New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-16
WHITE LEAGUE LITERATURE
THE LATER hU-kLUx
THEIR PURPOSE AND PROGRAMME

We have already referred to the mani
festations of lawlessness which have &C.
Cured in the northwestern parishes of the
State. In Caddo political murders have
been for some weeks inaugurated. Other
parishes have not been 80 forward in this
respect, but outrages Of serious character
have occurred in Bossier, Claiborne, Natchi-
tOches, Webster, Rapides, Grant, st. Mar
tin, and other sections Of Northern and
Western Louisiana. In most of these par
ishes a reign of intimidation has been
successfully lnaugurated, so that if an
election was held to morrow the Re-
publican voters would not dare at
tempt to deposit their votes, remembering,
as they do the scenes of 1868, when men
offering to vote for General Grant for Presi-
dent were shot dead in their tracks with
their ballots in their hands. The Ku-klux
or K. w. C. of that year, has been reorgan-
lied this year under the name of the White
League. The former organization met in
secret. and its instruments hid their crimes
under convenient DISCUSSES. The White
League of to-day is open and bold in its
movements, but none the less infamous in
its designs. For proof we refer to the
articles OF association. copied from their
chosen organs. The following is from the
platform adopted by the White League in
st. Mary on the thirteenth of July:
We enter into aud form this League for
the protection of our own race against the
daily increasing Entertainments OF the ne
gro and are determined to use our best
endeavOrs to purge our legislative, judicial
and ministerial offices from such horde
of miscreants as now assume to lord IL over
US.
Uled0e our honor to each other to giDe oar
hearth support to all that this League may
determine by a majority OF votes cast at
any regular meeting, and to aid to the ut
most of our ability in carrying out such
measures as 1t may adopt.
That we do not reject or condemn any
white man for his political opinions 50 that
he join US in the one grand object We may
have in view.
At Alto, on the eleventh of July, the fol-
lowing was adopted:
That we regard it the sacred and pOlit-
ical duty of every member of this club to
disoOuntenance and socially prescribe all
white men who unite themselves with the
Radical party; and to supplant every pollt-
ical opponent in all his vacations by the
employment and support of those who ally
themselves with the white mans party; and
we pledge ourselves to exert our energies
and use our means to the concentrating OF
this end.
At the White League convention in
Franklin, on the first of August, the follow
ing significant resolution was adopted:
Resolped, That 1t is the sense Of this con-
ventiOn that every member OF the White
League organization is in honor and duty
bound zealously to support and vote for
each and every regular nominee OF the or
ganizatiOn, to the exclusion vt all other can
didates or persons whatever.
This platform is broad enough to cover
every species of crime and outrage.
Now let us quote from the White League
organs. The Enterprise, published at
Franklin, St. Mary parish, in it's issue OF
August 6. says:
We ask for no assistance; we protest
against any Intervention. We own
this soil of Louisiana, by virtue OF our ca
deavor, as a heritage from our ancestors, and
it is ours and ours alone. Science, literature.
history, art, civilization and law belong
alone to us, and not to the negroes They
| have no record but bar5arlsm and ldolatry,
nothing since the war but that OF error, in
| capacity, beastliness, vOudouism and crime.
| Their right to vote is but the result of war,
| their exercise of it a mOnstrOus imposition
and a vindictive punishment upon us tor
| that ill-advsed rebellion.
Therefore are we banding together in a
White League army, drawn up only on the
| defensive, exasperated by continual wrong,
| ii is true, but acting under Christian and
| high brincpled leaders, and determined to
| defeat these negroes in their infamous de-
| sign of depriving US OF all we hold sacred
! and precious on the soil of our nativity or
| adoption, or perish in the attempt.
Come what may, upon the Radical party
must rest the whole responsibility of this
| conflict, and as sure as there is just God
| in heaven, their unnatural, cold blooded
| and revengetul measures OF reconstruction
| in Louisiana ariU meet Nth q terrible rettibu.
| ton.
The following is from an address to col
ored people in the Natchitoches indicator
of July Is:
The white people intend to carry the
State election this fall, This intention is
deliberate and unaltcrable. from, the fact that
their Gerry existence depends upon 1t, and that
you may enjoy the blessings which will
naturally follow such an event, blessings
made doubly sweet when you know you
were partly instrumental in bringing them
about we desire your cooperation, and we
simply ask you, Will you assist us in redeem
ing your State from the degradation and
ruin she now is in, or will you follow still
the advice of those who have placed her
thus9 Take time to answer 1T, and let your
mind, should you decide affirmatively, be
at rest for your future welfare aud happl-
ness. We propose to do for you more than
any party has yet done for you. On the
other hand should you imagine that the
teaching of your former rulers is correct,
and you elect to attempt, for it will only be
an attempt, to continue their rule-then y0M
mast take the consequences. For ace tell you
saoac, and let it be distinctly remembered that
uOu hare fur rdrni,,g, that are intend to
coryy The State of Louisiana in November
merit, on she ,cill be a military territory.
The Alexandria Democrat Of July Is con-
tains the following:
The people have determined that the
Kellogg government has to be gotten rid
of, and they will not scruple about the means
as they have done in the past.
How far results have been developed by
their teachings a correspondent sets forth
in a very facetious way in the Bulletin of
August ID:
Ozarks are wanted, Mr.. Kellogg, for the
deluge is rising. In some parishes it is
quite high, it having already swept away
your officials.
Natchitoches parish is cleansed, and her
recuperation is begun.
Webster parish ditto.
Claiborne parish ditto.
St. Martin parish ditto.
In Caddo the Kellogg officials have done