The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-10-11
The chicago Inter-oooan Correspondent
JOHN W. LAWNS, OF vIcKsBURa, INTERVIEWS
HIM.

Under date Of October LIST, Mr.. j. w. LAWN
highly respected citizen of vicksburg, write
to the Chicago Tribune a very interesting n
count of IN interview he had with Curtis, til
champion liar" as the Picayune appropriated
calls him. Curtis is the correspondent of til
Inter Ocean who has distinguished himsel
lately by his unbluabipg falsehoods concernin
tie revolution in this city and the souther
people in general. Curtis called in at LAWN
news depot, and, after converting few mir
utes, was asked about his New Orleans lette,
Mr.. Lawns continues his account thus:
/ saw that he wanted to retire to q NOR
private place (my news depot Is eight by six
teen feet in size) SO invited him to wall
into the st. Nicholas Restaurant, adjoining
On our way up the stairs of the restaurant
told him privately that there was a great dea
OF sympathy in our city for Louisiana, and tina
| knew several men who had read his state
ments about "the feeling South" IN his New
Orleans letter, and that these men would n,
doubt take him to task about it. suggested
| that he would be shown up in our daily paper
as falsiiier, and ventured to remark that THU
was bad kind of letter to write. We ther
took couple of chairs, and one of those re
take place on this mundane ball of ours
namely,
INTERVIEWING AN INTERVIEWER.
leans letter." said.
Yes; I-ah well ron see. / found thing,
in very much the condition that reported
them. saw several gentlemen in New Orleape
in my letter.
They were ali Radicals I put in.
Well-ah yes, generally. took that
SIDE OF the question had to do Sc, you know
AM and l gained my information from men who
and | represented things accordinriy."
your letter contained one statement re-
gardipg An interview with a lady who had
sent ser for yon to ascertain something about her
and married in Chicago, believe your letter
stated, and had buried two children there,
previous to her removal South, one year before
me var: l think you stated in your letter
that, before you left her. she took occasion to
give carpet baggers and Northern adventures
o thorough dressing down, attributing all the
wrongs and outrages inflicted on the South to
teeir ViIainy also complaining very bitterly
OF the Northern people for encouraging such a
state of things"
Eyes, alb saw that lady-a Mrs. Shields
and she said some things that dared not put
And yet" said I, do you not believe that
she told You the truth Don't you think that
the fact of her being a Northern lady gave adj
dltional weight to her opiniou7 She saw the
effects caused by the miserable sooundrels who
nave sunk Louisiana and other States South
into ruin. creating this very state of affairs
which which Harpers Ueekly, the Inter Ocean, and
oEnsr vie s sheets or" trying to magnify into
ery%
Rnust have known, that's fact. Now. iii tell
you the plain truth of the matter, Idrawing
his chair up very close to mine1. You see, Eve
been sent South to represent things in accord
THE LINE OF ARGUMENT HELD BIZ THE INTER
The time for the fall elections is now upou ma.
or soon Will be, and my paper is making q
strong point for wavering Republicans by
showing the South to be in q state bordering
almost on civil war. We must represent thai
u will be dangerous for the Democracy in the
North to succeed for, being in sympathy with
the sonth, the negro will be annihilated if
they win. We must keep Democracy down nv
showing terrible state of affairs in the sonti.
where they happen to be in the ascendency, or
where they feel that they are gaining strength.
y DON'T you see Southern Outrages' makes o
big point for Northern Republicans it keeps
them more closely united. And don't Won
know that to
'hoof ONE NEGRO IN THE SOUTH MAKES FORTY
REPUBLICAN VOTES
That's the idea. Now, I'm a Democrat fbe-
tween You and mel; but 1 am working for
bread and peat. You know how that is your-
self. Since came to Vicksburg, I've found
nice and quiet, and really cannot.
tel ~, Inclined say anything else but pre-
haNo W 10 III. IDat8 the policy of
the Inter-O Ocean. 1 find no ostracism here
have have Interviewed Capt Fred Speed, Capt.
lS beard, and many others; and though
Ihey are Northern men and Republicans, they
tell me they have long been Disguised with the
Vlliainles of men high in office in this State.
and are now members of the Peoples party.
noticed last night, at the. meeting of the order
d Bine and Gray, a Republican and ex-Eederal
soldier in the cbair,-Coi Charles E. FnrIonS.
and Capt Cowan and Col. R. ". Bootb,-both
'x-Co9federate soldiers,-orators of the even
ng. shall publish their addresses in full. if
can get them. Oh! Yesl Vicksbure ia an
'greeable city, and shall leave it with o very
,cod opinion of her people,"
Suppose ahould publish our interview in
ou think 7" tN
"Well should
LOSE NY PLACE!
'nt You wouldn't do that, would your Are Won
newspaper man I" (Astouished, perhaps, that
eporter)
Yes. / was formerly in that very lucrative |
leasant, and enviable business, but have re. |
red." - ~