The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-09-05

When the party had reached the
McFarlane plantation, in Rossier par
ish near the line of Red River, they
were set upon by an armed body OF
men and the six helpless captives
shot down in cold blood like so many
dogs!
AS the news of this damnable and
evidently premeditated crime sped
throughout the land upon the wings
of the telegraph, it awoke a thrill of
horror in every community and for
ever scaled the doom of the Southern
White League Rebellion which has
reared its hydra head among us. The
action of President Grant in order
ing troops to disturbed districts was
undoubtedly fastened by this re-
voting butchery, and his course will
be applauded by all men who believe
that an American citizen still has the
right to live on American soil and
express his political as we'll as other
opinions without paying penalty with
his life for exercising the privilege.
We trust God the perpetrators of
this cowardly murder will be hunted
to earth and such punishment melted
out to them as will prove warning
to political assassins all over the
South. An example of this kind is
needed to stop the bloody work that
has prevailed here to greater or less
extent since the close of the war and
will continue so long as perpetrators
of such deeds go unwhipt of justice.
/ A man named Alexander Newton is
in prison in the city of New Orleans
charged with murder. Because the
alleged criminal is white Republi-
can, the Bulletin affects to be nearly
frantic over the affair, and is es-
pecially tormented with the suspicion
that blank pardon has already been
| filled out i'll the Governors office to
meet the apparently certain contin-
/ gency of Newton's conviction. The
over-zeal of this delectable organ of
the opposition to make capital against
Republicans, frequently leads it to
the commission of most egregious
blunders and contradictions, and its
treatment of this murder case has
furnished striking example of that
fact. On the second page of Thurs
days Bulletin the following statement
is made Should jury be found
to convict him Newton], Kellogg
stands ready with pardon" On
the third page of the same issue it is
said of the prisoner ellis appear
ance did not betray the fearful
tragedy in which he had taken so
prominent q part, and for which he
will without doubt suffer the full pen
| atty of the law"
! Comment is super6uous.
In contrast with the Bulletia'S
shameless equivcoation is the manly
tone of tho Republican, which =" has
nothing but words of the strongest
condemnation to offer in the case of
| the homicide of the unfortunate vic
tim of Newton's drunken wrath.
No law breaker is friend of the Re
publican or of the Republican party,
whose mission it is to make life, lib
erty and property secure to the weak,
as well as the strong. Will our con-
contemporaries say as much for those
assassins who are daily taking life in
the interest of the White Leagues +"
| The Republican will find an answer
to its query in the fact that the Times
is the only opposition city paper that
has shown enough humanity to de-
nounce the fendish butchery of the
Coushatta Republicans, which is by
far the most glaring of the numerous
outrages that have been perpetrated
in Louisiana within the past six
months.
/ RADICAL. REFoRM.-The former parish
judge of Natchitoches parish having resign
ed, Kellogg has appointed E. L. Pierson to