The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-10
ANANIAs REDIvIVUS.


RS people, have deliberately fabricated u
truths to be imposed upon Northe
- credulity. Against the words of the
!. associations. representing the most il
j. portant commercial interests in the worl
: composed Of individuals whose credit tran
actions with the North, East, West and FL
rope amountto millions Of dollars per annnn
We have only the single word Of Phil. Sher
dan, who has never yet answered the insinus
ton made by Mr. Wells Of being accessory
the theft of $95. 900 of Louisiana State bonds
10 Offset the statement Of Northern aud West
ern capitalists well-known in the great Ex
changes of their own sections, We have tn
assurance Of fellow with the culture Of
scavenger and the genius Of butcher, Wit
disputes with Mun0hausen the first place
in the annals of mendAcity.
The protest Of church dignitaries, who's
names are honored wherever truth is rever
enced, is stigmstized Is false BY one whose
present elevation will make tho clergy feel
the insufRciency Of Ananias a. . warning
and illustration. ~le saH
All men hate lie but the apparent sim
plicity with which some men, in the face of
convicting proofs, persist that "the horse is
sixteen feet high" swakens feeling in
which wonder wrestles with contempt. Every
statement Of the Lieutenant General as to the
condition Of political affairs here is refuted by
the testimony Of Radicals and Democrats
from every part of the State, before the Con-
gressional Committee. composed of two Re
publicans and one Democrat. Upon this
evidence the Louisiana case is to 20 before
Congress and the nation. Yet, in defiance Of
this testimony-in the face Of the person Il
observations Of such men as Foster, Phelps
and Potter, representing large and intelligent
Northern constituencies, the accredited dele
gates Of the most august Legislative body in
the nation tho fellow with the epaulettes
telegraphs Grant that no reliance is to be
placed in anybody's statements but his own.
"There have been too many bleeding
negroes and ostracized white citizens for their
statements to be believed" So far as the
vnbiage of this part of the dispatch is con-
cerned, it is strictly true. The country has
become pretty thoroughly Disguised with the
statements of s'bleeding negroes and ostra-
cised white citizens" It was unnecessary to
say that ''their statements" are not to be be-
lieved They are entitled to as little credence
IS that model rhetorician, the Lieutenant Gen |,
eral. One of these bleeding negroes" ac-
cording to his own testimony, lay three weeks |
IN the thickets of Grant parish without . |
hing to eat.
During all that time, the bleeding" and |
he "ostracised" are entirely too many to be
believed. If they could be, the effect of their
gore upon our arabic lands would have been
more disastrous than the late flood, and after
the "ostracised" from the total
population Of the State, not enough would re-
main to be entitled to . representative in the
over House Of the Rpmp Legislature. Fair
minded people" will not balisye "their state
nents. We sss aaways ready to "give even
he devil his due, Sad score one truth to the
redit of Sheridan, though in telling it. it
trikes us ,.ast he has made 2 damaging ad-
lission.
Antithesis always brings out differences in
old relief, and the audacity which could
lace The statement Of Phil Sheridan against
nat Of Bishop Of Wilmer is astounding. TIE
ispetch sent by Sheridan to Grant was in
'Rded to produce the impression that law
sSness prevailed in this State, that life and
roperty were insecure, and that the White {
eagus and the Democratic party were respon-
bic for this condition of affairs.
He did not and never intended to convey
70 impression that any Of this hwlessness
; insecurity was attributable to "bleeding I
,groes and "ostracised white citizens" .
hen he penned the last dispatch he knew b
st bishop Wilmer, before the Investigating ).
testified to condition of lawless-
IS in some sections, consequent upon the v
sense allowed by Radical officials to negro $
nstituents; testified that property in rural d
stricts was insecure, because vagrant ne
oes preferred to steal subsistence rather n
an earn it by honest industry. n
His pastoral duties have made him familiar '
th the troubles Of the people in all sections r
the State, and his position and character y
: integrity and piety will give to all his Il
.tements the force Of conviction. When the 81
nerable prelate makes statement differing
IN tho Lieutenant Generals. the former %
Is the truth, and the nation will fasten the =
ernative where it belongs. nj
When the Catholics of the North hear the
'timony Of Archbishop Perche characterized d
. fabricstion and sentimental protest, We N
> mistaken in their devotion to their clergy o.
they do not hurl back the calumny in the
'th of its perpeirator. II
NAILED AGAIN. =,
In Kellogg sworn state ment to the commit
J, he used the following language: N
- De Trobrisnd came to me *. having sent IA
him) and stated he had inst heen into the da