The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-09-06

he Conveatio were eafuntii they committed the !
,uIated to disturb the tran overt act In the mean
,uiliiy Of tie Department time, official duty called
BUT had cause tor ac-ineto Texas and the Nay
ton until they commttedor OF the city, during my
The overt act. About 4oiabsence, suppressed the :
Whites and Blacks were Convention by the use OF .
and about 100 wound their police force, and IN
ed Every thing is now so dong attacked Tue mem
quiet but deem il best to bers of the Convention ana
maintain military SUI party OF two hundred {
nremacv in the city for negroes, and with fire +
few da until the affair is arms clubs and knives,
fully Investigated | be "a manner so unnecessary
lie We the sentrent OF and atrociouS TO compel
general eommunitys preatme to that il muir
regret at this der About 40 " htes and
rrIettv and that the uolce Blacks thus killed,
could have made anv ar and about 100 wounded I
rest they saw fit without Everything is quiet,
sacrificing lives but deem il best TO main
p. H. SHERIDAN, tain a military supremacy
Maj Gen. Comd'g IN the city tor few days
until the affair is fully in
vestiratei. | believe the
sentiment of the general
community Is great regret
lat this unnecessary cruel
tty and that the police
could have made any ar
they fit without
Sacrificing lives
p. II. SHERIDAN,
Maj. Gen. Cornd &
If the reader will look a. these dis
patches critically he will find that the dis
patch in The Times was as we suspected
at the time forgery The sentence in
Sheridan dispatch which conveyed its
whole meaning, which showd that the
Mayor and the Police had "aHacked the
members otMe Convention and a party OF
two hundred negroes" and in so '.atro-
cious' a manner that it could only be re
gard ed as murder" was omitted; and,
to cover the omission and straighten the
sentences, the word "thus,' in the next
line was erased The motive of this gar
bling is apparent. The dispatch came
when the people were in fever OF anx-
ietv about New Orleans. There had
been massacre. The reports were
vague and conflicting Gen. Sheridan
had hastily returned to the city, and the
people were craving to know what the
General Commanding thought of the af
fair, for they felt that he of all men would
not lie The Times, with its peculiar
sources of information, with the exclus-,
correspondent boasts, obtained the dis
patch, garbled it and printed it. The.
nation read it with dismay. 1t saw the
General Commanding, the tried and trus-
ted Sheridan, co1dly taking sides with
censure than unnecessary cruelty" We
read that dispatch with grief We know
that Gen. Sheridan was not of our faith
we did not expect him to show any SYM
pathy with the radicals of New Orleans
but we knew he was a soldier and
soldier and gentleman and we expect
ed Justice, We expressed our regret in a
but hoping that future infor-
nation would convince the General of
his error, and wishing to trust him to the
limit of confidence, cancelled it. We,
now see that Gen Sheridan was all this
time denouncing the riot as murder
Ian absolute massacre by the Police,
which was not excelled in murderous
cruelty by hat of Fort Pillow" and that
miserable hirelings of copperh cad |
press, and Copperhead Administrations /
were tinkering and altering and sup
pressing his dispatches, in order that it |
might appear that the President was right
in sustaining Monroe and his assassins,
and that General Sheridan agreed with,
them si
We have seen newspapers do shabby {
things at times. but this is the shabbiese
of all. The Times owes it to the people
to make some atonement for this forgery
if atonement can be possible 1t not
only printed the dispatch. but defended
it. When we mentioned our suspicion.
and that we were dis.
gusted with Sheridan dispatch. .Whas
right asked this pitiful dispatch tinker
has The Tribune to challenge or denv
a dispatch, the liberal fidelity of which tho
soldier to whom it was ad-
dressed has not called in question:,
'Does The Tribune allege,s shouted this
brazen dispatch tinker, THAT G Ell. Grant .
IS party to forging or garbling? or to
whom else is the charge Intended to ap-
ply?' Well. We have no objection TO
saying that we believe Gen Grant was as
indignant as The Tribune at the forgery
that he asked the Secretary of War to
nave the true dispatch publfshed-and
hat we now apply the charge directly
md plainly to the editor Of the The Times
,r servant of the President of the Uni
ed States, At their door hes the shame
If .rifing with the fame of distin- I
rushed soldier for their own base uses.
The dispatch Was furnished BY the Pres
dent to The Times for the Times is
lever weary Of referring to Its relations
With that remarkable individual, and
making statements .'by authority" Who