The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-04
THE IRREPRESSIBLE
CONFLICT.
Heavy Shipments of Arms
to Negroes in the Country.
The White People Anxious
but Aroused.

The following letter, FROM one of our most
valued subscribers and friends, has Just been
received, and discloses really deplorable
State Of affairs in the parishes
1t would seem, beyond the shadow Of a
doubt, that the negroes have determined upon
war of races, and the shipment of arms in
large numbers from the city to the parishes
is an omen which BODIES no good for the
future.
With our correspondent, We ask Mr.. Kel-
logg and his sable Lieutenant what this means
and warn them that should it mean mischief
themselves shall be the ones who will be held
mainly accountable.
That Kellogg should have appointed the
black rascal and perjurer Ward Captain of
Militia in the very section where he has be-
come SO violently inimical to every white resi-
dent is in itself straw which proves the ,,sur-
per's animus and intentions
The facts disclosed in the subjoined letter
should warn our people Of the necessity for
instant organization. 1t will not do to arm
merely; we must also organize thoroughly in
order to be prepared for any emergency No
one can tell how soon UGH an emergency NAV
arise, and hence we should be prepared nor
PARISH OF NATcHIrocHEs,
July l, 1874
Editor n O. Bulletin:
What does the usurper Kellogg, or his noble
Ethiopian Majesty, Antaine, mean by flood
ing the Red River country with arms sent to
the negroes? Since the shipment to Grant
parish of the guns already mentioned by the
BULLETIN, large cargo was landed, short
time ago. at Loggy Bayou, and within the
last few days about five hundred guns have
been received by the negroes near Twenty
Four-Mile Ferry, on Cane River in this par
ish. What does it mean? If the indiscrimi-
nate murder of our people is intended. as is
intimated up here by the negroes the white
people are DESTROYS Of knowing the fact Can
you enlighten us upon this most serious mat
ter?
We believe Kellogg means murder and
nothing else, and We can tell him and his
minions, that we have our eyes upon his guns
and when the first oneis loaded and discharged
it will sound the death knell of his accused
reign in Louisiana. We make no threats, but
tell him and his negro allies that we are ready
to defend the lives of our wives, children and
property, whenever he inaugurates his war of
races. Ii he does not intend to commit some
act of violence against the white people, why
did he send arms to Grant parish, and appoint
that noted william and perjurer Ward, Captain
Of the militia =? Ward, it will be remembered,
was the Ajax lehman of the Grant parish at !
fair, and in order to keep up the strife. he |
sends him back to his tragic theatre to enact
another scene of blood.
But we doubt very much whether this blood !,
thirsty negro Ward will show himself on Red |
River again, and if he does, We doubt exceed
ingly whether his race will suffer him again to |
muster them into service, for fear that he may |
get them into trouble, and transport his pre-
ciovs body, as on a former occasion, beyond
the limits Of danger. Kellogg and Anroine |
know well that this negro Ward is especially
inimical to the white people Of this section Of
the State, and if they desire peace and tran
guilty. why send him back here. Their OBJ
ject is evidently to stir up strife, and keep it
alive for the basest of motives, and when they
thus invite the white people to carnival of
qlood let US breathe fervent ejaculation to
Heaven that they may be the first at the feast |
There is an uneasy feeling prevailing all over
this country. The negroes are holding night |
meetings. headed by few men calling them
selves white, with closed doors, requiring every
one who enters to take a solemn oath that they
will not repeat one word they hear uttered |
within the black Enclosure.
If there is not villainy in this if they are
honest if they mean well. why do they meet
at midnight and with such stringent require
ments for admittance. Some few negroes have
refused to enter, and have been threatened
assassination for their refusal. Well. all We
can say is, let them rush on in their madness,
the end must and acM come and the miserable
dupes will find, when it is too late that their
leaders were villains. Let the conflict come,
the white man is not, nor has been nor will he
be the aggressor; but, at the same time. he is
ready with his lite to defend those rights guar
anteed to him by the laws Of commnn coun-
try. Let the conflict Kellogg and An
tome will know which of the races will triumph