The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-12
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TWitchcll'> Instructions 10 EdyertOm.


In order to justify the action Of the citizen
OF Red River parish, whom | have the mono
to represent, in their recent effort to put dow
cold-bioodcd Instruction. III defense o
their lives and property. and that Of thei
wives and children, l would call your attcn
ton to Kellogg. stateuit Ut and 1Wl;clelI
Instructions.
! Kellogg says: son or about tie 18th ia
: Of August. 1874, a body of persons belonging
to a semi niitary organization known as tn
White Loagu, of Louisiana. assembled in tn
town of Coushatta, parish OF Rod River. i,
this State. for the purpoa. OF compelling, b.
force Of arms. the State officers OF that parsl
t" resign their position He state. further
that il compliance with law. the Sheriff. f. S
Edoerton. summoned y po.s. .olait.'e, of .iti
IL. ,ll.n. and that they were c,.rp,wey.I viii
the after result.
TNitcLeil. who had been ia cnilfr.nc. will
Kellogg and Packard. in his letter OF ins.rlc.
ton. 70 the Sheriff Edserton. say: ''A5 soon Il,
some overt act has been committee! a United
States Marshal can BE sent III. tler., and he
will doubtless take United State. Troop, with
him.
Kellogg. is " JaIgacei liz. II i. based upon
hi, conference with Twitchcll. who had fled
the parish, as the wicked do. when no man
approacheti, supposn. the people .: Red
River parish had de anded their officers
resignation. II is i7ia,n t,c;. evidence that
Twitchell in his letter to Edgerton, taken in
connection with all the occurrences following
in quick succession, meant that ''some overt
act" must be committed, Their success in the
coming election demanded it, and their success
is paramount to the existence .: the whole
people of this State.
AT tie time this armed instruction was or.
ganized, on the 21th of August. peace and
quiet reigned supreme throughout the whole
parish OF Red River. No demand whatever
had been made Ton these officers designations:
to the contrary, they had, iev days previous
entered into IN agreement with the best cti-
zens If Collshatta to assist them the .itl-
zens- to keep The peace and protect the
parish from violence. The only assemblage
in the town of Coushatta that night was a
dancing party Of ladies and gentlemen which
had been announced weeks previously and
these officials and their wives were courteously
invited to attend. Not one aHen.1ea.
They had heretofore always attended such
parties, and were generally received IN society
and treated with the utmost politeness by the
people of Coushatta. Now it appears from
the most incontrovertible testimony, that
Twitchell had twenty or more armed negroe,
secreted under his house. while this d,ncing
party was progressing, and that lie kept
Iaty I, i
desperate negroes, to whom he had dis
tributed, that night, arms and ammunition, as
required, and that he finally told them that
1.-The party was too strong; they had better go
home" But these negroes had been wrought
to such state Of excitement by the false rep
reservations made by these bad men, that they
refused to go home until (as one Of them
testified, that his gun was named "Meat in
the Pot! they had shed the blood of Il white
man, to avenge their imaginary wrongs.
Fellow-citizens, be not deceived. This
WAS coid-blooded plot to make political
capital for the Northern market. i'll order to
grind you still lower, i'll order t. Airicanize
your State and convert it solely to tn, u5e and
behoof OF these adventures who have broken
Your banks and commission merchants. .lined
YOUR credit. impoverished Tia. whole State,
and now propose to drive YOU cxilts K. Texas.
calling themselves civilized people lost their
own lives, by an Infatuated people acting in
the first law of nature
The cause of the parish OF Red River is the
cause of the State OF Louisiana W. 7. kel.
ogc and NJ. III. Iwitchcll are the tw" parties
directly and immediately responsible for Ill
his horrible business. The sister OF VI. H.
Twitchell, upon hearing of the assassination
IF her husband, Mr. Holland exclaimed that
he cher brother) was the whole caIlse OF it.
1t is his Unsuitable ambition to .lespol the
parish Of Red River to his own misery pro
'livities "a parish constructed by thi, carpet
Gag Government for his (Twitchells) use. and
never has IA carrion crow reyeled over the
'arcass of dying animal with more hungry
ceiling to devour than has this tiend over the
parish Of Red River.
Against his plighted faith We were assessed
asst year by the Board of Assessors. his own
acting under his own instruc.
ions, eighthAied per ceHd. higher than .,,a SIS
e. lrtrish OF .:.dtcijtoeheS Hlj0i,ia; the
':ra,. and IA wealthier and more desirable
parish ia every respect.
He returned from his legislative exploits a
hort time since to organize his secret aelro
l,fs. to overawe and ride down the few white
planters in that parish and geturn an over.
Republican vote
But there Is limit to endurance. These
planters had no more representation of their
parish and State than their mules Yet they
'wned it, and they, only, valued her future
prosperity. They organized, and offered the
,ood negroes of the parish half the offices
f they would assist them to rid themselves,
md us, of that incubus which was swallowing
Up not only all the material prosperity of the
parish, and reducing white md Llack alike to
,esgarv, but was engendering a war Of races,
If which you have the first scene.
The people of Red River, though Infatuated
t what had happened to them, and also APP
,reciatng the object Of this instruction
nevertheless acted throughout in perfect good
lth with these men. Some Of the best men
Il the protecting guard came near loosing
heir own lives to see these men safe to Shrcye- I
,ort: they are not to be held responsible for
he act OF an unauthorized populAce, from all
he surrounding parishes and Texas. who
hose to do this violence. with clear con-
cience of having done their whole /.
uty in putting down m armed insur-
oction in State Government, Unable because
i It's own barbarity, and pusiil4uimau, insig- /
u either protect them 81 administer
Justice. W. demand the substantial support .
t the good people q the STATE and cAai-