The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-30
A NICE ARRANGEMENT.

Jhat nJtle piece OF nelDnfaina between
Schurz' agents. Adams and Carter and Gen.
| Sewell over at st. Charles the other day was
very nelo and very dramatic. We have sci
dom had our ''innards' stirred up as they
we're when we read the account OF It In dis
patch to a contemporary. 1t went right to
our mdriff and there it lodged, and If it only
| won't sour on us we don't care how long 1t
| stays there. But we have an inner conscious
| ness that II Is already turning the milk of
human kindness within us to olabber. Adams
appeared to us just trifle too childlike and
bland when he said "God bless usr' and 1t
looked as if Carter and Gen. Sewel wiped
their weeping eyes in the same bandanna
when they answered. ''Amenr
600 tell your friends" said Mr.. Adams to
the simple folks of Cacasieu, ego tell your
friends to meet together, agree together to
purchase all the logs bought in at govern
ment sale by Mr. Carter and will sell them
to you at q fair price, and every government
officer shall leave this country and you will
be left to yourselves"
Upon hearing this, Gen Sewell was deeply
affected His eye became watery, oven as
the summer oyster. and the ''briny'' welled
up and stopped over its neither lid. The dis
patch says nothing Of this. but we have soon
n strong man when his feelings were too
much for him, and we think we have an idea
of Gen, Sewell's appearance as he wrestled
with his emotions. When Mr. Adams had
concluded, says the dispatch, Gen Sewell
arose and said these were the most cheering
had heard for more than year Then "Mr
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by the insinuations made by Mr.. Adams, and
he wanted to know if the government had
lost confidence in him; that it reflected on
him"
To which Mr.. Adams replied that ''it was
not for him to say, but If the people would
buy the logs they should be left to them
selves This was most touching episode,
and how any man. after contemplating it, can
ever again hold to the doctrine of total de-
pravty we can't see
1t Is noticeable fact however, that on
the very day, and perhaps at the very mo-
ment, that this was transpiring at Lake
Charles, Mr. Acklen moved a congressional
committee of investigation to examine into
affairs In Calcasieu and doubtless at the insti-
CATION of Gen Sewell himself This, it will
ened, but only in the event that the investi-
CATION was not honestly and satisfactorily
conducted by the Department Of the Interior
The inference. then, Is that 1t has not proved
satisfactory to Mr.. Acklen, and it is quite
clear here that the sole purpose Schurz has in
view in this investigation is to get himself
out of very bad scrape, and this is the Sc
cret of the bit of melo-drama we have lust
described.
Precisely the same terms that Mr. Adams
proposed to lie people of Calcasieu had been
made to those of Caddo but II the last they
were offered in q plain, blu business-like
way. Denuded Of all sentiment aaa Fictitious
adornmept. minus the te1rs and bandanna,
the proposition is si<iplA that the logmen
confess judgment and purchase the logs bid
off by Carter at the judicial sale which Mr..
Adams calls erroneouslya "Gopernment sale
in consideration of which Schurz agrees to let
them alone. This is very nice arrangement,
and, If carried out it will enable Schurz
to escape the responsibility Of the Infamous
outrages that have been perpetrated on the
people of this State By this means, and by
no other, for Congress has pointedly refused
him the appropriation he asked for-he will
be able to pay the expenses incurred in prose-
cutting the log war, in the shape OF court fees
and the wages of the spies and nformers
who have been acting under his authority.
Every day the infamy of this whole matter
is becoming more and mora apparent, and it
is already announced that Gen. Sewell has
succeeded in substantating all the charges
against the government agents that have
been reached in the investigation so far.
SChurz begins to see, no doubt, that in the
end it will be fully established that the
government had no rights that justified
the harsh and oppressive measure to which
his agents resorted. and he is naturally
| anxious to slip out of this disreputahe affair
! as best he can. This is just what this propo-
sition of Mr.. Adams means and nothing else
and we have not the slightest doubt that he
! has been sent here for no other purpose than
| to consummate it, We are decidedly opposed
! to allowing the Interior Department to escape
its Just responsibility for the wanton out
RACES committed by its agents by means of
any such bargain, and we trust that Adams
! proposition will be peremptorly declined.
His terms have been Indignantly refused
in Caddo, as we learn from a gen.
J tleman from Shreveport. at present
in this city, who is largely interested
| in the seizures there. This gentleman is
here, with his testimony. and asking trial.
and has refused any terms but the uncondi-
tional release of his property. We hope most
sincerely that the people Of Calcasieu will
pursue the same manly course, and will do
nothing to compromise themselves. These
people have been held up to the
country as thieves and outlaws, and
the administration press has made
the "Calcasieu sufferers a constant subject
Of derisi' n and abuse They owe it to them
selves to vindicate their reputation against
these grave aspersions. atd no considerations