New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-12

AH' Ldst argument with the NegT0,n
Democratic authority insists that there
were at least hundred colored men killed
In the recent "riot" in St. Landry parish.
and as many more wounded. They sum
up the additional losses thus: "a dead white
Radical, dead Democrat, and three or
four wounded Democrats, are the upshot of
the business" The Franklin Bonner
Democratic paper, dated Saturday, October
10, contains several editorial articles relat-
ing to the late massacre in St. Landry par
ish, from which these extracts are made:
We have just had full account of the
Opel9usas riot by gentleman of St. Lam
dry, who is strictly truthful, and who took
an active part IN suppressing the outbreak.
| Inc negroes never stood but one fire be-
fore they would fly before the whites.
scouts were sent out, and where squads of
armed negroes were found approaching
| Opelousas, they were fred on and routed
The fight continued nearly two DAYS. One
white scalawag was killed, and we believe
one Democrat, and four or five Democrats
were wounded.
Not less than hundred negroes were
killed, and the number wounded is un-
known. The negro leaders fed at the be-
ginning of the fight.
On the second day of the fight the ne
groes came rushing to Opelousas for pro-
lection of the Democrats, and most of the
red flannel of town was torn into strips as
badges Of protection for the colored disci-
pies of oarpet-baggers.
The negroes say they thought thew knew
white men before, but they never knew
they were such devils to fight.
The negroes in st. Landry are, for the
hrst time since the war, polite and well dis
posed, and work we'll. They have learned
what the carpet-baggers can do for them!
The Bdnuer, in another editorial. saws:
Our white people deeply regret the ne
cesslty which compelled the citizens of St
Landry to kill and cripple so many negroes
in the late Opelousas riot but the negroes
for more than year have laughed at tho
warnings and advice given them by the,
planters and citizens of that parish, suppos-
ing the prudence and foresight of the peo-
pie to be merely proof of fear of the black
race. Inc white citizens of st. Landry
tired again and again to make terms OF
peace with the negroes, but the carpet-bag
|
rebels were scared, and that thev we're ten
to one in number, that they had the rebels
under their feet, and to keep them there.
Did the carpet-baggers stand up to the
negroes and fight when trouble came Not
bit OF 1t! They took to their heels and
lied to the woods for dear life. or turned
and fought against the negroes, whose
minds they had inlamed
Pope, Of St. Mary, will fee to the woods
and TO New Orleans, and leave the negroes
OF this parish to take care of themselves Il
he ever brings on a fight in this parish'
We stake our bottom greenback on thai
statement.
In yet another editorial headed, Views
OF the st. Landry Riot" the Banner saws:
The people generally, are well satisfied
with the result of the st. Landry riot. only
they regret that the carpet-paege gers escaneI
They are satisfied that the white neonIe Of
st. Landry tried their best to avert the cal
amlty, that they warned the negroes again
ana again against bringing on a fight. but
the earpet-oaggers having defeated the
peaceful Intentions of the Democrats nv
telling the negroes that the white people
We're AFRAID of them, that the
negroes were ten to one of the
whites and could crush the white
| population in an instant, fight was iney-
liable. 1t was the last and 0nly efsactnal
argument that could be used with the
negro. The negroes are to be pitied hut
IL they will not listen to honest men. and
choose TO follow set OF miserable. living.
thievlng strangers they musttike the con
| sequences. A carpet-bag editor and his
miserable, incendiary sheet caused the
riot. The editor escaped, and a hundred
uead negroes, and perhaps hundred more
wounded and crippled, dead white Radi-
cal, dead Democrat, and three or four
wounded Democrats are the upshot of the
business. - ''Ae
Another editorial paragraph in the same
paper reads thus:
We hear no Thing new from st. Landry.
The negroes all over the parish have been
disarmed, and have gone TO work b1isklv,
Their Loyal League clubs have been broken
up, the scalawags have turned Democrats.
and carpet-baggers have run off, and their
earpet-bag press, type and office have been
destroyed. st. Landry is quiet for the first
time since the war.
We close these extracts with the follow
ing editorial paragraphs
So far as we can learn there are several
clubs of colored Democrats in this parish.
containing in all over three hundred mem,
bers. We believe that more than half 81
the eoored voters of st. Mary win vote
with the Democrats, and will vote an omen
ticket. They are opening their ewes at last
We believe the negroes themselves will
drive the carpet-baggers from st, Mary in
less than twelve months. They are as lit
tie at home in st. Mary as snakes and toads
are in Ireland. -, 's''
Where are the carpet -bapcers of ST.
LandryY They are where the carpet-bae-
gers of St. Mary will be one of these days.
Let US have peace"
Judge Poland, of Vermont, in his speech
at Providence, said; heard an excellent
story told the orther day upon the stumn
in relation to the identity OF the old De-
mocratic party with that of modern times.
1t was said by this man who told the story
that in a certain family they had vinegar
barrel that had remained for several gen-
eranons in the family, and they had a great
veneration for 1t, 1t was grandfathers
vinegar barrel, and they all reverenced IA
But by and by the hoops had become rotten
and they were renewed, and the heads and
the slaves had given away, and they were re-
placed and finally an inquiry was set on
foot as TO the identity of this barrel with
old vinegar barrel, and, after
strlct examination, be said the only point
Of identity between the two, the onlv thino
that remained Of, grandfather's old yinegaS
barrel was the bungh0le. TLanQhtar.l And