Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-12-05
Thrilling Sketch OF a Real In
eidRmt.

We clip the following sketch from
the Philadelphia WateGman and Reflect
or and ask for it the careful and can
did perusal of every Christian man anC
woman:
LAST HOURS OF a NEW ORLEANS MARTYR
"Good bye, Emm," he said. al shal
not be gone long. 1t can't take more
than ten minutes to open the Conven
ton, and then shall come right away
Look for me at three O'Clock at farth
est" and the young pastor kissed his
wife and. hurried away to the city.
That day was destined to be one
among the most memorable in the an
mails of human wickedness since the fa-
nous st. Bartholomew's. The mem
bers of the Union Convention had
looked forward to it with apprehension
They knew that the spirit of the late
rebellion still survived in New Orleans
and they could not hope that they
should be permitted to assemble with
out some molestation from disorderlJ
individuals, but they had no suspicion
bAab thC AAdooCo VI LnO City WOuA4 I4Se
against them, organized for deliberate
bloodshed. They did not know thai
all the arms had been bought up TIL
the gun'shops contained not so much
as a pocket pistol. They did not know
that the Mayor had telegraphed to the
President that there would certainly
be q riot, and received the assurance
that the military WOULD not interfere
with the civil power They did not
know that the police force had been
increased by the addition of a gang OF
blood-thifsty men, and that the munic-
ipal authorities had agreed upon sig
mails, and arranged to begin the riot
themselves. Watched by no suspicion
and awed by no Buffers strong right
hand, the conspirators were suffered to
perfect their preparations, and when
the morning of the 30th of July dawn
ed, the treacherous officials appeared
at the station houses fully armed, and
waiting the opportunity for their bloody
work.
The pastor of the Coliseum Baptist
Rev. Jonathan W. Horton,
had been requested to open the Con-
vention with prayer Moved by the
warmest Christian sympathy for the
freedmen, this young New England
minister had gone to the South with
his wife, to give his best energies to
their welfare. He was a man of sim
cere piety and large heart; pure as
/ little child, self-denying where duty
vas concerned to an extent that often
made him suffer, and so peaeeable that
though repeatedly insulted and even
1nce fred upon, and though conscious
that he was fatally marked by malig-
nant disloyolist, he would never 60
armed.
After taking leave of his wife, Mr..
Horton proceeded in the cars, from his
residence in Carrollton to the city
Ever apt to look hopefully on the worst
and slow to suspect evil of
lis felloW-men, he had felt no fears of
injury for this day, beyond perhaps a
orcible seizure and commitment to the
,arish prison.
The hour arrived for opening the
and Mr. Horton, having
,ntered the ball, stood up to offer pray
r just as the clock struck twelve
strongly and ferVently his words came
p, breathing petitions for the peace
f his country and the deliverance of
he oppressed. God heard him, but
nth that prayer His servants work
nded, and then he gave him for lit
le while to the cruel wrath of his enc
MES, that He might make that wrath
raise Him. Immediately on the
ounding of the stroke of noon from
he clocks, and simultaneously with |
be opening of Mr.. Horizons PRAYER,
he armed police filed out of the sever
stations three hundred strong, and
larched towards the Institute. Some
them entered the hall during the
rayer, a mob in the meantime rapid
T collecting about the door, and hard
had the man uttered the closing
anen," when a miscreant fred a pis-
i at his head.
There could no longer be any doubt
the intentions of the officers and the
ob. The latter assailed the windows
Id rushed in at the doors. "KiIl himl
III himp they yelled. ''Shoot every
lrsed Yankee in the houser Just
en all the bells in the city began to
H. 1t was the preconcerted signal
slaughter, and now the horrors of :
8 day begun. /
The disloyalist ruffians rushed in !
tn pistols, knives and clubs, and !
mmeuced their appointed work of ,
urder. Resistance was hopeless
ne Convention broke up in the wild !
confusion, some of its members faL {
g dead, and many mortally wound 7
in the hall while few who could, fed. Z
Ie Union men saw that they were Y
omed. Instead of protecting them U
d arresting the rioters at the firing
the first shot, as with their force they
uld easily have done, the police head
the attack, and there IS reason to
lieye that one of their number fired
e first shot. l1=r reT
lorton received five balls in his body.
d fell. These balls were fred by DO /
emen. Not satisfied with their work
ey seized him, kicked and dragged '
IA over the paYemsnts to the first I
Ition, the mob following behind ours t
2, beating and trsmpling him with L
Dir shoes. Thrusting him in a cell,
was left mangled aad senseless. @
Meantime the shopkeepers of the o
J had closed their stores, and stroll L
about, gratifed spectators Of the a
ndlshc arrival, gteeting the murderer "
and every SQUAD of police "
n that passed them, dragging bleed n
, loYslists, with shouts Of "Good II
ID kill the white niggersr'
Around the Mechanics Institute and 1 "
the adjacent streets upwards of one II
ndred negroes lay welteYinq in their VI
cd, aHd the dead carts drove by II
ded with warm eorpes and bodies g
the wounded still writhina with II
, all tumbled Unfortunately to-
her, al
n one Of these carts the mangled o.
rton was flung aftezlying awhile at n
station-house, and under a sitting N
d of deadand wounded negroes, his &c
mach crushed in by blow of -
Wy plank. he was taken to the Ma NJ
, Hospital. qr
furious with the taste of blood, the
ice and their fellow Thugs ragged up p
down some of the streets of the
I, and calling out the names ofwelI-
'wn loyalists, declaring their inten-
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