The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-23

NEw ORLEASs RIoTs-Mr Boyer, from
the select committee on the New Orleans
riots, has submitted a minority report from
which we take the following general con-
illusions as drawn up by that portion of the
committee which he represents.
J. The riot of the Both of July was 10
cal disturbance, originating IN local eircum-
stances Of great proYOcation, and IN no wise
the result of any hostility or disafection on
the part of the community of New Orleans
towards the federal government 1t was
not in any just Orfair sense of the term
vestige or outcrop Of the rebellion, nor can
it be said to be any Indication even in the
remotest degree, of a disposition on the part
Of the people of the city Of New Orleans
or of the State of Louisiana to renew hos
tilities in any form with the established au-
thOrities, either State or Federal.
1t would be mOnstfous Injustice to
hold the whole people of the State of LOuisi-
ana accountable for the acts Of those en-
gagged in a riot confined to a small portion
Of the city of New Orleans; and for that
cause to abrogate by act of Congress the
civil government of that State, now in peace
ful and successful operation, would be an
usnrpatiOn Of power not warranted by the
Constitution, and gross outrage upon the
3. The riot was provoked by the incendi-
airy speeches, revolutionary acts and threat
ened violence Of the eonventionists such as
under similar circumstances would probably
have led to a riot In any city in the Union.
4 To provoke an attack on the colored
population, which was expected to be sup
pressed by the military before it had seri-
Ously endangered the white leaders, appears
to have been part of the scheme of the con-
ventiOnists. This would afford an excuse
| for congressional investigation, resulting in
congressional legislation favoring the uIti-
mate design Of the eOnspiTators, viz, the de-
structiOn Of the existing civil government of
Louisiana
3. As respects that part of the resolution
Of the House which makes it a subject OF
| investigation by the committee :" whether
/ and to what extent those acts were partici-
| pated IN by members Of the organization
! claiming to be the government Of Louisiana,
| the following conclusion is submitted Ia
no proper sense of the term, and in no de-
| gree whatever, is the riot of the Both OF
July attributable to the government of
Louisiana. If there be any members of the
! government of Louisiana in whose official OF
| personal acts the remote causes of the riot
are to be traced, the chief among them are
Judge r K. Howell, who, as the usurpinq
| president of the minority of an extinct con,
ventiOn, headed the conspiracy to overthrow
| the State constitution, which, as a Judge oil
the supreme court, he had sworn to support
and Governor j. Madison Wells, who lent to
the conspiracy his official sanction, but or
the day of danger deserted his post without
an effort to preserve the public peace. And
if there be any members Of the federal gov
eminent who are indirectly responsible fol
the bloody result, they are those members
OF the present Congress. whoever they may
be, who encouraged these men by their coun
sells and promised to them their individual
AID official support
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