The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-01-23

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Atse fn9 tount the news
papers, many leadipe Republicans art
waiting log fHfher information belors
m8kinnu ITS tiieir minds about the Tonis.
iana troubles They depreoale the
discussion that hns arisen before
offleal information ms been receiv.
d Tibet they conint.d. may change
She Whoe aspect III THINGS.
Official information. indeed
These Nouhiars seem to forget that Che
telegraph has heea invented. mla that
We IRE not living in the Old time 81
slow coaches
Wha difference Is official informa-
tiOh SONG Us make Ia tie correspon-
deMee between Tieai &en Ghefidaa
on the one hand aud President Gront,
through lhe secretary 81 Ner, ca Che
oihcff Clio dispatches in 1iill are
Given. They oannnt he changed.
Nothing So re added 81 thegl and
nothing can he taken from thefn.
& heridon teleofanhs far Congress I'd
pass an ret of for The President to-
iA,ue proclamation, declaring the
White Meagners handisti, and indicating
that, as soon AZ either Is done lie win
assaasinate them and the Secretary
Of War replied
1.-THE President md an Of as have
llill confidence md thoroughly approve
yDnr course
WI W BEnfNtp
secrCtary ~ War
4 q r e.
If This, about waiting for ofiloial intel
ligence Theletters are both given ii
full nobody questions tleir authen-
ticitv; they ARE ohiciai and ave all
the information required TO form an
opinion as 10 The atrocity and infamy
Ut the correspondence.
Just read these letters over again;
HRApQuARTHps MrIIrARY DIVISION
aF rHR Missouri
New Orleans, In, Jan B, 1876.
Hon. ~. " Belknap, Secretary Of
War Washington, ID G.
think that The terrorism now exist
ing ia L0nisianp, Mississippi and Ar
kansas could he entirely removed, and
confidence and fair dealing established,
nv the arrest and trial Of the ringlead-
ers Of the ARMED White Leagues.
If CONGRESS would pass bin de-
claring them banditti, they could be
tried by 4 military commission.
The leaders 81 this banditsi. who
murdered men here on the 18th of last !
September. and also more recently at
Yieksburg Aliss., shouid, IN Justice to |
law md order, and The peace aud pros
perity 10 this southern part Of the |
country, he punished
1T il possible TINT IL the President |
would Issue 4 proclamation declaring |
them banditti that Do further action
need be taken except that which would |
devOlve upou me-.
r. III SHERTDAN,
Lieut. Gen. o. 81 Army.
And the Secretary Of War replied:
WAR DEPARTMENT, |
Washii gton, Jan. 6 |
Gen. r, H Sheridan, New Orleans.
The President and all Of us have fun |
confidence ID and thoroughly approve
your course. WIZ ia BELENAP,
Secretary Of War.
Every freeman should cut ont this |
correspondence and pnt IL III His vest
pocket. He should take Il out and
read it over very often. for it is difficult
toretain IN the mind. even after IL "a
once formed, the belief that Lieut.
General a. the Army Of the United
States, and d SpcFeinry 0f War under
the direction 81 The President, actually
wrote such dispatches as these. They
nra something new, sometfiag memoir
allie IN American history. Whenever
lover of his country feels his indie.
nation cooling. let him read this corre-
Fpnndence. and it win mako the paili-
otto blood In lis veins Jingle afresh.
0fiiciali Did we whit to get the news
under rcd tape and sealing WAX before
our hosoms burned with patriotic fire
1t the echo or tile FIRST gun fred ut
Fort sumter
Eucalyptus Globnlns.
Frow the New nFtans Times.
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