New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-04-22
WE'LL FEIeNED SURPRISE.

The evening Times shows disposition
to cloud the transactions in Grant parish
with mist of Misrepresentation:
WHY all this talk and trouble in Wash
ington and elsewhere about the late rebel
lion in Grant parish! 1t has been sup
pressed bv the sheriff through the aIG OF
posse comitatus, aud those who violently
took possession of Colfax. plundered tne
inhabitants, drove of peaceaole cltEonS'
and fired treacherously on flag OF truoe,
have been punished as signally as fresIue en-
Gra1 and General Sherman ordereu tno
Modocs to be punished for ike ohensoa'
The keystone of the arch thus built up
nv the Times is GU. of place. The Sheflh
Of Grant parish, Dan Shaw. was himself
s,ppressed and his posse comita'uS most
brntaIIr murdered by invaders from three
or forr of the surrounding parishes led
nv man whose only claim, to the Once OF
sheriff was based upon an alleged para
Graph in the RlpyBIIcAS. He was sur
rounded BY mea who did not belong Ill the
bailiwick and was to ali intents and pur-
poses carrying On civil war. He may
have misapprehenied lis legal powers
and duties. and we hope such will prove
70 be the case: but his claim to act in an
official capacity must be rejected.
1t is against the murderers and as5as-
sins of the sheriff and the posse comitat"S
Of Grant parish. who have themselves
been suppressed, as the Tines grirnly puts
il, that the United States are moving.
Grant parish has become to Louisiana
what Alatnance county was to North Caro-.
lima, and Albany waits. with her prison
doors open. for the result. If our deluded
contemporary expects to deceive the au-
thorities by such palpable perverSlon OF
the truth as is contained in the above e3-
tract. it vii! fail as signalIy as did its pre-
decessor under Mr.. Weed. when 1t dis
torted the facts in the great case OF keI-
logg VS.. McEnery and others, last winter.
\ newspaper can only state facts; 1t can not
manufacture them to order; and probably
in no other community than this on the
face Of the earth would the people toll
crate newspaper that continued system
Of persistent misrepresentation. And
this people" are paying dearly for leav-
ing truth. justice and fair dealing behind:
The Grant parish massacre was most
horrible affair, and all attempts to make
i appear in any other light will fail. II
is no, in the power Of all the people OF the
State TO drive away the cloud of blood
that hangs over the fatal spot where the
brave Shaw and hi; devoted followers
fell.
It is as we'll to bear in mind as we go
on. tina. there is power over this State
outside Of its limits that is greater than
any within. That power can neither be
deceived by falsehood nor overcome by
force. The Ku-Klux Of South Carolina
are well acquainted with the way it dis
| poses of the wicked. And that great
power. as just as i. is strong. is now upon
us. The rioters of Gran, parish are
among the first to feel its power. The as
sassins of Colfax will be the first victims
and the false assumptions Of the Ii'Ae>
can not save them. The truth vii
be sought for in other quarters. The
presen: contest. like the one whged
last winter. will be decided according tc
tho rules of law and evidence. and every
attempt to make on: 4 case outside o
court will prove abortiye. For this reason
we hope our contemporaries viii endeayol
to tell as much truth in their statements
as is compatible with their subscription
lists and advertising accounts. AnC
while we can no. look for much aid from
tina. quarter. We ;ndul :" 4 reasonable hope
that the more moderate and temperate
OF the Fusion journals vii! not fall into
the habit OF calling things by wrong
names.