New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-01-25
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.

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LETTER FROM WARRINGTON.
Ex.GOvernOr Flanders General Ham
cOek's Union Utteranees Democratic
Cnpitnl-KeIhpse into BarbarIsm aud
OstrNcIzatIOn of White Men.
Especial Correspondence of the Republican,
WASHINGTON, January II, 1868.
Hon. b. F. Flanders, late governor of
Louisiana, arrived in Washington yester-
day morning He will not return to Lou
isiana at present, bat expresses an interest
in the welfare of the people there.
Congress has this week given evidence
to the country that in both houses there is
no want of backbone. The remarks of Mr..
Farnsworth, of Illinois, in the house day
or two since, on the reconstruction bill
then before that body, are commended by
the Republicans. He said:
If the senate had passed the bill which the
house had passed last congress putting the
power in the hands of Grant, there would
have been$no necessity for the present bill.
| Sheridan, Sickles, and Grant would not
have been removed. The gentleman from
New York Mr.. Wood had spoken to-day of
an onslaught on a gallant officer who, he
said, had some respect for the civil power.
If reports from that district were true, he
! (Mr. Farnsworth) knew very well the rea-
son why this gallant officer had commended
himself so greatly to the respect of these
| gentlemen.
In addition to what have said in relation
| to the officer in command at New Orleans
| wish to say this much. | have based the
remarks | have made in reference to him
on information in nay possession, on
letters, and other facts that have come
to my attention. ! am very sorry to
believe any of these reports. / wish to
say that, having always regarded him as q
gallant officer and personal friend, it sur
| prised me perhaps as much as any other
gentleman in the city Of Washington, when
| read his orders, and when l received by
letters and newspaper reports accounts of
the joy with which he had, as is alleged,
filled the hearts of the rebels in his depart
ment. | wish to say further, that after that
gentleman had been ordered to relieve
Sheridan at New Orleans, (and this is what
makes the whole thing matter CT more
surprise to me), met him in the city Of
Washington on bis way South. Speaking
to him, as know him we'll, for fought by
| uAo ntuO Au tnG HSlly L balh W nAul W ell
General, you are going to New Orleans are
you 2" "Yes,N y said he; +" and some people
have got an idea that because / am sent
down there to relieve Sheridan l am cop
perhead but they will find themselves
greatly mistaken. have fought the rebels
too long in the field to be their tool now;'i
or words to that etfe3t. had right, there
fore, to be surprised when ! read the first
order which he issued, and still mere when
| read the second
The order of General Hancock with
reference to the civil authorities 6lled me
with very great surprise and alarm II
certainly is surprising that subordinate
officer sent to the command of district
should set at defiance an act of congress
under which he went there, and set above il
the law of bogus government which that
act of congress had declared illegal. The
civil law, which it is bis duty to recognize
is the act Of congress under which he went
there. In addition to what have already
stated, General Hancock said to me, " am
going to New Orleans to execute the laws
Of congress-"
Mr.. Eldridge-Has he not done so
Mr.. Farnsworth-He certainly has not
done so if the reports are true, and if he
answers the petitions for his intercession
that ere made to him between rebels and
loyal men, and to save the loyal men from
the oppression of rebels by referring them
to the juries, and sheriffs, and constables
and rebel magistrates there, | think he is
not executing the law of congress by any
manner of means; for the law Of congress
makes it his duty not only to keep the
peace, but TO see that every man there has
equal and exact Justice, without reference
| ~ oanAitiOn nrsn nnlAR "a lrnoxrr all
that no loyal man, or freedman, can get
justice in any of these courts.
II is no violation of confidence TO write
that General Hancock stated to a friend
before he left Washington for New Orleans
that his intention was to interfere as little
as possible with the authority Of the civil
law in Louisiana and Texas In his admins
tration of civil affairs, intiInating that sol
diers were educated to obey the law.
The leading Democrats use these repre-
sentations to manufacture political capital
They assert that if the right of suffrage is
exercised by colOred men in the South
they will control the destinies Of the peO-
pie, and the governments there. They
will convert the whole South into condI-
ton Of barbar sm, and neither allow white
men to hold Offices there. nor to pursue their
business IN security. One of these gentle
men yesterday in conversation declared lt
as his belief thst this conversion from civil
ization to barbarism would commence
shortly after the presidential election, until
which time, he said, The blacks will be pru-
dent. All his Information, derived from let
tiers and from interviews With Southern men
confirmed him In the belief that 2. the ne
groes won't work" And yet this gentle
man possesses superior intelligence. and
1 A. hirh in tho aatra sxF
though his oredulity induces him to sWal
4 low the Munchausenisms Of Southern con.
servatives.
Ohio Republicans jast from home asserl
that II Grant Is the Republican nominee f0l
president he will carry that state By forty
thousand majority,