The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-09-13

The New Orleans saSaCre-hinDOr-
tant Statement Of Gen. A. T.. Lee.
General Alfred L. Lee. an officer of cav
airy under Banks and Sheridan, was wit
ness to the Massacre in New Orleans, which
low citizens of LeayenWorth Kansas, pre-
facing his account with some personal ex-
perience of the ''willingness of the rebels
to accept any terms" shortly after the war,
and their present bitter hostility to the
Unionists and the Northerners. In the
following he alludes to the ''garbled eX
tracts" from General Sherilan's Dispatch
es, published in the Copperhead papers:
''Let me narrate to you some ofthe scenes
of that day. My rooms happened to be
and | could see very much of it. Captain
Loup, IL Captain of the First New Orleans
Infantry, who had just been mustered out.
was standing one block from me; he was
approached by two policemen; one placed
his pistol at his back ard slot him down
and the other stabbed him in the side Sc
curing his immediate death. There was a
noble man who represented the radical SEN
timent of the city, DR.. Dostie. He was not
a member of the Convention, but he was
in the hall. He attempted to escape
When about half block from the capital
J,y,i1 ho x1-itR 1,.so
knocked down. Policemen were standing
near, but instead Of arresting the assaulter
they stepped up to Or. Dostie and deliber
ately fired into the body of the defenceless
man. A citizen standing by drew his
sword from his cane and thrust it into his
body. Still the doctor was not dead, and
was dragged by the police through the
crowd and placed in common dirt
cart. / saw this myself. One policeman
sat on his head. The poor man attempted
to raise his head, and I saw the policeman
raise the revolver and strike him on the
face and mash his nose fiat. That noble
man died.
II stood ON my balcony and looked on
the crowd offour hundred policemen, mad
dened with liquor and drunk with fury,
assisted by fremen and Thugs, together
with two or three hundred citizens, on this
field-day of slaughter. saw passing an
innocent black man, with a market basket
on his arm. He was met by knot of po-
licemen. They said, You are from the
hall, are you?' He said No. They said,
y es you are.'' He started TO run. Two
policemen ran after him and as many as
a dozen bullets were shot into his body be-
fore he fell. A citizen then stamped with
his heel on his face, he was beaten to death
with clubs. -#
'Within five minutes after this | saw a
policeman approach black man, and put
ting pistol to his back shoot him down.
And ten minutes after, a great coarse, bru-
tai ruffian approached and kicked the dead
corpse. While he was kicking the corpse
a street car passed. In it was a bright
eyed yellow woman. She put out her head
to look out, and this ruffian raised his hand
and struck her in the face.
"Another little chapter in the scene
There is in New Orleans, as in most other
large Cities: baggage and transfer compa-
ny. A returned officer of our army was
an officer of one of these companies. He
told me, his office being near the scene of
the riot, the police came to him and said
they wished his baggage wagons to bear
away the dead. They seized them, and he
said he saw them repeatedly throw six and
eight bodies, black and white, into one wag-
ON, and carry them off. He told me ofone
scene in particular. Eight or ten men had
been thrown into a wagon. Two of the
first who were thrown in (black men) were
not quite dead, and they were revived
They endeavored feebly to push from them
the recumbent mass of corpses. A police
man saw it he leaped into the wagon with
the expression, Cd d-n YOU'LL fix you.
so you'll be STILL and with his revolver We
ry deliberately blew out their brains.
"Another negro was shot down on the
street and had been left for dead:9 He laid
till notice Of him had ceased. A policemen
came along and noticed that the man had
some life in him. He saw the policeman,
and the poor, ignorant,deluded man raised
his head with petition for aid. Instead OF
giving him the aid he requested. he gave
him such as he had been instructed to-
He raised his club and broke his neck at a
blow.
''These things show you some of the bru-
tality which prevailed on that day. | re-
manned on my balcony and witnessed these
scenes as long as I could endure them. A
Icin nOla At lnn0th
left my house and rode to the headquar-
tiers ofthe department. l found General
Baird in his Office, surrounded by his staff
| said General Baird, can it be possible
that you are ignorant ofwhat is occurring
in the city, He said: What, General, i!