The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-08
OUa SLANDERERS.

The correspondent of the New York Times
is at his old tricks again, and the lies which
he sends over the wires to manufacture sentl-
nent for the Kellogg concern are OF that
fragrant character for which U. s. Commits
sioner Shannon made himself 50 notorious at
the outset Of the usurpation
In his dispatch i'll regard to the Coushatta
troubles he quite outdoes himself, and displays
a venom and malignity which make the desire
10 boot the fellow into a SENSE OF decency and
truth quite irresistible. The following is a
sample OF his cham pion fabrication:
/ This is the work of the White Leaguers, en-
couraged by the murderous speeches OF
McEnery and Mari, Who in the late cenven-
ton at Baton Rouge, in set speeches advised
| the white people to organize, arm, and drive
Republicans from the State, and offered them
selves as leaders to resist even United States
troops, McEnery going 50 far as to say that
Grant would not dare to use United States
troops against them.
1t is hardly necessary for us to say that
neither Mr.. Mari nor Gov. McEnery ever
made use OF the language attributed to them.
The author Of this malicious and malignant
falsehood must have rubbed his hands for very
glee at the thought Of the dollars that it would
bring to him. and Of the wrong that it would
work to the people whom he hates with
hatred born OF guilt and malice.
Did we not know the character or, rather,
the lack of character of the man who controls
the New York 1Ines we should wonder at
the publication of such palpable falsehoods in
its columns. The brutal and low Englshman,
who is estimated in New York at his true
worth, evidently regards the South as a sort
of Ireland seeking to obtain Home Rule"
which it is his duty to prevent by every
species Of misrepresentation and calulnny.
In the dispatch to which We refer, the
Tnnes's paid defamer OF Louisiana quotes as
follows from the columns of the New Orleans
Times.
The Times Of this city, conservative jour
nal opposed to the White League organiza-
ton, i'll an article upon the subject Of these
murders, says: eve have not heard of any
crime being charged against these men, except
that one of them was tax-collector and some
of the Others held parish offices 4" and con-
cludes as follows: 1.-The civilized world will
not be inclined to attach much credit to the |
judgment Of these highwaymen as to the guilt |
of men who have not been tried, and SO far
as we have learned have not been accused Of
serious crimes. In fact they will prefer to
believe the real odd scoundrels are the
murderers themselves. We charge distinctly
that this atrocious deed is the direct and legit-
innate outgrowth of the violent Red River
White League organizations, and for it the
.1,1 Il, h..1,.
Shire eport Times, is. in large measure. re-
'ponsible.'
Perhaps we ought not to be greatly sur
'rised, or angered at the misrepresentation
If a paid correspondent Of Radical news
PAPER at the North, when we have in New Or
cans a paper pretending to represent the
'eople that would permit such a gross and
alpable SANDER as the above to appear in
IS editorial columns 1t is inexcusable in the
Jew Orleans Times, because many of the
ers Of the White League, and know too the !,
haracter and objects Of the League. They j
now that, with very few exceptions, the men,
ers Of the League are gentlemen of educa- :
on and refinement. and that they have Or I
anized for protective purposes purely. :
Whatever the purposes Of the Times are, Il
ne thing is very certain, that its utterances y
re being used against the very people from 0
HON it derives its support, and without J
hich it could not survive day. The Sian ]
ers of the New York Times would not do b
UGH harm were they not bolstered up and i
papers like its New Orleans ?
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