The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-08-07
johnson I'm New Orleans.


Orleans. The assembling of the Uniol
State Convention, called together by th'
Governor of the State to complete the worl
for which they were elected, they having
adjourned from time to time, has been bro
ken up by desperate and bloody mob
sympathized in by the pard"ned traitor
Mayor Monroe, and his police. Member'
of the convention were shot down while IL
session by the crowd outside, and, as usual
the vengeance of the Johnson mob was
wreaked on unoffending negroes. The
Mayor and his minions excuse their bloody
work, and declare the riot caused by Gov
Wells because be called the convention to,
pether! 1t is the old democratic" game
Of mobbing down meetings opposed to them
and then charging the peacefully and legally
assembled meetings with being the cause
of the riots.
Mayor Monroe is the man who was in
the same office when Gen. Butler c. ptured
the city. His treason was SO glaring that
even Andrew johnson, when he (Monroe)
was elected Mayor, since the war closed, re-
fused to allow him to act; but the same
traitormay was soon reconstructed pledged
to NY "poIicy," and pardonded. He has
now shown his devotion to CoppeJohnson-
ism, and should be sent to the convention
on the 14th Of August as genuine spec
linen of reconstructed rebels.
The convention met on the 30th Of July.
On the same day peaceabIe procession of
negroes was met and attacked by whites,
who attempted to disperse them. The
excitement seems to have subsided until
the Monroe-Johnson policy commenced ar
resting without cause,t the members of the
State Convention. A large number of ne
groes assembled at the building, and mob
of Johnson men collected, aided by the
Mayor and police, when an indiscriminate
numbering seemed to be determined upon
by the crowd, land every head that was seen
from window was fired at. Some were
killed and some wounded.
The end of this terrible exhibition of
Johnsonism so far as we are advised at the
present writing, is the declaration of mar
tial law in New Orleans. That city eyi-
IDENTIFY needs Ben. Buffers presence again.
The following is the order establishing
martial law:
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF LOUISIANA,
New ORLEANS, LA. July 30, 1866.
General Orders No. 66:
In consequence of the notorious and unlawful
proceedings of to-day martial law is proclaimed
in the City of New Orleans.
Brevet Major General A. V. Kautz is ap-
pointed Military Governor of the city. He will
make his headquarters in the city hall, and his
orders will be minutely obeyed in every par
ticular.
All civil functionaries will report at once to
Gen. Kautz, and will be instructed in regard to
such duties as they may hereafter be requested
to perform
NATH'L BURBANK, lst Lieut.. and a. A. A. G.
johnson aCas the instigator Of the naur-
ders. His advice and directions gave free
scope to the mob and the bloody and trea-
sonabIe Mayor. Here is his despatch from
Washin gton:
WASHINGTON, Monday, June 80 1866.
To ANDREW s. HEBRON,
.... Attorney General of Louisiana
You will call on General Sheridan, or who
ever may be in command, for sufficient force to
sustain the civil authorities in suppressing all
illegal or unlawful assemblies who usurp or
assume to exercise any power or authority
with out first having obtained the consent of the
people of the State.
If there is to be Convention, let it be COM
posed of delegates chosen from the people of
the whOle State.
The people must be first consulted--no
changing the organized laws of the State.
TTsurnation will not he tolerated
The law and the Constitution must be sus-
taned and thereby peace and order.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
1t will be observed that this miserable
hypocrit ignores the loyal Governor Of the
State, and telegraphs to the rebel Attorney
General, showing that he is in league with
traitors. He aids and abets usurpation.-
When Gov. Brownlow asked military aid
to compel the attendance oflegisIators, this
Johnson teegraphed that the United States
Government could notinterfere with purely
State affairs. When loyal Convention
met in New Orleans he teIgraphs, not to
the Governor, but TO subordinate, to call
on the commander for military force to
suppress it; and he, like the high-handed,
bloody and treacherous usurper that he is,
dictates what the people must do in order
to hold a convention. These two cases
show more clearly than ever that Johnson
is a determined rebel, and intends,by force,
TO restore them to power. ..
One despatch to the Tribune contains
the following -.
"Dr, Doste is not dead l have Just seen
him; but it is impossible for him to live twenty
four hours. He is rddled with bullets, and
pierced through the bowels with sword-cane.
Gov. Hahn, and Hon. John Henderson, DIR,
Hare, the Hon. S. s. Fish, Hon. George
Hares, the Rev. Mr. Hanson, Hon. Alfred Shaw,
Mr.. Enhurst, Capt John Burk and others were
dangerously wounded. Wien Gov. Hahn was
taken to the station-house, he was covered with
blood. These men were shot while in the
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