The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-14

causes insisted on by the majority, IL bears
evidence of being q document intended simply
to supply the public with facts, and not to
inhanie prejudices, or to make plausible ex-
cuses for great intended wrong towards
Louisiana. 10 afford pretext for similar pro-
ceedings towards all the Southern States.
It would be quite pertinent, however, if we
were to recapitulate the positive evidence be-
fore the public, that the radical majority in
Congress knew last July that such a riot was
imminent, If not directly intended that men
who were conspicuous in that riot ex-Gover-
nor Hahn particularly, were in close consulta-
ton with Stevens, Banks, and Company. i'm
mediately before the riot, and then left full
charged as to the course to be pursued for
New Orleans that Doster one of the radical
instruments, urged the negroes to arm them
selves for the riot two days before it occurred.
that Congress was urged by Boutwell,, in the
radical caucus, not to adjourn till 'they heard
from New Orleans''-all these things are as
fresh in the public mind as the Tribune saws
the "reCital of the horrors is. It is needless
now, either for the information of the public.
or for the sake of history, to go over that
ground again. But with regard to the aniraus
of the majority report the following is peril
nent:-
The riot occurred July 30. From the very
day when the full facts were made public
down to the time when the Committee started
for New Orleans to collect evidence, the World
has repeatedly predicted the precise use which
would be made of this affair, and that it would
be the excuse for doing what the Radical Con-
vention failed to accomplish, 1. e., the subver-
sion of the present State Government of Loui-
siana, and the substitution of some stronger
and more radical rule. When the facts were
fresh last August, the World repeatedly stated
that the object of the radical riot was 'to upset
the legally constituted State Government. and
to substitute therefor military rule a Provi-
sional Government, anything acceptable to the
radicals in Washington or (as we stated
August 4, FIVE days after the rot), ''failing in
this scheme, to create riot so serious as to
call for Federal interference, thus furnishing
new argument for keeping out the disturbed,
TiOtOus, and still rebellious Southern States
till after the next Presidential contest"
Whether the riot was planned for this express
purpose, or not, is matter of no moment
now; the Worlds prediction of the use that
would be made of the riot is fulfilled to the
letter in the majority report
Equally prophetic was the World in early
stating the tone of the radical press and of the
report, which is but a re-echo and rehash of
the radical editorials on the subject last sum-
mer. Such special pleading as turns the
whole investigation and all the "cOllected''
evidence into warrant for the summary sub
version of the State Government of Louisiana,
and the substition therefor of q provisional
Government, maintained by military power, 4"
is indication enough that the object of the re-
port is to effect this, and not to furnish infor-
nation to the public. 1t is the tlimsiest and
most transparent pretext for the preparation
of a greater outrage than the Tribune ever
raked from all the wrongs of Kansas; for
Louisiana is but the entering wedge, and as
the riot furnishes the excuse for overturning
the civil Government of that State, so
Louisiana will be not only the pretext, but the
precedent for similar proceedings in all the
Southern States. ..r