Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1857-06-27
I'll. y,as,lsNro. MASSACRE.

) caused the recent election riot in Washington.
nor could be held responsible for It's bloody
consequences. The Delta OF yesterday pth-
!, fishes a letter from Washington unlet date
Of the 1ltii inst. winch contains some tttl~
: portant disclosures relative to that lniortu-
, nate affair, placing the whole matter III a
in a different light from that III which II wa
presented by the auti-Americah press OF
u aShinaton. In order TO have 4 proper TIM
derstaniins Of the circumstance that only
cx-pa1tr statements have been made by that
press, the fact should he mentioned that
every paper now published III Washington
receives Government patronage, ana !! there
be one that refrains from abusing the Atneri-
can party npon any OCCASION, there certainly
IS not one that ventures TO lift a ro.&e IN It's
defence.
The DeI:a's correspondent states that the
testimony taken before the J',ries OF inquest
shows conciasive'y that the riot was pretty
much OF a family affair He states that al
4 precinct i. the Fourth Ward 4 disturbance
took place in which stones ard br,ckbats
We're thrown and a fe" pistols fred, resulting
III no particular injury beyond the wouadtng
Of one man in the wrist. twenty minutes
afterwards the voting was proceeding as
orderly IS before, but, in the meantime a
message was carried TO the Mayor, halt d
mile distant, who dispatched I letter 70 the
President, i mile an! a haif distant. who
consulted The Secretary Of the Navy. All
this finally resulted IA procuring q desasaa~
men. Of marines from the NayF-yard bar
RACKS, three miles from the President
! house, aud tile write. relates what followed
IN the following words
On vecelyIn. this ordcl-carriea by the
Mayor or sent 10 Col, iiendesscn-a hundred
an! ten men were sent from the Marine
Barracks to the scene Of 4 ~ficuity under the
~contro! ot the Nuyor. When they reached
that place .ley found the people voting
quietly the disturbance having suhsIdsd
sbpAt tNo hours before their ~a!livai. They
learned, however, that hear TO that place. a
the east end Of the NoEIhern Liberties
Market House, a number of persons were as
sraibIed with a little swivel all in fall .;ew.
The Marines were ordered to charge them
with b4yonsts and take the piece. III was
now | o'clocs.l They itA 50 they vino
hal possessed It abandoning 1t on tie ar
preach oi the Marines. Alter they aad
taken the piece they returned e the position
whence they ToveG IN the charge and toTust!
INTO i hollow square. Ine1 1t was that they
Were oIdeFt-i 10 fire. Four witnesses IN The
ilrst aHqaest swore positively that they heard
the Masos give the otteE and fourteen that
il was after the taking g. the little gun. and
that .heEe had been lie aginS and RIO disturb
ance for t*o hours preceding that action
That between tae taking Vi the little gun
and the arins by the Marines, there was no
FfovecatlDn "hate.ef gwen.
Seven or eight persons were siIletsou She
spot and about twenty wounded. end the
writer saws!
But, there Is one Circumstance which they
DO not tell, and wAick nn0e eli our city papers
has disclosed It Is this with oGe single
exception, srsJg ore q thoas Iplsl Gna 1roaHE-
I'd BY the aIing OF the aarlnes, was OF tie
G1ti- haar, -Notd.ng party, and all but one
citizens Of Washington, one Know Nothing
was badly wounded IL the arm. Il was his
place ct voting. and he waystaaAing near The
Marines, not dreaming Of iau~geF-unarGeti
G4iet-iear his place Of business, aui not
ta&eo any part whatever in The Gts-
tufbance. He IS q man o! good character
ana responsibility. :.
/ state emphat.caIIy AMI positively. that.
According 10 the best evidence, oac Battim7-
rra', onl4 tAIT. naifymp'ei YVES shot by the
Marines, and hs IS admitted. OF all hands. 10 :
have been Il Dcaocru. .W tje Others were ,
weIi-khO"H c~lttzeas al Washington. F..
Those who insis: tia, the Americans crea-
tae ROT and were fired upou in tie act Of 4,
raffyln. i OIL, mast explain huw il happened :
hat tic sufferers Oy The volleys al the Ma r
r!ntS all belonged 10 The adverse party. The
= taatsput~bi. 4 correspondent oil the i,
YORK Courier and Enquirer Ia Rcpubti- =
an paper, s.oi!!r hostile 10 kalsr .caaism.I :
3ays: y
Nine persons were killed or weanted
Ia is supposedly The most et them o
were Democrats. One only was a X. n, {
md two "ere coIored Men. A Republican {
shot at bat escaped unframed, save by d
sefefe hight. Thus all parties were re- l
in the disturbance and irnpart,alIy
!eFlt with. Two ssen were shot while run
ing away, the Marines apparently thinking q,
hat They ought to have remained " 10 see the -"
hing out.o {
This correspondent, however, observing E
the natural Inference TO be drawn
rom his statement. says ina. the reason why u
Of the Plug Ugliesn wee shot, was 4
ecause they We've ocked up in an engine
.ouse at the time. As the persons bearing O
his singular title are charged with %origina- r
the riot, at the instigatioa OF the Azaeri-
ans IN Washington, and OF having been the :"
lost active participants in it, the question @
arises, If they were not on the
roun! when the Disturbances eliminated. le
= no did the Marines shoot atz II the most =,
sngerous element of the ARRAY had been q
emoved what did they shoot for at all It d,
as been proved who the Marines hit; now :,
ill the Washington Union, or the Courier :;
nd Enquirer, or any other Democratic or c
lack Republican paper, tell ns WIZ these
ntortunate persons, it they were conducting
'emselves IN an orderly and peaceful man !,
er, We're fred upon and shot dowa in the :"
ri
1t must ae an exceedingly unpleasant thing a,
} be tumbied over by a musket ball when "a
ne Is not conscious of having done anything OF
merit such a distinction. and we appre-
end that the frietis OF those who were ~
estai IN that ,,,,, onu L.-1i- L.