The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-08-09
Heron.

The country has the authority of General
Sheridan for believing that the late Rio. in
New Orleans was not the effect of a hastily
congregated mob but the result of preconcer-
ted and pre-arranged plan of the rebels to
slaughter the leading Union men of the State
and that there is evidence that the plot was
concocted weeks ago. General Sheridan also
expresses the opinion that the riot is but the
beginning of the rebel scheme to rid Louisi-
ana of Union men. All accounts moreover
go to show that the Union men despairing OF
protection from the Federal Government, or
any other, are making general move to quit
General Sheridan, meanwhile is virtually
powerless. Though he has returned to the
city he finds his authority ovefridden by that
OF the rebel Attorney General who now rules
Louisiana by the Presidents orders! Is it any
wonder that the people are inquiring "V no is
Heron Who is this man whom Mr.. John
son by an act of arbitrary power makes abso-
lutte Governor of what he is fond of calling a
Sovereign State? "'' a' a'e.
We answer, Heron, the Attorney Genera
OF Louisiana, whom the President seems to
have found the most promising material out
OF which to make useful agent fer his pur-
poses, is graduate from the Confederate ar
my. We do not know whether he has ever
been pardoned or not, possibly he has received
that baptism into the new johnson church,
though even that ceremony is coming to be
deemed less andless essential. One thing at least
is certain, that less than three years ago, when
the faithful, patriotic, gallant Sheridan was
lighting like the hero he is to put down trea.
SON and rebellion, this Heron was an officer
IN the ranks of the traitors. And yet the
former is compelled to the indignity of taking
his orders from this unrepentant rebel! How
do The soldiers or Maine who fought side by
with "little Phip' in Virginia and elsewhere re
lish such an adjustment of honors as this?
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DR.. DosrIE We see it stated that the late
DIR. Dostie was the first of the loyal citizens Of
New Orleans to board the Union fleet after the
| capture of the city in 1862 and declare his de.
votion to the flag. A writer in the New York
Sunday Dispatch gives the following account
of a scene which occurred in the same city
after it came into possession of our forces, but
| at time when the spirit of treason still skulk
ed everywhere, when hotels, stores and dwell
1ngs were full of concealed rebels, and when SC
vindictive and morose was the "secesh" feeling
that the managers of the theatres felt bound tc
cater for it by refusing to permit the orchestra
to play one of our national airs:
|
| when call arose from few Union men and
United States officers in the theatre for the
band to play "Hail Columbia" and the "Star
Spangled Banner" The cowardly manager de.
clined. 1t was then that single man arose in
the boxes and cried out that the national airs
should be played. He called upon loyal mer
to second him. The "secesh" raised howl
The house became a scene of excitement. Bu
the brave loyalist stood his ground, demanded
the "1Star Spangled Banner" and "Red, White
and B 1'ue" to be given, and the manager was
forced to yield. The gallant loyalist was DR.
A. p. Do site, who lies dead in New Orleans
murdered by Andrew Johnson's reconstruc
tiOn policy. fa