The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-11-12
"The Outrage in Grant Parish

Under this caption the New Or
leans Republican, Of the 9Th, has
three different editorials on this dia-
bolical outrage, which has been fas-
tened on Kellogg and his Metropoli-
tans, and that can be placed at the
door of no one else, which for down.
right malignity, defamation and pat
ent falsehood, surpasses any thing
we have ever seen in any Journal, in
the whole course of our long editorial
experience. We have only space for
one Of the trio, and demand the spe.
cial attention of our people to its in
famous contents.
The Republican was perfectly 81
lent on the outrage till the arrival of
Kellogg from his Northern home, who
at once sent a telegram to the Attor-
ney General of the United States, un-
der his official signature, stating
plainly and positively, that 'no out
rage had been committed in Grant,
and that it was a fabrication by the
Democrats for political effect" But
this was considered so steep as a pal
pable lie on the part of Kellogg, that
his organ, the Republican, had to
change tactics, in the falsehood line,
to meet the gathering storm, and
hence the trio of editorials to which
we allude, and the main me, which
we publish. We must be brief and to
the point in what we have to write in
reply to these infamies of the official
Journal of all the Radicals of Louisi-
ana, and assure the public OF Louisi-
ana and the whole public of the coun-
try, that we write on this subject
knowingly and by the card. The ne
gro boy clamp. Henderson," who
committed the outrage is only %
years old, and is not Democrat,
never voted but once at the election
of last Fall and then voted the full
Radical ticket, and is we'll known as
an ardent and wild member of that
party. The outrage he was accused
of committing, occurred IN the Parish
of Rapides, in 1866, some time before
Grant was manufactured and stolen
from Rapides. Hamp. was at the
time, working on Kateland, the then
plantation of Judge Ryan, and not
with or for the Hickmans. He was
arrested and brought to this Town,
had a preliminary trial and was held
to bail in the sum of five hundred
dollars, and after remaining in Jail
some six months was bailed out by
T h mas Hickman. Nothing was
done in his case, until 1872, when in
Grant Parish, it was brought up be-
fore the District Court, Judge Osborn
presiding, when nolle prosequi was
entered by the District Attorney,
Robinson. En- passans be it remem-
bered that both Judge Osborn and
Robinson are and always have been,
pronounced Radicals, and this decis-
ion, if wrong, cannot be laid to the
Democrats.
A few more words will suffice to
brand the balance of the published ar
ticle, as still i III Gre base and defaming
than that portion, which we have Just
reviewed. The family of the Hick.
mans is one of the most respectable
and highly connected Of any in our
State, and never before has it ever
been otherwise intimated. Itremains
for the Republican, in Matching lies
for its infamous cause in the Grant
outrage, to malign and SANDER gen.
t!emen they know nothing about and
then add one more to its great Grim
inallty in this matter. Again Peter
Hickman moved to Texas in 1872,
long before the Colfax affair, and
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