Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-08-08
A Riot Of Grand Dimensions.

In New Orleans, which is full of Radical devils
and devilish negroes, m attempt was made, about
ten days ago, to hold Radical Convention hav-
ing for its prime objects the arrnypg of the negro
against the white man, and the permanent elcva-
ton Of the former over the latter. At the head
of this movo was filthy German aboli.ionist
named Hahn, who before the close of the wnf,
was the .brsas Governor of Louisiana. This
so-caled Convention net in the Mechanics Insti-
tu,e of New Orleans. TwAty.six members were
present at its opening. The strce;S Of the. city
were filled with excited negroes. Several regu-
larly organized negro regiments, with banners
flying and drums beating marched to the MI.
chanic's Institute, to guard and uphold the ses-
sions Of the Convention. So ncensed and out
ragged were the native inhabitants Of New Orleans
that the whole city blazcd with excitement In
discriminate firing occurred in some Of the streets,
resulting in tho death Of considerable number
of persons both white and black.
The police and the populacs funlly heseiged
The institute, which was filled with an immense
mob If radicals and negroes and finally compelled
Tie latter TO surrender in body; not, however,
isCore sharp tight had taken place, in the course
Of which fifty or sixty, mostly negroes, we're
killed. We gre delighted 10 chronicle the fact
that I" Ex-Gov. Hahn" Fns dreadfully cut.up. The
President and Members Of the 0onrcntion were
tbcn arrested and confined after which compare
live order WAS restored.
Tho Attorney general Of Louisiana having
telegraphsd to President JOHNSON for instructions,
received without delay, the following message,
which we know will be read With equal pleasure
and applause by Southern poople. 1t puts a
decided quietus upon all such doing5 rs the New
Orleans Radical Convention.
WASHINGTON, July 80, ls6s,-Andrcr s. Her
ron, Attorney General of Lou;siana: You will
cnll on Gen. Sheridan, orwhoeyer may be in Com
mand, for sufficient force to sustain civil authority
in suppressing all Illegal or unlawful assemblies
who usurp or assume to exercise any power or
authority without first having obtained tho con-
sent Of the people of the State. If there Is to
be convention, lot it be composed of delegates
chosen from the people Of the whole State. The
people must be first consulted in referetne to
changes Of the organic laws Of the State. Bsur-
pation will not be tolerated. The laws and Con-
stitution must be sustained, and thereby pence
and order.
(Signed,) ANDREW JOHNSON.
The Fedt ! Commander Of tho City Is one
Gen. Baird, who, as we'll as the notorious Gen.
- I. Sheridan, Commander Of the South Western
L ..artment, is fierce hater of tho South. He
is INCLINED to be refractory, and has already re-
leased the prisoners from arrest But he will be
compelled to obey. There is no Radical Congress
now in session to back nigger-loying Generals in
resistance to Constitutional authority. Gen.
sheridon may forbid the erection of any menu
mcnts to Confederate Dead, but he must seethat
his friends and pets, the New Orleans Yankees
and negroes, holdiho unlawful and lawless Con-
ventions.