New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-24

sacred, and Why-he promises W ps WIN ,,ie IN
early day. and make an address to the peopiNS w |
New York on the state Of things eXlsunS IA 80
| Orleans and other portions Of the soI.u r fropn
| pIause) But Won are expecting - III. Larn |
others than myself, VINO an ,s oTy IF New Orleans
| / will ask the Rev. r. X; plossy " Ne"
! 10 open this meeting with pray eF. ir ,,,,a for.
ward and said; n,al-o ,,ascn in +le |
e,nfb I,y- tbe separation of all their people from
nnrs fiat is they propose TO take TINS WeIlu 70
/ themselves and send our people TO the next
n anghter and applause.l Some OF them nave
escaned that doom and will now address you.
, cslI upon the Rev. T. w. Conway, late OF the
Il freedmen's bureau of New Orleans, to speak to
you,n ,s-,.
| rather sore where he was kicked out of office by
| the President he of course had "lots' 10 say
| against Mr.. johnson. He said:
| They were not here this evening to rejoice,
but rather to mourn the loss to this nation of truly
| loyal and nobly patriotic men-men known to
/ some of us intimately, and atpresent known to all
| of Us because of their martyrdom. The tecollee-
ton of the faithful services rendered to this coun
| try by DIR. Dostie, the Rev Mr.. Horton, ohm Hen
derson and others, and their faithful devotion to
| the flag was well known. No one wasnlore ready
4 to give his life for the flag than DR.. Dostie himself
| We have had wonderful struggle in Louisiana,
and it was not till this tremendous explosion oc-
Cured there that thepuhlic mind has been brought
up to that point wherein it could appreciate the
4 intensity that struggle of the few valiant southern
I0YaliStS, some whom 1NeW VIZ
rleans, and are now in martyrs graves. we had
everything to contend with in that State as every
one knew-a State which, when the rebelhon
t commenced, had men come up ana lay their
millions upon the altar of rebellion, and
who had expended millions to destroy that
Union which D0stie, Durant, Henderson, and the
black patriots bad struggled to perpetnate Mhy
: did they kill Doste? said the speaker. When
New Orleans was brought back under the flag,
among the first to plant his foot in his adopted
= city, ard among the truest men in it, was that
same DR.. Dostie; and from that day until now he
had labored necessarily for his country Ihey
j called him fool. Then Johnson the President
- Of the United States, must be fool. (Hlsses
and applausel Mr. Horton, he said, was also q
| knd-hearted man--one who could not be charged
{ with fanateism. Why did they kill him? Be
cause he went to the convention ana offered
prayer. Here we have the internal spirit OF the
rebellion exhibited, When he raised the white
* flag they pointed their reyovers at his head ant
Z when he fell. leaned upon his body. The speaker
p has received letter this day from colored mar
who waited on Dostie ana Horton when they dled
and he writes Horizons last words were these
= IL am glad TO die in this glorions cause of up
IL holding the rights of our downtrodden race;
and Dosties last words were g carry God be
ID fore me IIeaye God behind me- tell the rebels tt
/ fear Doste in his gravel" tGreat applause)
Mr. John Burke was here called upon the stag
by Conway and presented to the audience like
monkey show, ''as the chief of police in New Or
leans, before Monroes minions were reinstated,
he being the man who fought his way out Of thu
= crowd with a revolver in each hand After helnI
shown up he was allowed to seat himself, he de
ing too weak from the effects Of the late confiic
= to speak. This man was prominent therefore
the audience gave him three cheers. At the con
clusion of Mr. Conway's remarks, Mr. Greeley
Il. said:
: EaaGen Banks having in answer TO our telegraph
dispatch, expressed his willingness to come and
address the loyal people Of New York in behalf Of
the loyal people Of New Orleans, viii propose
that this meeting invite Gen. Banks to do so, if nc
other night be found convenient, two weeks IRON
q tonight (Applause.)
4 The proposition was put to the meeting and
a carried
# Mr.. Greeley then said : sThe resolutions pro
4 pose that committee be raised here to do or see
what can be done in behalf of the families of the
4 murdered loyalists of New Orleans who were
n slaughtered on the Both ult will name as
n committee Messrs. McNair, Fairbanks anC
"a Ketchum.h
q Mr. Greeley then introduced the Rev. Highland
al Garrett (colored) Of Washington, ID. o.
4 MIR. Garrett said g he lived near enough to thu
heart of rebellion to know all about its iniquity
6. He remembered reading in a book some time
since, that Moses found an Egyptian shifting hi
rs brother, and with the speed Of lightning he lai
that rebel in the DUST The Moses we have now
of when Egyptians are found shifting men who ar
loyal sends message to the city of New Orlean
Is giving orders to the military to sustain the civi
| authority that was butchering loyal men. /
ii, seemed to him that having the bloody record o
the last four years in view, one end of the tele
graph must have been in New Orleans and tn
w other in hell. He recollected that it was ono
said by general whom he loved to honor, be
cause of his patriotism, that if any man was foun
tearing down the American flag, shoot him down
o. Would to God, said he, that gallant man was her
ar tonight, rather than where he is. What woull
~ such general say if he saw, not only the Ameri
~ can flag torn down, but trailed in the smoking
nj blood Of men who had offered up their lives 70
Is their country
L. At the conclusion of Air. Garnetts remarks
Of Horace felt anxious about the SOAP, so he or
hat IL hail TrIf
" afew tencent stamps, which Horace is going tt
II see is properly appropriated toward the supper
y of the 300 families of those murdered in New Or
4 leans. understand the honesty Of Horace is no
e doubted with so much money that does not belong
n to him. suppose it is all right.
e / Mr. Greeley here stated that telegram hat
], just been received, placing Baton Rouge unde
J. martial law fearing riot.
+, On motion of Rev. L. w. Conway, committee
# was appointed to draft resolutions expressive
n the sense of the meeting. The chairman name(
h Messrs. Conway, Garnett, Haggerty and McNail
g as such committee.
{ MI. Il. r. Luddington, from the audience in
quired of the chairman whether delegates to thu
Philadelphia convention from Louisiana consisted
8 of original Union men?
II Mr.. Greeley replied that Francis T. Heron was
i at first elected delegate before the riot, but
after the massacre he refused. As far as he knew
1 | there was no person representing Louisiana il
that convention who was nota rebel. sasa u
MI The Rev. Dr. Newman, of New Orleans, nexi
| addressed the meeting. He said " the massacre o
the 30th nit. was without proYocation. 1t had its
t origin in the turbulent and vindctiye spirit o
\ slavery and rebellion, and received its strength
4 and encouragement from the administration o.
3 Andrew johnson. (Applause.) Mayor Monroe wa
i elected before he was pardened, and a telegram
= was sent to Washington and an answer returned
I saying he was pardoned. Hays was elected ant
Z pardoned in the same manner The men who
were murdered were not disturbers of the peace
i or insurrectionary. They had sought the intel
lectual development of the people, especially the
j blacks, and opened churches for them, till An
& drew johnson closed them and turned the minis
d tiers out. In no sense could the members of the
Z Louisiana convention be declared insnrfectionary
) They were peaceful, law-abiding citizens Whe
ther they had right to meet or not, was not the
RI question involved in the assault upon their lives
Citizens have right to meet and discuss the great
i principles of civil government. Free speech be
+ longs to the American people. and they must
nave IT. These men.were quiet and laW-abiding
L they sought the adoption Of the amendments to
the ttutlen, recently passed by Congress. Il
: they were an insurreetionary body, they would
have been indicted before they met. They met UNI
0 armed--26 men-yetit was found necessary, by
Monroe, 10 muster his police force and place two
2 reyolYers in the hands of each policeman. The
q speaker repeated the massacre was unproyoked,
!, An intimation flom the mayor would have, dis
4 persed the convention, Reports on the condition
Of the South have been received by the President
/! from rebels, while reports from Union men have
/ been ignored. Forces have been withdrawn from
irebel districts leaving the freedmen and Union
Y. men at the mercy Of returned CONTEMPORARIES