The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-04-23
The Colfax Fight.


this serious affair, and far and wide ON
the lightning wires has the news, with
all sorts of details and falsehoods, been,
spread. Few, very few Of the people
outside of this immediate vicinity seem
to understand, or even strive to COM
prehend the matter in its true light,
and comment wildly on it. The Radi-
cal pless, as matter of conrse, think
and make believe they have found and
grasped another capital and first class
sensation, and with their usual vim
and tenacity cling to it as good thing
for them and their party. All this is
sheer nonsense and far from the truth
of the situation and it's sole and true
cause. We are perfectly an tait and
posted in the affair, and after a weeks
cool delIbera:ion and searching ex;imi
nation, we reiterate all we wrote last
week, and are more firmly convinced
now than ever, that politics was the
excnse but not the cause Of the forced
Conflict on the whit, Of Grant Parish.
The deep seated hate and malignity of
the negro towards the white man, aid
The continued teachings of the Colfax
tribe t" their late friends, has forced
the whole matter to a point, and for
them, perhaps unfortunately, the poiut
was puuctured the wrong way, and
success FIR the nonce perclled on the
gueld"n of the prosecuted and hunted
down, but just.
We assert, and can prove it, that the
Parish of Grant was created by the
Black and Tan Legislature Of les sole
ly tor bad and political purposes and in
no other interest than that OF the ne-
gro, and the bad negro at I! at. At
the Legislative bap,ismal font Grant
and Colfax were tile talismanic names
that Minerva like, armed to the teeth
for wrong and oppression, sp'ang to
the astonisled glare of a people who
were never even consulted and at.
once and with hyena rush the work
was cut out, commenced, persevered
in, and last Easter Sunday halt was
ordered, which has caused the present
pause! The Town of Colfax, or rather
Colhoun's Negro Quarter of Coltax, was
at once proclaimed and acknowledged
as the Mecca of the bad and desperate
negroes from everywhere, and press
ing invitations were sent far and wide
to come to COlfax and find turbulent
home. In word soon was the Town
filed up with these sort, and soon a
new hell in Colfax was inaugurated,
and has been Kept up with perfect IT,
nacity and consistency. Bear in mind
that in Grant Parish, outside of negro
Colfax, a better, more industrious and
ptaceable people DO not live in Louisi
ana, and this is the people who have
been the special subjects of persecu-
tons, rObberies and infamies at the
hands of these barbarians, whose
friends and champions now endeavor
to whitewash and whose crimes they
strive to convert into virtues, Radical!
virtues. Much has been written and
howled about wasted fields and lost
crops; this may all be true, but be it
remembered that these negroes of thei,
own free will and accord stopped their
plows, embarrassed their horses and
miles and thr"wed aside tile shovel
and the hoe, mustered the horses into
a Cavalry Brigade, shouldered the En-
field, the Spencer and the double-bars
relied shot gun, and abandoned these
fair fields, and forced and pressed 9TH
ers, miles from Colfax, to do the same
and join them in their proposed war
against the white man. Well did they
improve their time aud we'll did they
throw up their Notifications and con.
staDtly drill their men aud new re-
cruits. Aud right here let us state an
important fact, which, can and will I've