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field to you as without an equal i cannot
forbear the remark, however, that when "a
Maior-General of the United States army
has ITO play che part of "bugler I" In
sounding in person his own honesty, it may
we'll excite a cufiosiryl in the community
to surmise the cause therefor. As to your
charge of appointing rebels to Office, if 1t
is crime, would like to ask, General, If
you are free from the same accusation. Out
of Levee Board composed of five members,
one of your appointees was member of
the Secession Convention, and signed the
ordinance of secession; another is not cit
izen of the United States, but claimed the
protection of the British flag on the arri-
val of Commodore Farragut and his fleet,
and third was a blockade runner, who
was arrested and tried by aamilitary COM
mission. There is trite maxim, General,
in this connection, which itwould be well
for you to. remember in your future per-
senal controversies. Equally faulty and
unfortunate in point of memory is yoQr
insinuation, that you could not find me on
the day of the riot, when called at your
Office on my way to the Mechanics Insti-
tute, and talked over the matter with you.
| did not call on you tor guard, because
one had been furnished me by General
Baird. S'i'Hl 'i'l@ ''-ln' % cs, ~
Having disposed of your mistatements
concerning me, and defended myself from
what conceive to be a wanton and mali
cious attack on my character on your part,
leaye the public to Judge between us.
It Is with no pleasure l have been forced
into this controversy. My desire was to
officially, but to silently submit to your ar
bitrary exercise of power, and your asper-
sious on my character, would be to prove
false to my official trust, and to admit the
truth of your ISLANDERS. -ia h1ll 7ro
toaAnd now call on you to make good
"a i Is,1 oh -nrnI
| against me, if you expect to avoid the ver-
bdictr ofathe people, which is always meted
out to the calumHiator and slanderer.
| j. MADISON WELLS,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
The Deposing of Governor Wells, of
lroia 7-t - 2sui- Louisiana -'+ 10 -
f. tFrom the Washington Inteigencer. June 1o17
f. The grounds for this act, set forth by
General Sheridan himself, as far as they
have been yet made public, do not seem to
have the slightest bearing upon the recon-
struction question. They are wholly dis
connected with iT. The most important
among them were actions of the Governor
anterior even to the passage by Congress of
1.-the reconstruction laws. Governor Wells
himself, in his letter to the General, attri--
butes his removal exclusively to personal
malice entertained towards him by General
/ Sheridan. Be this as it may, the exercise
OF the power that has been assumed by
General Sheridan in this case is d fearful
subject for the contemplation of the people
Of the United States. 1t is death blow to
civil liberty, and the establishment of a
military despotism more terrible and more
i dangerous thanshistOry has ever before re-
corded. If such assumptions of power b y
a military officer are to be for a moment
H tolerated by the Government, civil govern
ment everywhere, North and South, is
Ill Of = fhn of hn rarian Of no
passions of single individual and the
liberty OF the citizen is already utterly
The letter of Governor Wells to General
Sheridan contains very significant impu-
tation in regard to the absence Of General
Sheridan from New Orleans at, the time of
the July riots. 1t has always appeared
singular that the commanding general
should make it convenient to leave the city
upon the eve of riot that was even then
apprehended. This matter is certainly
worthy of investigation. 'i'"' l+'.3a ..', ~
from the Springfield Republican. June TO- (,
! General Sheridan has put the removal OF
Wells through with his usual bOldness and
in apparent defiance fpositive orders from
Secretary Stanton. The report that Sec
retary Stanton and Generals Grant had CEN
sured Sheridan for removing Governor
Wells, however, has been eontradieted ia a
dispatch from General Grant himself to
Sheridan. The whole matter will come be-
fore the President and Cabinet at once, and
although the action of General Sheridan
may be condemned in some particulars, he
is not likely to be removed nor his action
reversed.
/ .-.i7i 7[Frem the Boston Post, Junefl0.lHd of
/ Governor Wells and other officials whom
4 GEN. Sheridan has uneeremoniously dis;
posed of are not men in whom any respect
able class has any confidence; but that fact
does not justify such extreme measures as
the commanding officer there has chosen tc
adopt -.---rr
-air fFrom the New Orleans Times. June6
4 Avery pretty quarrel as it stands is tina
which has arisen between the commanding
General of the Fifth Military District ant
Mr.. j. Madison Wells, whom he recently
removed from the Office of Governor o
Louisiana. Up to the present time it ha
proved an inexhaustible theme for discus
sion and speculation among our citizens
and the soureesof no little amusement; fo
while it is true that the interests of tn,
.community generally must suffer from any
cause which tends to aggrayate, and per
petuate existing political dissensions, in
diyidually. there are few who regard thii
dispute otherwise than as a neat little in
teiiectual s'set- to-" in which they, as spec
Il tators, have but little personal concern.
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