The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-28
INTIMIDATION AND OSTRAOIsM.

At this time, when Federal officers
who have been sent down here to Dragon the
{ people of Louisiana into slavish submission
to bald and wretched usurpation-are being
brought forward to testify against us when
a man like Merrill has the unblushng eff
t frontery to go before the committee and
swear to statements every one of which is
sufficiently refuted by General Morrow (who
IS gentleman as well as SOLDIER, we point
with pleasure to the following letter from the
New York Tribune of the Goth instant written
by gentleman who was in the Federal navy
during the war and who has resided in New
Orleans for several years past
The testimony OF one such witness is worth
more than that of all the bad characters and
worthless fellows who pirate to the Congress
sional Committee about ostracism. but who
would be ostracised in any society outside of
penitentiary or Radical Legislature, We
ask the gentlemen of the committee to read
this letter and to call upon such gentlemen
from the North such ex-officers of the army
and navy who may have resided here for
some time, to testify as to the real feeling
existing in the community in regard to them. |
We would suggest that the first question
asked be, "Do you hold office under Kel-
logg and the second, 81 Have you any pe-
cuniary interest in the maintenance of the
Kellogg Government?
10 the Editor of the Tribune:
Sri served during our late alteration in
the navy of Uncle Sam In that service T
continued until 1872, at which date / resigned
ana began business in this city. was Or
ordered to New Orleans in 1870 and Judging !
by the reputation given to the native residents
OF this section by the Radical press of the
North, expected to be snubbed on account
OF my buttons, and to receive the cold shoul
der because OF my shoulder straps On
.ne contrary, however, [ soon became
intimately associated with many men r
with whom but few years before
|, could have conversed only under a
lag OF truce, and among these to-day count
many OF my warmest friends. Within few
months after my arrival, and while still on
iuty as an officer, l was elected a manager in i,
wo OF the prominent benevolent orcaniza-
ions OF his city, where several of nv CO.
aDorers were gentlemen whose names have
,een very prominent in opposition to the
Kellogg usurpation. In all these relation
hips, as well as in my church connection in u
his city, have uniformly received the most
ordlal greeting, and have as yet, failed to r
discover any signs of ''ostracism. N
In a recent Interview '.P. s. is reported "
have said that many Northern men in this +
ectlon dare not testify upon this subject for b
ear OF still further commercial loss. For
he, however having for few weeks breathed
ne same air with the Lieutenant General
L, too "am not afraid and can draw
eff fu rflo
le slanderous nature of the stories with
hlch that warrior mas. been startling the
)untry. Having left the navy, [ formed a d
partnership with gentleman Who during
lie war, was in the employ of the Confed
ate Navy DEPARTMENT.
"Can such things be
And overcome us like summer cloud
without our special wonder o.
Here Greek met Greek and surely the "tue
war was to be expected. The facts in
e case, however, are briefly these: Located nj
the commercial center of the city, within JAG
one's throw of the Cotton Exchange. and del
srtlng with a very small circle of customers, by
r business has steadily increased, having ~
ore than doubled in two years, while TODAY IL
majority OF our constant patrons are among
principal cotton factors and commission Fol-
'rchants of this city. inf,
Such Is the epitome of an ex- Yankee officers nro
lr years experience as resident in Louisi- r.
!, as conirasted with the hear-say testimony 'ls
the Northumberland who, hating here MS
a few weeks en- route to Cuba, gathers dat
out him company of sycophantic politi- gre
ms and decrepit carpet baggers. When is 81
J l used to ostracise Off there CHANGED to be mos
better weapon than oyster shells at handy GOV,
blood-suckers that fastened on my legs y
en- in bathing, and such according to nv =
y constant and studious observation of the ran
gress of social reconstruction in Louisiana spe
been the only ostracism practised toward
Northern immigrants to this State Exh
iere and there may be found veteran of of IL
Confederate Home Guards" that swore ran,
er to leave home except in case of an in .ro
ion, who "can't bear the sight of Yam . aio
/, but among those whose ardor in the .ion
lfederate cause was of the belligerent type, ALL
ave as yet failed to find anything but the No.
1T cordial and courteous welcome Mine
OF an isolated case, but its counterpart ~,
be found in the recent history of many -
thern men in this city, yet, as in several w. -,
ortant particulars, it is a peculiarly direct IL
tation of the falsehoods by which the S S,, 'r +
ogg Government is sought to be perpetu- a aun :
+, cannot forbear, though at the expense true
eemlng egotistical, thus briefly sketch cura
lt. A. NJ NJ dies.
ew Orleans, Jan. II, 1875.