The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-04
A FEW FACTS.

| that shortly after his lnauguratlon, MS acci-
dentalency Governor Wormoth wrote a let
ter 10 Washinpton-duly forwarded by Sol.
Deane of INV staf"-in which he invented the
murders of one hundred and fifty Union
men within the past month" Now, in Or
der to make this pleasant little novel the
easier of belief amongst Northern people, the
delepates from Northern States, now in Gen.
eral Assembly convened on Dryades street,
and facetiously designated as the: Legislature
| of Louisiana, appointed joint committee
"on the conduct of the late elections and the
| condition of peace and order in the State"
whose duty should be to make up the tale of
the governors statement, with full permission
to manufacture any additional horrors, such
as assaults, insults, rapes, house burnings,
etc, to any extent that the vividness of their
imaginations might suggest. This was on July
| 3Oth last In accordance with these instruc-
tons the committee went to work with will,
| employing themselves, as they state in the
report, daily from 9 A. NJ. till 10 or ii p. NJ,
| (Which, considering that we have very fire.
| quently, during these hours, seen the men,
bers of the committee engaged in other party
work elsewhere, is drawing it little strong to
start WITH and they have at last produced a
document which, in the fertility of invention
therein displayed, in the glowing fancy therein
employed in the luxurious imagination there
In shown, is certainly remarkable one, and
one that claims the attention of every lover of
the fine art of distorting some fact and Great
ing others.
We referred to this remarkable effusion of
Radicalism yesterday in general terms, and
take it up again only to give to the public
some facts relative to the statements therein
made in regard to occurrences said to have
taken place in certain parishes. With this
| prelude and the further statement that Mr..
| Thompson, Democratic senator, has assured
| US that the evidence taken in all the cases is
| of the fimsiest character, and the confident
prediction that if the people of the State will
aid us in the good work, we can expose yet
further. the baselessness of the wholesale
charges made against our people by these men
who pretend to represent them, we submit
the following jottings:
The statement is made in the beginning
that although their witnesses are men 'whose
worth and Understanding in their communities
are sufficient guarantees for the truth of any
statement which they may make" yet for
fear ''of violence to their persons and property
and even of the loss of their lives from the
vengeance and anger of disloyal persons in
their respective neighborhoods" these gentle
men of worth, etc., decline to allow their
names to be published, and the committee
thought fit to grant their request Now this
may do very well for people who do not know
the devices of carpet-baggery, but we, who do
know how, in former case-the election of
Mr.. Jewell from the Senate-when their
chosen witness, Lefevre, turned against them
and confessed that he had been bribed to
testify, can estimate how far this was their
real motive and how far they were influenced
by fear of similar exposure and by dread of
exhibiting to the world the worthless charac-
ter of the men upon whose testimony they
would take away the fair fame of our people.
In telling of the shooting of Edward For
rest, a negro, by Arthur Guerin, at the
French Market, about ten days ago, they
state that "Guerin then escaped without
arrest" Falsehood number one, as every
child in this city knows that Guerin surren-
dered himself and is now in the Parish
Prison.
The whole report is full of such express
sions as ga freedman, name unknown. was
murdered by parties unknown -" several
freedmen, number not stated, were shot and
killed by parties unknown "a freedman,
name unknown, was shot and wounded by
parties unknown" Gen. Hatch states that
reports have reached him of the murder
of both whites and blacks in the back part of
the parish (Carrollj two freed people were
outraged by parties unknown and SO on
dd nausedm. This they call report; and
with these precious and transparent devices
they seek to brand peaceful and long suffer-
ing people with infamy.
In Claiborne parish they detail the murder
of one Meadows, a colored member of the
famous, or rather infamous black and tan
constitutional convention. Now when it is
known that tire current belief in Claiborne
parish is that Meadows was killed by men of
his own party, the outrage perhaps will not
seem SO great in Radical eyes. They also tell of
a freedman named Scott, who was taken out
and whipped in the vicinity of Homer Now
this whipping was done by colored men, and
the reason of it was that Scott was an outra-
geous thief and richly deserved it. The above |
facts we have from respectable citizen of the
parish.
In st. Mary parish they tell how "Arn--
BRINE claim agent and his servant, colored,
were taken from their boarding house in
Jeanerettes by band of armed men at mid |
night in June last, blind-folded and carried |
to the timber where they were threatened |
with instant death unless they would promise
to never step their foot in the town again."
Arnbrime was convicted in open court of
swindling negroes out of money that he had
collected for them, and attempted to swindls
a gentleman of Franklin out of money he
owed him. And this is Radical martyrl
They say the gentleman in whose house the
Radical club in Franklin had met was told
that unless he turned the club out his house
would be burnt The best answer to this is