The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-10-30
The New Orleans Fight between the
Whites and Blacks-The Negroes
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Whites and Baacks-The Negroes
Provoked ft.
The following plainly truthful account of
the recent fight in New Orleans is from the
Picay1ne. 1t shows how false are oil the
Radical stories concerning that unfortunate
affair:
About 10 o'clock last night, as the Work
ingmen's Club were serenading at the resi-
dence Of Mr.. Thomas Hare, 165 Poydrae
street, they were passed by the Grant Co.
lored Club, marching down st. Charles
street. As soon as the Workingmen finish
ed their serenade they resumed their march
down st. Charles, about forty PAGES in the
rear Of the negroes. From there to the
corner CT Canal the negroes constantly as
sailed them with offensive and insulting
| epithets. Anxious to avoid difficulty, the
| white men bore their taunts in silence, and
preserved demeanor which utterly pre-
cluded the idea of any hostile design.
Reaching the corner Of Canal street, the
colored club divided, q part goiDg.up each
side of the neutral ground, 80 as to keep
the Workingmen constantly in their rear.
This insult, too, was put up with, until Ca
rondelet street was reached and passed.
About half way between Carondelet and
Baronne streets the negroes halted, and a
part Of them turned back, and thus
brought their men face to face with the
white club.
| At this juncture negro broke from the
ranks of his own club and rushed into the
centre of the white club, shouting at the
top of his voice, "Come on, let's clean
them out !! "
| It was not in human nature to endure all
this certainly not in the nature of men
smarting under recent outrages and taunts
borne in silence for an hour. A shot was
fired bya negro from the ranks of the return
ing party, which cut through the cap of q
gentleman named Richardson. 1t was then
that the white men returned the fire, and a
general engagement ensued. There was a
Wild rush, fearful mingling in death
struggle of the white and black element,
and quick and rapid discharge of fire.
arms all along the line. The angry throng
bent and swayed in the mad struggle, and
men were locked in passionate embrace
| which held the issues Of life and death.
| Above the moan and shout Of the angry
com batants the sharp report of pistols
sounded like the echoes of skirmish line
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on the ear. 1t was scarcely minute, and
yet blood ran red on the streets, and dead
| negroes lay stretched on the ground. 1t
was scarcely seconds time before six lay
| dead on the street, and two more were
borne back by their fellows mortally wound
ed. The negroes fought wildly, and were
evidently in mortal dread at the terrible
retribution they had provoked. The white
men, on the contrary, were skilled in the
use of arms, and most Of them had before
kept step and linein the fury of the battle.
| They were not alarmed at the shout of the
| parti -colored foe, for they had seen hostile
pennons bend and shake in melee when
men died by hundreds. They knew that
the time had come to teach lesson, and
the least show of timidity would stimulate
the negroes and their cowardly associates
| to drench the city in blood. There was,
therefore, no giving back and no waverlng
| from the conflict. -
While the head Of the column Of the
Workingmen were thus engaged, the rear
| formed into line, and marched to their sup
port. It was at this moment the negroes
| fled. Broken and discounted, they ran in
! every direction. Although they had pro-
yoked the conflict, and had been themselves
| the assailants, yet the attack ceased the
very moment that resistance was at an end.
| They were not pursued, and no advantage
| taken of the victory gained. Throughout
the conflict the negroes numbered two to
one. It was this excess of forces no doubt
which melted them to the attack. They
| knew the white men had borne in silence
taunts such as they we're not accustomed to
endure, and believed that they could with
| impunity advance another step in their
hostile aggressions, and perhaps provoke
an encounter which would rebound to
their advantage. In this they were mis-
taken. Short of actual violence anything
would have been put up with; but the peo-
pie of New Orleans had too long and too
seriously suffered from the brutal insolence
of negroes, urged on as they are by cow
ardly whites, to permit their rights as cltl.
zens and their very manhood to be trampled
in the dust. When assailed they had
right to resist-they did no more.
The conflict began at the corner of Ca
rondelet, and extended as far up Canal az
Burgundy street. Here it ceased.
As far as heard from at II o'clock last
night six negroes were killed, two NOR
tally wounded, and one slightly injured.
Among the whites Mr.. Richardson was
wounded in the head slightly by bullet; q
newsboy named Dooley was shot in the wrist
and q man named Ryan injured in the leg
by q spent ball or glance shot.
| A few minutes after the riot ceased q large
body Of negroes, numbering about four hun,
dred, marched up Basin and Rampartstreete
from Congo Square, where large Radical
meeting had been held. They had evidently
heard Of the disturbance, and had come to
participate in it; but before they reached
the scene all had become quiet. They Of,
fered no violence to any one, and went on
their way as if nothing had happened.
LATER.
At midnight the widest excitement pre-
vailed, and rumors flew thick and fast Of
conflicts in various portions of the city. A
company of United States cavalry patroled
the streets, but it would have taken an
army to have kept order in the excited state
Of public feeling. At the corner Of Thalia
and Camp streets o conflict occurred be-
tween mob of negroes and few white
men, in which one white man was shot
through the body. He ran as far as the
corner of Magazine and Melpomene streets
where he fell. Another white man was
shot and slightly wounded on Triton Walk
MARRIAGE ON A 'STEAMBoAT.-On the
steamer Vanderbilt yesterday morning Yves
couple mstrimonially inclined, who had
left home at some point on the line of the
railroad for the purpose of being united in
| m rriaoe in this city but having found a