Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-08-31
From the Boston Congregationalist.
.a.. The New Orleans Massacre.

drifting. Events have taken plac
within the past few days, that are fitted
| to cause real anxiety. 1t humiliate
every loyal man to see the centra! powe
ofthis nation turned to purposes of op
preston. We thought we had Iearnc(
the lessons of justice by the stern teach
ing of the war, but at present we are al
at sea. The riot at New Orleans was i,
itself of the most serious character, bu
still more so, as symptom of wide
spread feeling and purpose. The frs
accounts which came to us of this afro
cious affair were from rebel sources, ant
though they were written, rs might bt
expected, in a lying spirit, yet the best
story that could be fabricated was bat
enough But now we get tho news
from loyal standpoint of observation
and it appears that this whole scheme
of murder was deliberately plotted be-
forehand-that the police, when they
came to bear their part in the matter
came not for Quelling the disturbance
and restoring order, but set themselves
with villainous and bloody GOODNESS, to
the murder of the blacks and of Union
men. The numbers reported killed, in
the first accounts that reached us, was
about one hundred; afterwards, the
victims dropped down variously to thir-
ty or forty but now, the correspondent
OF the Tribune reports that about one
hundred Unionists, some of the best
men in the state, were kllled-men Oh
wide reputation and of ,untlinching
loyalty--and about two hundred blacks
who, of course, were true Unionists.
This was simply Wholesale butchery
and murder. Wounded men, lying
upon the ground, were sh tand stabbed
to mako sure Of their death, by these
policemen. .... ..
But after all, the saddcst part of the
story, so far as our national affairs are
concerned, is that the villains who con.
cocted and engineered this whole bust.
ness telegraphed the President, or sem
messages to him, and received his apt
probation. To what depth of degra-
dation are We fallen, when a man of
such tastes and sympathics occupies
the Presidential chair! Not one word,
in the Presidents dispatches, Of sym
pathy for the dead, OF encouragement
to Unionists; not q word but that gave
courage to the bloody doors of evil
Additional and trustworthy intelli-
gence from New Orleacs gives occasion
for still greater anxiety and alarm. 1t
Is now painfully evident that the rebel
clement in that city is powerful for
evil; and not only this, but that the
authorities at Washington have wick
edly Disseminated against the true I'M
ionists. The disloyal are loud in their
devotion to Johnson and his policy,
and claim that they have his support
in their outrageous proceedings.
Our President is most singularly in
consistent. He processes to be greatly
afraid of Capitalization of power in
the Executive, and has not failed, on
all possible occasions, i'm season and
out of season, to assert this great prin-
ciple; and he is also earnest to assert
the rights of States, and to deprecato
any Executive interference in State af-
fairs. All of which means, as inter
preted by passing events, that he will
not interfere to protect Cnionist5 to
maintain the rights of the truly loyal
flor instance, his course in reference tC
Tennessee,) but will interfere whenev.
er there is opportunity to do rood
thing for traitors. By what right he
took action in reference to the Union
Convention in New Orleans before il
assembled, is a mystery hard to unrav-
ell; what right he or any one else had
to suppress that Convention, is equally
difficult of explanation by what right
he ignores the legally-chosen Governor
of the State, and addresses himself, in
official dispatches, to the Lieutenant
Governor. and to the notorious rebel
Attorney General, Heron, is hard tc
unders tand. And, as if insult must be
added to injustice, Gen. Sheridan is
compelled to take his orders from the
rebel Mayor, that man whom Butler
promptly disgraced for his disloyalty
and whom the President parCloncd that
he might again be Mayor! Gen. S;hcr'
idan has written that the riot was
but the culmination of q widespread
plot; and it is a sad fact, that to-day
loyal, Union men in that city feel nC
security of life or property, and worse
than ali, feel, and with good reason
that they can expect no protection
from that Government to which they
have been faithful through four long
years of fiery trial. Well might the
loyal citizens of New Orleans cry, "Oh,
for one hour of Gen. ButlerW 'a.,... .