The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-01-11

/ tItO IN lNA1Al 4lItfG DCC1 ilIS AANSAO
political temples. His preachers made
the only learned profession to control,
illuminate, and organize him. But II
with a patient mind can see that there
will some day be Il reaction, even
against the negroes priests, and the black
mans politics will he as secular and as
jealous Of priestly interference as
own.
In conversation with Robert Tyler,
son of ex-President John Tyler, he re
marked as follows:
"The negro has neither gratitude nor
resentment"
When | came to think it over it Oc-
cured to me that he had no particular
reason for either. Resentment would
give him the fashion of carrying a six
shooter on his hip and being very ton
chy on points of honor. Gratitude does
not belong to politics, for a mans vote
should be his most Jealous possession,
and the Negroes devotion to the Radical
party is perfectly natural, and will con
Time as long as white people entertain
designs upon it.
III ERROR OF SOUTHERN SOCIETY.
for the past fifty years has been the
liberation of violence and too much
charity for the bloody resentments Of
each other. Right at Montgomery,
where Mr.. Tyler edited his paper, is the
grave of Yancey, who killed his Wife'S
uncle, was acquitted for it, and was the
victim in his declining years of 4 ferO-
cious personal attack from Ben Hill.
The leader Of the Democratic party i'll
Alabama, James II. ClantOn, was shot
dead only a year ago i'll what is called a
difficulty, and the penalty Of public life
and the comment throughout the Gulf
States has generally been the hazard of
murder. If the negro citizen had his
white n%eighhOr'S facility of resentment
and were now ~revenglng his injuries
while i'll a state Of slavery, pandemO-
Mum would indeed begin. The old
slave system has ~rclinQuished nothing
without Il struggle, and after the ques-
lions OF emancipation and reconstruct
ton were settled there WAS another con
test about wages and contracts, and
still another about the negroes right to
litigatc. Fair judges estimate that be-
tween 1868 and 1870, 1500liVPS were taken
in Alabama alone, and still, without
, either gratitude or resentment, the
freednegro has piled uphismonument of
3,500,00 bales Of cotton, and his passion
to own land, q pair OF mules, and Il suit
? of cloth clothes continues to enormously
, provoke millions of people who think
these ideas r~eprehensible and exceed
ingly impudent.
SAMPLES OF KCKLTX.
went down to the jail in the city OF
Montgomery with the United States
, Marshal Randolph, Il native kentuckian,
: | had never had any belief in the XII
: kluX, and wanted to have an actual con
! versation with some Of the people CON
! fined there as such. Half Il dozen boys
. of the lettering village class, a little
! above the grade of poor whites, the sta
i ture of planters SONS, were turned into
L the lobby of the jail, and the worst OF
, them was Il little, knotty, simpering
= chap, with an Enthusiastically wicked
a twinkle in his eye. He did not weigh
! above 1870 pounds, but was quick, wiry
. Of grOcery-stOre lOungers who will drive
J. q knife without a word of warning
= The iailer told me that he had fist-fights
! with his companions in the cell, and die
a a not care a whistle for his life. After
! little conversation | appeared to have
4 gained the confidence of one of the par,
L ty with a more innocent face, and the
g marshal said to me: "This man and
l Hunter (the ugly custOmer] are boil
going TO plead guilty, and this one says
: he will tell you all about the crime will
= to the lower floor and into a private
= room, where a negro boy whom the
guard had shot with his musket wa
lying on tho floor, and n large negro
man, with his eye shot out, was sitting
on a chair.
"WHO WOUNDED THAT MANY"
said I to the white prisoner, for the
, Marshal was not now in Our company
and we were sitting, KukluX and re
porter, knee to knee.
"That wasn't our party that did that,
4 said the young man. 1.-The two Othe'
fellows you saw mp stairs did that thing
i A black man had married a white wO
man, and had two children by her, an(
f. the boys shot the man dead, and shO
this black fellow here, who was the OH
ly witness, in three places, and thel
tied the white woman to the bedstead
and set the house on fire and burned
n her up in it,
| recalled the appearance of the TIVE
~ young chaps referred to, n of them
! lOquaci0us, yellOw-haired, blue-eyet
% boy, and the other a bullet-headed, flip
- pant youth who had damned GOvernO
70 Lindsay for surrendering him to tn,
eI United States.
g CHOW, what did you do?n said | t.
the lad who had hOnOred me with hi
confidence.
# "Well, sir, there was n black woman
4 up in Or country who had sued a whit
" man for twelve months wages and re
covered. The fellow laid it up for hel
. and one night when a parcel of us fel
~ lows were drinking and carrying on h
y put us mp to go out and whip that wo
$ man. / didn't know where we wer
II going, and had never seen the woman
, before. IF we was Kuklux [ didn'
L know it, but we kivered up II faces s.
- she wouldn't know none of us. w
~ took the woman ont into the wood
III where nobody could hear her scream
Is and whipped her there about two hour
r with hickory rods. / saw that they Wer
" going to kill the woman, and got I'M
I'll easy about it. After awhile they aske
4 her if she recognized anybody in tn
H. crowd, and she named two men. The
te' they drew thei r pistols, and, although
begged them not to kill her, they she
OF her several times through the head
3l That little fellow you saw with me IL
y stairs was one who fired his shOote
20 into her. Twill plead guilty at cour
H. because I saw plain enough. that ther
Il IL was no way for me to get out of thi
DIT scrape."
v After this interview / was obliged t
. of give owe my incredulity about the XII
~ klug. .....
Nv BURNING N WOMAN; SHOOTING An
~ OTHER.
he I said to the Marshal, "What will /
tn the punishment of these fellows fC
burning up n woman and shooting al
II. Other?" ssH*=1s. Z za .
On We'll" said he, "about six years in
iy DrisOnment." - t.L .Ea