Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-09
FROM WASHINGTON.


oGEECaEE TROUBLES BY PORTER AND
BABCOCR.
These officers report that the whites
were the parties most to blame, and that
the blacks were the sufferers. These
cnlored men went TO work upon the
lands under g c~ontracI, which stipulated
that they should receive certain wsgss
and 3 share in the products Of the soil.
They lsbored faithfully during the sea-
son, inspired by the hope that they were
to receive st least some compensation
for their labor; but when the crops were
gathered in their employers refused to
pay their wsges or give them any share
In the crops. Il will be seen that under
such circumstances, stripped OF their
hard earnings, destitute, and winter star
ing them in the face, they made the at
tempt to se.zs what belonged to them.
Then it was that the charge of con-
spiracy was tTumped up, and they were
arrested. This is the truth, according to
the testimony Of these military gentle.
men, sud as we expected sll along, it is
the correct version @; these Oyeeche
troubles.
The negroes were not trespassers upon
these farms. They Lad worked there all
summer IS laOorers, and it was by their
labor that these crops were produced.
On every principle Of fairness and jas
tice, therefore, they were entitled to pay,
and these immigrants and planters, or
whoever they may be, were the sggres-
sors, and upon their heads rests the
blame.
Il has been said that this band Of col
ored men were thoroughly armed. But
what says Colonel Porter? His state.
ment is that there were not more than a
dozen efficient weapons in the hands Of
these people, and these were muskets
purchased OF the Government By some
Of the negroes, who had been soldiers,
when they left the army.
STORM Is BREWING.
We have been thinking for several
days what g terrible castigation there is
in store for Mr.. Senator TrumbulL, chair
mar eff the Judiciary Committee Of the
Senate; for be had the temerity on Tues
day last to move that bis committee be
discharged from the further c~onslders-
ton OF ali petitions for the extension Of
suffrage to wCmsn. He cresalnly could
not have had the fear Of Miss Anthony
and Mr.. Csdy Stanton before his eyes.
lust Ike their report OF the Arkansas
troubles, which we al know TO be en-
tifely the reverse.
GEN. GRANT IS GOING FOR
Gen. Grant recently had In interview
with Gen. Banks relative to the rumor
thst the latter had at one time bean or
dered by President Lincoln to supercede
him in command Of the army in front Of
Vicksburg. Gen. Banks confirmed ths
reports. But the Departmental records
Of the transaction could nowhere be-
found. They had been lost or purposely
destroyed. Not a vestige could be found
In the records Of the Department as kent
by Secretary S anton. Yet Gen. Grant
could no longer doubt that the great
War Minister whom be had so warmly
sustained during the War Department
embrcglio with President johnson was
the party responsible for this attenpt TO
degrade and disgrace him upon the very
eve Of his triumph. There was vet one
other place where search might be made
The Garnet Of the war did sometimes
attempt to shield himself from Fesoon.
by casting Il on others, and ss
the official kilograms to Gen. Banks were
all signed by Gen. Halleck, il visa nos
sible his books would disclose something
Lucky thought! Gen. Grant i'm ne6i.
stely returned to the War Dspartment
q demanded to see the papers CON-
necsed with Gen. Halleck,s bea6opar-
tsrs. These had evidently bean ovor-
looked by those who had been encanad
10 the attempt to destroy and efface from
the records Of the Department An -
dence Of the plot against Gen. Co.
and as " murder will out" so dL5 c.
Hslleck's letter-boOk corroborate a.
every particular, che dispatches Gsn
Banks had already placed in the nosses.
sion OF Gen. Grant. The ouest;on wes
now settled by the records Of h CIV
eminent itself that a foul consniraov
against Gen. Grant had been plostad a.
the national capital by the verv nm
who now assume TO have been the War.
wieks who made him, and who now In.
sist upon being the guardians Of his honor
and the keepers CT his conscience. It Is
the expressed purpose Of Gen. Grant to
publish the whole correspondence, and
1t will BE- given to the press In = few
days.