The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-04-25
S. G.
Friday ,lornine, April rs, 1873.
i.ouistana.

Tue otate OF u0ui6lana. Ih0 ADMINS
tration psrtisans are vigorously making
up the case. Kellogg & 90. are ''of1i-
cially" ~ certifying the characterization
OF the people OF the State. and most
shamefully falsifying the facts. Grant
will accept these representations as
authentic. md order the army Of the
United States to make tue conquest COM
plete. Notwithstanding the announce.
Pent by Grant that he will employ the
same means in any other State, under
similar circumstances, there is, to all
appearances, the most perfect unoonoern
for the fate Of this dismantled State,
throughout the borders Of the Union
Men have become; g, iemiiiarlzed with
usurpation and oppression at the South,
that the occurrence, Of fresh case
creates not even % ripple on the surface
of public sentiment. II tho voice OF the
people be silenoed in one State, and no
protest comes from other States. they
will not only deserve, but will surely
share, like fate: This Louisiana affair
is Intended as O beginning. Grant, with!
his advisers. are working to, paint and
aacording to: q planA%sll- defined ahd
peffsptly nnderstood. Their patpose is
to overturn our system OF goYefhment;
tojdnatroy the identity Of tie States; to
consolidate all authority in The nation,
and make themselves masters OF the
whole; to transform the States from
separate. sovereign. independent go.
vernments, in matters affecting their
local affairs, into mere dependencies or
satrapies. governed by the central power;
to substitute the will of the National Ad-
ministration enforced by bayonets, for
the will of the people of the several
States in all matters pertaining to local
as we'll as general interests. The plan
BY which they propose to reach the end,
is that OF gradual approaches. Instead
Of pzcclaiming the empire at once, the
States are to be subiugated in detail.
When Louisiana shall have been effectu.
ally conquered, Arkansas will be attend
ed to; and then another and another, till
the work is complete. THIS, to our
mind, ia as clear as any event of the fu.
ture. The signs OF the times all indicate
it with the precision Of prophecy.
The comments OF the Radical press
upon the trouble between the whites aud
negroes OF Grant Parish. Louisiana, for
some time 60 come. will not be their
ieass interesting fsetnre. The demand
for the determination of the whites of
Grant Parish will be couohed in phrase
somewhat enigmatical for Q while, after
the following style of the Cincinnati
Gazette:
1T was only few days ago that the
entire nation was appalled, by the an.
nouncement that the Modocs had assas.
einated q few Government officials, A
large number of papers olamored at once
for an abandonment Of the peace policy
and for the determination of the red
skins. Yet only few savages we're con.
oerned In the murder, and they had been
infuriated by the duplicity and enoroach
ments of the unscrupuious white settlers
OF tho border. Their grievances were
undeniable, however barbarous and nm.
parionable their retaliation may have
been.
"There was nothing of this kind in
Grant Parish. The whites may not have
liked their black Office. holders, bnt there
has been no real ground for provocation.
The jealousy of race and hatred OF their
former servants can alone explain the
outbreak. From such wretched motives
nearly 100 poor men were hurried to q
violent death. Cancellation may properly
be shown to penitent offenders, but such
wretches as the murderers of Grant
Parish will listen to no argument or in.
fuence but force. The blood of their
victims cries for vengeance, and it's cry
should not he unheeded. We hope that
speedy, stern aud fearful punishment
mny convince the guilty men and their
sympsthizers that the day when men
can be slaughtered merely because they
are dark skinned, has passed away for
ever. The Government orders have the
right ring, and we trust they will be
tssrleasly and thoroughly enforced"
There is no Disgusting the blood.
thirstinoss OF the Gazette. It's sympa.
thies, as usual. are entirely With the
negroes. The whites are, in it's estima.
tiOn worse than the eavooa NFoa... 1