passed beyond the limits of the cruel vengeance of his enemies. The name sacred to Liberty was held up, while yet the blood of Dostie stained the streets of New Orleans, by the vindictive press of that city as one linked with "fanaticism, revenge and riot." Before the grave could receive the mangled remains of the murdered victims, the conspirators had prepared their scurrilous articles for the press, hoping thereby to shield their crimes from an enraged nation, who saw the spirit of Free Institutions outraged in the massacre of July 30th, and in the reconstruction measures of Andrew Johnson, the revival of the Spirit of Slavery. We quote the following article from the New Orleans Times on the riot of July 30th: "The incendiary teachings of a pestilent gang of demagogues have produced their natural fruits-tumult and bloodshed. Fearful indeed is the responsibility which rests on the heads of those who have been concerned in the great crime of attempting to overturn all civil authority among us, and of superseding it by a wicked usurpation. "A band of poor, deluded negroes, urged on by unprincipled white men, have, unfortunately for themselves, been the principal sufferers. Armed with pistols, clubs and razors, they collected in great numbers in the neighborhood of Mechanics' Institute, for the avowed purpose of defending the revolutionary Jacobins who had raised the banner of negro suffrage, and the result of their folly is sorrowfully apparent. "The riot was commenced in every instance by negroes, spurred on by white men, and it is highly creditable to the police of the city that they succeeded in quelling it without any military aid. Many of them were wounded, but it is not likely that the results will prove fatal in more than two cases. "And so the Convention of 1864, which commenced in usurpation, has ended in riot and bloodshed. As Mr. Roselius declared yesterday: "Every participant in the treasonable scheme should be arrested and sent to jail.' This, it must be remembered, is not the opinion of a political adventurer, but of a grave jurist, an original Union man, a sober, quiet citizen of the highest respectability." On the 2d day of August, Judge E. Abell, true to his mission in the reconstruction measures of the Chief Executive, charges the jury as follows: "Gentlemen, if you are satisfied that a riot has taken place in the city of New Orleans, then I charge you that it is the duty of all peace officers of the State to assist in suppressing the riot, using no more force and violence than is necessary; and it is the duty of every citizen to aid the officers of the law, using the like caution, and if it becomes necessary to slay one or more of the rioters in order to put it down, it is not murder but excusable homicide. If more force and violence was used than was reasonably necessary upon the circumstances of the case, then the party using the excess will be guilty of murder, manslaughter or assault and battery, according to the circumstances of the case, and the nature, fierceness and magnitude of the riot to be suppressed." The following is an announcement in the New Orleans Times of the progress of the foul conspiracy: 'Sheriff Hays last evening began the re-arrest of the members of the ex-Convention and participants in the riot, whose release from custody by General Baird has already been noticed. Judge R. K. Howell, 'President pro tem,' and O. H. Poynot, were released by Judge Abell upon bonds of $1500 each. G. H. Flagg was still in the Parish Prison at 9 o'clock last night, unable to procure the necessary amount of bonds; also several others in the same predicament. We suppose those who are now at large will be taken to day, and be held to answer for their revolutionary proceedings." The editor of the New Orleans Times attempts in the following to quote the words of the dying Dostie as evidence of an insurrectionary spirit: "The conspirators, whose recent attempt to overthrow the State Government and usurp the reins of power was defeated in so disastrous and lamentable a manner, have incautiously uttered expressions on several occasions which confirm a fact of which those who investigated their movements were previously convinced, viz: that a portion of the preconcerted plot was to cause the shedding of blood-a collision between whites and blacks. Dr. Dostie has given additional proof of this fact in a recent declaration at the Hotel Dieu. "On Tuesday Colonel De Witt Clinton, of General Baird's staff, and Recorder Ahern visited Dr. Dostie to take his dying declaration. The Picayune recounts the following incident of the visit: "He inquired in regard to John Henderson, Jr., and was told that he was dead. He paused for a moment, and remarked: 'Well, it is a strange coincidence. We were born upon the same day, and embarked in the same glorious cause. I had reason to be apprehensive, to fear a bloody attack, but not he. Strange!"" We turn from the enemies of loyalty and liberty and welcome the vindicators of truth, patriotism and justice. In the following letter of Mr. Dibble he denies the false assertions of the New Orleans Times: "Editor Times: "NEW ORLEANS, August 4, 1866. "SIR: Your accustomed falsification of truth, in the evening edition, cannot pass over unnoticed. You say, speaking of the members of the Convention and other loyal citizens who were shot down by the police: 'We know not a single one of them who is not forced to admit, when cornered by direct question, that he was conducted safely from the building," etc. Now, sir, Dr. Dostie states, in his dying declaration, that he was shot down, cut, beaten, and left lying in the street by the police. The Rev. Mr. Horton was shot and beaten by the same persons. Mr. Fish, whose statement will be found in the Advocate, which I send you, was shot by policemen, to whom he surrendered himself. And further, sir, I have heard as many as twenty persons say that they saw policemen shoot negroes who were unarmed and making no resistance. "You should beware, sir, how you falsify facts, for the investigations now going on will prove to the world what we in New Orleans know, that you have no respect for truth, and lack the ability to hide your falsehoods. "Let me commend to your perusal the Advocate. Yours, etc., HENRY C. DIBBLE.” At the Dental Convention in Boston on the 3d of Sep tember, Governor Bullock was present and made a speech in which he said: "I have, for the last two or three days, in reading the account of the most deplorable occurrence in a remote city of this Union, had my attention directed to the fact so striking, so sad, and so educational to us, that an eminent member of your profession, Dr. Dostie, of New Orleans, fell by the hands of a populace angry with him because he was exercising the rights of an American citizen. I trust and believe that the same spirit of devotion and loyalty to freedom and the Government of the country which animated his heart, animates the hearts of all the members of his profession." [Applause.] Said Rufus Wopples in an address before the Executive Committee of the Republicans of Louisiana on the 8th of August, 1866: "The cause of colored suffrage is not new in Louisiana. After the redemption of New Orleans from rebel rule, the cause awoke from its slumber. I will not recount the history of its progress. To-day we behold it cut down, but not destroyed. It has been stricken down by the hand of organized assassination, some of its noblest advocates have given their lives for the cause. Let it be remembered, 'The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.' "Truth crushed to earth will rise again, And dies among her worshippers." "I am willing to die,' said the brave and magnanimous Dostie to me on the day of his death, ‘if my death shall promote the cause of Liberty.' He felt that it |