Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1874-08-29
The War of determination and
Possession.
HIGHLAND PARISH, LA.,)
Aug. 25th, 1874.

Editors Richldnd beacon:
There is at this time deep feeling
of solicitude in the minds of a large
number of the citizens of the alluvial
portion of this State, hypothecated up.
on the Sumner doctrine of African
izing some of the Southern States
The hostile attitude of the negro wing
of the Radical party at this time, in
the South, andain this State, and the
late effort of Mr.. Kellogg, and the still
later enunciation contained in the New
Orleans Republican, of 10Th inst, of
Gen. Beckwith, United States District
Attorney for the Judicial District of
New Orleans, leaving for New York;
he says: "IIe goes through by rail
and will visit Washington before re-
turning, in order to consult with the
President in regard to the insurrec-
tionary movements that are now
openly and defiantly going on in many
parishes Of the State: i and
that unless Government comes to the
rescue it will be" etc, etc What
does it mean by government come
to the rescue" but that the Govern
ment shall send troops into Louisiana,
to overawe the white citizens of this
State, for the pretended purpose of
fair election, and force upon the peo-
pie of this State a continuation of the
burdens, the insults and injuries that
have been thrust upon them, and that
they have labored under for the last
nine years, by brute force and fraud.
The efforts of Mr.. Kellogg and the
language contained in the Republican
should be the cannon's laundering
roar in every white mans ear in the
State, but the Office holders; and
should be the watch-word, organize
organize I! in every nook Of the South.
And, while ORGANIZE should be the
Xatcbw9rd va 70 ,be Of eyery Seynw white l man p the
solutcly still born, and is impotent Tor
anv good to thr arty in the PARISH
nv the MASTER inactivity Of the oill-
GERS presidip lending all their time
in grinding their individual axes ID
stead of working for the general good
of the white citizens. |, for one Mr'
Editor as good soldier as the Con-
coaorote States ever marshalled on the
blood stained fields Of Virginia, Ten
nessec, Georgia or Mississippi, am not
willing to give up Louisiana without
erecting a monument on her runs 70
the memory of my father as terrible,
as bloody and magnificent as the
monument erected by Ghengis Kahn
to his father. While there are some
whose knees tremble at the cannons
roar. or the rattle of Infantry, there
are plenty of men in this State to pro-
tect it from Afrcanization; Rlchland
, Franklin, and the balance Of the up
land parishes in the State, arc no
afraid: and there are plenty of as tru'
men in Carroll, Madison, Tensas ant
Concordia parishes, in proportion u
their white population, and other Air
canized parishes, which, by being SUE
+. cored from the upland parishes, can re
il enact a second Colfax tragedy at an.
. time The llth resolution of tine III
publican platform, recently adopte
by the State Republican Conrentio
- in New Orleans, is the gauntl'
thrown to the white people OF th
State in particular, and the white pc
pie generally in the South I'M
,, draws the white line, and every viii
man in this State who indOrscs tn
doctrine indorses social equality al
must be ostracised; our business
Iations with men may force US
transact business with them, b
'h- when at is done, our commune
tions must be aye, aye; nay, nay.
- When they travel through the col
try let them stay all night with
negroes "a la mode Franklin Paris
-, let them visit the negroes, and rece
!, visits from them, let them eat W
them and sleep with them to tn
hearts content. have heard SO
DS, of the RAIDS say that, in the event
a conflict of races, they will take 81
with the white people: that will
;ro. do: we are not preaching the go'
nEn at this time, and do not propose TO
,,.;u ceivc in,o fellowship eleventh b
ants convert, he first gun fired will C
and and the door that shuts them out to
, sad fate of their choice they
y struck the spark, added fuel
famed a flame, they can neither
and ,incui>h nor control; they have Ct
ed tic var Of race, and a5 sooI