Wilmington journal., 1866-08-09
The New Orleans Riot.

ther particulars are given in to-day's issue, is
deeply to be deplored. It is just such scene as
the Radicals are desirous of exciting all the
South IL speaking of our relations and duties
towards the freedmen sometime since, we then
said that for political success the Radicals would
mortgage the blood of the negroes and make such
bloody forfeittres of the would secure their
purpose. This scene is the first Of similar char
acter they desire to inaugurate as set off to the
Philadelphia Convention. Fearing that the ap
preaching national assemblage may ieopardize
their success scenes must be enacted IN the South
which will furnish food for political excitement
and sectional prejudice. We have in the terrible
occurrences of this week in New Orleans evi
dence of tho character of the means intended to
be used to prevent reconstruction OF the Union.
Money and blood will be freely expended to de-
feat the President in his patriotic attempts to re-
store the Government.
We have on several occasions given views
at length in regard to the proper relations which
should be maintained between the whites and
blacks, and volu Inferred such advice to the freed
men as we thought Was for their good and themu-
tlal benefit of both classes of our population
They originated from an honest desire and pur-
pose to secure their welfare, for candidly con-
fess deep sympathy for the negroes of the South
ern States. Born and raised in the South, we have
formed many and lasting attachments among that
race not only OH account of faithful services
dered. but from an honest admiration for many
traits Of character and feelings of gratitude shown
by them. And while we know that our advice
will be suspected and have no weight when op-
posed to that of their new friends so-caed, still
We will from time to time, continue to give publ
to require
The Success With which those men at the South
who desire TO excite collisions between our people
and the blacks and stimulate violence, have met
with in New Orleans will be heralded over the
North and will form an important and telling
chapter in the political tracts Of the Radical par
ty, and Harper, in his Journal Of Cirihzatjos (?)
will illustrate for the apprecatng appetite of gap
sing thousands, the horrible prosecutions, and
bloody murders Of Union men and negroes by
gigantic rebels. We may expect for the next
month the most heated abuse from the pen aud
on the hustings of disloyal and blood-thirsty
rebels. The terrible scene has shifted from Mem
phis to New Orleans, and who can tell, in the
bloody programme which these nle1i have marked
out as tie winning card i'll their political cam
pagn, what city is next on the list.
IL commenting on this last riot the Richmond
Enquirer says that the re-asseublage Of the Lou
isana Convention OF 1864, at this late day, was a
lawless and revolutionary proceeding IS obvious !;
and the srirpation Of authority was but i'll unison
with the further wickedness that was designed.-
Such anasscnblage itself breach OF the peace.
It ifthe handful Of men thatmet years
ago in a cock-loft in Alexandria and called them
selves the Convention of Virginia TO re-as-
senblo in Richmond, for the purpose of
seiziug again nr-on State government.
There Wcl8 further aggravatng and irritating
circumstances. Gov. Welles, who was elected
Governor Of Louisiana after the manner in
which Underwood was elected Senator of Virgin
Ia, and who Is II: offence to his State, sided
with the 1efunct conyentionists, and, like Under
wood, more, abuses his position to betray his
people. Again tho negroes had been prepared
for participation by nightly harangues, that ill.,
famed their fancies and excited their passions );
and on the day when the Convention met, they
paraded the streets in arrogant professions. The
first assault was by negro IL procession, upon a
citizen who perhaps did not yield him the track
with sufficient promptness.
The main excitement however, seems, to have
been around the Hall in which the Revolutienists
met. and which was soon crowded with negroes
as their support Thus there were outrage, insult,
challenge and assault offered to the whites, and
the whites responded. There nothing strange
in this result. It was what the managers expect
ed and desired and contrived. Such a collision
WAS wanted for political purposes, by men who
are Indifferent to everything as compared
with their retention of power, and who
display utter recklessness and desperation in
the choice of means. War with England nation
al bankruptcy the destruction of the negroes, the
continued dissolution of the South all these they
risk incur, rs mere electioneering expedients
They would soon the country should be lost, as
lost to them.
We hope oar people will DO what they can to
inaugurate methods to repress the growth of the
alienation between the races, which has progress
ed SO rapidly under the late teachings Of false and
interested friends If those who have possessed the
love of the poor negroes, their friends they
would ask. what are the negroes to gain by hostile
relations with the whites among whom they live {?
They are not able to cope with the whites,
either in business or in strife. To provoke con
fict, is to invite destruction. How much better
off, for example, are the negroes of New Orleans
after the fight they have had with the whites p
They suffered far most in killed They will scarce
expect to find employers and friends among the
whites as before They have incurred evils from
which no amount of mere force can free thena.--l
IT every negro in the land were 1anked each side
by Federal soldiers with muskets loaded and bay
onetted, that would not give him employment II
that would not feed him,-that would not make