The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-09-28
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1877.
BossTwEED ATTACKING MoRRlsssy
fNew York Sun.l

Bridge ?' the witness replied, Now let
me say a word first before going into
that. I read that article In tho Sun
yesterday, and have prepared myself
with few remarks, which wish to
read. ~ 5'.'t,s ''.Hl 'l@ =
Mr.. Tweed then proceeded to read: D.,
.'F'rom the testimony have given
will believe that I favor myself as a
good, honest man. have now been
doing what most of tho papers aud
what all have advised me to do. tell
the whole history of tho Ring. I be-
lieve am doing right and am willing
to submit myself to the just criticism
OF any and all honest men. 1t ia hard
ly fair to me, however, that the public
should he called upon to judge OF me
out of tho mouths of people worse than
myself. Not only my public but my
social relations have been made an OBJ
ject Of criticism by the Hon. John
Morrissey. have known him for
about twenty-four years and OF him
much longer. When I ann made a
subject of criticism by him, 1t Is but
fair that the public should know who
he is. At Court of Oyer and Termi.
ner in the city of Troy, in the Decem-
Der term of fS4S, this man was indicted
for assault with intent to kill. In the
April term of 1s49 he was indicted for
burglary, and Mt the Same term indfct-
ed for an assault and battery, and at
that same term convicted and sentenc-
Ell to Jail for sixty days, having been
tried on the two indictments, for as
sault and battery and burglary. At
the June term in lS49 he was indicted
for burglary. In the city Of Albany
on the 18th Of July, 1861, ne was con
victed Of breach of the peace, adjud9-
ell to be fined $50, and sentenced for n
term of three months in the ALBANY
penitentiary, at hard labor, in case of
non.payment. He spent nine months
in the Albany penitentiary in serving
out his terms. In 1857 he was Indicted
in this county tor an assault with dam
gerous weapon upon Thomas III. Bull
mer with intent to kill him. In the
same year and on the same day he
was indicted for felonious assault up-
on William p. Conway, with intent to
kill him. On the same day he was in
dicted for a felonious assault upon
John r. II. Dagget, with intent to kill
him. These last three indictments
were found while A. Oakey Fail was
district Attorney for this county.
During the whole of that time, and up
to very few years past he has boon a
professional prize fighter and a public
gambler, proprietor and owner OF the
worst places in the city Of New York,
the resort of thieves and persons ofthe
lowest character. Perhaps one of the
worst faults which can fairly be attri-
buted to me is having been tho means
of keeping his gambling houses pro-
tectcd from the police. As an organ
izer of repeaters he had no superior,
of In
power such capacity was always fully
recognized. 1t is hardly fair that res-
pectabfc papers should copy his criti-
cisms upon me as an inducement to
public belief and faith"
While reading this denunciation of
his enemy, the old BOss's eyes blazed,
his face was flushed, the hand holding
his manuscript trelnbfed, and his words,
always uttered with great rapidity,
now seemed, AS they literally tumbIed
over each other, to be poured forth in
Il furious cataract, the angry motion OF
which made tho most innocent prepo-
sitions and conjunctions sound like
curses. His vchemencc actually silencetl
everybody and a minute elapsed, after
he got through, before Alderman Cow
ing could get breath enough to say
how deeply he was shocked ut the wit
ness taking advantage of the opportun-
ity of his position to make such an at
tack upon anybody.
"Must / stand here" demanded tho
old man ut bay, 'sand be abused by
every thief that runs at liberty and
cares to wag his tongue at me. am
tied hand and foot am in jail. This
man is in the streets, free, haunting
the hotels, frequenting the barrooms
and the restaurants, talking about me.
He says he has given me one dose and
intends to give me another. Then I
will give him another. will fight
back as long as can, am under the
weather now, it is true, but 1 can't be
crushed yet"
The New York Evening Post takes
the Tribune to task for calling General
Forrest guerrilla, and asserts that he
was as regularly commissioned as any
officer in the service. Gen. Forrest en-
tered the service as Colonel of u regi-
ment Of cavalry, which did service at
Fort Donelson, and with which he es-
capped from that place. II there was a
regular cavalry in the service it was
General Forrest. The trouble, how
ever, lies in the irregular and atrocfous