The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-04-19
KELLOGG'S PERJURY BEARING
FRUITS.

AGAAOVV'o L 11SO OAsA ASA/<AA~
FRUITS.
The disturbance in Grant parish has
eliminated in serious results This
was to have been expected from the
moment the co1ored people Of that
parish, needing the few partisans of the
white race who were bent upon tramp
ling down the manhood of their parish
in order to possess themselves Of Office,
organized in an armed body, seized the
Parish site and forcibly entered and
sacked the residences and business
houses oflaw-abiding white and colored
: citizens. Whatever may have been the
the aggrayating cause, that induced the
supporters Of Mr.. Kellogg to take the
initiative in hostile measures, there has
not appeared a sufficient reason, any
where, for the taking Of the matter in
dispute from The province OF the law
and settling it, as the negroes OF Grant
parish proposed to do, by direct ana
unauthorized appeal to arms. Looking
upon these ignorant negroes in every
way as good as white people, and awards
ing therl every legal and humane con-
sideration due ever, to an outraged
community, still, by all that they claim
10 be so considered, by just that much
more are they to be condemned for the
violence and mobocratic proceedings
which have characterized their course.
Legal forms and remedies appear to
have been held in utter contempt in
contrast with the ovefshadowing tho
DRY common among ignorant people,
that might makes right, and that he
should rule who has the power, or the
ingenuity, to get control of the reins
of government. Perhaps, we should
not visit upon the negroes OF Grant too
severe q condemnation for endenvOring
to carry out this false notion Of repub-
lican Institutions, since they had before
them the example of Mr.. kellogg whose
fragrant swindle and usurpation are
known to the negroes rs we'll as the
white men of the State. It was he who
inaugurated the policy Of fraudulent
and forcible usurpation, and has taught
"the wards of the nation"-the untutor-
ed,unlearned and semi-civilized negroes
that the control ofgovernnent IS not
u matter Of right and justice and law,
but Of false oaths, force and fraud. And
it is not by any means an eXtravagant
hypothesis, when we assume that Mr..
Kellogg was not ignorant Of the pttr-
poses OF the negro leader Ward-a men,
Der of the Kellogg legislature;-or that
he actually jagged on this negro and
his accomplices to taking forcible pos
ings of Grant parish, which Ward did
do, without color of law, and which
was the prime cause OF the trouble In
Grant. The practical solution of the
emeute has been just what the arch con-
spirator, Mr.. Kellogg, might have eX-
pected: the negroes have been terribly
punished for their savage manner OF
carrying out their notions OF govern
ment-the whites have successfully
maintained their rightful supremacy in
a matter where every intelligent crea
ture could but concede it to them
and there is peace i'll Grant parish
and will be for the next quarter OF Il
century. Deplorable as the occurrence
was which proceeded this saiutary les
son, thelesson itself is worth all it cost
It will elevate the people of Louisiana
in the eyes of the good people of all her
sister States, and will rivet attention
upon the possible and probable results
Of unbridled political AMUSEMENT and OF
the cant and pseudo philanthropy OF
the equality Of the races. But we, It's
every good citizen does, must deplore
such tragedies in our once great and
prosperous State. But knowing that
out of the abnormal and unnatural
teachings of such Radical leaders as Mr..
Kellogg, 50 long as immoral causes arc
followed by certain fermentation bring
ing back the asccndancy OF right over