New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-12
BATON p0noE And poHALDsoNvnLE.

BATON ROUGE AND DoHALDsoHvnLE.
The mob Democracy hive been foiled
at every point. They tried to carry the
election in Baton Rouge, and failed.
They next attempted to seize and scatter
the ballot-boxes, and failed again. They
murdered four or five colored men, and
wounded about twenty more, and then
attempted to make it appear that the
victims of the massacre had begun the
riot. The proofs of the case completely
refute this SANDER. As soon as the polls
closed on Monday, the Democratic Mayor
Of Baton Rouge requested the deputy
marshal and chief of the constabulary,
Mr.. Schorten, to disband his forces,
alleging that he was able and willing to
preserve the public peace. Lured into q
feeling of security by this assurance, the
marshal sent his deputies home, and re-
tired himself only to be called out in about
ten minutes to quell the disturbance which
broke out the moment his back was
turned. As the supervisors were about
to begin to open the ballot-boxes, the
doors were burst open and shots poured
into the room from the guns and pistols
of the rioters. The whole was the result
of a preconcerted plan. The marshal
was to be lulled into fatal security; the
rioters were to assemble armed and ready
to rush to the slaughter at the tap of the
bells. A slight misunderstanding pre-
cipitated the attack before the bells were
rung, but the alarm sounded forth shortly
after, and the bloodthirsty rioters rushed
to their work of death.
The fortunate arrival of the United
States troops put an end to the work of
death. The rioters were taken with their
pistols, hot in their hands, and are now
safely held as prisoners. All the reports
to the effect that the Republicans melted
the rioters, or gave them the slightest
cause of provocation, have been proved
false. The Times declares that "the ne
groes provoked the disturbance" We
suppose the fact that the colored men
voted the Republican ticket is deemed
sufficient ground for provocation. Such
has heretofore been the rule with the
Democrats. They applied it at Baton
Rouge. At Donaldsonville, the same
game was attempted. When the ballot
boxes were taken into the courthouse, it
was at once surrounded by armed men.
The supervisor, apprehending danger,
to remove the boxes to the
other side of the river. There were three
precincts on the Donaldsonville side,
md four on the other. General Hun
sacker having engaged suitable place,
sent for the ballot-boxes. The mob set up
their opposition, and declared that they
should not be taken out of the court
house. And when they were finally brought
out and taken across the river, the men
having it in charge were fred at, and we
one of them was killed. 1t
was the intention of the mob to
kill the whole party. And when the Re-
publicans\ finally determined to call the
militia to their aid, the afrighted often
aers rushed down to this city on the first
boats they could find, and endeavored to
throw the whole blame upon the innocent
and defenseless people whom they had
wronged.
Such is Louisiana Democracy! Such
is the conduct of men calling themselves
chivalric Beaten with the ballot, they
resort to the bullet. Fooled again, they
resort to mendacity and SANDER. They
charge the colored people with doing what
they themselves have done, and assume
which neither their number
nor their conduct give them. No one but
IN idiot would suppose that successful
political party would desire to destroy the
It was to their highest in
crest to have fair and correct count
The great body of the Republicans
,elored people-were miles away from the
courthouse when the difficulty began,
md they only assembled in response to
he call of supervisors for aid. And
when the news came in that the call for
militia was to be responded to, the guilty
originators of all the trouble ran in every
direction, crying "Negro riot!" This
cry is taken up by the Democratic papers;
4 handful of New Orleans demagogues
issue an exciting call for a meeting on
Canal street, for the purpose of improving
The moment of excitement before the slow
travelling truth could arrive.
1t was bad enough, in all conscience, to
create mobs in Baton Rouge and Donald
but it was at once cowardly and
to charge upon others acts they
never thought of, and which their &C.
,users alone had been guilty of melting.
BEHOLD HOW GREAT A FIRE A LITTLE
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