The 1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre by C. Dier

Author:C. Dier [Dier, C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2017-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

The article falsely stated that General Lee and Ong were arrested for inciting the mayhem. Papers supporting the Democrat position reiterated similar stories in both English and French. Some of these stories were most likely designed to conjure up emotions from undecided voters to convince them to vote the Democratic ticket in the upcoming election. Calls for Democrats to vote were accompanied with stories of the “riot.” The aforementioned article states, “Democrats! to your posts tomorrow morning bright and early. We repeat it again vote early and then remain on watch all day and do your duty to your party and to your country.”132

Another version of these rumors reached General Rousseau. He documented them in a report to General Ulysses S. Grant, the highest commanding officer of the U.S. Army and the current presidential candidate. Rousseau wrote:

From the parish of St. Bernard reports of a highly inflammatory nature were received. A white democratic club in that parish had killed a negro; some citizens had shot a metropolitan policeman. The negroes assembled at night, burnt the house of a leading white democrat and his body with it, drove his wife and little children into the woods, severely beat his sister, and broke the leg of one of his children. These were the facts.133

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