The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-29
A SAMPLE PARISH FOR THE COM.
MITTEE OF INVESTIGATION.
The Negro Murderers of st. Bernard.

The following has been handed to US by al
intelligent planter, long a resident of the
parish Of st. Bernard. The correctness O.
the statements is vouched for by the best
authority and much of the revolving story is
familiar to those of our citizens who have
business, family or social relations with the
people OF that neighboring parish. We COM
mend the black record here sketched to the
Congressional Committee. Citizens of st.
Bernard summoned at random will cor
roborate all that our correspondent states
| ST. BERNARD PARISH, La, Jan. p, 1875.
We see that Gen. Sheridan, in his zeal and
hot haste, to subserve the malignant purpose
for which he was sent to Louisiana, has men
toned this parish in connection with some
| others as the location of many n egro murders.
| and other atrocities.
We regret to say, the indictment, as far as
St Bernard is concerned, is nearly or quite
"a true bill" 1t has been most thoroughly
and intensely a Radical parish, since the very
inception OF reconstruction. This very fact
has caused the many murders and other out
RACES, which go to swell the enormous apore
gate of three thousand five hundred in the
State, which Gen Sheridan so gloatinely an
nounces. If all the other Radical parishes in
the State have done as well, the total aggregate
will no doubt prove the redoubtable General
veracious chronicler
Their combined horrors and numbers will
even make the affairs at Colfax and Coushatta
pale and sink into the insigniticance of mere
brawls And if this Radical rule is permitted
to so on for another decade, the party will
scarce number corporars guard, simply be-
cause most of them will be either murdered
each other at a rate that will soon amount to
literal determination.
In very few instances, we admit that
Democrats may have been the assailants, or if
you will 'the murderers," but in nineteen ont
OF every twenty of the whole of Gen. Sheri |
dams three thousand five hundred off he can |
make up that uumber) both the perpetrators |
and victims have been Radicals or the crimes |
lnstigated by Radical lawlessness.
AS the General in order to increase the
grant total, goes back to 1868, we will state
that IN the autumn OF that year Radical Off
clal, now in the Custom House, instigated a
negro riot in ST Bernard, who murdered and
literally roasted very worthy citizen of the
parish, and ran his wife and little children to
the swamps for refuge SO formidable and
demonlacal WAS this negro mob that the citi-
lens OF the parish were overawed and intimi.
dated many Of them, with their wives and
little ones. flying to New Orleans for safety.
zen. Rousseau, then the Military Governor OF
Louisiana, sent down a company of United
states soldiers, and twenty-five or thirty ne
5roes were murdered, if so Gen. Sheridan
oleases to call it. Within the last few months
Il this same parish of ST. Bernard, two of the
loraras shot and killed two Estopinels, all
our Of ,rhom acere Radicals.
short time before, young Guichard
mother Radical, shot Radical negro, and
Turing the last sugar grinding, on the Nc
lung x Patterson plantation, a negro cut
mothers head open with cane-knife Both i
7ere Radicals and, in short, if Gen S. will !
AXE the trouble to trace up the personnel of !,
he many murders he attributes to Louisiana
all OF the past seven years, he ,cM ind T
ineteen ttcentieths Of the perpetrators and &c
ms belonging to his o,cn political party The T
lwlessness naturally incident to Radical :.
lle, IS the sole and only cause, and Carrying
lis thing home to Gen. Sheridan himself. p
Ill not the entire nation of his indignant tt
ld outraged fellow-citizens, attribute his h
Infamous telegram from New Or d
ans to the self-same spirit of lawlessness q
aturally incident to the Radical rule of the ia
nited States government.
It has precisely the same effect upon the -
If savage and brutalized negro and the q
'auleted Lieutenant General, drunk or
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