New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-10-03
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an extra, but which has been allowed to
pass without notice by those newspapers,
as it took place at home, where everybody
is presumed to know what takes place be.
cause all read the REPUBLICAN. We
allude, as matter of course, to the assem-
bling of a raiding party of fifty men in
Grant parish, the march upon the resi-.
dence of Judge Phillips, the deadly assault
upon the same, the killing of Recorder
Delos W. White, the wounding Of Judge
W. B. Phillips, the destruction by fire Of
the residence of the latter, the conflagra-
ton Of the body of the fallen victim, the
retreat Of the triumphant but cowardly
raiders, and the escape Of Mr.. Phillips by
one of the recognized stratagems Of the
battlefield. This is combination of hor-
rors which would have been accepted in
the middle ages as feudal warfare. 1t is
colored with all the features of baronial
assassination. Stealth, cowardice and
malignity are its principal terrors. Its
perpetrators, when they come to fathom
their own turpitude, will discover that
they committed murder which, in any
other community, would brand them as
assassins too base to be tolerated by
people who hold that every man is en-
titled to fair chance for his life. Grant
parish must either condemn these men, OF
her people will have to accept the charge
that they are allied to cowardly assas-
sination. If the perpetrators Of this
atrocity are not arrested, what other
opinion can decent men arrive at than
that any one man can be killed in Grant
parish if sufficient number of murderers
can be found brave enough to attack him
in the night with double-barreled shot
guns? And yet the press which is so
venomous in its demand for peace has
not even limited at this cold blooded viola
ton of all that is manly and honest.
Now what? Under the laws of the
State the Governor is authorized to ap-
point military commission to inquire
into this act Of war. He is empowered
to send the militia into the parish, to be
quartered upon the people thereof, with
power to make full and particular inquiry
into the offense, and to arrest the parties
who may be found, upon investigation,
to have done the wicked deed. This law
is one of that class of measures which was
wisely adopted by the Legislature to meet
just such emergencies as this, and now
is the time to demonstrate its virtue It
has been fashionable of late to vituperate
these extraordinary measures, but it
seems that the spirit Of lawlessness is still
strong enough to demand their continu-
ance on the statute book. The State
should have law to meet every peril that
threatens the life of the humblest citizen;
and the enactment that sanctions the in
of a military commission in
Grant parish, is the only measure that
could have been devised to strange the
organization of assassins who parade in
armies Of fifty strong. We are on the
brink of peril. If this incipient treason
is promptly resented, society may escape
untold evils. If it is allowed to pass un-
punished, other criminals will rear them
selves into predatory bands to live and
by murder and incendiarism.
The lesson to the Republican party is
with Importance. The discord
md division which have divided our
weakening its influence by
its strength, have encouraged
he opposition to suppose that it could
lgain resort to its old practice of intimi-
lation and outrage. Messrs. Phillips and
White were unexceptionable citizens, ex-
'ept in the matter of their politics. Be-
'ause they were Republicans, they were
to assassination and their
given up to contiagration The
'andits who perpetrated the outrage could
veil say to themselves, 1.-The friends of
hese men are quarreling with one another
nd will not stop their internecine strife
o strike at US. If these two men are the
riends Of Warmoth, his enemies will take
he act as one Of profit to themselves; if
hey are the friends of Dunn, Carter and
company, Warmoth will not exert him.
elf to punish u.s. The Republican party
an see at glance how the quarrels that
xist between its own members can be
lade use Of by bad men to further their
wn wickedness. We do not know what
le partisan proclivities Of Messrs. Phil
ps and White were, nor do we care, since
icy were Republicans and good citizens.
S such they were entitled to be respected
nd protected in every part Of the State,
nd their prosecutors are the enemies, not
My Of every law-abiding citizen Of the
tate, but especially of every sincere Re-
ublican. The lesson should be we'll con-
dered. 1t informs us how deeply our
oubles are imperiling our friends in every
art Of the State. 1t informs us, as Judge
hillips CURLY says, that if protection is
ot given, all Louisiana will become a
enc of trouble until the next Presideu-
al election is over. 1t invites us, by the
awakened peril that made the party
rong three years ago, to again unite for
fety and success.
RARIFIED PRESUMPTION.
bennett presumptuously presumes that
II oppOSition To his adnntinn by the |