The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-10-18

Olympic Theatre, in New Orleans .
! Tuesday evening, 10 refute the libc
illuminated against the good name /
the community By the bsack-and ia
slanderer, Gov. J. Madison Wells. j
a recent letter 10 Thos H. Jones q
Arcadia, louisiana A large crow
, was in attendance, including man
, citizens from the North who had sci
tied there. they being specially invite,
10 testify for or against the Governor
statements. Jas. T. Freret was Gale,
TO The chair and in taking his seat salt
he was no speaker but could not resis
4 the hearing of his testimony To the fal
sity Of the charges made against MS b,
the Governor Mr. Christian Roselini
then delivered and address, full Of FIR,
and argument. lie showed how secure
were Northern life and Northern prop
erty in the city, byits investment in the
real estate and monetary institutions,
by the great increase Of the values Of
these since the war beyond their high
est previous values.
He denided that any mans life was
unsafe because Of his Unionism, and
mentioned Gen, Heron, late Of the
Union army, the associate Of the mer-
chants Of Carondelet street; Mr.. A. s.
Mansfield, who came from Boston with
Banks, who lives and has the most in
innate social relations with the people
in the Garden District of Gen. Benton,
of the Union army, and of Louis. b.
Collins, collector of revenue.
Gen. Benton then made few re.
marks. He said if all men were as or
derby as those of New Orleans we
would have no trouble. Then Jacob
Barker, rendered an address to the
people of the United States, which was
read and adopted unanimously. This
address gives the lie to the foul Sian
ders contained in the letter of Wells.
The address says:
The charge that Northern citizens
are prosecuted in their social inter
course and business avoeations, is
known TO have no foundation what
ever in truth. Northern capital is
needed, and it is constantly invited
within the limits of our State, and the
numerous citizens hailing from the diff
ferent States North, feel a sense of per-
feet security in our midst, both in per
SOD and property, nor need they have
recourse for protection to the courts
any more than our own citizens, for the
plain reason that if they have recourse
to litigation such is also the necessary
result of commercial relations in all
countries and at all times. As to the
record Of crime and offences, we chal
lenge any city of the United States,
North or South, to compare statistics,
for no where is there less of crime daily
committed than in New Orleans, when
numbers ofpopulation are kept in view.
1t is the imperative duty Of the peo-
pie of Louisiana to refute these aspi-
rations by reference to incontrovertible
facts.
In the first place, we assert it as an
mdeniable fact, that the distinction
between Union men and secessionists
has been entirely obliterated. Wear
all constitutional Union citizens, desi.
rous to restore and revive the happy
days of the Republic, when it was an
honor indeed to be able to say. !,
too, am an American citizen" This is
the feeling, and these are the senti-
ments of the vast majority of the peo-
pie of Louisiana This meeting is
composed in part of very many North
ern, Western and Eastern men, of va.
rious shades of political opinion, all
freely and openly expressed; and we
assert, without fear of truthful contra
diction, that there is no man who has
been interfered with or molested in his
business or social relations on account
of his political opinions. The daugh-
tiers and sons of the South and North
almost weekly, and no one
ever heard of the marriage feast being
disturbed.