New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-02
The Murderers of Manuel Munos.


to all the facts relative to the cold blooded
murder Of Manuel Munos, in Caddu parish,
that it has been possible to obtain. Ali of
them, with the exception of the simple,
truthful and pathe .ic letter Of his wife, have
been derived from the Shreveport Times,
which from the first has pursued q consist
ent course. At no time has it said that the
murder was for the purpose of robbery; but
claimed that Munos suffered death because
he was intending TO arm the negroes. And
here it may be said, Suppose he was9 How
long will it take the Shreveport Tines to
learn that all citizens may possess, arms
subject to the law against carrying con.
cealed weapons?
But the crime must be excused somehow,
and the likellest way, according to the light
of the Times, was to characterize it as
praiseworthy action Of the White League.
preiudiced to insure a favorable jury. for
the assassins. Others Of the White League,
either possessing more humanity and honor,
or foreseeing the direful results of being
forced to carry the horrible deed on their
shoulders, refuse to accept the response
bility. The proclamation Of Governor Kel-
logg, Offering $1,000 for the discovery and
conviction of the criminals, may have had
something to do with this. At any rate,
these latter accept Rosa Munos statement
that she was rob bed OF $3.50 as full proof
that footpads, and not guerrillas, did the
deed. They DO this the more readily as it
affords them an opportunity for denouncing
Governor Kellogg for accepting the asser-
ton of the Times that the White League
had anything to do with it.
The Bulletin asserts the object was solely
robbery, and states that Munos was not a
Republican at all, but worthy Democrat,
properly vouched for.
But now comes the Shreveport Times and
denies that it said the murder was COM
mitted by the White League. Then it
stultfes itself by calling Rosa Munos'
statement that mon ey was taken, false,
and nobody in this community will believe
it," In that case the murderers must be
known to those who will not believe they
would steal.
Thus sweeping away the only motives
for the crime a rati onal mind could con
ceive the Tines is driv en- to invent one of
its OWE:
The facts of the case are briefly as fol-
lows: 1t was currently reported that Munos
was engaged in arming the negroes of this
parish; facts confirmed the rumor; several
citizens, we know not who they were, went
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asked to search his pr emises.
Let the man who has been brought up in
civilized com munity, taught to obey the
law, knowing right will prevail before it,
regarding the sanctity of his home next to
his belief in God imagine what he would do
when his house thus ceased to be his castle.
''The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid
defiance to all the force of the crown. 1t
may be trail it's roof may shake; the wind
may blow through it; the storms may enter;
the rain may enter, but the King Of Eng
land can not enter; all his forces dare not
cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.
But mark what these murderers did, for
whom the Times apologies:
He consented, and while they were doing
so, he treacherOusly snatched six shooter
out Of the tray of a trunk and fired at one
OF the party, when a general fight began.
MunOs received shot in the breast, but
continued firing upon his antagonists.
They retired from the house. He picked
up rifle, followed them into the yard and
fired upon them again while they were get
ting out of his way. Finding the desperate
would kill some of them if they did not
kill him, the parties turned again, fired
upon and mortally wounded him.
Is there a jury in that country who could
believe he consented thus enticing them
into his house, four of them, and then tried
to murder them all!
Now for the further excuses of the Times,
and even if it does not say the murderers
were White Leaguers, the words show it
kno,cs they were:
Manuel Nunez was desperado, Just the
man to carry out the Radical programme of
armiDg and melting the negroes to deeds of
violence. That this man was selected by
Kellogg and the scouudrels who surround
him to arm the negroes of Caddo and DE
Soto parishes, we have no doubt; that Mr..
Kellogg and bis organ, the REPUBLICAN,
should now seek to present him to the world
as martyr, and the men who went to in
vestisate his acts, and who killed him i'll
defense of their own lives as marauders
and ku-klux, was to have been expected.
Killed him in self-defense in his own
house, where they did not go 10 rob! Further
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