New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-14

One of Gov, Wellss radical organs at the
North, publishes the following letter, address
ed by that official to the secretary of the
Soldiers and Sailors Union, Washington
STATE OF LOUISIANA, EXECUTIVE DEPT,
New ORLEANS, Aug. 81, 1865.
| WILLIAM SHORT, Esq, Corresponding Secretary
| Of Soldiers and Sailors Lnion Washington,
&r-The resolution of your association, for.
Warded under cover of your communication of the
l4th inst, has been duly received by me. Your de-
nuncIatiOns of the massacre of the Union citizens
which took place in this city on the 30th of July,
was to have been expected from men who SO re-
lTcently staked their lives in defending the Union
and maintaining the great principle of freedom of
| speech guaranteed by the Constitution.
| Ihese expressions are especially gratifying to
| the small band of Union men in orr State, who,
notwithstanding the terrors that surround them,
are determined that the government shall not be
| lmperied second time by the restoration of the
men to power who waged a bloody war of four
| years to destroy it.
Our confidence is in the people of the lovaI
States. We cannot believe that after putting
down the rebellion with such fearful loss of life
and expenditure of treasure, they will passiyely
submit to see it revived in another and worse
form. In spite of the labored efforts of certain
State officials Original secessonists and who
believe to be as good rebels at heart as they ever
Werel to cover up the truth regarding the murders
perpetrated on the 30th, it will come out in due
time. The result of the investigation now going
on by the military commission will l am conf
dent, fully sustain the views Of Gen. Sheridan in
denouncing it as massacre by the police, not ex-
ceeded in cruelty by that Of Fort Pillow.
thanking you, sir, for your individual good
wishes, remain, respectfully, your obedient ser
want j. MADISON WELLS,
Governor of louisiana"
Mr.. Short had not read Mr.. Durant's speech
when he communicated with Gov. Wells as a
first class Union man. MIR. Durant says
that the Governor acted the ''rebel" to per-
lection when the rebels began to return
home, and he evidently thinks that our
chief magistrate is responsible for the small
esteem in which 'tloyalisits" of the Durant and
Hahn kind are now held in Louisiana. Mr..
Durant complains bitterly that one-tenth--he
might have said one twentieth-of the people
are not permitted to govern the other nine
tenths and he blames Governor Wells for this
sad result Now the governor has the 'sUnion
and 'Eloyalist" slang at his tongue and his
penis end, and lavishes it as freely as any
in the land. He relies.
ne says, on the people Of the 'sloyal' States
meaning the States which vote the radical |
ticket. Last autumn he relied on the people |
of his own State, and they gave him almost
unanimous vote for governor. The gentle
men who were elected at the same time, and
IN the same ticket, he now denounces as
rebels" and secessionists. But those gentle
nen still rely on the people of their own
'tate, and this is what makes them t.rebels"
4 Gov. WeIIs's eyes. What he means by
heir imputed design to revive the ':rebel-
on in another and worse form, not the
lost ingenious analyst could determine. If
-ov Wells himself knows, he has much more
formation than anybody credits him with.
Vigorous efforts to bring the Virginia militia
Ito line do not succeed well, the inhabitants ):
the Old Dominion having seen enough Of
aiming within the past five years, and hay
g no idea of engaging in holiday parades for
e glorifcotiop Of officers Of the home
lards. In Richmond, elections of officers
e now being held, but even in that city, o
lere fear Of negro organizations acts as a b
III to the lukewam, but little interest is t,
anifested h