The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-01-21

eieri"ah 10 secretary Bclknap, representing
the State Of Louisiana to be in a state of. or
bordering on, anarchy. At meetings of the
Cotton Exchange, the Merchants Exchange
and other gatherings resolutions were
adopted dcnouncing the statements of
Gen. Sheridan as false in point of fact and
calculated to convey wrong impression to
the people in other sections John McEnerv
sent protest to President Grant against the
acts OF the United States forces in the State
House Oh the 5th. Some talk was had of
compromise of some sort in regard to the
Legislature. Gen. Sheridan had sent another
telegram to the Secretary of War, in which he
expressed the opinion that the terrorism
now existing in Louisiana, Mississippi and
Arkansas could be entirely removed and
confidence and fair-dcaling established
by the arrest and trial of the
rinylcadcrs of the armed White
Leagues" He suggests that il Congress would
pass bill declaring them banditti, they
could DC tried by Il military commission.
Among the witnesses before the Congress
sional Investigation Committee Oh the
9Th were cx-Gov. Hahn and Gov. Kel-
logg. In the course of his state
Government could support itself without the
United States forces, he claiming that the
great bulk of his supporters are in the coun-
try, while large element opposed to his ad-
ministration reside in the city.
Gen. Sheridan sent dispatch to Secretary
Belknap Oh the 9th to the effect that the city
of New Orleans was very quiet. Idle threats
had been made to assassinate him (Sheridan)
but he was not afraid and would not be
stopped from enforcing the Government Or
dcrs. The Chairman of the Committee of
Seventy had issued a card calling on his fel-
low-citizens to avoid by all means the troops
sent into their midst, as their delivcrance
from political bondage depended on their
prudence and forbearance, and a conflict with
the soldiers Or authorities would bring ruin
to their hopes and the riveting of their chains.
According to the Masters report to the
Wisconsin State Grange there are now sos
Oranges in the State, as against ;4 last year.
Gov. Allen on the It'll sent a special message
to the Ohio Legislature protesting against
the action of the Federal troops in connection
with the organization Of the Louisiana Lcgis-
lature.
A card was published at Little Rock, Ark,
on the 9TH, signed by Bishop Fitzgerald, Pre-
siding Elder Winfield and four other
clergymcn, protesting against Gen. Shcri-
dams statement that terrorism cX-
listed in that State, claiming that no such ter
rorism had existence there, and that there
was no repression of public opinion or private
action except that imposed by an ordinary
code of laws.
DR.. Leighton Coleman, of Toledo, Ohio,
has been elected Bishop of the newly formed
Episcopal Convention in Wisconsin.
Gen. Sheridan has made an official report
concerning the troubles in New Orleans on
the organization of the State Legislature, in
which he insists that the course taken by the
military authorities was justihable and nee
cssary to prevent violence and blood
shed, and that the Conservatives
first called on Gen. dc Trobriand
for his interference L. A. Wilt, the Conserv-
alive Speaker, has also made statement, in
which he says lie did not call on the General
for his interference further than to request
him TO address few words to parties seek
Ing to create Il disturbance at the time
of his attempting to perfect an organization
The City Council Of New Orleans on the
9th, at the suggestion of the Mayor, adopted
Il resolution to the effect that the statements
of Gen. Sheridan in regard to the condition of
society in that city and State, and the in
security of life and property, were unfoundcd
i'll fact and an unjustitia BILE libel
The Republican members of the Lou
isiana Legislature have made report con-
corning the proceedings in that body on the
4th, which in the main comedies with the Of
fetal statement made by Gen. Sheridan.
The public schools in New Orleans re-
opened on the nth with large attendance.
There was no trouble.
A Republican meeting was held in New
Orleans on the evening of the 18th and was
largely attended. Resolutions were adopted
indorsng the kilograms of Gen. Sheridan,
and stating that his representations were only
defective in that they did not tell half the
story of Outrages to which Republicans i'll
Louisiana had been subjected in years past