The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-30
FALSE WITNESSES.


: Judgments of men could be presented than
: to be found in the testimony of the officers {
the United States army, given before the Cor
g gressional Committee, in this city. 1t is q
once ludicrous and fearful ludicrous, for it
palpable absurdity; fearful, for the conse
: quences that have been and may yet be in
volved in it. This prejudice and the com
) plete ignorance by the Northern people O
the character of those of the South, whicl
} they persist in estimating by the theories o
New England parsons rather than by the fact
OF their history, are the chief causes of all the
troubles OF the country, and of that danger
which now threatens the very existence OF
American liberty
These officers testify to the existence of a
feeling of deep hostility on the part of the
white population to the existing government,
which they are, however, compelled to admit
is fully justified. This feeling arises to an in
tense bitterness on the part of perhaps one
third OF their number, the remainder being
more moderate i'll their views; yet the latter
are SO completely overawed by the former
would probably imperil their lives, and would
certainly subject them to ostracism. To this
statement these officers all swear most posi-
lively, and it is presumable that they believe
what they say yet Capt. Allyn heard two
Democrats expressing emphatically toa White
Lacquer their opposition to some of his views,
and one of these was the captain of steam
boat, class OF men who are peculiarly de-
pendent upon public opinion in their bust
ness interests. The Captain did not perceive
that this fact, furnished by himself, was
a perfect erperimentum c,ucis of his
theory, and destroyed it from roof to foun-
dation. Here were two men actually
doing. without any apparent apprehension,
what he asserts to be an act of the utmost te-
merity, which even he, accustomed to pluck
honor from the cannon's mouth, would hard
ly have dared to do. We imagine, however.
that our old friend Capt. Sinnott, who was |
one of these rash individuals, little dreamed |
that he was performing an act of superhuman |
heroism, when he dared to dissent from the
opinions of that dreadful bandit Many years
residence in our midst had taught him that
he sense of individual independence consti-
utes SO marked a Characteristic of the South
srner that about the rashest thine which
nan could undertake would be to trench
lpon it in the st-that it is rather hazardous
even appear to do so-that nine -tenths of
ne community could not suppress the opinion
i the other tenth, could not silence one man
rho was giving just and honest expression to
is convictions. He, therefore, knew nothing
the peril with which the Imagination of
apt. Allyn surrounded him.
The business interests of any man who
ares 70 express Republican sentiments they
wear would be utterly ruined, yet they prove
lat one of the partners of a large, perhaps
Re largest hardware store in Shreveport
hlch is the worst place in the State-is an q
| avowed Republican, and is not bankrupt. j
he white population of Caddo parish is un- d
9r the despotic control of one man-Ir 0
the most violent character, who
dds the large majority of moderate men in
wering terror: yet strange to say, it is ad- !,
ltted that all the officers elected in that ~
IRISH are men of moderate views and ire ii
oachable character. hi
Capt Allyn testifies that it was impossible d'
negro to vote in Grant parish, exec pit at g.
3 Colfax precinct under the protection of Is
soldiers. When informed that the fact
$ that larger proportion of negroes than 70
lites actually voted in that parish, and that -.
, Radicals elected every officer in it, except an
> Representative, which they lost by a split
the party, he could only say ttst it was E,
y strange, that it ought not to have been of
and the fact hardly changed his opinion, ra
he knew that it was only necessary to fire ar
un few times to make every negro within w ".
sring of the sound take to the canebrake. a.
knew that every white man in the parish 10
J thirsting for the negros blood; yet he
never been within four miles from Colfax, La
had nointercourse with the people, whom ~.
regarded as hardly fit associates for human ~
ngs. full
md here came in the only logical portion an a.,
MS testimony. He could not say that men cul
e prosecuted by ostracism in Grant parish, Due
he regarded the man who was excluded ,
n that society as a favored individual He =
not, apparently, coincide in that illogical
nrdity of our Yankee rulers. who describe us
he most depraved wretches on the globe Bra
'ebels, traitors, murderers bandits; not and r.
Z as unfit for selfgovernment, but as pre-
'orthy even to be governed by law and 81
ice; as proper subjects only of the mill
executions of the Piegan hero-and then
ne out complaints that they are excluded
the society of such people Capt.
n is more logical. He would, no doubt. r,
e the blood-stained hand of the Southron con,
as the latter would turn aside
| Orsinis mercenary accomplice and be-
er.
ID it is by preconceptions thus coloring
the imperfectly collected facts
our peOple always have haep opd ol,ror,