New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-11
WHY rs IT So?

The newspapers and others in the pay
Of the White Leaguers manifest suspi-
c!ous interest in the alleged ''pr!vate
property" of Messrs. Guyol & Fremaux,
recently seized by the police. This is
not the first seizure Of private property
made by summary process in this city.
though stranger might judge from the
great coil created that it was the first case
Of the kind ever heard of here or any,
where else. It is difficult to account tor
this excited interest in other peoples pri-
vate affairs on any homes. or loyal theory.
If the guns. including the bayonets. are
private property. and destined for an
innocent object. the owners have
only to make the proper legal de-
tense to receive their own again,
with possible damages. But how any
man who justifes and excuses the taking
of life and property in Grant and Red
River parishes. where the 'speople' are
said to have first taken away from the
negroes all the arms they could find. and
subsequently, many Of their lives. can
grow red hot over the present case is
great mystery. There was no Justice OF
the Peace Houston up there to issue wrlts
Of sequestratiou, nor loud mouthed brawl-
ers to prate 0: broken constitutions and
violated private rights. The summons
came. "Give me that gun, you ID Mig
CERT and when he was disarmed, "kil
him" The New Orleans case is different,
however. from any that has ever occurred
in the country. The negroes and their
friends were pillaged and murdered
by private persons. unauthorized,
and therefore outlaws. Here. the
State itself is making inquiries
whether her laws have been violated. As
the negroes and their six white friends
were butchered in cold blood in Bossier
because some ala-mist spread the report
that the colored people Of Red River par
ish were about to exterminate all the
whites. we presume a few guns. found I'M
der decidedly suspicious circumstances.
may be detained for investigation. Those
bayonets are witnesses in point. We all
know what bayonets are used for. Tar
get companies and hunters have no use
for them and never buy them. When
you see the ca. sitting by the lately
emptied cream Jug licking her chops.
you are something more than suspicious.
When you see guns and bayonets carted
of toward Democratic club, just before
an election. when demagogues are en-
deavoring to excite an unthinking popu-
| lation, there is faint scent OF danger at
least.
Now. if the persons whom i: is designed
TO kill with these bayonets can by any
possibility be KEEP: Unit! after the election,
| perhaps the cases will then be given UP.
Perhaps it may be worth considering
| whether the owners Of this ''private prop.
| erty" are no: entitled to interes. until i! is
| restored to them. We may repay tie
pecuniarv losses. though We confess to
the inposs:bility Of curing the gripping
collie that has seized upon two OF three
hundred politica! agitators at the discov'
cry Of the conspiracy. We Can do roth
ing for them, except to advise them to
hunt up some legitimate business of their
own and give their minds to it. They will
then have less time as well as disposition
to be meddling with other peoples affairs.
A. all events. it is not decent i'll persons
claiming to be respectable to shed tears in
public over the miscarriage Of grand
| scheme to shoot and bayonet American
/ citizens with those improved Pruss;an
guns.