The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-11-08
Hon. Geo. B.Houd.

Since our absence from the State, the gem
tleman whose name heads this article, and
who is the Superintendent of Education for
this Division. has been subjected to series
of prosecutions unworthy of our days of civil
ization and progress, and not, in our knowl-
edge, equalled by any like case occurring in
this State.
Without enguiring as to the innocence or
guilt of Mr.. Loud, upon the charges preferred
against him. we can, at least, believe him
innocent until adjudged guilty by the court /;
but, if we take the action of the court into
consideration, be was treated with more rig
or than any of the many murderers, defaul-
tiers, and criminals of our common country,
who to-day. are either sumptuously enter
tanned in their prison cells, or else out on
moderate bail but it seems, from all that we
can CLEAN from our exchanges, that in the
case of Mr.. Loud, every advantage was taken
to deprive him of his liberty, or allow him
the advantage of the bail-good and respon-
sible-offered by his many friends. It is Ger
tainly beyond our comprehension 10 find OUT
what could have been the motives of his per-
secutors in pursuing Mr.. Loud with what
they might have thought TO be yigor, but
their seeming vigor certainly appeared to
the community as nothing less than yindic-
tiyeness. Mr.. Loud may be guilty of the
charges preferred against him by the Grand
Jury of Iberyille Parish, but his summary
arrest, his confinement of tifty-three days in
the parish prison, the downright refusal to
accept good and responsible bail repeatedly
offered by him, together with four or five
columns of personal articles appearing in the
Iberville Pioneer and Netcs, In abuse and
calumniation of Mr. Loud, and in defence of
the judicial officers connected with the per-
secution has set the community to thinking,
that something more than desire to protect
the school fund, is at the bottom of this whole
disgraceful affair.
Mr. Loud received his appointment as Di-
vision Superintendent against our wishes.
and we have SO stated it to many of our
friends, but, since his appointment, we are
constrained to acknowledge that he has GER
tainly exhibited laudabie desire to do his
whole duty, and we believe that as far as he
has gone, he has succeeded admirably In
by gone days we have used both pen and
voice, politically against him, but when the
Republican party became united last year
We thought that all differences existing be-
tween rival factions of the Republicans in
this State had been buried, and these differ
ences thing of the past, but the persecu-
tions of this gentleman in Plaquelnine. to
our eyes, appears to be the outcroppings of
the old feud In that parish. Even as we op-
posed Mr.. Loud, then because we believed
that he was wrong, so do We defend him now,
because we believe him entitled to respect
and sympathy until proper court has adj
judged him guilty, and not the written opin
ions Of those who have mainly subjected him
to such outrageous treatment, We append
the following resolution, indicative of the
confidence reposed in Mr.. Loud, passed at a
convention lately held in Plaquemine.
RESOLVED, That we do hereby indorse the
Hon. w. G. Brown, State Superintendent OF
Public Education, and Hon. Geo. B. Loud
Superintendent of the Third Division, and
for the able and efficient manner in which
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| their noble efforts in the cause of public ed
ucation in this State, and for the rapid pro
gress and advancement in the education of
our colored children in this parish our heart
felt thanks are due to their judicious admin
istration.-Grdasd Era.