Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1875 — Letter to the President from the Governor of Iowa, [ARTICLE]

Letter to the President from the Governor of Iowa,

Washington, Jan, 22. The following letter has been received at the Executive Mansion: State or lowa, Executive Department, 1 Deb Moines, lowa, Jan. 13, 1875. j To the President: I have watched with anxiety the progress Stall development of toe Louisiana imbroglio, and in the recent climax of an insurrectionary spirit and purpose shown by the people of New Orleans, representing secret organizations hostile to the Government, I have been gratified by the promptness with which the revolutionary schemes. were met and defeated. It is also a source of gratification and an earnest of toe wisdom and moderation with which the military arm will be used to suppress this incipient rebellion that toe commander of this department Is a General whose past services to the country, whose brilliant reputation as a soldier and whose patriotic devotion to freedom are recognized and trusted by every man whose heart was with toe Union during the war of toe rebellion. These people do not believe that be will abuse his power, and they know that he will not suffer the rights for which he and his comrades periled their lives in toe past to bp trampled down by an organized mob. I may safely say that the masses of lowa, who sympathized with you and your army when you confronted the rebellion lat Vicksburg and Richmond, sympathize with you in your policy to-day when confronting Its lingering spirit at New Orleans. It is true that the people who were with you when civil liberty Was imperiled by undisguised and recognized warfare will be glad when the’spirit of law. and order shall So far take the place of turbulence, and insubordination, and tranquillity and peaceful industry shall agKlir #6 generally prevail, that military Interference to preserve peace and prevent bloodshed will become unnecessary, in any of the States. But If the Government of any State is to be a government of force they prefer Federal bayonets is toe hands of men who have proven their fidelity to the country to shot-guns and bowie-knives in the hands of White Leaguers and Union haters. With great respect, trply

yours,

C. C. CARPENTER.