Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-18

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 1.-THE steam
er Ozark is returning from Golfax. A
Times special reports the killing by the
citizens Of seven of the nine negroes
implicated the recent Grant parish
Outrage Press.
The above was published in our tel
egraphic columns of the 18th. The
steamer Ozark, laden with Metropolitan
police from New Orleans, has been
moving up and down the Ouachita
river for some weeks past. The expe-
dition was sents5ut by the negro Lieu
tenant Governor, Antoine, in the alb
Of Kellogg. for thebstensiblepur-
pose of arresting the supposed leaders
ers of the whites in the sanguinary con-
fict which first brought Colfax, Grant
parish, to the notice of the outer world.
The Metropolitans held warrants, but
could not find the parties wanted. The
country was virtually depopulated on
their approach. A correspondent of
the Neac Orgeons Times, under date of
Nov. l., writes:
"Your representative was war cor
respondent of the Neac York Herald
from 1861 to 1866; yet, at no time,
either In the Department of Virginia,
the Department of the Cumberland, or
IN the Department of the Gulf, was
there such a wholesale departure of
citizens from their homes as he has
witnessed in the parishes of Grant and
Rapides, more especially the LITTER
since the arrival Of the Ozark in this
neighborhood.
This correspondent states further
that ''the Federal troops could arrest
every one in twenty-four hours, but
that the Metropoitans might remain
here month. and would not be able
with all their efforts to effect a single
arrest" The Metropolitans seem to
have been supported by the presence of
a small force of Federal troops. but the
warrants were in the hands of Antoine's
ragamufins. A prominent lawyer Of
Alexandria states that the accused citi-
zens would instantly surrender to the
Metropolitans even, if they had assur-
ance of trial before an impartial jury
regardless Of color. The first coming
of this expedition in the neighborhood
seems to have emboldened the worst of
the negroes to fearful outrages. A
letter from ex-Judge Charles J. Merrill.
dated Colfax, Oct. 80. and published
by the Associated Press on Nov. 2,
says:
Son Saturday night last, the house
of one of the most respectable widow
ladies on Red river was fired into, near
this place, the doors broken open and
the unfortunate lady and her daughter
| of seventeen summers were taken out
| and horrible to relate, violated. Neither
| of the ladies could be found until late
! Sunday afternoon. An infant, eight
cen months old, and grandchild of ex-
Governor Wells, was found out In the
woods some half mile from the house,
and near the spot where the foul deed
was perpetrated. The infant was the
niece of the lady and child of Munford
Wells, the oldest son of Ex-Governor
Nat. Wells. The negroes up here all
say that it was the soldiers, and we all
believe IL they were not the perpetra-
tors they instigated the negroes to the
horrible deed of infamy.''
The young lady thus maltreated,
Miss Lacour, died few days after. A
special dispatch to the Ne1o Orleans
Times records the sequel as follows:
BAYOU SARA, Nov. 13-On board
the steamer Ozark, Mississippi river
On Sunday Hampton Henderson and
two other negroes were brought into
Colfax by colored men, who were threat
ened with death if they harbored the
perpetrators Of the Grant parish out
rage. They We're turned over to Afford
Shelby, Deputy Sheriff, but the citizens
took charge of them, conveying them
in the direction of C. @. Nash's resi-
dence. They were shot after confessing
that nine others were concerned in the
attack on Madame Lacour's residence.
Mumford Wells shot two more the day
following, near Mr.. Loushard's house,
with double baITeled shot-gu hav-
ing been discovered and tracked to that
point On Tuesday fifteen citizens from
Alexandria surprised three more hiding
from arrest. Another one was hung in
Rapides parish the same day. One of
them was tracked as far as the toll
gate, three miles from Alexandria. The
other two are known to be yet in Grant
parish, and when caught, they viii I'M
doubtedly share the same fate as the
others.
Such is the desperation to which 9TH
erwise good citizens are driven by the
certainty that justice could be obtained
in no other way under the Kellogg
Antoine regime. 1t is a most deplora-
bic state of affairs. Each retaliation
only intensifes the incipient war of
races, the bonds Of society are shatter-
ed, and old settled communities relapse
into colonial contest with black saw
ages instead of redskins Men,
women and children carry their lives in
their hands, liable to torture and out
rage at any moment.
A HUMILIATING CONFESSION.
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