The daily gazette., 1875-01-20
ihe Scoundrefism Defended by
Grant.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, January Ia, 1876.
To tie E7atnr of tie ". Y. World.


To tie E7itHr of the ". Y. World.
Sir: The President in his message OF
yesterday puts one of the "Louisirro
oufrages' in these words:
Several Noi hern young men of ca
pltal and enterprise had started the
littlc and flourishing tow Il of Coushat.
ia. Some of 'iem were Republicans
and ofiict hold""s 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 dc.
nouncc oil efforts to that end and bold.
ly justified the crimes.
a statement like this-even from
President Giant. and Attorney General
L. III. Sheridan-'S calculated to MS.
tonish a apcrson who has lived in sparse.
ly settled regions of the West and
south, and have observed how very
welcome men of capital and enter
prise" are in such communities.
Please state the following facts, in
any words you like, i'm reference TO
these enterprising yor, men.
Some years since the notoriousWar-
mouth took with him TO Louisiana
several young men from the city of
New York. My informant, now a
resident OF this city, was invited to 20.
They were promised offices in differ
ent parishes, in return for which they
undertook to manipulate returns of
election in the interest of Warmoth
and his assoc ties.
My informart thought this likely
toprove ali unhealthy occupation in the
end, confessed his fears and remained
in New York.
A few months aftcrward Mr.. Devices
called Danvcrs in Sheridan's letter.
returned to New York. lie came for
the purpose of getting a wife, and was
in happy, confidential frame of mind.
lie stated to his friends that he was
one other of General Grants "North-
ern young men of capital and enter
prise" were in possession under 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 obnoxious to all Republicans.
lie had promptly paid all of his taxes,
but the Sheriff returned them unpaid.
Again he paid them but, to use the
words of this Mr.. Devices, eve put
up 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 W ithout pay
ing anything.
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"
lam no apologist for murder, not
even of q thieving miscrcant like De-
wees. But would such II person be
esteemed very highly in the quietcst
ncighborhood in New England? His
life would cel calmly not be worth a
weeks purchase in Minnesota.
The people of the North claim, and
they have right to claim that when
Southern man comes among them
and shows himself honest and indus
trious receive him gladly as co-work
er with themselves.
What miserable nonsense they believe
when they credit the statements of
Grant, Williams, Sheridan, o: an body
else that the same is not true of the
South!
In the Northwest we welcome the
newcomer, especially if he have CAPT
tai, because population and capit"'
increase our wealth. Why, the advent
of a person here from any quarter of
the globe, no matter what his political
opinions, with money to invest in real
estate would raise the temperature
from 80 degrees below zero almost to
the point of vegetation.
The desire to exchange land for
money is equally strong in the South.
| 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 sec
tion it is especially 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
I, &, 81.