The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-06-10
Effects of the Grant Parish Fight.
A LoUISlASllS'S ACCOUNT or THE CAUSE AND
CONSEQUENCES OF THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
r. or TiiE TWO RACES IN LOUISIANA. -

A L0UISlASl4S'S ACCOUNT OF THE CAUSE AND
CONSEQUENCES OF THE MASSACRE RELATIONS
or TiiE TWO RACES IN LOUISIANA.
III. V. X. ia Cincinnati Commercially
met here Il young man who had been
down to Grant, parish since the fight. /
asked him about the condition Of things.
!" Everything is mighty quiet he said.
" You wouldn't think thcre'd been fight"
" HIVE any Of the negroes run away 2,
No, sir, think not, without tits one Or
two who helped stir up the fuss and the
sneiked out OF it."
"Hayc any of the whites Gedr'
No, sir; they haven't done anything to
lun for" ta..r
"How are the negroes eehavingy"
First rate. The old citizens say thew
never knew them to act better than since
they were taught the consequence of kick
ing up TOW and raising Ill. A Niger in
that parish puts his hat under his arm iiow
when he talks TO a white man. They are
| lust the most respectful thingS you ever saw.
But before the tight, oh, Lord. there WIS no
| living with them. That is what the people
down there say. They went bowling through
| the country curing white men and saying
| they were going to take the country ana run
| It themselves. They sacked several houses
about Coleax. They said they were going TO
| kill the white men and take their wives and
raise better breed of people. That is the
| report which came here before the hight aDq
| caused SO many to turn out and go down
! there to help the whites. 1t was not Grant
parish men entirely that did the work Men
| were there from all the parishes around. IN
| this county the white people are gong 10
stand up for one another, and there's no Use
| in talking. Whenever Il mob OF uiggers get
TO cutting up as they did in Grant they have
got the people to night or quit"
"Therc are soldiers there now, arc there
nott"
YES, sir. Il COMPANY, believe. | don't
know what they are there for; there is no
| thing Tor them to do
| "How many whites were killed in the
tightly"
| 1.-Two were killed dead, one has died
since, and there is another that they think
will die"
| "How many negroes were killed?"
" Seventy or eighty"
1.-The plumber is rather out of proper
| tion," observed. ..t-
| .'Uh. YES, OF course, and it will always be
| that way in Il fight between white men and
| nigger>. The niggers can't fight. There
| have been three rows between the whites
! and negroes in this State since the war, and
III every one there has been ten or fifteen
| niggers killed to one white man. Our people
| don't want to hurt them. God knows, but
! they mustn't try TO run over Us, for When.
ever they do they'll catch h. We arn't
cncmig> to them, but they must behave and
not try to run over III. Fools up North
think we hate the niSgerS; it's no such
thing. We like them when they behave. and
will do heap more for them than the Yam.
KEGS. Let them vote their old Radical
ticket I don't ,7ue but they must not try
| to cram their politics down our Threats with
guns
From what eau learn OF the relations OF
| the two races in the Red River country do
not believe there will be any more fighting.
The whites seem to deplore the Colax nrls-
sacie, but insist that it MRS iuStitiable; that
| something ot the sort had TO he done to pre-
| serve peace The argument will not hold
water, for the Africans are not warlike
race, and do not need to be killed 10 be
| talluhf.