The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-12
A PLEA FOR =BAYONETs.

i The New York Tribune, which several years
ago was perhaps the fairest of all the great
/ Northern journals toward the South, has of
late become violent and malignant ia It's treat
ment of Southern affairs, publishing every
Islander, however stale or absurd, and pander-
ing In the most partisan and shameful way to
the feeling of hostility and bitterness which
exists among The people Of the North toward
this section. Scarcely an issue Of that paper
but teens with the most savage abuse OF our
people and upon the head OF devoted Lous-
ana the Walls of Its wrath are constantly
poured. In the Tribune Of the fourth instant
we find the following extraordinary statement
made by its Washington correspondent:
| WAsHINiToN, Nov. "A private letter was
received to-day from a leading business man
| Ia new Or sans 1t VS. wri ten to u friend
| and WIS not primarifyintended for publication
4 Is interesting. however, as an Indication of
the az paaraneap Of the political contest from q
addressed to- R~pnbiean who is In business
here and the ia lS is m extra,t thsrefrom:
My Dear -: Il is good sending brilliant
speaker To secure q State election Ia the IapUb-
to vote and swamp the officers also with their
| Ignorance. but no elnuuenee Gun get the negro
out on his Wigwam 70 yote, Hna after ysttss
speakers ARE gone he Is lett to the tender lner-
clos 81 their opponents.
II Ia idle TO SUPPOSE that any amount Of elo-
quence could persuade u Louisiana o anter to
permit the Republican patty TO win. trile
southe man Is the natural enemy of the
Northern man. This section If the county is
foreign to the interests # the general GOV.
There is only thing that can bria g out the
negro vote here. 1t is simply protection and
that protection. bayonets: and the result of
such action dissent of the SUN s. of your own
party. whiia violence will be met with violence
aud intestine troubles. Reyersea ara not con
9t69Eau HDtitharD Hrl ater Hot !,
thinker. and never looks abend beyond pres
ent furious BIAS Of violence and bonsting
IL don't know that Won care to hear from mo
all these comments. but they are Overlooking
opinions. and this letter acts as a vent peg
The prominence given to this letter, which
would have been much more worthy of cred
ence II q name had been attached to 1t, s,lg-
gesfs an Inquiry as to it's authorship It
would be very interesting to know by what
process that letter, or pretended letter rather,
was palmed off on a Washington correspond |
ent. That 1t Is q canard and that the re-
porter was fooled Into accepting as genuine q
letter that emanated from the fertile brain of |
Kellogg or some other enemy of Louisiana,
we have very little doubt. That there Is a |
Leading Merchant" or even corner gro
Gerry or old clio merchant In this city who Sc
riously entertains the opinions expressed In
el6 6DUNS ltIltI VIZ u0 H0G DaIeYe, ana we I
challenge the production of the name OF the
writer To invent these infamous ISLANDERS
against the South is as easy as lying, but 1t |
would seem that even the most unfair and
partisan Radical journal should not defame
an entire community on the strength Of an
anonymous letter, the statements In which
MI. Read, as an intelligent and we'll informed
editor must know to be false. In times of
previous trouble the Tribune 3 correspondents
visited every town and hamlet In this State.
and reference to the old files of his paper
would have convinced Mr.. Read that the let
Ter, even II genuine, was simply an election
document, coneocted purposeIy to deceive the
Northern people and prepare the way for the
here of those outrages on the
rights OF the people which the Tribune once so
earnestly condemned and denounced.
The Leading Merchant df the letter be
aot the coinage of Kellogg's BRAIN who could
possibly write such mass Of falsehood as is
la that document must live In deep
lnd quiet seclusion, and is probably some
plunderer under the Radical re-
.ime who, having invested his ill-gotten
Deans ID business. finds that something more