New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-08


hated and despised, while his antagonist,
Mcclellan, who caused SO much loss o.
life and social misery to the Confederate
people, has been taken up and honored
with the Southern Democratic vote for the
highest Office which a. nation could be-
stow Such is the justice and gratitude
of the Southern States rights Demo
cratic" politicians by profession.
THE HERALD TAXES A STEP BACKWARD.
Our Gravier street neighbor seems to
have become little CANNED" in the
recent Grant parish outrage. When the
first account of the affair came to town,
it was sure the ''Kellogg raiders had COM
mitted the outrage, and rather pointedly
charged it against them on Saturday. On
that day it came out with flaming sensa-
ton, and set off with startling head lines:
"Kelloggs Raiders at Work. ''Two La
dies Ravished' and then laid before the
afternoon Democracy the following in
formation:
When the flagship of Kellogg's navy
started on her cruise offensive, against the
people of Grant parish, we felt sure that
there was trouble brewing, and that SO soon
az the sOldiery got loose in the country,
there would be instances of oppression and
outrage committed or lnstigated by them
We had not expected, however, to hear Of
30 diabolical an act as was actually COM
United a few days ago, in the ravishing of
two refined and delicate ladies at their
home in Grant parish. One account states
positively that the outrage upon these ladies
was perpetrated by the Metropolitans, while
another states that it was either the Metro
politans or negroes in the vicinity, embold-
ened by the presence of the military posse.
The people should defend the sanctity of
their homes against all corners, and treat as
assassins and beasts the villains who at
tempt the perpetration Of such crimes as
the one the report of which has shocked
the community and will shock the people OF
the country.
Ihe REPUBLICAN construed this lam
guage into direct charge that the Metro
politans had either committed the outrage
or been accessory to it, both before and
after the fact. We knew, at the time,
that it was a baseless SANDER, and enter
tanned strong suspicious, which have not
been weakened by information since re-
ceived and published, that the guilty par
ties were some of the Heralds own politi-
cal friends.
Even so late as the fourth instant, that
paper tried to keep up the excitement,
and bolster its assertions by the following:
There can no longer be any doubt that
the statements published IN the Herald and
Picayt'ae several days ago, relative to
most horrid and revolving crime having
been committed in Grant parish are true.
The real culprit is William Pitt
Kellogg, for he it was who sent forward the
EXPEDITION of armed men to insult peace
full community.
Thus on every occasion when reference
was made to the outrage, there is the
iteration that the posse sent up Red river
are the parties to blame.
No sooner had the REPUBLICAN exposed |
the utter want of truth of the accusation,
and traced the crime to negro of very
bad character, friend, confdant and |
of some of the white partici- |
pators in the Colfax massacre, than the |
Herald sounds retreat and complains
that we misrepresented it:
The REPUBLICAN gives further proof of |
it's lax veracity by misstating the purport |
of our charge. We never accused the Me- |
tropolitans of perpetrating the outrage in |
Grant.
Well, if you did not, you put it in lam
yuage well calculated to deceive, at any
rate. If, however, the Herald wishes
10 correct the force of its former
publication, especially the words, Zone
account states positively that the outrage
upon these ladies was perpetrated by the
under DeDlyne," we are
willing to take note of it and help it to
spread the antidote for its libel
We object to its Juggling Governor Kel-
ogg into the controversy, however. His
connection with the business thus far has
,een confined to an attempt to comply
With the constitutional demand, which
We regard imperative, 'to take care that
he laws be faithfully executed" 1t
$ his business to take care of the
avs and let the consequences take care of
themselves. And if the Democracy in
end to signalize every attempt to arrest
elons by the Preparation of fendish
utrages, they had better make up their
binds to shoulder the responsibility and
ease their attempts to charge it upon in
ocent parties. But the Herald will not
st the REPUBLICAN come into court before
explains a certain dispatch which it al
eyes was sent by Governor Kellogg to the
.ttorney General at Washington. AS the
lerald is our only authority for the exist
nee of such dispatch, and as it has oc-
asionally been deceived by its reporters,
and informants, we prefer
} await confirmation before we feel any
reat distress on that subject. If Cover
or Kellogg ever sent such dispatch, it
no concern of ours. We are not re-
oonsible for the character of the informa-
on he receives, and we think he as liable
} be imposed upon by false stories as the
lerald, whom We have just caught in the /,
cry act of publishing positive assertion
} the detriment Of the Metropolitans {
hen there was every reason to believe it r,
} be false. If we have ''no standing in
'urt"' until everybody corrects his errors,
e may have to wait long time, GER Y
inly until the Herald shall be gathered I
its fathers. 1t is as much as We can do ,
answer for our own mistakes, without s
lving the imaginary shortcomings of t
hers charged upon us. We confess that | I