Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1866-09-05
IATA COUNTY. PENN'A, SEPTEMBER 5, 1866.

xssr-ssazs.zs=EE-s. 3ss N,Hsens.s1-,sz
mg dJseace, suppressed The convention by
lie use Of the police force, and IN SO doing
attacked the members of tie contention
and a party Of t'co hundred negroes and
piM firearms, clubs, and kaipes, an a
manner SO unnecessary and atrocious as
to compel me to say that 1t ,ras murder.
About 40 whites and blacks were hus
killed, and about 100 wounded. Every
thing is now quiet but | deem it best to
maintain military supremacy in the city
for few days, until the affair is fully in
vestisated | believe the sentiment Of
the general community is great regret at
this unnecessary cruelty, and that the po-
lice could have made any arrests they saw
fit without sacrificing lives.
p. Ii. SHERIDAN,
Maj. Gen. Comm'g.
t. the reader will look at these des-
patches critically, he will find .hat the
copy in the Times was, as we suspected at
the time, forgery. The sentence in
Sheridan's despatch which conveyed its
WHORE nraning, yaioh showed that the
mayor and the police had "had attacked
the members Of tic conyeatioR and party
Of two hundred negroes" and in so "atrc-
ciouS' manner that it could only be re-
garded as murder" was omitted and,
to cover the omission and straishten the
sentences, the word thus" in the next
line, was erased. The motive of this
garbing is apparent. This despatch came
when the people were in fever of anxi-
ety about New Orleans. There had been
massacre. The reports were vague and
conflicting. Gen. Sheridaa had hastily
returned to the city, and the people were
craving to know what the General COM
manding thought of the affair, for they
felt that he of all men would not lie
The Times, with its peculiar sources of
information, with the exclusive White
House facilities of which its correspond
eut boasts, obtained the despatch, garbled
it and printed it. The nation read it with
Gisinay. 1t saw the General commanding,
the tried and trusted Sheridan, coldly
taking sides with the rioters, aud giving
their crimes no harsher censure :han "un-
necessary cruelty" We read that des
patch with grief We knew that General
Sheridan was not of cur faith-we did
not expect him to show any sympathy
with the Radicals of New Orleans-but
we knew he was a soldier and a gentle
man, and We expected justice. We ex-
pressed cur regret in paragraph; but,
hoping that future information would con-
vince the General of his error, and wish
ing to trust him to the limit Of confidence,
cancelled it. We now see that General
Sheridan was all this time denouucing the
riot as a murder r'-"an absolute massa-
ere by the police, which was not excelled
in. murderous cruelty by that Of Fort Pill
low - and that miserable hireliugs of
press and Copperhead Adj
were tinkerinc, and altering,
and suppressing his dispatches, in order
that it hi ght appear that the President
was right in sustaining Monroe and his
and that Gen. Sheridan agreed
with him.
This act of baseness is as disgraceful
as the following bitter attack on the same
brave officer recently printed by one OF
he rebel newspapers allies Of the Times. |
published at Uuion Springs, Alabama,
which every Union soldier and Northern
,oter should read to learn rebel senti-
nent:
General Phil Sheridan grew, during
Turing the war, to be quite notorious -
lis blood is Irish, aud, being an Irish
nan, ne was full of fight. lie command
d Irishmen. They would fight. Hence,
n an army of Yankee blue bellies, who
we're most splendidIy drilled in retrosrade
actics, and against man whose taste for
,eacl, brandy was stronger than his sense
# duty, this little FIVE feet eight Of reso-
ute Finneganism made some reputation.
We rather liked the little fellow on ac.
cunt OF his pluck, and were glad to see
i'm promoted, even in an army Of era
ems and thieves. lie studied hard at
Vest Point he behaved well in Wash
ngton Territory, and it pleased US to see
im escape the pa'erual pick and shovel
mich bad contributed largely to the in-
.rnal Improvements of Ohio.
Why, then, has he spoiled all By his
'olish show Of authority? Why has he
roved to the world that he is only vul- ,
ar dItcher az heart after all and that his I