The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-05-23

Aprll, when It could have made some claim
to both. it came out with the following
very mild notice:
A SERIOUS CHARGE.-On Thursday last
well-know citizen OF Pinevillo, our over
the river neighbor, was arrested and
brought before Judge Orsborn, charged
with revolving outrage upon respectn
BILE young girl, Of thirteen o. fourteen
years Of age. The child not being able tb
appear the examination of the case was
postponed until to-day.
As to its second object, it may or may
not have succeeded in pandering to the
negro hate Of the whites, but the differen.
ces between the two cases are marked.
The Grant parish outrage was committed
by negro upon q young lady of high So
cial position. assisted. by mob of negroes
and in the very presence Of the mother Of
the young lady, who had no male relations
present to protect her or avenge her
wrongs. There was no denial but con-
f,ssion of the crime.
In the Dozer case both were white, rep
aratiof by marriage is possible, denial
was empbatically made and the defense-
rs wo learn from his counsel, wonld have
been consent, and the girl had able bodied
male relations present to take the matter
in hand and meet ont to the culprit sucl,
justice as they might have thought the
case demanded. The girl herself told two
different stories about it, and when her
own father made an affidavit against Do
zier and put the matter in the hands of
the officers Of the law, the people Of Pine
vile concluded, and We agreed with them
that it was no business of theirs to inter
fere with the law in it's course. Had they
done so, this very same virtuons ~ and
indignant (?) Gaz tie would have been
the first to cry against mob law.
We were waiting for the Developments
of the preliminary examination, and after
he had gone off and failed to appear for
his trial, giving us the first conclusive ey-
idence we had'of his guilt, we could have
had nothing to say about it except to lay
the whole blame where it belongs. upon
the shoulders Of the radical District Judge
who had violated the plainest letter Of the
law in bailng prisoner charged with a
capital offense, This very same Gazette
helped to elect him, and he is one Of the
shining lights of the same radical negro
partp here that claims the Editor of the
oIazst'e as one of IT'S most influential mem
oers. 1t is "t"o thin" to try to make a
scape goat of our honest people and of us,
Mr. Gazette man ana you can't palm of
any such stuff The District Judge, John
Orsborn. and the Gazette, presided over by
that pure and virtuous ~ editor with
twenty years experience, off and on
who helped put him on the bench
and is now supporting him there,
are to blame that Doziet was not punished,
if he deserved it, and that "bowas permit
ted to ride away unmoested." "All these
facc aud others very Damaging to the
mans past reputation" were not "well
k"ovon in the community in which he
lived, and were not believed until after
Dozier had given license for the belief by
leaving during the night, as was after.
| wards ascertained.
To make out it's point against us the
Gazette first finds it necessary to presume
that we "arrogate to ourselves, by impli
cation at least, the proud distinction OF
being the censor Of public morals, the
fountain Of intelligence, the dissemination
of the latest newsos,yd in short lire cid'
arake newspaper" etc. With the single
exception Of the last clause which he ital
icized, there is no word Of truth in the
whole quotation, and the whole premise
Of the Gazette is an unwarranted f:lbrica.
ton This mode Of fabricating premises
and then arguing from them is flvorite
resort with TICS would be logical and pre-.
tended consistent journal, and indeed, OF
nearly all OF the papers who profess the
same political negro creed that st does
Companl"nship with negroes npon terms
Of social. political and intellectual equali
with Sir John Fa'lstah, slightly changed
chow the Gazette is given to lying"
We wonld not have noticed his petty
filings at rs at this length. but that on,
friend and ally The Democrat took Qp the
cndgel 81 behalf Of the community and OF
ourselves. and as he deemed the ISLANDERS
Of the malicious and negro loving journal
worthy Of notice, we follow snit Onr par
ting notice to the rotten old shebang il
that we own the Cam'asian not by the
grace Of a negro, as lie odoes the Gazette
nor as he owned the last paper he had, by
any process of b,"tting out the distinction
between neum and tuum rs he did in dis
posing Of what never belonged to him
but by virtue Of honest purchase and that
we intend @ put in it what we please and
leave out Of it what we cb.ose and that ne
such TRADES az his last will ever force II,
to abandon our independence Of choice
etr1t aws< old Tulke~ Gctble1 :