The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-02-03
SlandarIng Texas.

following letter. Written at cnipEuf epflngs, texas
January Sd, 1869, and published in the Cincinnati
Commercial of the esd is case in hard. Tie latte
bears malice in every line, and isa tissue Of fasehood
and base insinuatons from beginning to end TIL
communication is signed Ban,n and did we feel dis
posed could answer his cfargeof wholesale murder
robbery, and rapne in Texas by stating that the pole
reports Of the very city where the letter published
for twentyf hours, far exceeds the whole State
Texas for the same time Here is the letter:
most terrible state of atfairs exists in Tex.s espe
cally in the northern and eastern portions of the State
Armed binds Of bauditt, thieves, cuthroats and as
sassins nes the country. They prowl around houses
they call men out and shoot and hang them, they at
tack rasters upon the roads they seem almost every
where present and ever intent upon mischief Y O,
cannot pick up paper without reading OF murders
transformations aud robbery in its locality and, while
The editors of the conservative Democratic papers de
iounce the report OF the Committee Lawessncss
Crime, made to the State Convention their col
umns give the lie to their denias. And yet no
the fourth part Of tho truth il told mot act Of VIC
encc III tel is reported 60 where yoa will you vii
hear of fresh murders AMI deeds of violence which, il
atFoc;ty tile devil himself could not surpass. Tie or
ganiscd bands Of Ku kux despeadocs and eutthroats
thieves mid villains of the deepest dye, daily kill
ing freedmen aud Unionists and yet there seems to bt
ttle very litt!e-amost nothing-done for relief
Thank God the days of that arch traitor to his party
and to his country Andrew Johnson will soon be mum
bered aud his will become Kissing by word and
reproach. He is responsible, and at the bar Of God
will be held SO, for the murder OF thousands of good
men and true in Texas, aud OF tens ofthousands h the
Southern States.
When your brave Oloans, Sheridan and Griffin,
in position in this department, matters were be-
ginning to shape themselves tie satisfaction of the
loyal men Of Texaa Andrew johnson determined to
afford all the aid aud comfort he could to his sympa
thisng rebel friends, placcd 8 Hancock in command
over us, and he let no opportunity pass of fcting in
jury upon ioya! citizens Major General Reynolds was
subsequently piaccd-n command and when, by his
prudent, sagacious and statesmanlike course he
giving us again ground FOR hope that tile hour of
redemption from rebel bondage was drawing nigh be
WAS removed from his place, and General Candy ap-
pointed to rule u, the aforesaid Andrew Johnson
having determined in his expiring death throes give
lis last kick and thereby suceor and nour<h and
encourage lis rebel frends-he cneuies of tie Union
men and Of tile country. 5t
Major General Reynolds deserves great praise for his
administration of affairs in this vast empire State He
was 'sthe right III the right place. and ought
not to have been Superseded. Every change that is
made in the department officers Of this kind operates
the injury of the loyal citizens and fills with exul-
taon the hearts Of the rebels and their sympathising
friends. We hope that wien General Grant is inaugu.
rated adequate protection will be afforded to Southern
Union men Surely deaf ear will not be turned to
US by him and by the party who have triuphed at the
recent election by such vast majority. The popular
heart Of the great North We believe to be right.
Are we doomed to be disappointed? II So then
Union men must 1T once prepare to leave and must in
hurry get from Texas. Wenrc led to these rcr14r5s
BY tile constant expressions dropped in hearing by
rebels, and by the Statements of the editors Of rebel
sheets, who style themselves "Democrats.n II there
is TO be no freedom liberation to Union in this
counuY-if they are 10 be ostracscd socially, and
prescribed politically, and ruined pecuni4riiy as they
have been here since the break up, then has the bat
tie been fought in yain
The truth is, there is no place in this State where
yon any other Northern man could express himself
publicly with the freedom you do III 0hio-thcle is
scarcely road that you could travel without being
robbed and murdered Aud the houses that you csn
enter without being insnlted and abused few and
far between These Texans claim that they have
never been sujnGated, and it would take hut short
trip in the interior to satisfy you that the party that
must crouch and for favor and must ever be OH its
good behavior submissivey yielding 10 the stronger
power, is the Union, Republican called 81 rad
zeal party The old secession party has been revived
and arrogaes to itself the right to control in this
country. By the cold FLOODED and heartless murder
Of freedmen they have oyerawed and cowed the loyal
by the reign of terror they have estab
lisled they have ntnidatcd a large majority of the
loyal whites How long Shall We be compelled to en-
nre this condition of things? We look to loyal
'on W, r !u ., not'e 1nao ttit
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