The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-08-08
END OF THE CONSPIRACY.

| in one Of the most disgracefnl riots thai
| it has ever bsen our province to record
"A full account of the scenes of Monday
the 30th ult., will be found in our col
umns to-day; we need not, therefore
descend to particulars.
I After the incendiary speeches at the
negro meeting a few days previous te
the assembling of the Convention, and
the open advice Of the Radicals to the
colored population to arm themselves
it became evident that the most insig-
nifcant circumstance would be sufi-
Gent to precipitate riot on the day
appointed for the conv0cation OF the
august assembly. 1t was not s1npris-
ing, therefore, that on that eventful
morning the hall of the Mechanics In
stitute, and the avenues leading thereto,
should have been thronged with an ex-
cited band of negroes, all armed with
weapons the sameness of whose work
manship indicated that they had been
furnished for the occasion; it is not
surprising, either, that these same ne
groes should have made an unproyoked
assault on unoffending white men; and
it is the least surprising thing of all
that the white men, when thus attacked,
should have Cleaned out" the negro
mob and the miserable body which had
melted them to the commission of
bloody deeds.
As regards the commencement of the
riot, in spite of the misrepresentation
of which it has been the occasion, and
of the attempts of the Radicals to throw
the blame on the white men, the impair
tial reader of every account that has
been furnished cannot fail to exonerate
the people of New Orleans from all
blame in the matter. Neither can we
blame, to any considerable extent, the
poor negroes who commenced the at
tack, ignorant as we know them to be,
and so easily influenced by any one
who promises an amelioration Of the
lamentable condition into which they
have fallen by the pseudo philanthropic
action of sthe best government in the
world" The blame lies at the door of
those infamous scoundrels who having
brought the State of Louisiana into the
lowest depths Of degradation, were not
content to leave her there, but were
seeking a CLOVER depthn into which,
with the aid of their friends at Wash
ington, they were determined to cast
her. And the largest amount of all the
blame must rest on the shoulders of the
leader of this band Of deserters, jay
hawers and convicted felons, Mr.. j.
Madison Wells, who, having deceived,
outraged and scandalised every one
with whom he has had any transactions
for the last .hirty-fve years closes his
career Of duplicity by outraging peo-
pie who, forsome unaccountable reason
unknown to those Of US who have been
acquainted with his character all that
time, reposed SO much confidence in him
as TO elect him to preside over the in
terests of the sovereign State Of Lou
isiana.
1t is well known that we have no afs
lection for the jayhawkers' Constitution
of 1864, notwithstanding it's endorse
ment by his immaculate "Excellency,"
and the discovery by our late Legisla-
tive Solons that it came to us legiti-
mately as a CONSCIENCE Of our subjuga-
ton. 1t is well known that we have
been clamoring for sovereign Conven-
ton Of the people, for year past, and
that we gave up our earnest desire that
such body should be speedily called
only on the assurance Of President
Johnson that its convocation at this
| time would interfere seriously with his
sanitary plans for the arsIioration Of
the Southern States. But when we
saw a set of reckless and unprincipled
individuals, who had been instrument
tai in saddling suck Constitution up
on us, endeavoring to subvert the work
of their own hands only for the purpose
of still further expressing us and of OBJ
strrrrting the President in his work of
reconstruction, it became the duty of
every individual to see that their eff
forts should be tbwarted. The people
of New Orleans have, therefore, done
their duty well and nlanfully, they
have wiped out every vestige of the
body which was ambitious Of exciting
tumult and turmoil among the people Of
the State. They have driven to their
lairs the frightened set Of towards, who
a week before bdasted of their ability
to ride rough-shod over the people, and
have left them nothing but the empty
honor ofparading themselves beforeitheir
Radical friends of the North as the
down-trodden and oppressed "martyrs
! of lihertvD Thew are nerfnrtlv wei.