The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-04
WHAT SENATOR MORTON Is DOING.
HIS MAN FRIDAY, SHOEMAKER.

The Montgomery (Ala.) .idr6Iiser, in the
course of an article on the nefarious acts of Sena
tor Morton and his satellites, says:
But we have yet another charge against this
man Morton. In July he conferred with two of
the vitest men in the Southern States Clayton
and Mcclure, of Arkansas}, on the subject of
Southern affairs, and tunor at the time charged
him with counselling the fermentation OF distur-
Dances in the South. Clayton and Mcclure, his
willing tools conferred with the fountain head Of
Southern corruption at New Orleans From New
Orleans came that arch emi-sarv, Sloanaller, to
the Alabama Radical State Convention and the
West Alabama Radical leader Cockrell, confess
ed, two weeks ago, that the negro disturbances
in Greene county, grew out OF instructions or adj
vice given the negroes by shoemaker.
Before the Greene county disturbances occurred
three negroes were arrested In wilcox county,
and lodged in Jail charged with attempting to
ncite a riot in that county. These negroes have
been tried and convicted by the courts OF Wilcox
county. In eXtenuation OF their crime they say
that they were sent out from Mobile and New
Orleans to do the thing for which they were ar.
rested and convicted. In view of all these facts
and circumstances, we are convinced that Oliver
P. Morton, Of Indiana, is guilty OF the crime OF
melting Southern negroes to riot, IN order that
the efforts OF the whites to suppress the riot may
be used as "Ku-K lux outrage" capital, by hme eli
and his party in the North. We know that riots
have occurred here. We know that the officers
of the law have been forced to summon Whit c
posses to suppress them.
We know that the actions of the officers and
their posses have been denounced by lying Radi-
cal PAYERS and Congressman ''Ku-Klux out
RACES" We know that the captured rioters have
confessed that they acted in obedience to lin
structions from Montgomery" and COckrell tells
us that these instructions came from SlOanaker.
We know of no other business that conld have
called Sloanaker all the way from New Orleans to
attend the Radical State Convention in this city
We know other reason why those three
negroes, now under sentence Of conviction in the
wilcox jail, should have been sent all the way
from New Orleans to Alabama to incite peaceful
negroes to lawessness. Moreover, we know no
special reason why Southern negroes should have
become so suddenly anduniversally possessed of the
idea that Grant would buck them in tn. il law
lessncss with troops" unless we refer it to some
organized effort to produce among them that
sort OF impression. To say the least. therefore,
that Hot Springs conference, considering the
rumors that went forth concerning it at the time,
bears very suspicious appearance. Morton .
late speech proves him to be utterly devoid OF
either truth or spirit of justice, and a creature
Of that character is capable of any crime, how
ever revolving. If he did not inclte the disturb
ances which he is now seeking to turn to his own
account it was not because he was incapable OF
such villainy. His very countenance shows him
to be 1erocious, implying, sensual beast, who
would hesitate at nothing to achieve selfrh