The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1866-10-25
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n Not one step has been taken by
y tho Government to punish the nu.
o thors Of the massacre fNew Orleans
:, and the guilty Mayor and his ruff
!, ianly police still rule the city they
D have stained with innocent blood
= Yet the Investigation Of tho crime
has been most thorough, the eyi.
, dcncc. solely obtained from white
, men, no one dares to contradict
+ Gen Sheridan, Gen Baird, the Mill.
tary Board, unto in accusing the
: civil authorities Of premcdiiatod at
Q tack upon the helpless and unarmcd
g Convention at was no riot; it was
an absolute massacre by the police,
/. which was not excelled in murdorous
cruelty by that of Fort Pillow. II
was a murder which the Mayor and
police of the city perpotralod with
} out the shadow Of a necessity" These
are the words of Sheridan, which still
ring through the country, and deaf
as the President may be to tho voices
b Of loyal men, he must have heard
and cannot have forgotten. "Mayor
Monroe y says the report of tho Nil
litary Board, "well know that before
the excited passions of tho mob, IL
(his proclamation) would bo as a
barrier of straw to fire; that no troops
had been asked for, aud without the
presence Of police, violence was in
eyltable. When, therefore, no with.
drew and massod his armed police,
and on tho breaking out of the riot
prooipitatod them upon the scene,
the Board are compelled to conclude
that he knew what their action would
be, aud that he intended tho ineyit.
able consequences of his own acts. " |
This, too, Andrew johnson must
have read, for he had tho report in
his possession nearly month, and it
would still be matter Tor his private
perusal had not the Tribune obtain.
cd n copy, Nor can no havo faledl
to notice this significant passage in
tho report: "The Board would call
attention to tho evidence which seems
in many instances to indicate clearly
the identity of parties guilty of mur
der. " Nor can he have overlooked
this do' jription of the mob, given up
on the same high authority: "Three-
tourlhs of thcm were ex-Conicdcratc
soldiers, and at least one OF their
officers, appointed by himself (the
Mayor notorious Thug, assassin,
and former leader of tho very men of
blood who might be expected to be
foremost in the attack" Evidence
OF the identity of the guilty parties
has been forced upon the President
he is literally overwhelmed with
proof; and yet what stop has he Ia
ken to punish the murdorcrs, nvengo
the loyal dead, aud assert tho au
thority Of tho United States7 Not
one. Tho criminals insolcntly walk
the streets Of New Orleans, aud it is
only loyal men who have cause to
watch and tromble.
Yet, Andrew johnson holds his
othco to execute the laws, No ex-
cuso exists forhis refusal; there is
not a legal cobweb in his way. lIe
could refuse to recognize the authori-
| ty Of the Governor Of Louisiana, aud
send his orders to Inferior officers,
and certainly cannot plead want OF
power to have these murdorors in.
die'cd in the United States Courts
We have no hope that he will uso his
power, Until Congress meets, the
authors of the New Orleans massacre
are safe FROM punishment, and may
laugh at the Indignation Of the couu.
try Yet, if tho President would, ho
might even now rid his administra.
tion Of this stain of loyal blood, and
thus make slight atoncment for the
unnatural alliance of his power in the
Government with the treason which
the war.-N L. Tribune.