New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-13
RADICAL rA1sEuooDs.

4 1t is impossible to avoid two conclusions
e one that the radical directoryat Washington
advised the convontioners of Louisiana tc
push through their project for the very pun
: pose of precipitating collision with the Stat,
or city authorities or with the populace tn,
. other that their correspondents are instructed
Z to give precisely such accounts as they ma,
7 consider acceptable to the radicals, with th,
f object of stimulating sectional vindictiveness
= and passion against the South The fact.
, already published lead irresistibly to the first
: conclusion. The second will be reached by
any one that reads the New Orleans cores
pondence of the radical organs. Just by way
of illustration we extract few specimens
y, from single letter written by the correspon-
dent of the New York Tribune
The police were marshaled and directed by such
men as LUcien adams, the most murderous thug
of the South They offered every indignity to the
dead. 1t is said that they drove the popuace
4 from some of the living prisoners. They captured
Mr. Fish unblrt, but toouaded him ShocbHg1y
how many they had killed, and exulted over the
massacre.
The Mr.. Fish here referred to was not
wounded at ALL He frequently expressed his
| thanks to the police for the gallant manner in
which they had defended him. Afterwards,
to be sure, he reconted these expressions to
some extent, limiting his praises to few
named policemen but as he was in no situa-
ton to see anything else than what passed
Immediately around him, we can dismiss his
surmises as the offspring of a disordered
fancy.
The Hon. John Henderson, an old resident Of
Louisiana and one of the staunchest OF her Union
men, was shot several times, and is severely
wounded Half-an-hour ago saw him, in great
suffering, covered with blood, conveyed to his
home. Some one walking beside the carriage
asked where washis wound. The oIdpdiielt 3r5jt
rs hat!Iudi force, exclaimed Sc D-DlI the U0u1d
y IRE only 'otip en-"
The expression attributed to Mr. Hender-
son is quite worthy of one of the Trbunes
innocent lambs
Speaking of the mayors proclamation the
writer says:
The effect Of this proclamation was simply TO
increase the police force in kind and TO hand over
the city aud the eolored people to the tender ner
ees OF an enlarged oonstabulary of the rebel class
Wnen The mayors secretary, Mr.. Overall, was an |
pealed to, to devise some mode of sppressiag tie
riot, ne SAID, the best way is to break into the |
closed stores for arms, and arm all the Confed- /
crates" The proclamation secured this.
The man who wrote the following is the
same who telegraphed that Governor Wells
was prisoner in the hands of two Confed-
crate flags;
Again, these men have assembled under the
sanction Of the acknowledged governor of the
State. They, aoitb the governor himself. are
killed MANNED, or imprisoned by the municipal
authorities, While meeting under the sanction Of
the Executive authority, their superior The DO
lice that destroyed them are rebels. The chief of
police, Adams, is the chief of rebels The MAYOR '
Monroe, Is the same arbitrator whom, as mayor
General Butler sent to Fort jackson. In the face
of jail these tremendous conditions, our own !
military scommander sits down quietly to din t
her, while the blood of such men as the former
class is poured at his feet by the latter as if was
hbation to his ncapacity and egotism. God /
lelp us.
Here we have another version of the flag
story:
That the whole riot was preconcerted and well IN
ierstood cannot bedoubted. Rebel ladies advised
her near friends not to go into the street today
Upon the first appearance of the negro procession
very store or shop of rebel antecedents on Canal
reet was instantly closed. At II O'Clock the fire
'els were rung, and the Jirenlea appeared on tbe
polta6 q! force, NTH ttCo Confederate flags plag-
ng "Di1ie,' and fltlly armed. The loyal men v
low murdered or mangled, have been. for many I
lays past, warned to leave the city on main If !.
eath. The police acted in manifest concert with Y
~ MOD ana dld the bloody work well that the
mob itself did little more than applaud. H.
1t is strange that ''rebelladies' should have .,
'een SO much better informed Of what was !,
DING to happen than the men, that they had I
. impart the information to the latter and adj =
Use them not to go into the street. If the =.
len knew nothing about the plot to "1nassa- =,
re Union men, " who were going to carry it =,
ito effect? av -
There was double obligation on Gen Baird to =
reYent or arrest this fearful slaughter He is q
OF only commander Of the department but he is I'll
5slstant commissioner Of the treedmen's bureau n
nose especial and solemn duty it is to supervise i
hateVer AFFECTS the interests of the freedmen tL
en- Bard failed in both and the blood of 7leayy til
A4tndred Of our best Union men, and of 200 col.
'ed men, lies at the feet Of Commander and Com v
lssloner bard de was fully informed of the 81
)ndltlon Of affairs and had been importuned by Fl
lie very Union men now slaughtered by his neg =
Ct to prepare for serious contingencies. Gen. OF
ard not only failed to prepare, but not until FL
e bloody riot had continued five hours did he ~
ace troops on the scene of horror, and not then ~
It'll those gallant officers, Gems. Mower and Lee st
smanded that he should do so. Ia,
Who are the hundred chest Union men ~
luded to by the correspondent? We cannot 70
call the name of more than one or ginal q
monlst who suffered in the melee-Dr, Al IL
Dostie. 1t is impossible to say what were Z,
r Henderson's politics before the capture be
New Orleans by the Federal forces. DR. be
orton came with Gen. Butler, and, we pre-
me, was so-called Union man. Michael p,
lhn was Jealous Confederate orator; and 90
to Mr.. Shaw, nobody knew OF cared what wi
was, But who are the hundred chest 70,
iionists ?" Let US have, their names. We i,
ant to know who are better Union men than M
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