New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-11-02

the gafleys; take the living man on whose
hands rests the dead mans blood.
81 was present at my frieAd's trial. The
fact bad become known beforehand. He
stood there with his gray hair, and his mutt
lated limbs, and the croas of the legion Of
honor On his breast; and when he had told
his tale, he ended wi h these words: ~ have
saved the son whom / reared for France
frem doom that spared the life 10 brand
ii with disgrace. Is this crime? ] give
yea my life in exchange for nay sons dis
grace. Does my country need victim
l have lived for my country's glery, and l
can die contented to satisfy its laws sure
that il you did blame you will not despise;
sHre that the very hands that give my body
to the headsman will scatter flowers over
my grave. Thus / confess all. l. a SOL
| der, look round upon q nation OF soldiers,
and in the name OF the star which glitters
on my breast, dare the fathers of France
to condemn mew
They acquitted the soldier, at least they
gave q verdict answering to what in our
courts is called '.justifable homicide" A
shont rose in the court which no ceremo-
NAL voice could still, the crowd would have
borne him in triumph to bis house; but his
look repealed such vanities. To his house
he returned, indeed, and the day after
wards they found him dead beside the
cradle in which his first prayer had been
breathed over his sinless child. Nov,
father and son, ask you, do you condemn
that man 2"
The Galveston Bulletin has the following,
which is not uncomplimentary to "Oid
Chicamauga:"
SrEEDhAN AND BUTLER.-If it was nee
essary to choose a partisan as a chief of
the New Orleans police, it is probable that
General Steedman is the best man that
could possibly be selected, for as brave
soldier an undoubted friend of the Union,
and clear headed man, we should be will
ling to trust him even when his own party
is involved, and we shall be much mistaken
if he does not straighten matters. In the
whole nation there are no two men who
more thoroughly hate each other than
"Jim Steedman and "Ben Butler"
yet we know Of no two men
who have SO many points of resem-
the police affairs of New Orleans are not
administered on the same theory that pre-
vailed when Butler had charge. That is to
theory about anything, which we doubt.
They are practical men and look at every
thing presented as a single thing to be
done and they do it without having the
slightest thought of its consistency with
anything else that may have been dene in
the past or be called on TO do in the flu
ture. Steedmsn is Democrat, but it will
not do to cali him a rebel, for he would
shoot down his dearest friend if he stood
between him and the Union. Neither
Conway nor Governor Warmoth,
nor for that matter General Rous-
seau, must interfere or he will give
the very masculine message sent General
Buell., when that officer ordered him to guard
rebel haystacks, which was, " Go to ~"
General Steedman has mixed himself up
with one party too much to administer
without some suspicion, but of all partisans
he is the best for that purpose Steedman
has two good qualities: he is not afraid to
be shot at and he is not afraid to shoot
The last quality lie an excellent one for g
man that must quell riot. General Steed-
mans plan of dealing with rebellion, is to
whip it and then let it come up if it wants
to, then whip it again, and continue whip
ping it until it stays whipped. "a