The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-09-16
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nine-tenths Of these products are
made on the lands, and with the cap
ital, and under the supervision Of the
white people. And yet, with all this
property and capital at stake, and
possessing the usual caution and Gu
pidity of enlightened people, we find
the white people of this whole State
in antagonism to the prevailing gov
eminent, hostile to its Official ennis
saries, and prepared to endure any
act that will enancipate them from
it's authority. The condition of the
State bears internal evidence that
there is a great wrong here which
must be redressed, and which. if the
people are not permitted to redress
through the ballot-box,' they will re-
dress through revolution.
Aud now, looking at the killing Of
the creatures who were caught in
Red River parish, engaged there in
organizing a war Of the blacks against
the whites, from this standpoint, we
believe that justice has been done;
not that justice which is dispensed in
the court rooms of the usurpation, by
carpet bag and scallawag judges and
negro juries; not that justice which
these six years has defiled the bench
and polluted the sanctuaries of the
law; not that justice which estimates
the legality ola cause by the brides
that are offered or decides the consti-
nationality of an act at the dictation
of partisan chiefs; but that supreme
and terrible justice, whose seat is in
the human heart, and which, in emer,
gencies like this, inspires all human
action. Courts have before become
corrupt, governments have before
been transformed into despotisms,
but this justice has preserved it's pu-
rity in all time and ultimately
wrought the downfall Of tyranny and
corruption. It is justice that has
naught of policy in it's compost
ton, and when Redeemed into wrath,
strikes with the directness, the terri.
bleness and the effectiveness of the
lightning pointed by the finger Of
God. 1t may have been, in the Ian.
guage of some Of our friends, chad
policy" to kill the men who were en-:
gagged in organizing ruin and death
in Red River parish, but we diffe,
with them. Strict justice, like truth
is, in times like these, the best policy
If the world condemns the deed. lei
those who fear the judgment Of the
world tell US what the world has
done to right our wrongs; let them
tell US what humane and gentle. pro.
gramme the world has proposed
which will give us relief from the
damnable despotism that is crushing
us in the dust? The sooner the
world finds out that the white people
Of this State have been driven tc
desperation, and are determined itc
protect themselves to the last ex
tremity and by The most desperate
means, the better. The ring-leader:
Of the war in Red River are dead
As for our part, while we do not ex
ult over their death, we have no tears
with which to bedew their graves
and no censures to bestow upon thu
men whose homes, whose lives, whose
wives and children were threatened
and who struck a fierce blow upo1
the aggressors. The eagles hav'
struck down their foe and sweep
away. Now let the buzzards Of rad
icalism squat upon the carcasses, ant
scream, and chatter and futter; theil
noise strikes terror to not singh,
heart in Louisiana,-[shrevepor
Times.