New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-30
AN UNPRovOKED ASSAULT.
A Republican Knocked Down,
HE Is KICKED WHILE INSENSIBEE.
Chiva11.y on "a steamer.

Honorable George W. Reagan, pro-
minent Republican and candidate for the
State Senate at the late election, went up
to Baton Rouge last week to register
and attend to some private busi-
ness. While there he was insulted
during the day time, and feared
assassination at night. On Sunday evening
about eight o'clock he was escorted by
some of his friends to the steamer Robert
L. Lee, on which he embarked for New
Orleans. The Hancock Club of this city
was on board, bound home from the Demo
| cratic barbecue at Pointe Coupee. There
was also at least one hundred Democrats
belonging to Baton Rouge on the Lee.
Mr.. Reagan paid his passage, secured a
stateroom, and, avoiding political conyer-
sation, took seat in the cabin, determined
to keep aloof from the crowd, and to give
no occasion for any personal insult to or at
tack upon him. While seated in the cabin a
messenger came IN and told him that col
ored man, member of Republican club,
who knew Mr.. Reagan, wanted to see him
outside, and desired him to come out there,
as the rules of the boat did not permit the
oolored man to go into the cabin.
Not suspecting that this was trick, Mr..
Reagan went out, and the door had hardly
closed when he was struck in the face, he
thinks by brass knuckle. The first blow
did not knock him down, but the second
one did, and he was knocked senseless
Other injuries were inflicted upon him,
and Mr.. Reagan is lying in a somewhat
critical condition in an obscure part ol
this city.
The severcst Injury is on the side of
his face and nose, the wound being of a
dangerous character, and which on Wednes-
day night bled very profusely, so much SO
that there were apprehensions that imme-
diate death would ensue from this cause.
Messrs. W. Pope Noble, of the House Of
Representatives. and Mr.. Jewell, Of the
BtG,etin, were among the passengers on the
boat. But they were not among Mr.. Rea-
gans assailants, nor was he assailed by any
member of the Hancock Club.
A member OF the Hancock Club, who
witnessed the assault, describes it as the
most brutal affair that he ever saw. He
thinks Mr.. Reagan was struck with pistol
and says that after he was knocked down
and was utterly insensible, the helples man
was brutally kicked and very severely on
the head.
One fiend in human shape, when humane
men were trying to revive the woundt d
man and apply remedies to stop
the effusion of blood, recommended that
his wounds be washed with salt and water
This member of the Hancock Club can
recognize the principal assailant of Mr.,
Reagan. He asserts that there was no
provocation whatever for the attack, and
oorroborates the statement of Mr.. Reaga !
that the moment he got to the cabin do
he was struck.
This is another added to the record OF
fearful outrages committed on Republicans
| for political considerations. Will not the
Democratic press ever condemn these as,
saul upon individuals? If they will dc
this, if the Bulletin or Times had con
demned this outrage, there would be more
hope OF personal security against the hand.
of the assassin.
In this connection we copy the following
from the usually correct reports in the lOcal
columns of the Bee. The writer certainly
could not have known the facts in reference
to Mr.. Reagan: ....
Vamosed Besides the departure of ex
correspondent Shelly, Of the New YORK
Tribune, we hear that other noted Radicals
have vamosed from our city, among then
colored State Senator Pinchback, who il
reported to have been shot last Tuesday il
the leg, and to have decamped with all hi
household effects for quarters unknown
and George w, Reagan, the unsuccessful
contestant of the seat OF Senator Day, o
Baton Rouge. The latter left on the steame
Robert Z. Lee, and hurt himself very badl,
by slipping down as he went on board.