Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-31
ORDER NO. 40.
A SIGNIFICANT MASSEY" LETTER OF
THIRTEEN YEARS AGO.
Generel hancock at New Orleans, as Conf
mandsr OF the Fifth Military
District" in 1875.
Nrw ORLEANS. Dec. l6. 1867.

| " LAO l-SSciCHSy n. cObiiSOli, ASSAoShp
NV the Yoonited States l found Moo
Orleans in a tremcr of joy. The principal
! bizniz citizens is again about the streets
clappin their hands and hollerin 50 Hailelu-
/ jier." The order of the CRATE and good
| Hancock has restored confdenz in the buzz
Gums Nv our friends and CONSERVATION in
| the breasts Nv our enemies. Juries, thank
! God, are no more polluted with niggers
onto EN-. They are now drawd from tho
| old citizens, many NV which served under
Boregard in the late unpleasantness. Biz
ness, therefore, goes on without delay. Ez
/ a sample Nv how much bizness is facili-
tated, may menshun that in one Court
there WIZ A cases in which niggers wuz
defendants. The tryin NV all these cases
only okepied hours and 10 minutes the
verdics in the A cases being invariably fur
the defendants, and in the 46 other cases
fur the plaintiffs. Nv the time specified, 2
hours and % minutes wuz consumed by
the niggers in payin the costs. 1t is a
singular thing how wrong the niggers allus
IL. In addishun 10 this boon, the citizens
Nv Loosiana he'd, am happy to state, got
back their habs corpuses.
GENERAL HANCOCK,
With a courage which | can't too highly
commend, ashoored the people that so
long as he he'd power here they should
never agin be deprived NV EN-. In Texas
affairs ara going on ez well ez Good be ex-
pected. The Gineral's order for holdin
eleckshuns gives gineral satisfacshup to
our trends. The elecshuns are to be held
only at county seats, wich, OWN to the
size NV the counties, will probably prevent
Of tba min from attanHip
Then when jedge NV elecshun can't sit,
the civil authorities appint another in his
sted, insted Nv the military commander,
witch our trends think will give us major
ity on the elecshun boards. and finally
tibet witch pertickerly binds General Han
cock to US IL that part NV hiz order witch
prohibits the military from bein at the
polls. 1t is eggstremely probable that the
Etheopeans NV Amerikin descent will be
centrally persuaded not to vote at all.
The citizens Nv Texas hey way NV per-
swadin the niggers when they amt uncon-
stitooshunally interfered with. that will, /
think, enshoor the triumph NV correct
principles in that State A native Texan,
a gentleman who is now in Moo Orleans
purchasin cartridges fur Finch revolvers,
to be used in reconstructin the State, gave
me SIGH informashun az preclooded the ne
cessity Nv my going personally to inspect.
THE LAND OWNERS OF TEXAS,
With an ardent desire to avoid distress in
that State next winter, both fur themselves
and the colored populashun, hev wisely de-
termined that the niggers shell work
whether or no, and in SIGH way az to
make their work profitable. They are 60
ing to form labor leagues, the object of
| which is to extract from the niger the
labor that is layjn dormant into him, at
about Sl2 per month fur able bodied mig
gers dulin the workin season, deductin
board and so forth fur their families and,
further, that no one will employ niger
from another naborhood onless he kin show
permishun from his last employer. They
| hev other roofs for the proper regulashun
nv this perverse people witch il hardly
worth menshunin, but probably it would
| be as we'll
One is that # the wages NV the niger is
more than eat up by the family expenses
the niger shell work it out the next sea-
son, and that the supplies upon which they
live shell be furnished by the employer
upon such terms as committee NV employ
era in each deestrick shell agree.
To prevent mismanagement Nv the soil
by these undeveloped inteleks, and to en-
shoor their acceptance of these laws, it is
olso part Nv the league that no land be
leased or sold to any one NV Afrikan blood,
and that ez much Nv the wages ez the
employer considers proper be retained in
his hands.
They accept the situashun and acknowl-
edge the bindin force NV emanapashun,
but they must regulate labor themselves.
1t is that by living faithful to these regu-
laShuns cheap cotton kin be agin prodoosed
in Texas. Ell this Legislator IL elected. ez
we hope it will be, thiz code will be made
| law, and thank the Lord emansipashun
won't mean nothing in Texas cept change
Nv name. / wood suggest that you, to
! wuHst, take
| THR LAST ORDER or GEN. HANCOCK
And make it the subjeck NV a messige to
| Congriss. Detale in full the Generals
| talk here, and add to it ez only VOC kin.
Tell Congriss the Gineral is agoin to make
the law the rool nv his conduck, and that
! he proposes to uphold the corts and civil
/ authorities; and he will only yoos his mil
itary TO these ends agin the niggers. Sling
in here suthin' to the effeck that American
liberty (which, in this country, is pekool-
yer variety of the artiklel is still an in
heritance NV the white people, and shall
| allus be. Tell EN- that when a soljer hez
Unlimited power in his hands, and refooses
to yoos it for the purpoos of satisfyip selfish
| ambishun, he presents betty sample Nv
virtoo under difficulties. It wood be well
at this pint to compare Hancock with
| Washington, making the difference between
um merely nominal. Say that there may
be officers in the army besides Hancock
! who immitates Washington, but 700 haven't
sot eyes onto enl ez yit. Assert that Han
cock is the first officer in command, sence
! the close NV the late onpleasantness, wat
hez given utteruns to SIGH sentimence in
| his orders, and demand that Congriss shell
vote him gold medil. / sejest that this
| be done to wunst, for reasons which are
/ obvus.
We DESIRE HANCOCK
To continue in Weldon, but ez that we'll
| dom in our behalf mite lead to his nomi-
nashen for the Presidency, it IL well enuff
| to kill him off in that direckshun so coon
ez he is committed. Hence write. Don't
| let Seward diloot it, or Randall POLLOK it.
Put in my naked idees, clothed in your
terse and vigrus langwidge, and you will
| hev done good thing.
l repeated them to the leadin offisers nv
the Lost Cos Club" and the idee wuz
rapcherously received. One member Sc.
| TESTED it wasn't best, ez RELY the thing
WIZ too absurd, but he voted ay on the
proposishun, compromisin with himself by
+, sayin that Of it wuz reserved ez he sup
posed it wood be, it wuz easy enuf to
swear that his Eggslency WIZ drunk when
he wrote it, witch wooden't hurt him with
bis party at all.
Another who is trooly friend of yoors
objected on the score that such settin up
wood Civ Hancock the nominashen, but he
wpz laft TO skorn. Wot," sed an old
gray-hedded member, hez A. johnson
ever commendid that he hain't killed ;"
| 1t wuz yoonanimously resolved that 700
! do it. In more hart than / have bin fur
months, / subscribe myself,
| PETROLEUM V. Massey, P. NJ,
witch is Postmaster).
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