The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-08-18
New Orleans.



THE STATEMENT OF THE REBEL OFFICIALS FALSE
WAsAISGroH, August gth.-The following
dispatches have been received at the Tribune
bureau, in this city, from your correspond
ent at New Orleans;
New ORLEANS, Aug. Sin behalf of the
loyal people of Louisiana protest against
the report of Lieut.. Gov VOORHEES,, Mayor
Monroe and the rebel Gen. Heron to the
Presideat. They are all, as will be proven,
accessories to the murder Of our Union citi.
zens before or after the fact
The evidence of trustworthy gentlemen
now before the Military Commission will
prove their statements to be almost wholly
untrue. They, with President Johnson, are
responsible for the massacre of our Union
citizens, as will be clearly proven in time.
The three first named concocted and car
RED on the scheme for breaking up the con,
vention, and the President approved their
bloody work.
Strenuous efforts are being made at Wash
ington and in this city by interested parties
to stop the military investigation going on,
fearing the results. The President is doing
all he dare do to screen the guilty parties,
and is only prevented by the intermlXed re-
monstrance of Generals Grant and Sheridan
from handing the city back to the control of
the murderers of our Union men.
have it from trustworthy authority that
General Sheridan's telegram of the LIST OF
August was perverted for political purposes.
Among the sentences withheld from publ
cation was one that he (Sherdan) held Mayor
John I. Monroe responsible for the murders
committed on Monday.
Lieutenant Butts, of the Freedmens Blu.
reau, has been murdered and robbed in
jackson parish.
Rebels are complaining that they did not
Kill enough Yankees and convcntioncrs, but
brag that the time is coming when they will
finish their work. Union men are afraid to
go out on the streets after dark, and inyaria
bly, barricade their homes during the night,
while the present police is composed Of
Thugs. Life is terribly insecure, day or
night.
THE CHEERING FOR JEFF DAyls-JUDGE WAR
MoUTH-MAyoR MONROE.
The New Orleans Tribune of late date
contains the following:
We see that the cheers for Jeff Davis on
Monday very much embarfass our "recon-
structed secessonists." We will, therefore,
add new details to the facts. Cheers for
Davis were given at different times, but
mainly around Dostic's body, which was
then believed to be a corpse, and was lying
near the corner Of Canal and Dryades streets.
Several spectators in the hall, who were
taken in custody by police officers, escaped
the fury of the assassins by the officers cX-
claiming: "Don't touch him | know him!'
"Kill the ID Yankee son of "A b.
"No; ] know him HE IS A REBEL" Sew
eral lives have been saved in that way. As
to the firing upon the Federal Flag, and the
subsequent tearing Of that flag, the evidence
is conclusive The flag itself was pretty
good evidence, as it was in rags.
INTERESTING RECITAL OF FACTS.
Tho following article is extracted from the
New Orleans Adoocatc. the organ of the
Methodists in Louisiana:
The circumstances under which the con
vention met are briefly these: The State
government having passed almost wholly
into the hands of ex .Confederates, thereby
bringing to bear on the Union men Of the
State the full power Of rebel prejudice, plac
ing them under social ban, and involving
constant uncertainty of property and life,
and these evils having steadily increased till
the person Of no Union man in the State was
safe, it was proposed by some as a possible
means of relieving the situation, that the
State Convention Of 1861 be reassembed.-
That convention had never adjourned sine
die, but had adopted a proviso that, upon
urgent necessity it might be reconvened
That necessity, it was argued had arisen,
and after a preliminary interchange Of views,
in full reliance upon the protection of the
Government while exercising the 'univer-
sally.conceded right of all loyal citizens of
the United States to meet peaceably and
discuss freely questions concerning their
civil governments the call was finally issued
for the reassembling of the convention, and
Governor Wells was required by the acting
president Of the convention to issue writs for
the election of members from vacant parishes.
The scheme for reconvening the convention
not meeting with favor from some Repubi-
can leaders in Washington city, there was
considerable doubt whether the convention
would meet. Many of our best Union men
doubted the legality and propriety of the
proposed meeting. Bad as was the condi.
ton of affairs in the State, they questioned
the wisdom Of the proposed movement
But as to the right of the convention to as
semble, if they so chose, there could be no
question, and as the legal character Of their
actions could be freely tested before the
proper tribunals of the United States Gov.
eminent, there was not the shadow of an
excuse for violent interference.
Not such, however, were the purposes of
the adverse party. At first, treating the call
with derision, they soon manifested terri
BILE earnestness to prevent by force the meet
ing of the convention.
The first decided indication of this deter