The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-10
GENERAL ROUSSEAU AVID THE NEW YORK
TINES.

The New York Times is rapidly gaining an
unenviable reputation for perversion OF facts
which will compare with that which the COM
bined efforts of Conway and Shelley have
conferred on the Tribune and other Radical
journals. Formerly the Times yelled its as
saults upon truth and justice beneath spe-
cious pretense of impartiality; but since its
reconciliation with the extremists it has dis
carded this disguise, and arrayed itself in the
more appropriate garb of direct and unhesi-
tating falsehood. A conspicuous illustration
of this charge is to be found inits issue of the
10Th ult., in which appears letter from
Washington containing vindictive and base
less attack On Gen. Rousseau. The writer of
the letter, speaking of the lawless condition
of Northeastern Texas, says:
The fact that Lowell H. Rousseau, lately ap-
pointed brigadier general in the regular army by
President johnson, Ia in command of the military
district, including Texas, is accepted here as .
matt, n ct army headquarters of the situation in
that State.
Now the writer of this letter knows, and the
editors of the Times know, that Gen. Rous-
seau's command embraces the States of Lou
isiana and Arkansas alone, and that of
course, it does not include Texas. If the
military commander is to be held responsible
for the lamentable condition of affairs in the
latter State, responsibility falls, not on Gen.
Rousseau, but on the chosen satrap of Radi-
calism, Gen. Reynolds, who commands the
district of Texas. The two States embraced
In Gen. Rousseaus command are "recon-
structed civil authority is restored in them,
under the sway Of the charming carpet-bag
governments resulting from Sheridan's en-
forcement of the Radical scheme of negro
supremacy and white Acknowledgement.
Those reconstructed" governments are res
ponsible for the peace and good order of the
two States included in Gen. Rousseau's de-
partment, and not the military commander,
who has no right to interfere except when
called on for aid by the civil authorities
With Texas Gen. Rousseau has no more to
do than with New York. That State, as we
have said, is under the command of Gen.
eral Reynolds. 1t is that officers satrapy
1t is still under the dominion of the recon-
struction laws. 1t is still subjected to the
military despotism which the reconstruction
laws established, ostensibly for the purpose
of preserving order, but really for the purpose
of placing the Southern States in the hands of
'trooly loir' carpet-baggers and scalawags
General Reynolds has entered heartily and
thoroughly into this scheme. He is con-
frmed Radical and obeys the instructions of
his party in all respects. 1t is not surprising
that under such a rule, and with such pros
poets before them, the people of Texas should
be FESTIVE and even, in some cases, disorderly.
1t is not wonderful that the attempted en-
forcement of the design to subject the white
majority to the domination of black minori-
~ guided by the tools and emissaries of Radi-
calism, should have aroused bitter feeling
of opposition, and arrayed the two races
against each other in some sections of the
States. Such is the natural and inevitable re-
suit of the Radical plan to establish negro
empire in the South, and of the means en-
ployed to carry forward that plan to its con-
summation. But it is simply absurd to throw
the responsibility of these consequences on a
people WIN have yaiuiy protested against the
system from which they flow and it is worse
than falsehood to say that, General Rousseau
has any connection, either direct or remote,
with the affairs of State which is not within
his military jurisdiction.