New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-23

were seen trudging along the great road, towards
| the parish of st. John Baptist This multi.
tudinous throng under way was somewhat
organized after while and divided into squads
and companies, for in the first instance no one
| wanted to lose moments time in leaving the city
and being on the way for the suppression of the
| revolt. Upon the march, the heavily moving
column would now and then meet with carriages
and vehicles laden with planters effects and nova.
bles, hurrying on toward the city as place OF
4 refuge and safety, for the panic had spread oil
along the coast and the danger and accidents hao
4 been fearfully exaggerated Families, women and
children. in carts and stages, with bedding and
clothing. were at every plantation but when the
affrighted multitude began to perceive the steadily
moving columns of the regulars under zen. lamp
ton the flying horsemen that had escorted the
, througs of planters families halted and turned
ahout serving the scouting party for the rest of
the armed force. All the refugees from the farms
were assured that they might return to their dwell
ing places for there was such mass of combat
ants moving from the city that not the least appre
henson need be entertained as to the result. And
indeed when the planters and their families beheld
the enthusiasm with which the inhabitants of New
Orleans, of all natonalities, had volunteered for
the defense and rescue Of the agricultural regions
| they no longer doubted of their entire safety and
the speedy suppression of the partial revolt of
some eight or ten plantation gangs. For to this
| was reduced the whole of this magnifed affair.
| There had been one or two assasinations
| of whites and the firing of some sugar
| houses and plantation stables I; and
had it not been for the CONSERVATION of one or two
families, who spread the alarm, the matter could
| have been extingushed upon the very place where
| it broke out the Andry plantation. Asst was the
intoxicated blacks, having perceived the flight of
| the neighboring planters, had proceeded from one
place to the other, and always in search of their
fayorite tofa, had committed more noise and
tumult than any thing else. However when the
1 Federal forces came up and some of the negro
gangs showed fight an end was soon made Of the
whole concern, and most of the negroes took to the
| swamp, where they were afterwards pursued and
a good many of them shot down by the militiamen
as well as the planters. Under these crcum-
stances the greater portion of the moving column
of volunteers, which actually resembled an Ara
| bian caravan more than any thing ese-beng
accompanied by all the returning carts and vehi-
cles Of the planters families having sought safety
| in flight towards the city-never getting to the
field of honor, and after being dismissed
altogether by the authorities, returned as if in
| triumph, to their homes. The families of the
citizens of New Orleans were delighted to learn
with what ease this terrible revolt of the blacks,
from Point Coupee parish to the very bGs-lieuG
of fauboprg St. Mary, had been quelled and
routed XOnce more every one recommended the
daily routine of his affairs, and the symptoms of
the nearer and nearer approach of the outbreak
of foreign war became then the one great occupa-
| ton and serious consideration of the thoughtful
and far-seeing spirits of our land. If, now at the
present day, We take into account how easy it is
| for any considerable military force to be trans
| ported by steam from extremity of the State
| to the other, we can then come to no other con-
clusion, than that with US no ongerany apprehen.
sion need be entertained with respect to outbreaks
revolts the part -four former seryile or slave
population. All the dangers of St. Domingo
massacres are paraded for sinister purposes, but
they will assuredly fail of their intended effects.
To work upon the fears of the white population
in the country, and to inst bitter and hostile feel
ings in the black agricultural masses, is the hid
den object but in both of these, we are fully per-
suaded, the guilty parties will be disappointed be-
yond this expectation. Having kept for q number
of years country store in of the most ancient
settlements in our State (parish of Natchitoches)
and having, moreover, had the experience of
| eouHuy iuaSisIdtr, kJust4ce Ol tne peace ana
notary public,) we have been thoroughly Initiated
in the character of both the master planter and
their subordinates, the agricultural black labor
hands, and tits upon the knowledge of the intimate
relation existing between these two classes, that
we base our judgment that nothing is more easy
and practical for them than to come to mutual |
profitable understanding.
That these relations can be placed upon per-
hot a systa nr
age can be formed much more advantageous to |
the blacks, than if they were to shift for them
Selves to live like squatters upon public lands,
admits of no doubt. And it is, therefore, in the
full confidence that such an agricultural order will
be established in our State and that when once un
der full Roadway this system will operate fayorably
in country and the blacks from the other States
will come within our borders and range themselves
under this advantageous liberal system We there
fore enjoin our planters and agriculturalists to
persevere in their efforts and to take courage for
after the losses sustained, it is undeniable that
the free labor order will enable the country to un-
dertake agricultural enterprises upon much vaster
scale than could ever have been performed by the
heavily weighed down slave labor. No doubt
that under the new system every one will have to
become an active member in the bee hive, and for
number of years there will not be a prospect of
the former life of the rich agriculturalists, spend
ing their thousands of dollars in Northern or for
eign climes. But all this change will only rebound
to the actual benefit Of the South; for the absen.
teeisnl of such number of former real estate pro-
prietors was fearful drawback upon the South |
ern country, and particularly for State. The |
many Louisianians who spent theirincomes abroad |
and left all the duties and tolls of the citizen to the
present ones. or those upOn the snot NAV now he |