New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-29

| pentant rebels in the House and his resist
| ance to the persecution Of their cou mittee
men. D. =. c.
The Mount Pleasant Murders.
Two papers from the neigh borhccd Of tht
last outrage on the co.ored people Of Moun,
Pleasant have come to hand, both published
in Baton Rouge. One is the Grand Era, q
Republican paper. It only has single al
ticle, and that is devoted to comments on
Captain Bascom's statement. They are
severe, but sustained by quotations from
his own document 1t also contains cre
item not hitherto published in New Orleane.
That is that at the first of the trouble-that
is on Saturday-the magistrate who issued
the warrant, Justice of the Peace Hyce,
who was elected on the Republican ticket,
at the head Of the 200 white men, rode up
to the colored men. addressed them by an
opprobrious epithet and demanded their
surrender. Upon their failing to adopt his
views, Hyce fred his revolver upon them,
when, ~ We are informed, general melee
took place." The constable of his court.
Charles Turnbold, is now q refugee in New
Orleans.
The Adcocate devotes more space 70 the
subject. 1t has six articles on it. In one it
devotes the REPUBLICAN, to perd;,ion tor
making false statements. The REPUBLICAN
has endeavored to give the exact truth OF
the whole transaction, from beginning to
end, but the horrid nature of it, and dread
of future, and perhaps worse enormities,
has prevented the victims from disclosing
even half their sutferings. On the other
hand, the Adrocate ie kept posted, and is
able already to produce an argument IN
defense of those who have bulldczed the
'.niggers." In the first article it says the
trouble was caused by the murder of two
Democratic colored men, who were shot
by the Colored Union Stop Company" and
refers to the report Of Captain Bascom,
who, however, has nothing to say Of this.
1t says the cOlored people did not own the
plantation, but it belongs to an ''old gentle
man by the name Of Smith" So it will,
when he forec]oses the mortgage they
gave him on its purchase, but the id
rocate omits to say he lhas been driven
from the plantation or to give him guar
antee Of protection in case he wishes to sue
those who are now homeless and starving.
Not one of the other articles of the Adrocate
have any reference to the killing of two
Democratic cOlOred men, Another article
publishes Captain Bascom' report; another
the oath captured from q woman, in which
the colored people pledge themselves to
protect their wives and property-a helm
ous crime in the eyes of White Lacquer.
A longer one gives an account of the out
rage substantially as published in Demo
cratic paper of this city. 1t varies, how.
ever, in this. 1t appears by it that the two
skirmishes occurred and the negroes ted, in
spite of their cannon, before the arrival Of
Sheriff Forman and Captain McGrsth
with his Pelican Rifles, leaving many of
their number prisoners. One article of the
Adr0cate kills one horse and another two.
Major Newton Sherburne was wounded in
the foot. Most of the prisoners we're placed,
rest, and to this, as the REPUBLICAN hes
said, the fourteen owe their lives. Another
article describes the disarming in West
Baton Rouge of the twenty eight who were
seeking refuge in Plsquemines after cross
ing the river. Another contains Sheriff
Formans report. The last congratulates
the Rifles and the citizens on their return
home, and gives the gratifying information
that "all was quiet" and likely to remain
so. In all this the Adyocute assures its
readers that the white citizens did not act
outside of the "paip' of the law.
Captain McGrath appears with a card in
yesterday afternoons Picaystue, feeling ag-
grieved that that paper publishes that five
men were Suspended from the cross beam
of gate at Mount Pleasant. He says he
didn't see it, and that he and his prisoners
were on the hurricane deck. This would
be enough to prove his point on the Plea
y.ne, but he goes further. First-That the
skirmish was Q mile back from the river;
next, that high bluff would have prevented
any sight from the boat; that hill would
have to be leveled before the gate could be
seen, and last, that there wasn't any gate.
Captain McGrath and Sheriff Forman are
entitled to warm praises for the lives they
saved, and the former only having quarrel
with the Pcayune. needed not have round
ed his concluding paragraph with an as
surance that he would not murder the ed;-
tor Of the REPUBLICAN if he had him in GUS
tody.
There is one thing more to be said. 1t
rather effects the apoIogists for this attack
On Mount Pleasant. Friday morning, just
before daylinght, "posse," probably of
the same material as those hitherto noted,
headed by q deputy sheriff from West
Baton Rouge, at Lavert plantation, below
Brusle Landing, shot two negroes and cap
tured four. What they did with the latter
s not reported. 1t is claimed that these
victims were "criminals" from Mount
Pleasant. In plain English, they might
have been some of those who, deprived of
nome and sustenance. were seeking places
10 lay their heads.
Court Items.
In the Fifth District Court from twelve
20 fifteen Judgments have been rendered by
Judge Cullom each day this week. Wed
aesdav was the last dav that q Judgment