The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-04
KELLOGG ISSUES An EDICT.
ANOTHER ROMANCE NOT FOUNDED
On FACTS.

+: On the receipt Of Information Of the action
Of Williams. and the turtle, intelligence that.
! il consequence. troop. would probably be il
the city this morning. Kellogg last evenin. sud-
4, denly awoke to the "magnitude of the crime
committed by ''tie murderers in the coushat.
! t. outrage" and forthwith couriers We're dis.
patched to hunt up and bring in the man that
fixes up his compositions. and atter solns
work. a proclamation "ctferinS q reward ot
5000 each for such evidence as shall lead to
the arrest and conviction OF tn. sa Il murder.
ers, or any of them was prepared, which
vas Immediately forwarded to the RepuLlican
office for official publication. together with =
document headed
4 STATEMEMESY TO THE PUBLIC
which must be read to be appreciated. and is
accordingly appended:
Having felt ii my duty % issue my Yrocia,na.
zion offering large reward tor the apprchens ion
and conviction Of the murdcrers in the .oushatta
outrage, and to the end that the lawablding cit.
zcns Of the State may fully comprehend the mag
ntllde Of IL. crime committed, and be induced t..
render more active assistance to the officers Of
the law. deem it proper to make the following
statement:
These facts arc gathered from reliable lnforma-
ton received at the Executive Department;
on about the 2sth day Of August, 1874, =
body Of persons belonging to semi military or
gaiiization known the White League Of Louisi-
ana, assembled i'll the town Of Coushatta, parish
Of Red River, in this State, tor the purpose Of
compelling, by force OF arms, the State officers of
that parish to resign their positions.
These officers We're men Of good character ;
most of them largely Interested i'll planting and
mercantile pursuits They held their positions
with the full consent Of an admittedly large ma
jority of the legal votes Of the parish this being
la lv nI,, tod L.
the Fusion returning boards.
The only known objection to them was that
they were Of Republican principles. Frank $.
Edgerton, the duly qualified she 1T of the parish,
in strict compliance with the laws Of this State,
and Of the United States summoI ed poSse con,i-
tats Of citizens, white and colored, to assist him
i'll protecting the parish officers in the exercise OF
their undoubted rights and duties from the
threatened unlawful violence Of the White
Leagues. His posse consisting Of sixty-tive
men, was overpowered by a superior force assem-
bled from the adjacent parishes, and finally, after
several colorcd and white men had been killed,
surrendered themselves prisoners, with the eX-
plict guarantee that their lives would be $ pared
If the more prominent Republicans would leave
the parish, and those holdlng Office would resign
their positions.
These stipulations though unlawfullv .xactcd,
we've complied with on the part Of the Republican
officials who were then locked up al the jail for
the night.
The following named persons We're among those
sllrrendcring and rcsigning
Homer Twitchell, planter and taX-colectoY Of
Red River and deputy United States postmaster
in charge Of the post Office at Coushatta Robert
A. Devices. supervisor OF registration, DcSoto
parish Clark Holland, merchant and supervisor
Of registration, Red River parish W. J. Howell
parish attorney and United States commissioner:
Frank S. Edgerton, sheriff Of Red River parish
NJ G. Willis, merchant and justice of the peace.
On the following morning. Sunday, the 5Oth
day OF Augl I, these persons were bound al d
conducted by an armed guard to the Mcfarland
plantation, just over the parish line of Red
River, within the boundaries Of Bossier parish
about forty miles east OF the Texas line. There
they Were sci upon and deliberately mul dered i'll
cold blood.
On the night preceding the SUI render body OF
forty members Of the White League Of Caldo
parish. mounted and armed, left the city If
Shreveport and We're riding in the direction
Of the p where the murder subsequently,
Their bodies were buried near where
they fell. without inquest or any fOrmalty what.
ever. w. p. Kellogg. Governor.
It's scarcely Necessity to say that the above.
like all other Statements with which KEEL
log. has fhonored this community. is :. com.
plete and labored distortion of facts.
The whole Statement it is .viie't. va.
compiled with the express purpose of giving
the Ego by j.. every part!cu!a. TO IL. ..e-
ment. Vi Truth.