New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-30
MOB LAW IN THE ATTAKAPAS
VIGILANCE COMMITTEE" OU1RAGEs
White Men Banished and a
Negro Hanged.

Even its own organ, the Sugar B0rt, can
not quite justify the action of the mob who
drove Judge Kreider and his son out of st.
Martin. The only pretended charge was
that they had been drilling negroes"
which no one believes. But the armed
Acadians, massing and drilling under Cen
eral Alcbiades DeBlanc, 60 staggering
through the country without let or hind
rance, con graduating themselves that they
have no debts to pay to the tax collector
whom they have exiled from his home, fat
with government rations issued on account
of the overflow, their bad passions infapled
by bad whisky, and apply their Improved
Christian civilization" to such men as fail
to appreciate their standard of superiority.
The SugarBocl says:
The vigilance committee of st. Martin
last week ordered Judge Kreider and son
to leave the country, and they went to New
Orleans, leaving the balance of the family
behind on their plantation. We are told
that the charge against them was that they
had been caught drilling negroes. We
h ave known the Messrs. Kreider for years,
and can scarcely believe that they could
be guilty of such conduct. However, We
think the committee must have had good
grounds for such action, and hope to see
some effort made to vindicate their course,
if they were right. Il wrong land vigilance
committees do sometimes make mistakes),
we hope to see these citizens allowed to re-
turn to their home. Yet we believe more
Justice has been done in Attakapas by these
organizations, during the past two years,
than by all the courts of Louisiana.
, 10 vpnrdoro2 tho oct ia
viewed in different light, and the best
| logic of it's editor is invoked to justify the
deed. For example, read the following
| from the same issue:
That most quiet and orderly community
the lie Piquant settlement. have found ii
| necessary to organize themselves into a
| vigilance committee to protect themselves
from the outrages and plllages Of few bad
| men in their midst, whom the law has failed
| to bring to punishment. The lie Piquant
| committee number l25 of the best citizens
of this parish. and for weeks past they bave
| constantly had a portion OF their number
on patrol duty.
On Wednesday night, the nineteenth
instant, VIGOROUSLY bad colored man
! named Jacques Boutte, alias Jack Jacobs
was caught in the act of stealing and killing
calf or beef belonging to Zencn Olivier
Jr., a most respectable colored citizen o.
the vicinity. He was assisted by a coloreG
boy, of a good family, but as it was pre-
sumed the latter did not know the ANNA
did not belong to Jacques, he was allowed
to 90 home, while the principal in the CRIME
was taken into custody.
| On last Thursday evening, in the presence
of perhaps 200 citizens, the thief was tried
before jury of citizens, while one acted al
prosecuting attorney and another defended
the prisoner. 1t was fully proven by wit
nesses that he not only had committed this
theft, but had for years been profess iona
cattle thief, and in consequence the jury
decided that the best way to get rid of this
villain, that lived by preying upon homes
people, was to hang him. Accordingly. HI
was taken by the citizens to tree nea
Grand Marais and an end put to his exist
ence. As many as could get hold of tbs
rope assisted in this work of retribution
and so earnest were they in it that at thu
first pull the victim was almost pulled Owe
the limb.