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The New Orleans Massacre
March 19, 1891 issue

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The article presents information on the massacre in New Orleans. The massacre presents a horrible illustration of the working of municipal government in New Orleans. Assassinations and attempts at assassination, street fights, and bloody duels have been constant accompaniments of its politics and of its administration of justice. It has had a local revolution in which the state government was overthrown. The assassination of the Chief of Police last October was undoubtedly the result of the same social conditions which caused the failure of the jury trial and the massacre of the acquitted prisoners in the jail. In such social conditions men's reliance on the law for protection has become small.

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MASSACRES; CIVIL law; MUNICIPAL government; NEW Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions; NEW Orleans (La.); LOUISIANA; UNITED States
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