New Orleans Republican., 1873-05-29
FROM JACkSON, LOUISIANA.
How Il Panorama IEAulted a Man. and
How the Local Authorities Administer
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jackson. Louisiana, May -. 1873.
! EIi-oE REPUBLICANS:
There has just happened an affair N this
| little. as it will give the public an l::ustra-
sion of how things are GoIe in jackson.
\ few days ago there came to this town a
| gentleman, whom we will call Mr.. Buckeye.
! with panorama. There is here d
Methods: Episcopal Church. whose pas
tor and membership are colored peep.e,
| and ;n the church edifce there is q pub.
| North as principal, into which no child Of
pare Caucasian blood enters for instruction
Mr.. Buckeye proposed 10 the authorities Of
| the church. if they would let him have the
use Of tie building, 20 give them one-.hird
! OF the proceeds. The proposition was ac
| cep.ed. aad the colored people obtained
permission Of the mayor to hold the exhi.
| btion in the town.
| 4 few white men attended. There were
| shown in the course of the two evenings
| some battle scenes Of the late war. among
| which was the butchery Of the Union
I troops by the rebels at Fort Pillow. after
| they had thrown down their arms and placed
! themselves at the mercy Of of the victor.:
| also, the assassination Of President Lincoln.
| ''the Grea. emancipation" at Ford's Theatre,
/ and his final resting place At Springfield:
| view of Andersonville prison, representing
I the starvation of Union prisoners; and
! slave plantation in ante bellum times, with
| the slaves driven to their tasks beneath tie
| lash Of the merciless overseer.
| The eXrebels took otfense at the exhibi.
ton and concluded to have Mr. Buckeye
! arrested for showing without license, but
! as Ee had proof that permission as granted
| him, they could do nothing in the matter.
1 AS he was about TO leave town young
I man, Mr.. Blackheart, walked across the
| street. met him. told him that he had
| INSURED him by his exhibition, and
! Immediately struck him in the face
and knocked him down. then bea: lin
awhile with mis- fists, and finally jumped on
| him several times. Mr.. Buckeye succeeded
| in rising from the ground, and started away
| from BlackheaIt, the latter following him,
I whereupOn he drew his revolver and told
BlacKleart that he would be under the ne
cessity Of defending himself against any
| further personal violence. At this juncture
constable stepped in and arrested Mr..
buckeye, and also nominally arrested
Blackheart and sent him off in charge Of a
deputy. North, learning what had hap.
pened. left the school-room and went to the
place Of the occurrence, and condemned
the affair in the presence Of the constable
who had Mr.. Buckeye in charge. Finally
the officer took his prisoner to the mayors
office for trial. North proceeded to the
same Office in few moments afterward.
Mr.. Buckeye gave security to appear at
he, Mr.. North, and the constable started
down the street together, and as they were
passing the next store Blackheart rushed
ont Of a door four or five feet IN front Of
them, made at North, demanding what he
had to do with this thing and struck sew
eral blows at him, which were parried. The
constable seized hold of North. who imme.
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then seized Blackheart, who. in turn. freed
| himself. and was seized second time, and
again got away and made for North; but
lust a. this time he came in collision
with one of North's boots, which
lifted him from the sidewalk and
deposited him in gutter some feet distant.
North made no further demonstration to-
the constable. who immediately took
firm hold of linn with both hands
by the righ. arm and shoulder. As
soon as Blackheart regained himself
he began to reach for some bricks. See
ing this, the constable said: Don't
throw those bricks" But at this instant
be threw a brick. which missed North. and
then came up on the sidewalk with brick
in his hand. The constable said ''sOme-
body hold him Off," he himself retaining
his hold on North's arm and shoulder, and
as Blackheart was in the act of striking at
North's head with the brick. Buckeye
struck bis arm and knocked it out of
his hand, whereupon the deputy, to whose
care the constable had given Blackheart
struck at Buckeye, and the latter was very
emphatically given to understand that if
he valued his own safety he would better
keep out of that affair." The deputy and
some other individual then seized hold of
North with the constable, and the three
held him for some minutes, while Black
heart who was entirely unrestrained, beat
him on the head and face with his fists,
while an angry looking crowd Of fifteen or
twenty men looked on. These facts, as l
have given them in both affairs, were sworn
to by Mr.. Buckeye and other witnesses in the
trial which took place before the mayor
Buckeye was fined for carrying concealed
weapons, and North for assault and bat
terry, and had to pay the resulting costs.
The colored people say that the rebels
fixed the whole thing up beforehand. The
rebels say no, we didn't. But Judge ye.
And in order that a more correct judgment
may be drawn. it may be well to give
very brief account of the treatment OF the
teachers of the colored school at this place
since the war.
The first teacher after the war was taken
out of his bed at night by band Of armed
men in disguise, and whipped and beaten
terribly. and left for dead in a creek mile or
two distant. The next teacher while walking
through the edge of town one evening after
dark. in company with another man, was
fired upon by unknown parties and wounded
by two bullets. The teacher who was here
last year was the recipient of Ku-klux
letters. and had his life threatened in other
Wavs AMERICNUS.
p S.-They want 500 immigrants in this
parish to counteract the colored majority
at the ballot box.
.,a a.. s-u;..r;on ChHrchs