The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-10-11

Thsteew Orasaas a1eacee.
The e(7r5ss. OF wednssshy publishes
in full she- rapport Of the( investigating
com mittee on the New Orleans massacre
In an editorial on the subject, the 7ri
6ane says
The whole respoasibility of the mas
sacre is placed upoa the civil asshorities
Of Nov Orleans, thrsssA then upoa the
resident. who s6stas6e1 thsir coarss.-
The Radical Conve~eio1 i e1o.srated
from TIE charge Or iusielng - negroes
% violenee. md It b proved that the
negroes Who pssaded wAre eensrally uu-
armed. and could have had no hostile in
tention- When The convention was at
tackled, it is isestablished beyond . shadow
OF doubt that. except the two or three
,istols in the hands Of the procession OF
negroes, the besieged party were totally
unarmed. On the other hand, the com
mission found that the MAypr expected
that an organized attack would be made
on the Convention, and that on the
morning OF the massacre he withdrew
he polsce non NE streets. armed them;
and held them 70 await orders. The city
was left to the mercy Of the rioters. The
first attack was made by ex-rebel SOL
liers upon the negroes, aud this was fol-
lowed by the advance Of the police In
three columns, firing on the negroes and
the Convention. Organizations of rebel
soldiers joined in the attack. The alarm
bell gave the we'll known signal which,
during the rebellion, summoned the rebel
soldiers to the defense Of the city against
a Federal attack Sweeping through
the streets, in answer to tho tolling bell,
came Hays brigade and bodies OF men
bearing the insignia of rebel troops
They fell upon this helpless Convention,
this poor procession OF negroes, who
carrying the flag Of the United States.
blindly trusted TO its protection, and
pursued the work Of massacre with a
cowardly ferocity unsurpassed in the an
nails of crime It was not the duty Of
the Commission to describe the scenes
which ensued, but the report gives start
ling evidence Of tho fiendish spirit OF. the
police and the mob, and state, as firm
conviction, that but for the presence OF
the troops, fire and 9bloodshed would
have ragged throughout the night in all
the negro quarters Of the city, and that
the lives and property. Of Unionists and
Northern men would have been At the
! mercy Of the mob They also declare
that Mayor Monroe knew what the &C
tion of the police would be, and sintsnded
the inevitable consequences OF his own
acts Yet this is the man, and these the
men, that Andrew johnson has defended
as the friends Of order Fasu ~
"In his speech At St. Louis, three days
after the date Of this report, when the
substance Of Il had n all probability
reached him, and when, at least, the
main facts were known % the whole
country, Mfr. johnson declared every
man in the Convention 70 be . traitor
and the Congress Of the United States to
be the cause and origin of every drop
of blood that was shed. As in the first
place, he gave full power 70 the Civil
Government Of New Orleans to do as it
pleased with thu. Conventioo, and refus-,
ed to take any steps for it, protection, 20
he has since been the consistent defender
Of Mayor Monroe and his police, and the
traducer Of the loyal men they killed.
He has denounced Congress and the
Commission by the! same implication.
has indicated his own policy as the cause
Of this massacre. Between the two the
people will not find it hard to choose.
There is Sheridan, Baird, and . Commise
sion Of American soldiers on the one
side, and on the other Andrew johnson
violently appealing 1t . Ceppsxhead ban-c
quet to . mob Of applauding Copper
heads -.
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