The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-09-10
Troubles in the South,

Troubles in the South.
| The recent butchery of fourteen Republicans,
| six whites and eight colored, in Red River Par
ish, Louisiana, has created a profound feeling
throughout the country. The detail OF the al
fair is given in the New York Times, in spe-
cial dispatch, dated at New Orleans. It is as
follows, showing those who have fallen vic
| tins
! On Saturday, Aug. 80, H. X. Twitchell Dep
uty Postmaster; w. F. Howell, United States
Commissioner, lat Coushatta, La. r. A. Devices,
State Supervisor OF Registration of Desota Par
ish; Frank Edgarton, Sheriff; N. G. Willis,
Justice Of the Peace, and Clark Holland, SUI
pervisor Of Registration of Red River Parish,
were visited by regular organized and armed
white neauguers from surrounding parishes at
| Coushatta, the capital of Red River Parish who
demanded that they should resign their offices.
They refused. Shortly after the White Lea
guers returned, reinforced, and demanded
their surrender. They surrendered in order to
save their women and children from the hor
rors OF q bloody fight, but this was not done
until they had been assured by the White Lea
! guers that they would be protected from fur
Their pei sonal violence, and that the women
and children would not be molested. They
We're then made prisoners, together with seven
colored men, and placed in the parish Jail,
where thew were guarded by the White Lea
!, guers. On Sunday, the 3Oth, their captors
took them all from the Jail, conveyed them be-
yond the limits of that district, and murdered
them in cold blood.
| This is the work of the White Leaguers, en-
Outraged by the murderous speeches of Mem
| cry and MARI, who, in the late convention at
Baton Rouge, in set speeches advised the white
people to organize, arm, and drive Republicans
from the State. and offered themselves as lea
| ders to resist even United States troops, McEn-
cry going so far as to say that Grant would
not dare to use United States troops against
| them.
| Coushatta, where the victims of this outrage
resided, is northern settlement, thrifty and
prosperous, two-thrds of the town and large
part of the parish being owned by northern ex-
union soldiers. The statement in the Times
asserts that it has long been threatened to ex-
terminate that northern colony. ''McEnery,in
recent tour through that part of our State or
dered the people to hang all carpet-baggers
and scallawags to the limbs of trees. This
bloody and horrible tragedy is only one OF the
many fruits of his advice. There were no
charges of crime against the victims. They
were all residents and Taxpayers" The NJ
o. Republican gives the following description
of the town: 3as .lm.fslf
s.Coushatta sone of the most prospecting towns
on Red River, and has grown into Importance
| since the war. A majority of its inhabitants
are Northern men who have settled here since
| the war, built saW-mills grist-mlls, machine
shop, and cotton pickery, and inaugurated 9TH
er enterprises. 1t was few years ago selected
as the capital of the new Parish OF Red River.
h,,f1f tInx
levees We're put in good repair, and everything
shows signs of thrift and energy 1t is
strongly Republican, and has been unusually
quiet, peaceful, and prosperous for that section
of the State. A large portion OF the parish is
! owned by Northern men, white Republicans
| 1t is known in all the surrounding country rs
Yankee colony. Hence it must have been
special object of the hatred of the white
| leagues
The case in Tennessee, which has created so
much feeling, was the lynching Of fourteen col
ored men at Trenton, Gibson county. They
were arrested, charged with conspiracy against
the whites, and placed in jail. Eighty masked
men made their appearance at the jail, had it
opened. took out the prisoners, and shot them
| In Kentucky, there have been numerous
murders committed, ari,ing from politiea
differences ana traeeaoie 10 Inc aheasoifsihs
| growing OF What Is known as'the ku-kiuN or
gahlzatloh.
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tennessee
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d ao'f' says
non a.es'iihsa ny r., .essa..tn a.
;nant inr;stc and elonuant orators of tho South
! arrived here to-day. He tells startling story
| OF murders and lntlmdatlons OF the coiored
ps'e ,,'1 ,so lnra a,,'
have largo irons valned of several thn,sand dol
4 lars, who do not dare to stay on their farms to
! harvest them, and who have lled TO the towns
~ !oe VI peliS 4'ellel io.ecteu iloi pei ss,i-
| White cav there never has been sneh a eand-
ton of excitement in the South since the war,
! and that in some parts OF the South the lower
1a He tba+ !; mos, 81 tho S,,th
| the expression of Republican ouinions is i'm
possible, and that free speech is Impossible and
lie Insecure, and that the General Government
ma. nda h aao s.e ' oa
ders, irhe probabilities of another secession
u-ar aro ona,,J, ,I;souocad