The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-02-20
ANDERSON AND THE LAW.

The honest men of the country believe
that Anderson, the returning board vii
lam, is guilty of forgery and perjury, and
the courts of the state whose laws he so vic.
lated have so decided, and the miserable
wretch is in prison awaiting sentence. at
this supreme moment, when justice is as
serting its sway, when truth is triumphing
over perjury, when the law is putting forth
its strong arm to vindicate the right, when
the sovereignty of the people is exhibiting
its eternal hostility to treason, and an effort
is being made to dispel the fogs of fraud that
settled down upon Louisiana and made it
possible for r. b. Hayes, under their cover,
to crawl into the office of president, we
find the CO conspirators of Anderson
who has been dragged forth from
his den, tried and convicted, expressing
their sympathy for the criminal, and massing
their influence TO shield him from punish
ment. This picture is altogether unique.
As it has national importance we here
reproduce the letter OF Anderson's aids in
his infamous proceedings that serves now
and will serve for all time to identify them
with the litter of scoundrels that, with slime
and scab wart and scale fang and poison.
came forth from the sccursed womb of the
returning board. 1t is as follows:
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 1873
To General Thomas Q. Anderson, New Orleans:
The undersigned feel it due to you under the
present circumstances TO assure you of our
unheSitatibg belief that in the matter wherein
you st md charged YOU are altogether guiltess
of any OffenSe against the law; that
you are falsely accused and maliciousiy
he inoS INST
you, though ia the form oflaw are without the
substance OF JUS ice. that We hereby teRier our
earnest sympathy and express our hope that
the sense OF justice and love of peace OF the
people OF Louisiana will protect you, and not
permit the best Interests of the whole country
to be disturbed by revival of sectional ami
mosities. In any event we are confident that
the American people Will redress any injus-
ice OF which you may BE- made the victim.
(Signed) JOHN SHERMAN.
%TANLEY MATTHEWS.
j. a. GARFIELD.
EUGENE HALE.
HARRY WHITE.
Here is a convicted felon behind prison
bars, tried under all the forms of law and
ound guilty, but pronounced innocent by
other felons, who have so far escaped the
penalties OF their crimes. The infamous
radical conspirators who offer their sympathy
are likely, if justice is done. to find them
selves in Anderson's pred icameut at an early
day. The letter simply indicates that
fellow feeling exists between criminals. 1t
is footpad and assassin, pirate and burglar
thief and confederate mingling their
tears over the coffin OF their hopes
1t is in all regards an exhibition
of the mob spirit, which seeks, with pistol
bludgeon and slungshot, to release a criminal
who is tramping along the pathway marked
out by the law to prison or to the sceffold
The reign of radicalsm in the south, though
it presents instances of depravity and crime
that defy description and exaggeralion,
affords nothing more essentially repulsive
than the letter of John Sherman & Co. to
the convicted felon, Anderson, for his part
in the devilish crime of reversing the will OF
the American people, by which the country
is cursed and Inundated by the official frauds
of president and vice president. But it Is
understood that Hayes, the chief beneficiary
of Anderson's crime, is on his ear, and
has written to'Devens, his attorney general,
'sinstructing him TO do whatever may be
done under the law to extend protection to
General Anderson" The people of the
United States will be likely to analyze, with
becoming exactness, Hayes letter OF instruc-
lions. That he feels deep sympathy with
the perjured scoundrel there is no doubt
that he will commit his administration to
the protection of the returning board gang
of deep dyed criminals is generally believed.
They plotted for him. They committed
forgery for him. They multiplied frauds
in his interest, and to cap the climax
they laid their unholy hands upon the
book of the EvaDgelists, looked the
Son of God dehantly in the face, and
defend His power by committing the
most notable peTjuries recorded in history
or fable. BY virtue of these crimes Hayes Is