Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-01
The City Government OF New Orleans
and the Mob.

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The atrocious account of the mob at
New Orleans sent by telegraph to the
Northern press and evidently prepared
by some one in full sympathy with the
mob, if not participator in it, contains q
sentence or two which our readers will be
interested in comparing
"All the lock ups are filed with arrested
rioters W. r. Fish was drawn
out Of the Convention by couple of the po-
/ lice and carried to the lookup.
| The President Of the Convention aud the
members thereof are one by one being ar
/ rested and confined. The po-
lice are behaying in the most exemplary
manner"
This tells the story. The members of
this convention, the leading men Louis
lana, in intellect, in culture, in patriotism,
and in religious devotion to duty, as
sembled here for peaceful purpose, were
set upon by mob of rebel rufians. The
police intervene and our dispatches tell US
that the lookup is filed with "rioters"
But who are the rioters The next SEN
tence tells us. Not the rufians, not the
rebels, not the scum of New Orleans who
we're engaged that day in shooting down
negroes and those who believed in justice
to negroes, but the thinkers and speakers,
a devoted band of martyrs! !who compose
the convention. It was these men who
were dragged to jail for riot amid the
cheers of the rebel crowd by the police Of
New Orleans Il was these men who
were shot down like dogs by this same
police. 1t was these men whom "the
crowd aad the police" surrounded in the
Mechanics Institute and slaughtered
there BY the hour. And it was to rein
force such a police organization as this
against "riots preeipitated by rcvolu-
tionary faction that the Mayor of New
Orleans summoned recruits from this very
mob, and armed them with the insignia
and weapons of the police force, that they
might carry on their psrtizan work more
effectuslly. And this the telegraphie
gentleman at New Orleans thinks is be-
having Hin the most exemplary manner"
This is the atroeious, this is the horrible
feature of the New Orleans riot-that the
attack upon the convention was organ
ized, headed and made effective by the
rebel police of the city, with the ednni-
vance, aye, under the very direction, Of
the rebel Mayor, John T. Monroe We
have had terrible disturbances in the
North, and the riots of 1868 in New York
city fill us with horror and shame as we
remember them. But If has been left for
the city of New Orleans to show the world
the frightful spectacle Of the city govern
| ment Joining with the street rufians in an
attack upon peaeeful body, and arresting
as rioters the men who are being mobbed
and assaulted, amid the cheers of the mob
itself This is precisely what the police
of that disgraced city did, and sthis is
what they were instructed to Go by their
rebel Mayor.
The full beauty and propriety of this
transaction cannot be appreciated until 1t
is remembered that it is most directly and
Immediately the result of Mr.. Johnson's s
policy We do not mean generally, in
reviviag the hopes and stimulating the
spirit of seeessionists, but particularly in
placing the city government of New Or
leans in the hands of this rebel Monroe.
It viii be remembered that this man Mon
roe was Mayor of New Orleans when il