The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-27
ONE OF GRANTS FALSEHOODS.

[St. Paul Letter to the New York World.]
The President in his message the other day
puts one OF the Louisiana outrages" in these
words:
Several Northern young men of capital and
enterprise had started the little and flourish
ing town of Coushatta. Some of them were
Republicans and office-holders under Kellogg.
They were, therefore. doomed to death. Six
of them were seized and carried away from
their homes and murdered in cold blood. No
one has been punished, and the Conservative
press of the State denounce all efforts to that
end, and boldly justified the crimes.
A statement like this-even from President
Grant, Attorney General Williams and Lieut..
Gen. P. H. Sheridan-is calculated to astonish
a person who has lived in sparsely-settled re-
gions of the West and South, and has OBJ
served how very welcome "men OF capital
and enterprise are in such communities.
Please state the following facts, in any
words you like, in reference to these enter
prising young men:
Some years since the notorious Warmoth
took with him to Louisiana several young
men from the city of New York. My inform
ant, now a resident Of this city, was invited
to 90. They were promised offices in differ
ent parishes, in return for which they under
took to manipulate returns Of elections in the
interest OF Warmoth and his associates.
Ny informant thought this likely to prove
an unhealthy occupation IN the end, con
fessed his fears" and remained in New York.
A few months afterward, Mr. Dewees-called
Danvers in General Sheridans letter-returned
to New York. He came for the purpose of
getting wife, and was in happy, contiden-
tial frame of mind. He stated to his friends
that he and one of Gen. Grants Northern
Young men of capital and enterprise were in
possession, under a tax title, OF plantation,
his own share of the crop from which was
worth 500, 600 year, and that they got it in
this way: The sheriff was negro; the gentle
man who owned the plantation was very OBJ
noxious to all Republicans; he had paid his
taxes, but the sheriff had returned them I'M
paid. Again he paid them, but, to use the
words of this Mr.. Devices, eve put up a job
on him, and the sum he paid them the sum
he didn't pay them" The result was that Mr..
Devices and his friend had possession without
paying anything for it.
Now, Mr. Editor, this Mr.. Devices was one
Of the Northern young men Of capital and
enterprise" who was shot by some persons
in the "Coushatta massacre
am no apologist for murder, not even of
a thieying miscreant like Devices. But would
such person be esteemed very highly in the
quietest neighborhood in New England? His
life would certainly not be worth week IS
purchase in Minnesota.
The people of the North claim, and they
have right to claim. that when a Southern
man comes among them and shows himself
honest and industrious, they receive him
gladly as a co-worker with themselves.
What miserable nonsense they believe when
they credit the statements Of Grant, Williams,
Sheridan, or anybody else, that the same is
not true of the South
", fbo North uact w Welcome the newcomer
especially if he have capital, because popula-
ton and capital increase our wealth. Why,
the advent of person here from any quarter
of the globe no matter what his political opin-
ions with money to invest III real estate,
would raise the temperature from thirty de-
grees below zero almost to the point OF vege-
tation.
The desire to exchange land for money is
equally strong in the South. l have letter on
letter, pamphlet on pamphlet urging small
capitalists to buy at almost their own prices
The pocket nerve is sensitive in the South
as in the North. In each section 1t is especial
" sensitive in the direction of the purchase
and sale of land
But neither North nor South has any place
for settlers whose enterprise takes the
direction of that of the late MIR. Devices and
his friend.
The proverb of the pot calling the kettle
black reappears in Japan under the form OF
s. the sieve said to the needle you have got
hole in your tail.
Academy matinee to-day-The Vaidis Chill
dren