The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-29

fu ure Developments of Radicalism is tn,
slanderous charge which has gone to Wash
ington from this city relative to the materie ani
morale of the First United States Infantry
Col. Wood, stationed at this post. 1t is rep
resented by ga prominent officer on duty il
New Orleans, writing to member of Gen
Grants staff, that this regiment is composed
OF ex-Confederate soldiers in the proportion
OF not less than three-fourths of its enlisted
men, that, consequently, its sympathies are
strongly "rebel," and that it is prepared,
whenever called to quell riot, to make the
occasion pretext for shooting down loyal
and peaceable negroes. Here it is well to OBJ
serve that if this prominent officer" holds
any position in this department subordinate
to Gen. Rousseau or Gen. Buchanan, he has
committed one of the gravest breaches of mil
ltary discipline, and it devolves upon his SUI
| periors to bring him to answer for the Of
tense before a proper tribunal. Perhaps,
however, he is functionary of the Conway
and Baker order, and who, accordingly, con-
ceives himself to be "on duty in New Orleans"
to fulfill the mission of plundering the COM
munity for his own benefit and of
eliminating it in the interest of his
party. However this may be, the inspiration,
the animus and the intent of this story about
the First Infantry are not to be mistaken. All
its statements are fatty denied by the officers
of this regiment. But that does not matter
to the malignant and mendacious partisans
who instinctively hate the honest and faith
full soldier whom they cannot bend to vile and
wicked uses, just as they instinctively hate
the upright and intelligent civilian who loves
liberty and his country, and, therefore, de-
voutly abhors them. Their real cause of
quarrel with the First Infantry is the fact that
these troops and their officers have not shown
an alacrity to serve as supple tools to dragon
ade our people at the beck and nod of Radi-
cal caucus. The intimation thrown out in
the Washington dispatch that they will be
at once ordered to the frontier, has been con-
triyed as warning to the whole federal army
In the South. 1t says, in effect, to officers
and men, that the penalty for behaving as
true soldiers, instead of partisan minions, will
be assignment to frontier service 30 distant
and so dreary as to resemble Siberian exile.
They must be prepared to remorselessly shoot
down their white countrymen in the South
whenever the latter may stand in the way of
Radical schemes of rapacity and tyranny.
They must be both willing and prompt to
trample Southern whites into the dust SO that
carpet-baggery, and scalawaggery, and negro
barbarism may have full sway. Otherwise
they must expect to atone for such de-
linquency in Punishment to some American
Siberia.
But we believe that the contrivers of this
penal programme wholly misconceive the
stuff of which an American soldier is made;
that they exact, indeed, too much of human
nature, and especially of white human nature.
There are some things which soldier cannot
do, and be a soldier. There are some things
which he cannot do, and be man. Yet such
things it would devolve upon the United
States troops to do if they should enter upon
the horrid and despicable work above indica-
ted. Hence, there is good reason to antici- |
pate, from this time forth, growing hostility |
on the part of the carpet baggers and scala
wags, and of the Radical extremists at the |
North, towards the non-partisan body of the |
federal army as it is now constituted. They
want Mamelukes and janizaries, not civilized |
white soldiers, to perform the service of
bolstering up the rickety impostures which
affect civil authority in the South. There are
but two methods of proceeding to this object,
namely: to eliminate the white element from
the federal army, making it all black or mon
grel; to organize negro armies as part of the
executive machinery of the pretended State
governments. And what then? The adoption
Of either expedient would be the signal for a
war of races to the death, for anarchy to
spread on all sides, for chaos to come againi
EQUAL TO DELMoNIco's.-The epicures and bon
Eivants of our city may not be aware of the fact
hat the st. Charles hotel saloon, thoroughly
painted and fitted up for the season, opens to-day
lnder the able supervision of our friend Major Fl.
". Hyllsted. The major, with his natural good
Judgment as faster and caterer, has the establish.
nent and its appointments most elegantly ar
anged, and every department filed to repletion
With the choicest of every thing that is good TO |
at and drink. For instance, a gentleman with |
lis friends can visit the major, call for his dozen
aw on the shell with his bottle of Scotch ale.
Vhite wine, or Krug, lie back and enjoy his otiu1a
UNI dignitate. as well as all other luxuries the
DDS delight in. How delightful. pay him visit ,
nd crafty your epicurean tsstes.s
We will also mention the fact that the popular q
nd accomplished proprietor of the st. Charles
ote, Mr.. o. Z. Hall, will open this favoriie hotel
'r the reception of the public on the 4th prox.
be hotel has undergone thorough repairs, been
tied up most elegantly, and has every comfort
ecessary TO ones ease and convenience. With
lie prestige the great St. Charles has heretofore
,joyed, we predict for it most liberal share of
lblic patronage.
In addition to the above we will mention, for =,
70 benefit of visitors to the city, that the St.
ouis hotel will open on the same day under the :.
'le management of Major W. A. Hurd. This
endid hotel has always been the resort of fami- 81
IS, knowing that here they could have all the d
'mforts of home.
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