tha
property had more than doubled in the las