The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-17
OPEN LETTER TO GRANTS WARRIOR
New ORLEANS Jan. Is, 1876.
To Lieutenant General Philip Sheridan:

Geae7'ul-As you are about to prepare a state
snent Of Southern ou,rages since the war, l au
taking it for granted that you purpose to max
a true statement Of all the facts connected wit
these outrages, and that your statements alroad
made have been erroneous not from cesire Oh
your par: to prevar,cate, but from the fact tina
you have ostracised yourself from the gentlemen
composing the Conservative party and have asso
ciated with those alone who belong to the part
of plunderers do not call them Republicans
an appellation which they no more deserve thai
did the camp-followers OF your army deserve Il
bs called soldlers.) From these and such a
these, you have seen fit to gain all your nforma
ton.
Why this course should have been adopted by
you it is impossible for me even to guess, ioas
much as cannot conceive OF an officer OF the
United States army 80 parties IN in feeling as te
array himself in open hostility against an entire
population, because Of love for any clique OF
political party, and more especially when your
proudest boast and that Of your friends has been
your soldierly qualifications. l cannot believe
that you would have allowed partisan feeling to
influence you in your statement and have adopted
tho belief in the one. sided statements you have
had poured into your ears since your arrival here,
Consequently this letter. and I now ask you to
call for such information as can and would most
willingly be furnished by reliable citizens, and
which would enable you to indicate in your forth.
coming report in their proper light, many facts
which now promise to be sadly misrepresented
Will your report mention one Conservative
death among the many thousands of those
whom you are pleased to call Radicals, or rather
will you not allow the Conservative dead take
care OF Themselves, or better still, 90 to swell
that ghostly array which, in the parishes, has
scared 30 many sdherents Of Louisiana Republic
crnsm from the Penitentary to tho Legislative
halls
Would it not be well for you to pause mo.
men; in your head. ng investiga ton, and call
Tor q list OF the outraged women and maidens in
the South since the war deeds peIpetrated by
fiends calling themselves Republicans, and yet
awaiting their reward Of a carr and mule prom
ised for their supp 1T by fiends whittier in skin
may be, but far hacker III heart.
The people Of Louisiana are not afraid Of but
seek investigation at the hands of any fair. un.
biased mind. !! therefore, call on you to investi-
and provocation in the Coushatta snd Colfax
affairs to be, not Conservative intimidation. but
the ovcrbearlnS Entertainments Of Radical place
mon and their benghted followers, whom they de-
serted in the hour of need to suffer for them
Did Conservative intimidation cause b.nd of
Ignorant armed negroes to march on Donaldson
vile, and the brutal murder of Judge Laws |
Was 1T Conservative intimidation which taught |
the members OF the socllled Republican Leg,s-
iatnre OF Louisiana to make fortunes in sixty
days at eight dollars per day? Investigate still |
further, by putting Gov. Kellogg on the witness.
stand, and ask him how the White League
can be guilty OF all the crime in this city, when he
finds it proper in fourteen months to pardo,
eighty-four convicts; he is not so pure and spot
less politician as to have done this to swell the
conservative vote. Ii DESTROYS Of investigate
still further call on the Directors of the Charity
Hospital and inquire into the discharge OF the
nlsht watchman, Capt. Sullivan. Was a simple
report OF the character OF those admitted prov
ng that the wounding negroes were injured by
1egroes) sufficient cause, or did his party find
nm getting too candid for their present use ? But
perhaps Capt. SIS case will be disposed of by
aging that the Enforcement Act was passed for
he benefit OF the negro OF the South and not for
he white man.
Examine the record of crime in this city. and !
ote the comparative quietness of the city when
very policeman was absent marauding through O
he parishes. Irefer, Of course to time prior 10 !
september IA, up to which time the police were
thoroughly drilled, armed and organized Does
ms LOOK like iawlessns 80 on the part of the white
itizens! But even admit for sake of arpumcnt
hat crime has increased. are the Conservatives q
be held responsible whom the criminal goes
whipped Of justice, with tho entire Judiciary Of
ne State IN Republican hands and with Repub. f
can jury! /! assume by parity of reasoning
lust majority CT the juries be Republican but a
presume this question will be answered by tho
ID cry OF intimidation. The one white man in
midates the eleven colored voters on the jury,
irrounded on all sides by Republican officials, M
I'd prisoner is found guilty only to be turned ;.
'qse bS the pardoning power of the Governor.
presume a. You claim to be nothing OF law
Dr., lat any rate it has been claimed for you by B
,ar superiors) it would be useless to cali your a,
tention to the illegal acts of the Returning ~
GARD and the congressional committee have
me that body ample justice but it should re- W
lre no legal learning to note the discrepancies nj
,i,snng between the census as taken by the Uni.
st registration. I'll
In conclusion, 1t would be but just to take the
tie OF the Penitentiary, at Baton Rouge, 10 find
o ratio between Radical and Conservative Grim at
a1s. TRUTH.