The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-21
The NeW OrIeans IlIot...The AElEunent
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| FTOHt The PTortieHcs (Ie, ~ Journal.
The following anecdote was related to
us by person who was present when
the incident occurred. AT breakfast
table in Georgia, before the ''radicals'l
had abolished the i'divinely ordained
Institution" of human bondage, a
Young slave girl waiting at the table
was slow in bringing up the hot cakes,
ana her mistress sharply rebuked her
for her negligence. The girl answered
sulkily and insolently. The lady
grasped q table-knife, and threw it at
the offending servant, with such force
| as to inflict slight wound in the wrist
from which the blood flowed pretty
freely, and twill readily be understood
that the frightened girl made up in
screams for any lack of seriousness in
the cut. The lady, aroused at once to a
consciousness of the indecorum of the
transaction, and yet unwilling to ad-
init, even to herself, how barbRrously
she had acted, turned to her guest and
said-"these negroes will have great
deal to answer for; they provoke peo-
pie to such violence of temperI" It is
in the same way that the copperheads
are apologizing for the mob in New, Or
leans, laying all the blame, not on the
brutal roWdies who were the linstru-
ments ofworse though less vulgar men,
not on those who for political purposes,
and to maintain the power and the sub
Its forms have been abolished, butupon
the mangled victims who provoked
these outlaws, to such violence of tenn
per. II these men had omitted to exer-
else rights guaranteed to every citizen,
or II they had meekly submitted to be
dispersed and made no resistance, the
mob Q would have dispersed, or
F1n0t. TgnTI1H o.,
fed with pulling down &, few
houses, and perhaps numbering a
dozen or SO of that unfortunate' race,
who still seem to have no rights which
the white people of New Orleans are
bound to respect. It was because men
who had been elected by the people,
with the sanction of Abraham Lincoln.
to perform a great organic duty, and
who adjourned to meet at the call of
the President, and because whether
wisely or not, they were going on with
unfinished business, with proceedings
that might not be of any legal validity,
but which, If they were invalid, were
tor that very reason innocent and inop-
erative, that this violence broke out
and some of the best and truest Union
men in the State were murdered. And
all the blame, say the northern sympa-
thtzerS with treason, rest not on those
who struck the blows, not on those
who instigated them, but on thoselwho
suffered them, upon those who commit
ted the offence of being in the way, of
those who relied upon the laws to pro-
tect them in peaceably assembling for
deliberation, on matters of great public
concern, that had been entrusted to
them, and that in their Judgment, and
In the Judgment of most of the few real
friends of the Union in that Stale, they
were bound to act upon. Whether
these men would have attempted any
thing Illegal, whether ii they had their
acts would have been valid, are ques-
tions that might be raised of them, or Of
any other peaceable assembly. But OF
their right to meet, responsible to the
laws, of their right to protection in the
meeting, there is quite as little doubt,
as of the right of any other body, of
peaceable men to meet and deliberate.