The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-08-11
THE MASSACRE. !

In all great public calamltless the yer.
criminals try to accuse their victims, ant
charge them with the very atrocities the.
themselves committed We care little 70
the hypocrisy and unfaithfnlness of the rebe
press of the city. These Journals will no
blind anybody. The rebels know that the.
concocted these 1nassacres, and the Uniol
men know that they have been attacked anC
slaughtered in cold blood.
The Bee made u strange mistake, which
shows how much we may rely on such pa
pers. That paper stated that Mr.. Adolpl
Bardarin was wounded, winch was true
Then the Bee adduced that he had been SCI
OH and beaten by black men. Now it turns
out by the very declaration OF the Barbarir
family (white) that none of the white persons
| of that name were wounded. But the party
alluded to, Mr.. Adolph Barbarin, is a coloreC
man that has been wounded by police 9th
GERS. How is it that the Bee, believing hin
to be white man, stated that the blacks haC
set on him 1t was evidently mistatement
an invention. a lie, purposey made for effect
From that particular our readers may infer
the untruthfulness of rebel reports.
On Sunday evening the police received
their revolvers. They were, it is said, new
pistols, in perfect order. A part of the force
and perhaps all, received two revolvers each
for when they came charging along Baronne
street they had revolvers in both hands.
! Orders were given to the night Waterman
to go to rest on Sunday at twelve O'Clock,
and to be on hand on Monday at o'clock
A NJ. They were to form small squads and
remain in readiness at distant parts of the
city.
At noon the various bells of the city struck
one stroke, which was preconcerted signal
to mass and to attack. A part at least of this
plan Is made to appear very clearly by the
following extract from the French part of the
Bee of August All the squads had been
posted in the vicinity of the Oljectice point,
where they marched on as fast as needed"
The term collective point is pretty clear.
1t refers to an offensive action.
An appeal also made by the Mayor,
through public proclamation to the citi-
zens, for what was called especial consta-
bies." Several hundred Confederates respon-
ded 20 that call, and were only disbanded in
the evening, when General kautZ had taken
charge of the government OF the city. Most
of these men joined in the fray. They were
as determined a set of rebels as ever met to-
gether in New Orleans
The preparations of the Mayor were COM
plcted by ordering the day watchmen to
keep in readiness, not at their respective sta
tions, but at the First and the Second sta
lions only. The noon bell was the signal for
the night watchmen to concentrate. The
time during the fray was the signal for the
charge of the reserve police This charge was
desperate and tremendous. They knocked
down or shot on the way the black men they
met on the street. We will, another time give
few sketches of the horrid scenes perpetrated
on Dryades, Common, and Baronnc streets.
Men who surrendered themselves were
shot dead. S. S. Fish, u member of the bar
of this city, now wounded at the Hotel Dieu,
gave himself up to n policeman, who shot
him Badly hurt and covered with blood he
surrendered to another and begged to be
taken into custody. He was not Il member
of the convention, and had simply been
among the audience. He was still pushed
away among the bullets of the assassins. He
went to n tall man in citizens dress, who
seemed to exercise 4 kind of authority, and
told him he wished to be his prisoner. For
the third time he was refused and thrown
amid shower of bullets. He fell then on
the ground with several more wounds.
Dr. Dostie was shot first in the hall. He
fell Another policeman came up and shot
at him four or five times after he was down.
He was then dragged, alternately by the
hair and feet, and thrown on pile of dead
bodies. His body, in appearance lteless. was
afterward carried to the police station-house,
and thrown away as a corpse. Some ladies'
who came there to bring assistance to the
sufferers found, however, that he was still
alive. They had him removed from among
the dead and cared for. He is to-day in the
Hotel Dieu, with full intellectual powers
but in a very critical condition.
On Baronne street number of horrible |
murders were committed. Several black |
men We're shot when taken into custody by |
the police officers A black man who ran |
through the street was killed by bullet |
from behind; and so were number of 9th
ers. A colorcd man who escaped through
window was rildled with bullets, and then
horribly beaten. One who had taken refuge
under a pile of lumber was shot at through
he boards till he was killed. 4 black man
Who had probably escaped from the main
building through the adjoining yards was
,hot dead by policeman; after awhile
white woman came and threw a stone on the
le;Ld of the dead man.
All this time the white boys were shouting
md crying hurrah! Boys, however, were
llso murdered in cold blood, but they were
black bows. Two of them were dragged out
If Il street car by two police officers, and
hot. Two colored men, who were in the
anne car, were also murdered by these police
men, Eye witnesses to these facts will pre-
ent themselves before the commission of in
if not murdered before.
We have still numerous facts to recount.
The particulars will be made public in time
The atrocities committed on that occasion
will never be known in full but we hope
hat the military commission will be able to
nveil a part at least of these Confederate
orrors Humanity must be indicated, or
he community will only be a community of
Orleans Tribune.
An Oil Company in North-Carolina.
GREENSBORO, N. c.. July "a, 1866.
To the Editors Of the Wing knowing
he warm interest you take in the resuscita-
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