The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-03
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1866.
The New Orleans Massacre-''The Tale
UntOlded.''

UnIOI0e0s'
MURDER will out" Notwithstanding the
desperate attempts of certain officials at
Washington to conceal the true cause OF the
New Orleans massacre, the facts of the
case have been again and again laid before
the public, in so clear and unmistakabe
light, that no reasonable doubt can remain as
to the originators OF the series of murders
which rival st. Bartholomew. We make
place on our first page to-day for the full
report of the Military Commission appointed
by the War Department to investigate the
occurrence. These are army officers, and
under the control of those who had sought
to exonerate Monroe and blame the Conyen-
lion, but the facts before them were so ex-
plicit as to leave no question as to where the
responsibility lies. 1t proves that it was the
conservative (?) party which split all the
blood, and on their heads and on their chill
dren let the crime rest. We want no stronger
campaign document than the one before us.
1t speaks volumes in favor OF the radical
cause. We append the editorial OF the Tri-
6une of this morning, as an excellent expo
nent of the thoughts in the mind of every
disnterested mani
The Report of the Military Board of Commits
sion appointed TO Investigate the causes OF the
New Orleans massacre Is at last before the pub.
TIC, me President, IN spite OF the universal
demand for its publication, has kept TINS extra
ordinary document secret, and there was reason
to fear its eutire Suppression. IL will easily Oe
seen why he dared not allow it to be published
The whole responsibility OF the massacre is
placed upon the civil authorities OF New Orleans
ana through them upon the President, who sus-
talned their course. The Radical Convention is
eXOnerated from the charge or luciting the
negroes to Violence and it is proved that the
negroes who paraded were generally unarmed
and could have had no hostile intention. When
the Convention was attacAed, 1t is established
beyond the shadow OF doubt that, except the
two or three pistols in the hands of the proce>-
sion negroes, The besieeed party were totally
unarmed. "On the other hand, the Commission
found that the Mavor expected that An orga-
nized attack would ne made on the Con-
vention, and that on the morning
OF the massacre he withdrew the police
from the streets. armed them, Id held them to
await orders. The city was left TO the mercy or
the rioters. The hrst attack was MADE by eX-
Rebel soldiers upon the negroes and this was
followed by the advance of the police in three
columns, nrlng on the negroes and the Conven-
ton. Organizations OF Rebel soldiers ioined
in the attack. The alarm-bell gave the we'll
known signal which, during the Rebellion, sum-
moned the Rebel soldiers to the defense OF the
CITY against a Federal attack. Sweeping
through the streets III answer to the tollng bell,
came Hays brigade ami bodies OF men bear
ing the insignia of Rebel troops. They tell upon
this helpless Convention, the poor procession OF
negi oes, who, carrying the flag of the United
States, blindly trusted to its protection, and
pursued the work OF massacre with cowardiy
terocity unsurpassed in the annals of CIime." 1t
was not the duty OF the Commission to describe
the scenes which ensued but the report gives
startling evidence OF the iendish spirit of the
poceiand the mob, and state, las firm conviction,
that "but for the presence OF the troops, fire
and blOodshed would have ragged throughout
the night in all the negro quarters OF the city,
and that the lives and property of Unioni5tS and
Northern men would have been at the mercy of
the mob" They also declare that Mayor
Monroe knew what the action of the police
would be, and intended the inevitable conse-
Quences of mis- own acts" Yet this is the man
and these the men thai Andrew johnson has
defended as the friends of order.
In his speech at ST. Louis, three days after
the date of thus report, when the substance of it
had in all probability reached hun, and when,
at least. the main facts were known to the whole
country. Mr. Johnson declared "every man In
the Convention to be traitor" and the Con-
gress of the United states to be "the cause and
AS IN the hrst place he gave full power
to the civil government of New Or
leans to do as it pleased with the Con
yention, and refused to take any steps fol
its protection, so he has since been the
consistent defender of Mayor Monroe and hi
police, and the rradUcer OF the loyal men they
killed. He has denounced Congress, and the
Commission, by the same implication, has indi
Gated his own policy as the cause OF this massa
ere. Between the two the people will not fine
1t hard to choose. There is Sheridan, Baird
and a commission of American soldiers on the
one side, and on the other Andrew johnson vic
lently appealing at COpperhead banquet to
mob of applauding Coppcrheads.
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