The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-25

A Sweeping Denial and Denunciati0n or
the Charges 0f the SUN Correspondents.

tine Cnarges 0f the sun correspondents
New ORLEANS Sept. "A, 1877.
Editor Democrat-A letter dated September
q appeared In the New York Sun containing
certain false and malicious statements, which
i supposed had been fully refuted In the Sata
Of September S, although my statement had
been emasculated somewhat by the editors OF
the Sun, who were unwilling to condemn
their correspondent In their own columns.
Due regard for others who have been re-
ferred TO by the Louisiana pressin connection
with these statements now prompts me To-
say that Mr.. Gibson, the Sun correspondent.
has written tissue Of alsehoods, knowing
the same to be antrue when he wrote them.
On or about the 28th of August / tele-
graphed Gov. Nichols from the White
Sulphur Springs that there was an unexpend-
ed appropriation available with the War De-
partment, which might be secured for the re-
construction Of Tones bayou dam, and
asking IL he would approve my visiting
Washington, with view Of securing favora-
BILE action. Receiving no answer, and learning
that the Governor was sick, j started for New
York, and stopped at Washington to see III
the government coald be Interested In this
work.
Upon my arrival / ascegtained that Con-
gressnan Ellis had promptly and efficiently
attended TO the matter.
called upon the President, and at his in
vitation spent pleasant evening at the SoI-
diers' Home, discussing topics affecting the
material prosperity of the South. No allusion
was made to the suppression Of evidence
against members Of the Returning Board OF
to Federal appointments in Louisiana, and
the statement Of the Sun correspondent that
told the President or any other person,
''that the prosecution Of Wells and Anderson
would not be pushed, because an arrangement
had been made by which the witnesses who
were to prove tho forgeries in the returns
from Vernon parish were made to the order
of Wells, would not testify" Also, his state
ment "thst advised that the men who had
manufactured the testimony for the visiting
statesmen and the Returning Board be taken
care OF, as Wells and Anderson demanded, by
disnissing the Herwig crowd from the Gus
tom-House, and giving the dangerous gang
their places Ipronounce aoiltu land malicious
lies.
/ regard the bestowal, directly and indi~
rectfy, of the Federal patronage in Louisiana.
upon the Returning Board as a blot upon the
record Of the Administration, and have so
asserted to every person with whom have
eonversed upon the subject.
The prosecution Of the Returning Board is
a matter exclusively under the jurisdiction OF
an ineorruptible judiciary, and no good citi-
zen Of the State could or would interfere with
their functions.
Concerning the personal illusions In the
SIM letter, have simply to say that q Journal
list who will deliberately fabrieate slander
renders himself eontemptible. Every citizen
of Louisiana knows, and Mr.. Gibson had op-
portunity to know, that / never held office.
under Radical rule, and never had anything
to do with the Republican party in this State,
except to fight it.
AS to my actions at Washington when rep
resenting the government Of Louisiana, they
have been approved by Gov. Nichols, ratified
in all essential particulars by the Legislature
and people Of Louisiana, and are, therefore,
removed from criticism by foreign journals.
Respectfully, z. a. EU2zz-