New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-10-13
RADICAL PERyERsIoNs.

bad enough in deducing illogical conclusions
from imaginary premises, and the substitution
of preconceived fancies for established facts
but in these respects the report is far exceled
by the comments of the radical journals.
Take the following, from the New York
Tribune, as q sample:
The whole responsibility of the massacre is
placed upon the civil authorities of New Orleans,
and through them upon the President, who sus-
tanned their course. The radical convention IS
exonerated from the charge Of melting the ne
groes to violence and it sproved that the negroes
who paraded were generally unarmed, and could
have had no hostile intention. When the c0nVen-
ton was attacked, it Is established, beyond
shadow of doubt, that except the two or three
pistols in the hands of the procession negroes, the
Fbsseiged party were totally unarmed.n On the
other hand, the commission found that the mayor
expected that an organized attack would be made
on the convention, and that on the morning of the
massacre he withdrew the police from the streets,
armed them, and held them to await orders. The
city was left to the mercy of the rioters. The
first attack was made by ex-rebel soldiers upon
The negroes and this was followed by the advance
Of the police in three columns, firing on the ne
groes and the convention. Organizations of rebel
soldiers Joined in the attack.
The alarm bell gave the well known signal
which, during the rebellion, summoned the rebel
soldiers to the defense of the city against federal
to the tolling bell, came Hayss brigade and
bodies Of men bearing the insignia of rebel troops.
They fell upon this helpless convention, this poor
procession of negroes, who, carrying the flag of
the United States, blindly trusted to its protec-
ton, and "pursued the work of massacre with 9
eowardly feroeity unsurpassed in the annals of
erime. It was not the duty of the commission
to describe the scenes which ensued, but the re-
port gives startling evidence of the tendish spirit
of the police and the mob, and state, as firm
nnOVinti0O that g hUt for the nj the
troops, fire and bioodshed would have ragged
throughout the night in all negro quarters Of the
city, and that the lives and property Of Unionsts
and Northern men would have been at the mercy
of the mob.n They also declare that Mayor
Monroe knew what the action of thepolice would
be, and Z. intended the inevitable. consequences
of his own acts.'' Yet this is the man, and these
the men, that Andrew johnson has defended as
the friends of order.
It would be impossible to condense into the
same space greater number of willfuls false
hoods than are to be found in the above ex-
tract From the beginning to the end, it is q
Misrepresentation, not alone Of notorious
facts, but even Of the grossly, unfair. and pre-
indiced report Of the commission.
1t is not established that the besieged
party were totally unarmed 7 on the contrary,
all the trustworthy evidence shows, not only
that they were armed, but that they antiei-
pated and desired collision with the authori-
ties or with the people. 1t is not difficult to
see why they desired such result. They
knew that the military authorities had taken
charge Of them, and they thought that their
friend Gen. Baird, would have his troops up
in time to secure the victory-for their side.
Gen. Baird himself, declares that this had
been his intention, and that he was prevented
from executing it only by a mistake on his
part, as to the hour for the meeting Of the
convention. The commission did not find
I" that the mayor expected that an organized
attack would be made on tho convention !"
they only say that they believe SO and their
belief is founded on preconceived opinion
d that effect, eorroborated by no evidence
strong enough even to establish suspicion.
General Heron himself, the respectable wit
less on whose testimony they rely to discredit
hat Of the mayor asserts that the meeting
yer which the mayor presided, came to the
onolusion to use the policefor depreciation Of the
General Herron's statement is
nown here to be incorrect; butif Improves any
hing, il. proves exactly the reverse Of what
he Tribune says.
1t is false that this city was left to the
mercy of the rioters. The disturbances we're
limited TO two Or three squares, in city five
miles long and a mile broad nor is there
any testimony to show the contrary. The.
assumption that, but for the presence of the
federal troops, there would have been. an in
massacre Of negroes and Union
men, or any massacre at all, is purely gratuit-
ous. There never was so little danger of dis,
in this or any other city as there
was here when the immediate commotion
had subsidized. The commission may fatter
themselves that the presence of General
Batrds troops did great deal of good,
but their opinion on that point is not half
SO good as the opinion Of the people of
this city. Ait all events, it is only an opin7
ion and it has no proper place in Judicial
report.
1t is false that organizations of rebel sol
diers joined in the attack" on the convention.
There are no such organizations in this city
The report does not affirm that they exist !;
it only supposes that they do. IT is ridieul-
ously false that g Hays's brigade and bodies
ofmen, bearing the insignia Of rebel troops,
swept through the streets in answer to the
tolling bell, or in answer to anything else.
There is no such body of men as Hays's bri-
gade, and the report speaks Of one Gorfed-
crate officer who appeared in answer to the
supposed summons. That Confederate officer
is, however, a purely fictitious parsonage.
Even his existence is not proved, and we are
convinced that he is production of the fer
tile fancy Of the New York Tribune reporter,
or of some perjured witness who thought it
his duty to swear to anything that the COM
mission wanted to prove In any event,
e one Confederate Officer" is. but a sorry sub
stitute for ''bodies Of men bearing the in
sigma Of rebel troops, and for the rally, en-
masse, which ought to have responded to that
tolling bell,
1t is false that Mayor Monroe knew of
any design to attack the convention.
All the evidence proves that he made every
effort to avoid collision even to the extent Of
withdrawing the police when he found that
the military authorities would not permit him
to proceed according to law. 1t may be a
very fine piece of rhetoric to say that he Gin