New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-14

! lrom my once, an order came itOm tell h4u@ 10
M, r,otg 7, ,lor aid ,t,,o,"o,,, az tba choroes
irtauj.d f mako ,r,i,st NO., ,,,,s,,ns turned
them loose with the balance, and bnd no means
of identifying them afterwards and have them re.
arrested Then. brutality placed them beyond
common rioters. mud intended to have them pun
ishcd To 10 Tile time tlht the riot commenced
nv notice force WAS not uDub the ground. and
had Intentionally Kent them away that it MIGHT
not be said that they were there as a menace 10
the convention; or BY their presence words or
acts do aught to commence or provoke any dis
tuhunce whatever. There was not a policeman
that am aware Of having on the uniform near
the Mechanics Institute or near the corner Of
| Canal and Uryadcs streets until the riot had COM
mcuced and they were ordered by me to leave
| their stations / saw only one supcrnunpraly
there when left not half an hour previous The
| orders that received and the orders that rave
were imperative that the convention was not To
be interlered with and not a member would have
| been injured il firing had not commenced from
their hall and was continued Hntil the last from
their windows During the entire contest. 80
! far as | was able to see, my police
force, with the few exceptions already mentioned,
| eNerted themselves to tler utmost to protect the
| lives Of member. of the conventions and others
| who were not actively engaged ia the riot and 10
| my certain KNOWLEDGE many went to them beg
cling their protection: received it; their lives
| were saved-Some without the smallest injury
and now some of these very Wetf are the lQudest
and bittere.t in their depuncalion of the police
In a rioious conflict such AS that of the 3Oth
July where nearly tLree hundred were killed and
wounded in lhOUt hour and half, in almost
hand to hand conflict it does not appear to me
singular that Il few men should for Il time forget
then duty and commit in their excitement some
unwArla1tahIe acts
These executions so far as NV KNOWLEDGE ey-
tends were confined 10 about ten OF n dozen men
and then only far a short time Nv force re,
cejyed no orders TO arm themselves; NO arms
were given them byfuy authority. Such as owned
them / trl-r7re carried tF.pn, Trnpn my arrival
near the Institute 7 found a number oI police.
men hesdtinz about going forward giving a- rea-
son, that tlcy were heinz fred uue Ia in ever, lirac-
, ton and thew had no yyr4uorg A., drgr,J trrrn.
selves with, ordered them into the riot 10 take
their chances and make sucb arrest. ma fbpv
. could
la conclusion can only saw orders trare ..iva,,
not in any way 10 interfere With the ruapo7tnn
The notice were not near the Institute nnfii The
i riot commenced They were not uassed an anv
- place but were kept at their several st.fi0n.
houses unttI I ordered rhafn mn yvba1 T,,,srIF
~ started for Tie scene They did, in NV opinion
do all in theirp power to save all those who vera NOT
y actively engaged AGAINST +bnrl in raotirr, and an
leagorlne to kilI or wound them. Urrigs The riot
and afterwards saw nerrroe, in the sheets strnd
1 ing about and IN no Instance saw anv a,rpnt
~ those engaged i1nmediafav in the rfot ~. fasteI
~ The universal eyure4sion of ouini0n ln,orqr riti
= ZeHs in the community is one Of syfnnativ f6Y the
~ negroes. There is no feeling of hostility against
: them as q class,
- saw r. F. Daunov while he was in custody
he asked mo Ia release him saving he would iva
y me q great deal of valuable information concern-
ing the riot
t
AZEL HACKERS BACON BEING Duly swoEN TEs-
TITLES AS FOLLOWS;
u Witness resides in Algiers and is associate edi.
4 tor of the Poayune newspaper Witness visited
! the Mechanics Institute on Monday, goth July
/ 1866, thrice the first time at about 10 A. NJ Went
i into the governors office. While there, the gov
u ernor came in, and went after few moments
: conversation with his secretary into the rear
: room, calling the latter after him. Witness then
q went up stars into the Representation Hall where
q he found three or four persons only present Then
left for Camp street. Very few persons were in
I front Of or around the hail. only knot or two of
u negroes. Returned to the Institute hall about Ia
n o'clock. Found large bodies of negroes stretching
. along the entire banquettes between Common and
y Canal on Dryades, mostly of the ex-plantation
n class and generally with stout cudgels in their
e hands. There were very few white persons there.
/ Along Common street there were some white
Il people who seemed TO stop moment or two to
- look, and then pass on. Took particular observa-
Z ton Of this as / went along Inoticed too, that
/; at Canal street the white people also stopped a
% moment to look at :he crowd Of negroes and then
passed on. When got to the Institute went i'm
nediately mp to the Representation Hall. The
- passage way was crowded with negroes so was
- the Yestibule above Inside the Repregeptatiye
II chamber and befnrn the bor was thirI- with thn,