New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-10-02
THE SOUTHERN UNJoNETs.

Inc following Is an extract nom Tue plNhte Ietltf
of Northern man. now renting and working By free
negro labor large cotton plantation in Upper Lous-
ana Il was written with no thought that it would
ever be given to the public. Il will be noted that IL
was written before the Vermont and Maine Elections:
I'VE arc anriously auaii-e sHe esn Of the Northern
Flect,ons this Fall - ttcy go right can stay here but
sbonA Jehnsen md ne Coprhcads triumph shall MI have
TO leave before Spring u fact shall doubtless b. warned
that must go
The following IL an extract from the more recent
private letter Of Unioust some twenty years resi-.
dent in New-Orleans, where he is widely known and
respected:
"Nrw-OnLEAss sept % 1866
The recent elections Vermont and Maine foeshadoving
as they clearly the general results Of the elections for Con
gres this Fall have gaddcnod the hearts Of loyal here
There las since those results been marked abatement Of tho
arrogance and nsoence Of our Rebel mase Their confidence
in the johnson has eeed by fear Of Con
gres the views and purposes o. which they gather from NJ
Steyens Bedford speech Ac result Of the Gaming elections
shall realize my hopes think oontnae TO live here until
may be ready Had the Of Congress failed
before the people l. and many others like here would have
had no other alternative bat 10 leave this section"
More than one thousand letters of similar tenor to
the former Of the above have been received in this
City alone from all parts Of the South since the date
Of the Orleans massacre. In the average, those
from Texas give the most fearful accounts Of the
malevoence and bitterness Of the reconstructed
Rebels, as more especially evinced in ouTages the
Freedmen; but very similar representations are re-
ceiyed from many quarters. There are many
instances wherein Northern men have furnished
capital to Southern for the working Of their
plantations, STIMULATING for a specified proportion Of
the crops and in many if not most cases the interest
of the Northern men is carefully concealed from the
planters neighbors from fear Of arson AMI other ma
licious damage if that interest were known.
Such is the state Of facts in the face Of which
assured that Northern Radicals may freely ayow and
commend their convictions at the South to all who
may choose to hear them. Those who assert this
know better. The fate Of Dostie, Horton Hender-
son and their compariOts, is 100 recent and notorious.
Why was Horton murdered lie had committed no
imaginable ofIense beyond making prayer. But he
was a Northern man and ID Radical and br these he
was butchered. The very journals, North and South,
which now pretend that Radicals may speak freely at
the South have expressly justified the massacre Of
the Louisiana Conventionsts BY quoting wha; they
alege is the substance OF speech made by Doste at
a Radical meeting two or three evening, previous
version which the Radicals who heard it say is not
nearly correct Whether he made this or different
speech, the massacre was openly justified by it-a
fact that covers all the ground in dispute
The World, having intermedded in this matter, we
ask it to procure for u.s. from President Johnson, with
liberty topnblish, therepor of the Military Commission
which investigated the New-0rleans Riots Give the
public that report, and we will prove by what was
the real impulse to the New-orleans Massacre, and
what is the practical Liberty Of Speech accorded by
its Southern allies 1t idle to argue while the most
material testimony is suppressed. Gen. Movers re-
port has been for weeks in Washington. Why is it
hidden from the public We call for its production,
and assert that we can prove by it that Dosto Hen
derson, Horton and many others, died martyrs. to
Freedom of Speech, and that such freedom does
not exist where the champions of yMy Policy" bear
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