New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-27
DEMOCRATIC OUTRAGES.
MARCH OF THE INN0CENTS
OF REPUBLICAN CLUB ROOMS.
OF CITIZENS.

Whenever the story of the last two weeks
of riot and bloodshed in and around New
Orleans shall have been written there will
be nothing more infamous related than the
bare facts of the outrages of the Demo-
cratic clubs which paraded the streets last
night.
Wherever these Innocents went they left
trail of destruction. Houses were
entered and robbed, churches were
sacked and desecrated, schoolrooms were
broken open and the furniture destroyed.
Republican club rooms were entered, and
the banners, flags, transparencies and lamps
carried away or trampled under feet. For
half the night the air was rent with the most
iendish yells. Ali over the city, wherever
the march was taken, the frightened women
and children were forced to listen to the
discharge of fire arms.
We have been able TO get together an ac-
count of some of the deeds of violence of
these men. Our report is necessarily incon.
plete, but we will lay before our readers
every fact as we learn the particulars.
In the First District the march was on
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Mr.. Williams at No. 300. This
building was formerly occupied as
Republican club, but is now
used solely as schoolhouse and as the resi-
dence OF the teacher. The Innocents com.
ing to the place broke open the door and
rushed in. The story that they were fred
upon is untrue. There was no one in the
house but Mr.. Williams and his family. They
had no arms of any kind. Mr.. Williams
escaped to the top of his house. The limo
cents proceeded to break open trunks and
armoirs and to scatter the clothing. They
carried off about six hundred dollars in
money and warrants, a valuable watch and
chain and other things amounting to nearly
thousand dollars in all.
Later in the night detachment of men
went to the room OF the Warmoth Campaign
| Club, at No. 4Si Lafayette street, corner of
Johnson, broke open and destroyed trans.
parencies and lamps.
| During the night number of men. we
learn, went to there idence CT Major R. i.
| shelly and sought to force an entrance, but
| failed.
All this in the Third Ward.
The procession passed up town. On the
corner of Dryades ard Triton Walk they
broke into building which was formerly
used as the club room of the Second Ward
| Club. man was killed here whose name
we have not learned. The Irnlcents fired
at this place several hundred shots. For
hours afterward we heard firing in the
neighborhood. The story that the club was
fired into at the corner Of TIiton Walk and
| Dryades is a fabrication.
The clubs then continued up town, yelling
like demons and occasionally discharging
their firearms.
/ A. 1aIr ,
| streets, they sacked a colorCd church, in
which the Eleventh Ward Club has held its
meetings They destroyed everything which
| they could not carry away. Ban
nsrs and wreaths were taken in
the procession and borne along as
trophies of victory. The church would have
| been burned but for the earnest supplca.
tions of German woman, whose house,
| adjoining, would have been destroyed.
In the Second District the cigar manufaC-
tory and residence of Mr.. Octave or Armand
Belot, who is Republican, on Claibo ne
street corner 81. Ann, was broken open by
the Innocents. The shop and residence
were both sacked completely. Mr.. Belot
and his family escaped.
The COTE house of Jules L lbre, an
active Republican, corner of Basin and st.
Peter street, was entered and sacked.
A party of men went to the residence of
Captain Eugene Stae', also in the Second
District, and attempted to force an entrance
| but failed.
In the Third District the outrages were
continued On Greatmen street a colUred
orphan boys school was violated.
The same building is occupied in part by
| Captain Green's club of Zouaves. The
! benches and desks in the school room were
broken up and scattered. Up stairs the
lady FORTRESS of the school lived. The
rioters broke into her apartment, forced
open her trunks, scattered her clothing and
stole her silverware spoons and other
| things. In the club room adjoining the
transparencies and lamps were destroyed.
The Eight Ward Republican clubroom on
Morales street, between Vaudeville and
Marigny streets, was broken into and vic.
lated. Furniture was broken up, banners
and flags carried of, and everything else
destroyed.
Thus we have detailed few of the out.
RACES upen the line Of this Democratic
parade.