The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-11-10
LIGHT AHEAD.

It appears that there is limit even to Rad
ical audacity. 1t appears that citizens even
Of the insignificant little State of Louisiana
have some rights that military brigards act
inpsunder instructions from Attorney General
Williams must not override. Itappears that,
after all, private corporations like the w. U.
T. Co. have some right to complain of their
property being destroyed by United States
troops. In short, it would appear that the
late Democratic breeze which has swept over
the country, has lifted the fog banks Of Radi-
cal lies which have hung over the South like a
poisonous miasma and revealed in all its
hideous deformity the oppression and terror
ism exercised by the party in power to main.
tain its9lt.
We learn that the War Department, which
has until very recently, been given over to
The manipulation and control of the notori-
ously unjust head Of the Department of
Justice, (so-caied,) has become alarmed at
the high-handed and outrageous operations of
Major Merrill and Lieuts. Mcintosh and
Hodgson, and other unprincipled henchmen
of Williams, Packard, Beckwith & Co., and
has instructed Gen. Emory, (who seems to
have resumed command of the Department
since Packard failed SO ANONYMOUSLY in his
use Of the troops for political purposes,) to
institute rigorous inquiry into the acts Of
the three worthless mentioned above.
Gen. Emory is specially requested to ascer-
tain what his subordinates meant by ignoring
all army precedents, in arresting and insult.
ing reputable citizens, cutting telegraph wires
in time Of peace, and we are inclined to be-
lieve the General will not be slow to bring
these military outlaws to realizing sense of
their scandalous and outrageous proceedings.
General Emory had already ordered an in
vestigation into the conduct Of some Of his
subordinates, but upon the receipt Of in
struction from the War Department yesterday,
he dispatched General Henry A. Morrow,
Lieutenant Colonel of the Thirteenth Infantry,
to Vienna with orders to take testimony and
make searching investigation into all the
circumstances attendant upon the alleged
outrages on the part Of the military and to
report the facts, with the view, if the facts
should justify such course, of placing the
offending officers under arrest
General Morrow, who is represented to us as
fair minded gentleman, and whose admins
tration of tie Department of Utah during the
troubles with the Mormons gave such general
satisfaction, left last evening for Vienna, and
will. we are quite sure, do all he can to relieve
the army from the odium cast upon it by
few characterless fellows who have disgraced
themselves and the service
We learn also, that President Orion, of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, has writ
ten sharp letter to the Department at Wash
ington, demanding to know by what authority
any officers cut telegraph wires when martial
law is not in force.
Altogether, there is much to be thankful
for. and now that the Government has thrown
aside both its diminishing and msgnifying
glass, ala is looking fairly and squarely at
Louisiana with the view of correcting such
evils as it may have the power to control, it is
not too much to expect an era of peace and
prosperity.