The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-03

PTNcHBAcK AND THE
BLOODY RIOT HE CAUSED
Al Old Louisiana veteran Tells Of the
Dire work Of the Carpet
Dagger.
Editor The Advertiser.

Editor The Advertiser:
In reading your Sunday edition, I
same across an article headed: Me
pri.ed me-. as thought he was dead
and gone long ago. As you state in
your article, undoubtedly . good many
% the same VIII nard as. rscoEt
s. Pinchback or some of his deviltry he
performed during those reconstruction
days ne was In power. ! believe, there
let me tell them, TO the best Of my
ability some Of his doings.
In 1874 the Eubernatortal campaign
most al nss very we're o. dnrms tSs
reconstruction period: Warmouth
for Governor. with p. B. o. Pinchback
the Republican ticket. On our. ticket
we had McEnery and Penn, for both OF
those executive Offices belonged
days to Sns OF our ws9e Sep
watching out for oft.practiced depre.
CATIONS by negroes, who were LED and
instructed by the Northern carpet
Of them at New Orleans and all through
On the night of september Is Pinch
Is Of afs s pSss
In which he used incendiary remarks.
BY which l mean he, told the negroes,
that II they could not gain by voting
city, OF course this capped the climax
of the heated campaign, and our Mayor
found himself compelled to issue a
proclamation calling on all able bodied odie
promptly at the general alarm at the
city hall-rand he did not have TO call
twice. This was on September a. and
member something Of that great riot
on that day In which hundreds of ne
groes and whites were killed or Grip
1t has never been known how many.
as the negroes were mostly all taken
into the nearby customs house, where
they were under United States govern
We lost on our side some eighty.
both killed and wounded. 1t is need
less for me to give a detailed account
Of this nghs Il was brought on; .I prins,
Of THIS negro Pinchback. We whipped
thesa and took possession of all the
municipal offices, though some hard
we were not allowed to enjoy our vice
tory long, as the United States gun
boats as well as the regular military.
stationed there. soon had things under
the former carpet-bag rule again.
find, by looking over some OF my
old memorandum kept during those
days, my certificate of registration OF
negro assistant supervisor Of registra-
ton. will tell our readers how we
had to register in those days, IL we
wanted TO cast our vote, though most
Of them never were counted.
The supervisors Of registration were
both white and black mixed--a metro
polftan policeman, generally negro
and a soldier being stationed on the
outside of the registration poll. As for
myself, ! can state, ! was grossly In
suited by this negro supervisor (B. B.
Baguie was his name), as he put Ques-
lions to me, which I could not con-
ycientiousiy, as an ex-Confederate SOL
der and naturalized citizen, answer.
Now / see this same Pinch back is
not only still alive, but Is applying for
another position, not being satisfied
with the already ill-gotten rewards for
his services he rendered to his supe-
riors in those days.
have no regard for earpet-bagger
no matter whether from Illinois or Ohio
--or any other State--and our people
should not. in our present day, let such
fellows come amongst us and create
strife and trouble, all for the sake of
filing their own pockets.
Thanking you FOR space, am re"
spectfully.
Chas. MUNICH,
An OLD Louisiana Confed. Vet.