New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-14

puoic service. au, Ell, very respectfully
+. D. TOWNSEND.
Adjutan3 General.
Copy of above letter furnished General
Mcdowell, commanding military division
OF the South. January ,, 1873.
.Copy Of Telegram:
AgAparARrERs MILITARY DIVISION OF Missouri, I
Chicago, ILL.,. December T6. 1874. )
General ". W. Belknap. Secretary OF War. Wash
ington. d. c.:
Your letter received. All right
+. H. SHERIDAN.
Lieutenant General.
Headquarters ARMY OF THE UNlrKD STATES.
st. Louis, Mo-. December 80 1874.
GENERAL-I have the honor to acknOwl.
edge the receipt OF your confidential COM
munication of December &c, with Enclosures.
Your Obedient servant,
w. 7. SHERMAN.
General.
Genera, ". W. Belknap Secretary Of War. Wash.
ington, District Of Columbia
Next follows telegram from
Wilt1
To the President informing him Of his election
as Speaker of the House. and protesting
against armed interference with the Legis.
lature.
Next appear the
Tele9pams Of Sheridan
Dated January 5, addressed to the Secretary
Of War, relating to terrorism, banditti, etc.
General Sheridan sends to the War Depart.
ment for its information
letter fro1n Major alerrill.
Dated Shreveport, December 80. lie
gives the facts as 70 the probabilities Of
violence there. and says the three Repub.
lican members declared elected 70 the Leg.
islature by tho Returning Board. who have
gone to New Orleans to take their seats,
beyond doubt could not safely return here
/ now. Outside OF the officers named
above. there is no ono lefa here 60 do
| violence upon. The leading Radicals have
LETT. The usual worrying and harrassing
! of tie negroes goes on with little intermis.
| sion, but lately no acts Of violence to perv
SOB have come to my Knowledge: such acts
now are confined to piundering them with
! or without some show Of legal forms and
driving them from their homes to seek
| places to live elsewhere The conlict 'ov
| the offices, whether conducted by p,.aceabl.
| legal means or by violence, will stop what
legal check now exists upon crime aud
wrong doing. and will greatly agsrayate the
| condition OF things. watch is already
serious enough, but do no. apprehend
tia. it will rasult in disorder at
present: because there is nothing left to
work upon except the c.mmoner orders.
| dil'A patty OCCett!5'v AHt SF'tbiDS W Hltc
Lea .,uers have gone to New Orleans. The
Telegrams of sheridan
TO the Secretary Of War. and those from
the Secretary to Sheridan. heretofore pub.
| lished. appear in the correspondence, and
also the following:
". ". Belknap, Secretary Of War. washington:
Several prominent people have for the
| last few days been passing resolutions and
manufacturing sensational protests for
Northern political consumption. They seem
to be trying to make martyrs of themselves.
| 1t can not be- done at this late day. There
have been too many bleeding negroes and
| ostraeised white citizens for their state.
,nents to be believed by fair minded people
Bishop Wilmer protests agains. my tela.
gram OF the fourth instant. forgetting that
| on Saturday last he testitied under oath
before the congressional committee that
the condition Of AifaiEs here was substaa.
tally as had as reported by the.
viii soon send you a statement Of tho
number OF murders committed in this
State during the last three or four years.
and the perpetrators IT which ara sti!l
unpunished. l think thai the number will
The city is perfectly quiet. Ne trouble Is
r. II. SHERIDAN.
Lieutenant General.
Sheridan sends communication to the
Secretary OF War. no signature. ~ Nlus-
trat!nG action OF the
Eanditti OF Louisiana.
In kidnapping a member elec: o. :hs I.yis-
ia,ure. Next follows Sheridan's telegram
to the Secretary OF War dated January 3.
already published. submitting q report OF
affairs az they occurred in the organization
OF the State Lee, stature, also the following
:eleyram:
NEW ORLEANS. January 10 1875.
Hon. ". ". Beiknap. Secretary of War; Washing.
ton District OF Columbia:
Since the year 1866 nearly $500 persons. a
great ma ority Of whom were C0ioyc1. have
been
Killed and Wounded
In t:ais State. In ls6S the official record
shows that 1884 were killed and wounded.
From 1868 to the present time no official
investigation has been Ms'.c. and the civil
authorities. IN all bu: few cases. have been
! unable to arrest, convict and punish perpe-
traitors; consequently there are no c.rgec:
records to be consulted Cor information.
There il ample evidence. however, to
show that more than 400 persol ~ have
been killed and wounded during this time
| Gn accoun: VI their political sentiments.
| F2ight!u! massacres have Occa.ed ia the
parishes of Boss:er. CaGdO, Catahoula. s..
y
The general character OF .hc n.assacres n
| the above named parishes is 70 we'll known
| that j: j, unnecessary to descr;be them.
| The isolated cases can be best illustrated
| by the following instance = which take
| from mass OF evidenc. now lying before
lnc of men killed OF account ct Their politi-
cal principles. In NatchitUches parish the
| number OF isolated cases reported is thirty.
| three. In :ne parish o: Hlenv..:. the mum.
Der Of men killed is thirty. In Rcd River
} uaarish the isolated cases Of men killed is
thirty.four. In VIM parish the number OF
| isolated cases where men were killed is If
! teen. In JACKSON parish the humber killed il,
twenty. In Catahoula parish the Luub Der OF
isolated cases reported where men were
killed is fifty. and most o. the country par
ishes throughout the State Will snow a cor.
responding state of affairs.
| The following statements will illustrate
che character and kind OF these outrages:
On the thirtieth of August, 1874, in Red
River parish, six State and parish officers.
named Twitchell, Devices: Holland. Howell,
Edgerton and Willis, were taken together
with four negroes, under guard, to be car.
| ried out of the State and we're deliberately
murdered On the twenty ninth of August.
/ 1874, the White League tried, sentenced