The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28
Beauregard to Gordon.
Correspondence on the louisiana
Question.
The Letter that the Times and Plea
yune Refused to Publish, and
which Excited the Ire of
Hebert.

Below we print the letter Of General Beau
regard to Senator J. B. Gordon in relation
to Louisiana matters. This letter was call
ed forth by the letter Of General Hebert to
Senator Bayard, in which he took the
ground that new election would be det-
rimental to the best interests Of Louisiana and
endeavored to show that the people of New
t Orleans and Louisiana were acquiescing in
the Kellogg usurpation. This letter of Gen.
Beauregard's, which was intended to counter
act the wrong and injurious impressions to
which Hebert's letter was calculated to give
rise, was q wen to the world first through
| the columns of the New York Tribune, and
| from thence found it's way into .the New
York Sun. Recently it was published in
| this city in French by the Bee, but, as re-
markable as it may seem, both the Picayune
and Times refused to give it space in their
columns, though both were waited upon
formally by members Of the Committee of
Seventy and requested to publish it.
What are the people of New Orleans to
think Of those journals which they support
and which without their countenance and
money could not live a day, when they de-
liberately decline to place them fairly before
the world by publishing letter from Cen
eral Beauregard, while lengthy synopsis
of Hebert's letter is paraded in their
columns. The Times openly sides with
Hebert, and that is not a matter to ex-
cite the special wonder of any one; but the
Picayune! Why does the Picayune hold
back and decline to publish this letter?
Does this action of the Pics surprise any
body? 1t does not astonish us for we hap
pen to know that among the first orders
given by A. M. Holbrook when he purchased
the controlling interest in the Picayune and
assumed charge of its editorial management
was this, that "not a arord ,cas to be acritten
against Mr.. Kellogg nor any State official, and
especially nothing ,cas to be ,critten against
Judge Durell" Unmistakable signs among
the Prayune's subscribers and patrons
caused slight and temporary DETECTION
from the line of policy thus early adopted,
but that the animus is there as of old is
clearly shown by the rejection of such let
ters as General Beauregard's, and by the oc
casional patting on the back administered
to Kellogg and Clinton.
The people of New Orleans pay their
money, and are of course entitled to select
their own newspapers, but do they fully ap-
preciate the false colors under which the
Picayunel lis now sailing?
On Sunday. morning we will publish,
exclusively, a reply from General Beauregard
to Hebert's letter.
NEW ORLEANS, Feburary'4, 1874.
Gen. j. B. Gordon, Z. s. Senate, Washington, D. c.:
My Dear General-It is with reluctance
that | ever NEEDLE with political questions
but there are times when it becomes neces-
sary to abandon ones retirement, to aid in
rescning a whole community from the ruin
and desoatiOn which threatens it under the
rule of the bad people who, through bribery,
corruption and false swearing, have usurped
offices which enable them to control its des-
tiny. But what is still more painful to be-
hold is, that some ito the manor born" are
ready to pallate the enormities committed
by those depradators of a broken down and
helpless community.
To illustrate this l enclose you published
letter of eX-GOvernorP p. O. Hebert. of the 1st
instant directed to the Hon. Mr.. Bayard, of
the United States Senate, calculated to do
us much injury by preventing the only
means likely to give us some relief.
l am positive that he speaks only sent-
ments that are common to the attaches of
Mr.. Kellogg and his so-called government.
General Hebert has disqualified himself from
speaking for the suffering white people of
this State, by accepting an office from, and
lending his influence to, those who have
usurped the government to despoil them.
You doubtless recollect the committee of
citizens of this city, to Washington, last
year, in the iace of Attorney General Will
liams' rude repulse; this committe advised,
nevertheless that the case of Louisiana
should be represented to Congress at this
session, and a committee of seventy appoint
ed to collect the testimony and to make the
presentation, which work has been perform
ed to the entire satisfaction of this commu-
nifty.
A convention Of delegates from the vari-
GUS parishes in the State, met here in the
early part of the winter, and renewed their
expressions of disapprobation of the KEEL
logg Government, and resolved to commune
cate that disapprobation to Congress.
The Government and Legislature, who were
expelled from office by the revolutionary
tribunal which issued the midnight orders
for selling the Capitol, and to empannel an
illegal Legislature, have met and have sub
mitted their case to Congress. Last winter
a creature named Lowell was the Speaker
Of the House Of Representatives Of the
Kellogg Legislature, and United States
Postmaster. He was dismissed from the lat
ter office on charges of ENLIGHTENMENT and
larceny. Notwithstanding this he is still
Speaker of the House of Representatives!
Why 500 Because every man of the Kellogg
Government knows that larceny and en-
bezzlement have been the principle of that
Government, locked upon, however, as laud-
able efforts to improve theirpersonal condi-
ton. In the face of these facts, the state
ment of Gen. Hebert, that the people desire
to repose in the arms of Gov. Kellogg, would
seem to require some substantiation.
But is this all that has been donef A
Committee of Congress has examined the
condition of the United States Court here,
as administered by the judge who issued
that ,pidnirhf nrCor fI,1 of hox-a