The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-11-05
Sugar Wesley.

WHO Tsan83S III .tne SWanE6 Oh CUIuWcll
and Catahoula parishes. ] Wesley, it
appears, saw that issue Of the TE1.E-
GRAPH, and immensely delighted at the
note of inquiry, he sends gushing
epistle to our Radical neighbor, in
words as follows:
COLUMBIA, La, October IS.
Editors Louisiana Htelliyencer:-In
answer to squib in McCranie's paper,
Vol. 6, No. 5, the undersigned would
inform this monument of defeated
hopes and bereft aspirations" that if he
will refer to the " History of the Third
Louisiana Infantry, c. S. A." by w. II.
Tunnard, of Baton Rouge, La, he will
find that this pirouetting candidate was
a member of Co. I, of that illustrious
regiment from May 18th, 1861, until May
1866, at which time the force was dis
banded ut Shreveport, La, and the I'M
dersfgned would say that he never be-
longed to any other organization of
troops, that he served his country faith
fully and is still engaged likewise, but
now more wisely.
Req,tiesc0t en- pace, lNttc.
j. WESLEY MAYFIELD.
A very plausible showing, to be sure,
Wesley; but we happen to have your
pedigree, and will supplement your nc
count with fuller one, obtained from
responsible historians. 1t will present
you in IL rather different light.
Imprimis, you were born and raised
in Caldwell Parish-and pity tits your
biography could not end with this SIM
pie announcement. In the course Of
time you grew up to manhood. Your
political career began as a fire-eating
secessionist. AS you state, you Joined
Company I, of the 3rd La. Volunteers,
but it is said to he well-knOwn fact
that you never fired gun during the
war, except ut some luckless COW or hog.
In 1862, you deserted your command
and came home, but finding the country
inhOspitable you returned to duty in
the army. There, being an excellent
scribe, you employed your art in writing
and signing officers acquisitions for
rations and then feasting upon the fruits.
1t is asserted by good men that you
frequently forged furloughs for yourself
and others, for which, of course, you
| were rewarded.
In 1865 you had Il sugar transaction
with the G. S. Government-you recol-
lect ?-and was arrested. During your
arrest, we are told you gave your note
to Il certain party, the consideration
whereof was that this party should
swear you out of the scrapc. But the
war ended, meanwhile, and you were
released of necessity. You then repu-
dated the note.
| And do you remember that poor old
lady in New Orleans whom you swim
died out of your board-bill?
| And have you forgotten why and
how you come to leave franklin parish ?
Was it not because you swore falsely
against n citizen of that parish, and
was forced to leave? Surely you have
not forgotten this incident of your his
tory; nor any Of those we have detail
ed; and yet you say nothing whatever
about them, although protesting to give
us faithful sketch of your life.
What Il commentary upon the times
in which we live and upon the ruling
political party in this State, is it, that
this man is the chosen candidate of the
Radicals, for the State Senate in the
CatahOula district! And all over the
State this party is running such men
for Office, and expects to organize the
next legislature with material no bet
ter, and some of it, perhaps, not so good:
Heaven avert such a calamity to the
State!