Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-08-30
THE NEW ORLEANS RIOT.

CLOTH" the most wilful and menda
cious misrepresentation. Individ
uals pretending to have been eye
witnesses to the unfortunate events
of July 30th, but who, in reality
were safely ensconced in some quie'
out-of-the way nook or chamber
inditing their despicable penny-a
line illusions, have busted theil
brains in ~exaggerating or connecting
such accounts of the riot as were
best calculated to pander to the de-
PRAYED imaginations and malignant
passions of their peculiar class Of
readers. Given to falsehood, as a
means of earning their bread, it is
not in eason to suppose that those
subsidized scribblers would under
take to give a plain unvarnished
history Of events, knowing full well
that to tell "the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth"
would be to place themselves in an
tagonism with the desires of their
masters, the editors of the radical
press and lose to them their occupa-
ton as hireling correspondents.
We have come across dozens of
letters purporting to describe the
New Orleans riot, it's cause and effect,
its attending circumstances and con-
sequences, written by correspondents
Of the above stripe, but we have
found no two of them agreeing in any
important particular, save that Of
misrepresentation. A studied aim
at deceiving the understandings of
their readers and to make political
capital out of the subject, transpa-
rently underlies their over lying
work of Justification. It is a humil-
iating commentary upon the charac
ter of the radical press, showing its
recklessness and degeneracy in open
ing its columns to the publication of
such letters, and upon the character
of its readers, showing how vitiated
must be their tastes, how clouded by
| preiudices their minds, to need such
miserable clap-trap for their enter
tainment.
A gentleman Of this city has
handed US a late number of the Troy
IN. " Daily Times, which con-
tains a communication from one "E.
P. B." copied from the New York
Times, wherein the writer evinces a
most savage ingenuity at depicting
scenes and incidents connected with
the New Orleans Riot, to nearly all
of which he processes to have been
an eyewitness. This veracious in.
dividual discourses in the most dol
orous and indignant strains about
the police and "mob," and luxuri-
ates in extravagant details concern
ing ar affair in which they were
compelled under aggravating circum-
stances to participate, for the sake of
UNFOLDING the AUS Of law and order;
but not a word of condemnation has
he to utter for those reckless and
notwithstanding spirits who were
instrumental in deluding others of
the white and colored population
into their schemes, and melting them
by violent harangues to the commits
sion of revolutionary and unlawful
deeds. The mortal wounding of two
men who were among the prime in,
Of the deplorable outbreak,
and the superficial injuries received
by some twenty others who were
engaged in the ms1e, are magnifed
into the dimensions of a wholesale
massacre.
The gentleman who handed us the
paper containing so narrowing an
account, informs us that he was in
New Orleans at the time of the riot
hat he is well acquainted with the
correspondent aforesaid, and knows