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and the facts of the case make the accusa-
ton Infamous and contemplate.

ton Infamous and contemplate.
There Is no question as to what partv
and what class of citizens are responsible
for the riots and tumults which have dis
graced our State. Colored and white Re-
publlcans have been almost the only vic
Tins hundreds of them have been killed
to one of their political opponents. Only
Republican churches, schoo]houses, club
rooms and residences have been sacked by
lawless mobs. Over more than half the
area of the State peaceable political meet
ings of Republicans have been prevented
or dispersed; prominent Republicans
killed or driven from their homes and q
reign of terror inaugurated unsurpassed
by that of the rebellion. Armed bands of
Democrats, frequently disguised, have pa
troled the roads in the country and streets
of our cities, committing numberless out
RACES and killing Republicans with entire
impunity. Colored ex-soldiers of the
United States have been robbed of the
arms which they carried in the field and
purchased of the United States Govern
ment, and colored Republicans have been
very generally disarmed" in most of the
parishes of the State, and in not one in
stance have laWless whites been de-
prived of their arms. The parish of St.
Bernard affords fair Illustration of what
has occurred in many other parishes. In
that parish the blacks killed but one white
man, while the whites killed thirty-fve
colored men, according to Democratic au.
thority, and probably more than fifty, and
also one white ex- United States soldier,
who was acting as an officer of the peace
nevertheless the blacks have been {" dis
armed," and in the presence of United
States soldiers, while armed, white despe-
radoes have been allowed to patrol the
parish.
Our colored fellow-citizens have been
robbed, in numberless instances, of their
hard-earned money, and provisions, and
clothing, by armed patrols of Democrats,
claiming to be conservatOrs of the public
peace" In st. Landry, Washington, and
many other parishes armed bands of Dem
ocrats have killed many Republican cam
vassers, and driven others from their par
ishes They have also robbed colored men
of their Republican tickets, and with vio-
lence and threats driven them to the polls
and forced them, in peril of their lives, to
vote the Democratic ticket. 1t is also evi-
dent that the frauds perpetrated by "Dem-
ocrats," in casting and counting Demo-
cratic votes, are unparalleled in the histo-
ry of Louisiana, and are sufficient alone
to invalidate the election in many local
tiles.
Indisputable evidence of all the facts,
we allege will soon be laid before the
public, and Congress will be asked not to
allow our opponents to reap advantages
from their lawless and wicked acts.
The instigators of these riots and tu-
mults, and perpetrators of these number
less outrages and murders are too numer-
GUS to be generally reached by the civil
law, and like the perI orators of the July
massacre" they will probably escape mer-
tied punishment; but an allseeing and
just God and the civilized world will hold
them responsible for acts which have dis
graced the Christianity, civilization and
manhood of this sge. Chivalry, courage
and manliness lead men to defend the in
nocent and protect the weak not to out
rage the laws of God and man by assail-
ing the unprotected and killing the de-
fenseless.
The Democratic party is responsible for
the terrible wrongs we have enumerated
and the present condition of our State.
Its press and orators, and many of its
leading men have invited, encouraged, and
commended forcible resistance to laws
and the constituted officers of the law.
By incendiary articles and harangues, and
by persistent misrepresentation and false
hoods, they have instigated lawlessness,
riots, and murders, and inflamed the bad
passions Of the people until the city and
State were on the verge of anarchy and
civil war.
The Democratic party of Louisiana has
created an antagonism between capital
and labor.