The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-10-31
INTIMIDATION.
IFrom tho Shreveport Times. |

The arrest of thirteen prominent
citizens of Coushatta by fellow
named Stockton, holding a commits
sion as Deputy U. s. Marshal, and
supported in his infamous work by
a body Of Federal troops, was as
vile piece of business as men
wearing the uniform Of a great ma
ton were ever guilty of performing.
Of the thirteen men arrested, and
whose names we gave yesterday
morning, not one of them had any
thing to do with the killing of the
six Red River 'carpet-baggers, or
with any conspiracy looking to
their deaths. Their arrest was as
arbitrary and lawless a proceeding
as could be carried out under the
Turkish sdespotism. On being ar,
rested they asked the fellow Stock
ton to show the warrants for their
arrests and he declined to do so,
saying they should see them in due
time and the gentlemen arrested
are at this moment confined under
a guard of United States troops
kept from their business, deprived
of their liberties, and separated
from their families without knowl-
edge of tho authority by which they
are thus treated and without a
knowledge of the crime of which
they ale accused. Is this republi-
canism =? is it justice? is it common
humanityi Can it be possible that
the Administration is a party to
this scandalous proceeding?
Perhaps it is indeed we have no
doubt that it is. President Grant
violated every principle Of honesty,
of law and common decency in set
ting up the Kellogg usurpation; and
he, through his dirty henchmen, is
determined to justify that action by
using such brutal means as will in
tmidate the white people prevent
them from voting or working in this
election, and thus leave tho negroes
to carry the State to yinNicatc his
Judgment, that Louisiana was and
is radical pr negro in politics.
Marshal Packard seems to have
been peculiarly happy in selecting
his instruments for this work, and
few men could have so shamelessly.
so brutally trampled upon law and
Justice as the miserable creature
Stockton seems to have done in the
arrest Of the Coushatta people.
F'U. S. Deputy Marshals, or
Marshajs, and Federal troops may
arrest citizens, as they have done
in this instance, without producing
their authority to do SO, then there
us an endto civil liberty; nay there
is an end of law, and men must re-
SOFT to their own strong arms to
protect themselves and their famil-
les from outrage. No one here will
resist arrests made under due pro
cess OF law but what right has L..
S. Deputy Marshal Stockton Or any
officer of the Federal army toarrest
citizens of this or any other State
without producing warrants for
such arrests b? None, whatever,
and the proceedings at Coushatta
was an unmitig ated outrage dis
grace to the army and a disgrace to
the Federal government. Indeed
the whole proceeding was simply a
measure of intimidation, in the in
terest of radicalism in the interest
ofpolitical robbery, aud designed to
vindicate the infamous action of
President Grant in setting up the
Kellogg usurpation.
Any persons in Red River, or
DeSoto, or Natchitochcs, or Caddo,
or Webster, or Bossier, or Bienville
parishes, implicated in tho killing
Of the Red river carpet, bag gers,
could have been arrested by the
civil authorities Of the State and
could have been tried by the courts
of the State. Why then have in
fan.ry and cavalry been sent here {?
Why have United States Marsh ,ls