The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-09-09
THE TRUTHFUL TRIBUNE.
MIR. B. J. Sage VS.. Horace Greeley.
NO. Ii. LAFAYEATE PLACE. n. Y.,l
August 3, 1868, q

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5]s No. Ii. LAFAYEATE PLACE. n. Y.,l
August 3, 1868. &
Hon, Horace Greeley, Editor of the ". 7
Tribune: ;9 saafs~ a...., 81. 49,.
DEAR STR-On Saturday your bulletin
board attracted MY attention to the follow
ing in your New Orleans correspondence
e'The Ku-Klux Khan reigns supreme, anG
the outrages they commit are UNDERSTANDABLE
Your correspondent mentions no facts, as
he would have done if they had existed
The locus is Louisiana, and the victims are
negroes and Union men. I assure you the
above extract is untrue, and no facts exist
Ito justify it. / assume that you desire to
get the truth, and [ therefore propose to in
troduce to you number of old residents
of Louisiana from different parts of the
State-men who were always Wings and
Conservatives, if you prefer that class so
that you can catechse them as to such al-
legged facts. My acquaintanceship is very
extensive in all parts of the State, and cit
liens whom it includes are daily arriving
here; AS to my own standing and char
acter will give you the best references. j
beg Of yon to examine this matter; for such
: statements in an excited canvass tend to
produce, consequences on my fellow-citi-
zens Including my friends and relatives)
, which will gil you with horror, and me and
Others with agony worse than death.
4 Will you be,so kind as to notify me if
: the above will be agreeable, and when?
~. ~ =, Respectfully, b.. j. SAGE.
n Among the gentlemen now here, from
Louisiana, to whom would refer you for
the, facts, are VIM. s. Pike. Jno. FL Hor-
ton, VIM. M. Perkins, Andrew McCollum,
Geo. w. Hynson, G. w. R. Bayley, G. w.
Wiliams-all old citizens, and all at the
Astor House or the New York Hotel.
OFFICE OF THE TRIBUNE, New York, y
.,,,g,z--,.,.5 III M August a, 1868. I!
80 DEAR SrR-I have your note of the Sd.
- have also Frank Blair's letter, assert
5 ing that in case off Democratic triumph
I this fall the Southern State Governments
are to be overthrow by armed force, and
the blacks DISTINGUISHED, ,a 7.ns ggiz,t
Also Gen. Wade Hampton's declaration.
that no black who works for Democrat
or lives on, his lands shall. he allowed to,
vote the Republican ticket this fall.
Also Howell Cobbs proclamation of So
cial intercourse with Joe 1Brownssand his
brother Radicals jy 28'ts ,ga5iss3gQ
And hundred Southern speeches and
editorials declaring that every "carpet-bag-
ger" must leave if Seymour is elected.
/ know what was Ashburn's fate, and by
whom. his murderers are screened from jus-
tice sd ~. ssss49la bod
May not believe my own eyes?
81, Yours, Horace GREELEY,
h BID. SAGE, Esq lie sa
Z II LAFAYETTE PLACE, New York,
August 5, 1868.
Hon Horace Greeley, Editor of the n. Y
Tribune: f |
SIR-Yoars cf tile 4th does not even re
fer to the subject of my note. Surely my
proposal is not met by citing the dicta Of
Hampton, Blair, Cobb, ct al, who live far
from Louisiana, and know and say nothing
of the subject. ).
gave you credit for wish to be truth |
full and just, and offered you seven or eight
OF the first citizens of Louisiana to disprove
ca!umny against her, which, with other
Similar ones in your paper, must add to her
injuries and deepen her sorrow, and of
which supposed you to be innocent.
1t were puerfie in me to pursue the mat
iarther, or to expect you to promote other
IMAM party ends. I hope you will find
when the game is played through, that facts
and falsehoods will not serve equally we'll
as counters; and prefer still to believe,
despite yourself, that you do not value
them alike. n 80
I am, &C., BIZ. SAGE.