WYOMING, (La.) Sept. 10, 1896.
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Dear Uarren: Y our communication of yes
terday has this moment been handed to me, and
| hasten to reply to the request it contains that
would give you my opinion of the recent publ
cation in the New York City papers headed '.The
Whitakers.' | have no language to express the
feelings of indignation with which perlscd that
article, as foul and vilIanons sander as it has
ever been my lot to meet with. The wretch who
could invent, and the editor who would publish
such tissue Of caumnv and lies, are the true
''assassins," who murder reputation with the
same cowardly feelings that they would stab a
man in the dark.


But is this outrage upon your family not part
OF that system of warfare now waged by northern
presses against southern rights and interests;
system which seems not only to contemplate the
destruction of our lives and property, but would
first steal away our good names, | consider it
beneath the dignity of southern man, TO notice
the insinuations against the people of this country
which the article contains; but when the charac-
ter of respectable family like yours is thus as
sailed, il behooves every good man to come for
ward in it's defence. Citizens of the same parish
in which was born, your parents and their chill
dren are associated with my earliest recollectons
y our father was an intelligent, brave, generous,
and honorable man. He has been dead many
years. Your mother is kind pious and esti-
mable woman; and your two widowed sisters
are ladies of worth and high responsibility. You,
Warren, am proud to call my friend. These
are all that remain of your always respected and
once numerous family.


Washington A. Whitaker was your last bro
ther The circumstances of his misfortunes and
death in New Orleans, | shall merely allude to-
but cannot regard in any other light than that of
a base wretch the man who could seize upon
those circumstances, and pervertng them to suit
his purpose, stgmatize innocent females and cast
opprobrium upon the inhabitants of this section of
country, as pure and moral as any in the union.