The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-11-27

CINCINNATI Commercial


/ Hon. James A. Garfield, which, owinE
to the friendly relations known t,
exist between these two gentlemen, hai
produced decided sensation, aud ha
been the theme Of conversation
in the hotel Hobbies to-day. The lettet
is quite lengthy. The following arr
brief extracts therefroin:
MY DEAR GRNERAL-Now tha
this senseless political row Is over,
and you are the president elect,
venture, before you are buried in that
manson, through the thick walls ano
| plate glass of which no word of truth
ever reaches the incumbent, to write
YOU a few words in the same intimate
and friendly spirit that marked our
intercourse when both occupied y
cheap boarding house; when ! carried
my fortunes on the slender nib OF my
pen as a newspaper correspondent,
and you sought 10 support yourself
and family on the meagre pay OF q
congressman ] 60 back TO the time
when YOU gladly accepted my aid and
sympathy in your troubles, and my
heartfelt congratulations in your trl-
umphs, and | yours. | feel more anxiety
about you, my friend, now that You
are fortunate, than in the darkest hour
OF your life when lie itself seemed so
horrible that an escape from II was a
temptation. You have passed from
the hands OF friends to the keeping OF
enemies, TO play the part OF Chief
executive for four years
lie tells General Garfield that he is
not only no politician, bat IS hated by
the politicians, and that history never
has and probably never will put on
record such an infalny as that upon
which hc was elected. We have
among us certain persons who are bent
Oh changing the form OF our present
government. They seek to make the
presidency a life tenufc, and under
the name of a stronger government
escape the return oi power to the pco-
pie. You know the man who is TO
serve their purpose in the reasonable
scheme. They bank upon his military
record and supposed popularity"
Mr. Piatt warns Mr.. Garfield against
the politicians, who are determined,
as he has indicated, TO change the
form of the government, and hopes
that he will have nothing to do with
them, except looking to breaking their
power. He uses the following langu-
age, which has attracted more attention
than any other part Of the letter:
alt was your committee flat investi-
gated that national shame called
Black Friday, wherein Fisk, Gould
and Grant sought, through use of
the national treasury, to enrich them
selves at the expense of thousands Of
honest men, 1t is not my purpose to
recall the details of that infamy. The
chief criminal was tracked to the
threshold of the executive manson,
and yonr committee passed a resolu-
ton calling upon the president to APP
pear before the committee and defend
himself from the dsmning proof that
made him the chief eonspirator.
"The night Of the day that the
resolution was passed yon called with
it upon the president. It was after
midnight before yoa left the White
House, anazed and sick ut heart, and
at yonr suggestion that very day the
resolution was revoked ! need not
say that Won and ] know why that
resolution Was so suddenly abandoned.
The fact that under the circumstances
it was revoked, tells the whole story.
The very Democrats Of the committee
sllrank from the threatened exposure
The letter closes as follows:
But you are not great man. fon
read in yonr library Of heroic achieve
rnents. Your sonl swells over the
poetic expressions. Yon are full Of
thought and impulse, and all ends il, a
support of men you despise and q
party with which you have nothing 10
common"
a DEIoIous WAITE souP.--W White
solip Is nai,allg made from the white
llneat of chicken (soape d Ia retne) or
from veal, But m excellent white
soup Of vegetables maybe made from
the following receipt: Take six pota-
toes, four onions, four eanees Of
crashed tapipea, 4 pint and = h,lf of
milk. butter. pepper, salt. This will
make two quarts IF sgup, lat up the
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