Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-27

the euIOrStuiSuL u the EeSislI1 law III tuls
State. One of the Missouri delegates to
Philadelphia told President johnson he
could count on a good Conservative Sena-
tor from Missouri to replace Gratz Brown.
The pressure on General Hancock to issue
8 general order, promising freedom of the
ballot has been transferred to Washing
ton, but General Grant is said to be the
great stumbling block.
The New Bedford Mass Mercury says
that it learns that Hon. Henry P. Bald
win, Of Detroit, positively declines to al
low his name to go before the State Con-
vention for nomination as Governor Of
Michigan.
The New Orleans Nassaere-ImPOr-
tant Statement of Gen. A. L. Lee.
General Alfred L. Lee. sa officer OF
cavalry under Banks and Sheridan, was
a witness to the massacre in Now Orleans,
which he lately described in a speech TO
his fellow citizens of Leavenworth, Kan
sss, prefaciDg his account with some per-
sonal experience of the Willingness of
the rebels 70 accept any terms" shortly
after the war, and their present bitter hos
tility to the Unionist and the Northern
era. In the following he alludes 10 the
"garbled extracts " from General Sheri-
dams dispatches, published in the Copper
head papers:
Il 7 % 49, -,-raE1 - -,- =1-zz - Hho
scenes of that day. Ny rooms happened
to be about 8 squsre from the scene Of
slaughter, and 1 could see very much of
it. Captain Loup, 8 Captain of the First
New Orleans Infantry, who had just been
mustered out, was standing n block
from me; he was spp-osched by two
back ard shot him down, and The other
stabbed him in the side, securing his i'm
mediate death. There was a noble man
who represented the radical sentiment of
the city, DR.. Dostie. He was not q MEM
Der of the Convention, but he was in the
hail. He attempted to escape. When
about half a block from the Capitol
building he was struck with a brick and
knocked down. Policemen were standing
near, but instead of arresting the as
saulter they stepped up to Dr.. Dostie and
deliberately fred into the body of the de-
fenceless man A citizen standing by
drew his sword from his cane and thrust
it into his body. Still the doctor was not
dead, ana was dragged by the police
through the crowd and placed in a com
mon dirt cart. 1 saw this myself. One
policeman sat on his body and one sat
near his head. The poor man attempted
to raise MS hesd, and l saw the police
man raise the revolver and strike him on
the face and mash his nose fat. That no
BILE man died.
AT stood on my balcony and looked on
that crowd Of four hundred policemen,
maddened with liquor and drunk with
fury, assisted by fremeu and Thugs, to-
gether with two OF three hundred citizens,
N this feld-osy Of slaughter. l saw
passing an innocent blsck a with a
msrket-bsskes on his arm. He was met
by 3 knot of policemen. They said, you
are from the hall, are your He said,
No They said, Yes you are he
started TO run. Two policemen ran after
him, and as many as 8 dozen bullets were
shot into his body before ne fell. A citi-
zen then stamped with his heel on his
face, and he was beaten to death with
clubs.
Within FIVE minutes after this 1 saw a
policeman approach a black man, and
putting a pistol to his back, shoot him
down. About ten minutes after, a great
coarse, brutal rufian approached and
kicked the dead corpse. While he was
kicking the corpse a street csr passed. In
it was a bright yellow woman. She put
out her head 70 look out, and this rufian
raised his hand sad struck her on the face.
"Another little chapter in the scene.
There is in New Orleans, as in most other
large cities, a baggage and transfer com-
pany. A returned officer of cur army
was an officer Of Of these companies.
he told me, his Office being near the scene
of the riot the police came to him and
said they wished his baggage wagons to
bear away the dead. They seized them,
and be said he SAW them repeatedly throw
six and eight bodies, black and whitei into
n wagon, and carry them of. He told
me Of one scene ia particular. Eight or
ten men had been thrown into a wagon.
Two of the frs who had been thrown in
(6lack mem were not quite dead, and they
were revived. They endeavored feebly to
push from them the reeumbent mass of
eorpses. A policeman saw it; he leaped
into the wagon with the expression, Cd
d-n you, III fix you so you'll be still, and
with his revolver very deliberately blew
put their brains.
Another negro was shot down on the
street and had been left for dead. He
laid there until no.ice of him hal ceased.
A policeman came along and noticed that
the man had some life in him. He saw
the policemen, and the poor, Ignorant de-
luded man raised his head with a petition
for AID. Instead of giving him the aid he
requested, he gave him such as he had
been instructed to. He raised his club
and broke his neck at a blow.
"These things show you some of the
brutality which prevailed on that day. I
remained on my balcony and witnessed
these scenes as long as l could endure
them. A single man wal powerless. At
length l left my house and rode to the
headquarters of the department. 1 found
General Baird in his Office, surrounded BY
his staff. I said; General Baird, can it
be possible that you are ignorant of what
is occurring in the city?' He said
: What General, Is there serious difficulty
in town. I told him 1 should think
there was. 1 said: Il come here as an
ex-ofaeer of the Federal army, as q citizen
of a Northern State, to protest against the
shedding Of SO much innocent blood. 1t
is a shame upon our military authorities
He ssid, Why, General, what partic-
ular things have occurred?' I tried to
tell him. 1 told him so many men had
been shot; that Mr.. Fish had been arrest
ed thst DR.. Dostie had been killed. He
said, Are you sure that it is so? 1 get
so many conflicting accounts 1 told
him it was so, and stated that if I had
been in command Of the city 1 would
have taken a battery Of artillery and
swept the streets of the r~uf1anly towards.
he said, why. General, if 1 had done
that l should have killed as many Of your
party as theirs L told him I had no
party. Said he, Il mean the negroes
Said I General Baird, if you GO on Canal
street you will not sea owe four negroes,
and they will be pursued by citizens ard
police, and two at least viii be killed be-
fore they can escape 1 said, Eighteen
millions Of men are watching you this
day, and this delay will cost you dearly
BE said, = I have made no delay 1 have
ordered men there ann turning to some
Of his stat, gave some hurried orders.