New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-15

llEKs IE THE CHAIN OF yIOLEECE-TnE MALTREAT-
MINT OF WOMEN, AvD TEB MURDER OF WHITES
AND BLACKS.
20 IL, Edior II TIE ~ T. TrBuRr
SIR As the late indiscriminate murder Of Union
nen in New Orleans las convinced tie Northern public that
malignant spirit s exists in Bcbedon and demonstrated
hat tie brutal outrages occasionally reported ar having been
committed a. different points in the Souh have not been
aSSead Of Rebel atooity and barsony the following
hitherto unpublished aud unnotced account 81 acts O violence
coming within the notice OF the writer while on duty rs an Of
foc DO the feedmens Bureau IN Louisiana VIII serve as ar
other nk the cham Of evidence proving that the spirit Of
yeteou prevails and that the policy OF President Johr
Iardonng the leading Rebels and restoring them to Of
nee has only made them ViOcrt in their dealings with
ONION men, and rendered the lives Of the freedmen eth more
Insecure
Emile EortraDd q teacher employed by Tie Frecdmens
Coopee where teaching and severely cowhded and
hs o threatened If ne continued teach niger school
ty Of The e Vermont volunteer having been
81 service preceded 10 Monroe La in February last for The
turpose Of opening school, He called eengO co0rcd
population This set upon by rusns armed q pst9s
aud knives ard several Of the negroes were murdered ard TIE
leuteuart barely escaped with his life having received cut
In a1cps. ls6s Com ] nj Wallace OF the 9Th Ind Vet
vols. While duty with the Freodmens Bureau at shreye
port La. kidnapped and osuely murdered ana IN he
parish during the month the Provost Marshal Of
Freedmen reported freedmen had been killed and
authenticated o. assault upon the
p'Tsots Of the reedmenihat boas o. ne JUN"
Aoseies tpo1 ,As Tree and floating N Red Rice' -
IL Jana4ry last Charles Cotton frmerly Lieutenant nm
az tie On Vermont reported that while travelling 10 Ala
bsms business and in citizens dress Dr. = informed INN
lately nd himself several OF
III plantation. Said the Doctor 1t Is On easy matter
They go the village but 40 not return and nobody
in9vs ybins about tnem one Of ny neisho0f' upOseu
Csp: Marshei Twchel Of Tounshend, VT who was agent
6 the Bureau Claiborne Parish L. reported the mai
Of ladies' who rent 10 his parish to teach
that tie parties who had engaged 10 board them
20 their house would burned down and that il rot safe
for D 70 ride tie whole cf his parish and that ne could
u s c. J.. A. 4 @ NJ 81 the Bnresu shreveport, La.
eucrted that n berae necessary 10 station guard
IF he
treated" An attempt made in March last 10 lynch Gen
sypber formerly Colonel Of the Goth Rhode leland Heavy Ar
Iery coored) Having f the service he IN COMPANY with
Gen Fuller another United States Army ocer leased
plantations upon Bayou Boeu and Gen. SPher hired some
aboreTs Paquemne La and expected TO land several
miles fellow the village from evening boat ana take the
lsborers his plantation mob gathered to lynch him
upon The landing Of the steamer bat az business n NeWO
leans prevented his arrival he escaped. .,,
Gen sypher informed me that be ana Gen
necessary the hands upon bis place for their PERSONA
protection Other Northern men adopt me same rue OG
frbe hired the Of his regiment before tue order was Is
Prohibiting the black soldiers from purchasing helF oTms
Government and his leoorers have the Ehhed
ls plantation and drills his regularly In Louisiana
efreedmen left entirely TO the mercy oil hen od
nasters. The Freednens Bureau is poweiless -,
What can an officer do toward enforcing order parish ~
miles long and from 20 vide without single solder 10
,,s him and with the possible from headquarters
mat he cannot have any military forcei Capt H. Peese
10 hen with his The Captain went TO New Orleans
military force 5lt could not obtain even aCoIpoIs!s
pard Tepeat FTeedmens Bureau, az present con
nueued poweTes and the freedmen ae deeneiess ana
Union at the mercy of traitors sda ne edor o. -
himself eoored mar The Government protects U.S. and
how President johnson appoints Provisional Governors ana
aows them their successors TO organize militia IN the
South This militia search the dwellings OF the bsck man
rob him OF his The Constitution guarantees 70 o..
citizens the right to the but the black man cannot
this right" .
THIS Il the protection which President johnson gives us
such az vures give lambs covering and deyonrng them
Again white soldier upon being mustered out Is allowed
50 purchase he has borne in the seryce but the
President order which deprves the black man OF TINS
privilege -, . .---,-.- -.
be n isunderttOod Comment is unnecessary.
" w b. STIcEyEY
late Lieutenant L S A. Of the FreeGmens Bureau Of La.
Ietdts Mass, Aug. Z. 1906.