The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-11-02
TIE TRUTH UNPALATABLE.

| newspapers and which is at the very bottom
of the ladder of responsibility in journalism.
has recently been thrown into quite q spasm
of excitement and anger by having had to lis
ten to unpalatable truths from gentleman
who was formerly an officer of the Union
army, but who is now citizen of New Or
leans attending to Legitimate business, and
| he and his family as much part of the Peo-
pie as those who have lived here all their lives.
| The infamous falsehood the Inter Ocean had
published with SO much gusto, the palpable
SANDERS against our people it had printed in
the hope az infaming the worst passions OF
the Northern people, tickled the SUPERFICIAL
jackanapes who edits it wonderfully, and his
frantic rawlings and metaphorieal fosa1ings at
the mouth, no doubt did much to disgust
many Decent and good people and>cause them
( to vote the Democratic ticket in the late cleo
ton n the West
Is it not wonderful, therefore, that the sab
joined letter from a fair minded and intelligent
gentleman should have nightly stirred up hi.
bile and 50 him to splitting cut his venom
upon the devoted head of the Southern people
IN general and more especially upon the
writer OF the letter.
The following is sample of the style o.
eulogy INDUCED in by the Inter- Ocean man
when he must have been in one of his most
rabid moods:
| "Ar. S. Tyler Read is unknown to US. So
far as our information goes, he is also I'M
known to fame; though if We are to take his
word for it, he was very Caring and intrepid
soldier. Whatever he may have been, how
ever, we know what he is now. He is the
apoiogist Of the Ku-Klux; defender, proba-
bly, member, of the White League; the per
secutor of white and celored Republicans; an
ally Of those who were traitors, against those
who were always faithful to the dag-in brief,
a recxeant Northerner, the ick-spittle OF
| Southern chivalry, and the ready tool of vim
dictive hate and baffled treason.
We knew such men during the war; men
who wore the blue, to disgrace it; men always
swift to inform Southern men and women that
they (these Northerners) did not fight 70,
liberty; that they gloried in slavery, and only
shouldered arms for the preservation of the
Union. We have no very exalted opinion OF
the general intelligence Of Southern people,
but they had sufficient sense to despise such
toadies during the war, and unless they have
lost all conception Of manliness, they do yet. "
"We tell Mr.. S. TYLER Read, and the whole
class with whom he trains, be they Northern
or Southern born, that these things must
cease in the South. They and their perpetra-
tors are blot upon the nation, a reproach to
the country, and disgrace to civilization.
If he has become SO lost to honor and manli-
ness as to applaud these atrocities, he should
renounce his nativity and never more claim
fellowship with the freedom-loving people Of
the North"
| All this and about column more was
drawn out by the following truthful and
manly epistle
New ORLEANS, La, Oct. 2, 1874.
To the Editor of the Inter-Osean
Sir Accidentally there has just fallen into
my hands copy Of dispatches sent to your
paper by your correspondent in this city
during the excitement attendant upon the
late uprising of our citizens on the 18th ult-
I write upon the presumption that you wish
to publish in your journal only such state
ments as are true and just The author Of
the dispatches referred to is, am glad to say,
not numbered among my acquaintance, and
is guilty in those dispatches (whoever he may
be) of the most brazen and unblushing men,
dacity with which a responsible public journal
was ever victimiZed He can have the ben
eft of making this assertion as personal as he
may desire.
1 am an ex-oficer of the United States
Army. and served. during the late war against
the South, under Butler, Banks, Sheridan,
and our present military commander, Gen.
Emory. The records of my promotion
through various grades to Recommendation
for Brevet Brigadier Generals commission
H. IS %1ox ,11,1o
wanted. Charmed by this magnificent eli
mate no less than by the sterling nobility and
manhood Of the people. made my home
here and among them as soon as the war was
over. l have resided here with my family ever
since, and must attest that I and mine have
been always kindly, warmly, and magnani-
mously received and treated by this people,
whom your correspondent willfully, outrage
ously, and criminally traduces. Nor do
know in all my acquaintance Of any Northern
man, or ex-oficer or soldier of the United
States Army. who has beenthe victim here Of
insult or social ostracism, unless he came here
they have patiently tolerated in their
midst scoundrels, who, for the same acts
in any Northern community, would have
quickly ornamented lamp-posts, or been Or
namented with coats not procurable at the
tailor's is again for the thousandth time evil
dent in the fact that your correspondent,
plainly guilty as l have stated above, walks
our streets, ''lives, moves, and has his being"
publicly at our finest hotel, and is unmolest-
ed If he wishes to find living refutation of
his outrageous calumnies, he can very readily
find me on the square adjoining his hotel, at
my Office, No. 10 Carondelet street 1 shall
deem it an evidence Of the general fairness
which believe to be characteristic of your
iourna1 If Won will olive this q Mace in its col
umns. 1t is not just that such statements as
your correspondent has made should be per-
mitted to stand uncontradicted by Northern
men who, like myself, have received the
warnest welcome and have found my truest
friends among the very men who were bravest
when they ''wore the gray"
S. TYLYR Rad
Examine your ticket carefully to-day.
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