Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-02-11
LOUISIANA AFFAIRS.

We find the following letter in the New YORK
Times, to the editor of which it was directed. 1t
is endorsed as from perfectly reliable as well as
intelligent source. The writer is doing business
there. He is from the North, served in the nion
Army, but is not politician in any sense OF the
term. He is associated with gentleman who has
lived in New Orleans from his youth up. As it
disagrees very widely from the statements which
have previously appeared in the Times, it is safe
to conclude that it has respectable origin at least
else it would doubtless have not appeared in the
columns Of that paper.
NEW ORLEANS Jan. %, 1870.
DEAR have been intending wrtirg you
few lines on the situation here but have not yet
had time. viii try to now. First, in regard to
Sheridan, am entirely satisfied, from " hat have
seen and heard myself, and from what have Of
the personal experience OF E--and others, that
TSheridanl did not overstate the lawessress ex-
istnp in this State at ALL know that his despatch
describing the state Of affairs here substantial
" correct, though polite man would, 70 doubt,
have worded his dispatches differently But while
it seems clear that it is absolutely necessary for the
protection of Union men and the negroes that
Sheridan and Grant should be fully supported, and
that United States troops be kept here as long as
matters remain they are at present, think 1T Is
equally clear that the Kellogg Government is a
good one only in comparison with what the Nc
Emery Government would be. The cause of the
trouble lies in An antagonism between two extreme
classes-the old Shareholders, including all the
brain of the rebellion, representing capital in large
part, on one side, ard the poorer whites and the
negroes on the other. The former have suffered
severely from taxation and bad legislation, and
their passions are reused to such an extent that
they are entirely desperate, and in this condition
they are struggling for the control ofthe Govern
ment. If they obtain it the condition OF the other
class will be much worse than either under preseIt
circumstances, and republican would have about
as good q show here an Abolitionist did before
the war. On the other hand, the negroes have
been given the ballot as means of etfprotechoa.
They are mere children in civil polity, and under
the teachings OF Warmoth, his followers and 9TH
er rascals it Is no to be wondered at that this city
and State are sadded with debt that they are
unable to bear.
The present conflict is extremely ruinous to all
is altogether irrepressible. 1t seems to Us here,
also, that Congress has shirked its duty in not
meeting the Louisiana case. taking no action it.
self, and large part of it conlemning Grant and
Sheridan for taking the only action they possibly
could take under the circumstances. SO far as
the military interference" on the 4th of January
is concerned, it is thought by all Union people
here that Wendell Phillips hit the nail exactly on
the head in his speech in Fanuel Hall, and these
people, who went against secession and were
Union men throughout the war, are now looking
anxiously for every indication of public feeling at
the North, in the strong hope that Sheridan may
be sustained. OF course you know that have
no political bias on either side, but have tried to
state the case just see it after careful exam-
nation. Yours truly. W. NJ