New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-08-10
THE NATURAL PREJUDICE"

The most ylruent vi the Pro-slayery faction
have not yenturcd to dispute, and all even OF
that class with any claim 10 manliness are
willing to acknowledge, that wherever the
black man has had chance to fight no has
fought with a courage that has signaIized every
action in which he has been engaged. At
Port Hudson, at Mken's Bend, at Fort
Wagner, black men by their bravery have won
distinction which should save, at least, their
dead, whatever may be said or thought OF all
living negroes. from obloquy and abuse. Even
a dead negro-dead for the Unions sake
dead for his countrys cause-dead because he
remembered the claims Of his native land and
forgot the wrongs which he and his had suffer
ed at the hands of those who ruled it--even
he, though black, might claim that his bloody
grave should be respected, and his memory,
If he were allowed to have one, be merciiuiiy
free from decoration.
Among those who fell at Port Hudson on the
18th of May last in THAI desperate assault upon
the enewy's works-a charge in which men
faced certain death with courage aud cool.
ness never eXceled on any battle feld-was
Capt Andre Cailloux. From that time till
the city wns taken, his body lay unburied,
the place where be fell being 80 covered BY
the Rebel sharp.shoo,ers that it was inpossi-
bic to take it away. But after the capitula-
ton, bis comrades recovered all that re.
New Orleans for interment. Some account
Of that funeral is given in one of our
letters On Saturday. A large procession turned
out do do honor TO his memory, for be was o
man-though mulatto-whom the whole city
respected, whom all loved who knew him in.
tinately, who was marked by graces Of person
aud cultivated intellect, who had raised the
frs. company Of colored volunteers in New.
Orleans to defend the Union, and who had
crowned his faith BY q brave death. Was
there not reason enough why his people should
bury him with honor But read the account
which The World Of this city admits TO its
columns of this man and the last services on bis
remains:
DEfuscr DAREEr cASosIZrD.
Ameny tho "Amsilcsn citizens Of African descent" that
QccnpeI those pionlnent iosiNohs IN tne upon
Port Hudson. May a, was welkuown "bull.nsser" Of
Rew odesns named CalogI. lie was OF those much.
praised native guards that had tn. choice between the bat
Of their In front and the Of their friend.
IN the rear CsnlouI fell nis lay ro,tins the
ground exposed to and rain fos foyone days from tho
date OF tho ssult to the espituAtion OF Pogt Hudson
Itw. wellinown here that CsillouI killed. For
~esh. past scarcely wench in the city has appeared IN the
streets without osps roses,s in msnory Of Saint Gail
ouI" The corpse arrived here ass Saturday aud have
the Union organs statement that LAY In state" till the
day OF the funeral
III. obsequss and tho oanonIson Of hs dsanet Oakley
occurred last Tuesday.
In the recent riots in this city there were
atrocities committed upon the defenseless and
innocent hacks-atrocities so horrible that they
have never found their way into print-un.
matched upon the records of history. Deeds
were done which the untutored minds of
savages have never conceived Of 1t is from
such journals az Tie World that these brutal
assassins get their inspiration.