New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-05-07

firing heavy voleys into sold columns Of charging po-
cemen. The one white man Killed was hit By stray
ball Wherever in the city negro showed himself he
was hunted and fired on. Twenty, says The ArataHche
wore killed and wounded, and the same paper
states that many negroes who had nothing 10
do with the outrage in South Memphis were roughly
treated in the intense and general excitement OF the
hour" detachment of Regulars sent at late hour
to oue the riot took sides with the whites, as might
be supposed, and FUSED no light persuasion in the
matter as the battered.up condition Of many OF the
negroes afterward sent to observation-disclosures exhibited
In front Of the Gay0so House about dark negro was
shot in the face the mob" says The Argus, " was
at no time in that locality" From the narrative OF
The Bulletin, which comes nearer to being coherent
than any other, it appears that the Regulars did
not reach the ground till after the riot
had been suppressed, and whatever violence they
committed was therefore wholly vindctiye The
same paper mentions four negroes who were shot after
the riot was at an end and The Post states that some
of tie arrested were, after being taken Ill custody
beaten nearly to a jelly We saw one with his head
covered with gashes bruises, and blood, discharged
from the station-house, there being no ground OF COM
plant against him.
Difficult as it is to get at the facts, there is no dill
Guilty in understanding the spirit with which the
whites OF Memphis discuss this event. The papers
make haste to proclaim it war OF races aud Inc
Avalanche begins its leading article in this style:
THE bloody appetite OF the Radicals in and out OF Con-
gess has begun is terrible ataton Inc reports
from all parts the country have indicated for some
Radical 6enlshness INDUCING a partial, shtslayy.
ton; not until yesterday afternoon dd be peop7
OF Meuphis become fully OF the telliOio cvi1o
quences which the Radicals have entailed upon sne
country the fearful volcano which they hve peh
30 long sleeping The idea iEcucated into the siuggs" III
teec of the negro that lis condition accOTds MN su
ueriorty over the all the pursuits OF c hhu
political e has last eliminated IN the active OeIe ma
Inc chi, laws the land TO be oyerdden with hgh
handed Outrage virtue. forsooth Of his dusky swarny
color
And By way Of keeping the peace for the future the
same paper with the same aectaton that marked the
Rebel papers in New-York during the July riots OF
1863. thus encourages the murderouS spirit OF its
friends:
The present state Of public mind excited as Is by me
fact q n the white officers OF tue law have beeA hfru oh
negroes who but today have expired their service rs fe1e
soldiers and doed hel authority to begin an uHeebscd
mon law order bids in the interest OF te lutc
peace 90 postpone 20 more calm occasion any iu4"v'
observations which the outrage naturally SUCCESS ,
We would nc this upon behalf Of the unfortunate cass
who by the Vaccinations and teaching OF desigolng gie
men have been brought 10 this coalition OF tlDent yOeh
nay bloody opposition to the civil law ask our fellow cehs 20
refrain from any exercise OF Ju'IIAbLE VIOLENCE upon Aeu
This invitation to bloodshed was but sparngiy ac-
cep,ed: the troops. We suppose, being numerous
enough to keep order on the following days.