The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-15
Sheridan.

Gen. Sheridan having reported TO the
Secretary of War in a dispatch of the 4th
instant that the people of Louisiana at
! large were breathing yer geance to all
lawful authority and approving of murder
and other crimes, the following was
adopted and signed by the distinguishes
ep gentlemen whose names are attached
and whose word will be taken as true
throughout the length and breadth of
this entire country:
WHEREAS, He has given to that COM
munication full publicity, we the unders
signed, believe it is our duty to proclaim
to the whole American people that these
charges are unmerited, uufOunded, and
erroneous, and can have nOiother effect
than of serving the interests of corrupt
politicians, who are at this moment
making the most extreme efforts to per-
petuate their power in our State of
Louisiana.
New ORLEANS, Jan. 3, 1875.
TSignedl n j. PERCKE,
Archbishop of New Orleans.
j. p b. Wilmer, Bishop of Louisiana,
j. K Gutheim, Pastor of Temple Sinai,
j G. Keener, Bishop NJ f. C. South,
G. Dali, Rector of St Joseph's Church,
and many others.
At a meeting of twenty-eight bank
preside nts and cashiers the following was
also unanimous adopted
Resolved, That we have read with
profound surprise and Indignation the
dispatches of General Sheridan to the
Secretary of War, and feel it our duty
to enter our solemn protest against the
assertions it contains as unfounded, in
fact, and hereby repel them and brand
them with such indignation as behOoVes
honest and loyal citizens.
On the 9th, the bloody minded Lieut..
General sent the following to the Score
tary of War:
The city is very quiet to-day. Some
of the banditti made idle threats last
night that they wou assassinate me,
| because | dared to tell the truth. / am
not afraid, and will not be stopped, from
| informing the Government that there
are localities in this department where
the very air has been impregnated with
assassination for some years
CSigned] p Ii. SHERIDAN,
Lieutenant>GeneralC ommauding
The above will shaw to our readers
very clearly the real truth as to the status
of affairs IN New Orleans, regardless
of what may have since taken
place, especially when they remember,
as we stated last week, that legally
elected house of representatives of tie
State has been dispersed by federal bay
onets
Thousands of people all over the
Union are denouncing the acts of Sheri-
dan and the policy of Grant in the Lou>
isiana matter as subversive of popular
liberty and in keeping with the spirit of
a military despotism.
The people of Louisiana will make no
armed res;sta nee to this gu TRACE, as her
enemies desire. Intact this is justwhat the
radical leaders most do heartily desire,
in order that they may "fre the north m
heart" by proclaiming that the people
in the South are in open rebellion.
We have faith that the exercise of
still further patience viii be greatly to
the advantage net only to the people of
Louisiana but to those Of the whole
south The tide that began to flow in
Move mber needs only alittle more time
to sweep the rascals from power who
know nothing of being restrained by
CONSTITUTE onal provisions.
In few more weeks the radical ma
| joritY in the lower house of congress
will be among the things of the past,
and while a radical president and cor.
rupt senate may clog the wheels of
wholesome legislation, democratic
house can keep federal baYonets from
the threats of those peopl, in the South
who have no rights which Sheridan feels
bound to respect
The rebuke that this satrap is now
receiving from the press and people of
the whole Union will not effect him in
the least, as a man Of his training and
instincts can brook no assertion, upon
the part of citizens, of rights guaranteed
bY civil law. Nothing but prompt meas
ures of democratic Congress next year
can rid the country Of such men as Sher-
idan. We wait in patience to see it.
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REFLECTING people every where will
notice the contrast presented where