The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-07
Il AM NOT AFRAID"
MORE DISPATCHES.

"The city is very quiet to-day. Some {
the banditti made idle threats that the
would assassinate me because I dared t
tell the truth
We think Sheridan would reach the goo
biblical age of about nine hundred, befor
any one could have an excuse for assassinat
ing him for telling the truth. Let us go
what some Of the banditi did Tuesday. TIL
merchants of the Cotton Exchange resolved
"that the allegations of Lieut. Gen. Sheri
dan are not only false in point of fact, but
evince the spirit of partisan" These mer
chants are some of the dreadful banditti.
| Quite a large number of bandits met at
place called the Merchants Exchange, ani
unanimously RESOLVED, That we condemn a.
positive untruth and libel upon the com
munity the statements of Gen. Sheridan in
his dispatch of January L."
There is also another place where these
dreadful bandits congregate, called the Cham.
Der Of Commerce, and it was there resolved
that "we protest against the un,oa,ranted libel
contained in Gen. Sheridan's dispatch"
Some of these bandiai, residing in other
States, but now on a visit here, resolved to
hold meeting also, and held it in parlor P,
of the St. Charles Hotel-the very place
where the great General stops-and it is not
at all improbable that their enthusiastic de-
nunciations of him sand his mendacious dis
patch reached his ears. There were business
representatives from nineteen States at this
meeting One of them, Mr.. Tomeney, of New
York, who "fought the good fight in the
grand old army Of the Union" who "voted
for Gen. Grant," in abiding to Pills tele-
grams, said: "They contain not one ,cord of
truth"
Then stepped up Mr. Thompson, of New
York, and remarked ''that Gen. Sheridan said
yesterday that war reigned here. saw him
walking peacefully along the thoroughfares of
New Orleans and yet he, like the man in the
old adage, must believe that q lie, by repeat
ing, will be true" Then Mr. A. B. Cruik-
shank, of New York, who fought by the side
of Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, arose
and said, II say his dispatches are simply and
truly false Nh. A. Groverman, Jr., of Gin
cinnati. had his say and pleasantly remarked,
lin my opinion Sheridan should be sent to
The far West to murder the women and chill
dren of his own barbarous nature, as he did
those Of the Piegan Indians, as he uould
murder the ,cOmen and children of Neu Orleans,
# he could" And then series of resolutions
we're passed plumply contradictipg Gen Phil
Sheridans dispatches. Perhaps at these
several places of meeting there assembled |
our or five thousand terrible banditti, and not |
me ever threatened to assassinate the Lieuten-
mt General of the army for daring to tell
he truth.
His last dispatch is fit companion to his
irst. Both are contemplate and pitiful; nav,
more, both are disgracsfu. 1t is disgraceful
hat an officer occupying the exalted position
f Lieutenant General of the army of the
United States should stoop to the littleness of
ending pompous dispatch to the Secretary
War, to convey the reassuring intelligence
nat he twas not afraid" Oh, shame, where
thy blush i! Fancy Alexander, Cesar,