The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-06-27
litical gamblers or the cockpit and
select . wretch tainted with some

| moral stencil, or select some poor %
norant negro, who perhaps can reat
and write, but who has no more ide'
of what constitutes honor and integ
rity or the welfare of a parish or tn
State, than blind man has Of colors
But We have digressed. In Marcel
1873, Capt. Ward is again commits
stoned by the Governor as q Militi.
Captain, and authorized to proceed
to Colfax and organize another mill
tary company. In this town on biz
way up, he asked one and .perhap.
two or three leaders Of the Republic
can party, if they were not going t.
turn out the officers and put in The
Kellogg officers by force, and wher
answered in tho negative, replied
that that was what he was going te
do in Grant. His company was or
ganized, and like his other company;
but unlike ali militia companies, went
into regular military camp, and into
active service. The Court House the
first OBJ ect of their attack, is broken
open and converted into a military
citadel, and its records appropriated
to military rolls, and other uses. The
Parish Judge, Sheriff, Clerk and Re-
corder are not only expelled from Of
flee but with white citizens prohibit
ed from coming within two or three
miles of Colfax. Judge Rutland's
house is rided; Judge <Richardson's
mother end sister are insulted, threat
ened and abused fox all the vile char
acters known to the conception of q
negro, and in this conceptions are not
inferior to the bilingsgate of the vii
est white man in the fish market.
Mrs. Lacour's house is broken open
and rlhed-universal terror spreads
for nsiles around, Qnd the white fam
lilies fee across the river and to the
pine hills for safety. Ten of Mr.. Cruik-
.hank's mules and his gun are taken
qYder military impressment and car
RED to the camp at Colfax. For be-
ing present ct the attack upon this
military camp which had plundered
his property and driven his family
and the families of bis neighbors in
terror from their homes, he is now
found guilty Of conspiriDg to disturb
o peaSeable assembly, and liable to
oil it's fearful penalties. But not
whisper of censure is uttered by the
government against Capt. Ward and
his associates, but the Governor has
just issued them vote Of thanks that
they have deserved well OF their coun.
try, and commissioned them 10 raise
another military company, and by
rape. robbery and plumber, TO spread
terror through the country, and Gull
inmate the whole in another Cokax
fight One would think that the
tras'c results of the Colfax fight; the
death of.30 or 40 negroes, and three
Or four ahite men; the rape and
blight OF a blooming girl, the desolate
homes, and the sorrow of families
who mourn fer those who are not
ought to be sufficient to crafty the
malevolcnce even of n Governor, who
represents thevenality and falsehood
and brutality of a negro government;
But if it be true, that he has again
and armed another negro
militia company in the parish of
Grant; it seems not. The first ex-
pertinent has succeeded so wel.Es. se-
cond must DO tried. If his object is
again to bring on collision between
The negro and the white man, in Or
Ter to furnish him with another text
rom which to preach carpet-bagism
md scalawagism in Louisiana, We can
assure him his success will be com
olete. We will never permit another
negro company. to be armed and drill
ID by Mr.. Kellogg or his government,
n Grant parish; unless it is dese un-
Ter the guard of U. s. soldiery.
Ii such a thing is attempted, we
Will meet it with open war, and an,
zeal to the people of the North, by the
Hood OF our ancestors, which was l
Mingled at Bunker's Hill, Saratoga,
yorktown, Cowpens and New Or 1
cans, for. protection against despo- t
otlsm more desolating than war and f
lore degrading than that of Poland !,
nd to the God OF battles for the ins- :
ice OF our cause. And if the issue f
forced upon us, we will not stop v
ntll every carpet-bagger aud seal Il
lwag who represents Mr.. Kellogg,
expelled from our midst. We
ave been plundered by just such a 6,
arpet-bag and scallawag govern a
tent as Mr.. Ke'logg's, until we n
ave nothing left BIT despair. All ri
scurity for life has been taken u
way or LETT to perish in the hands II
venality, imbecility and ignor- es
nee. Our fields have been made h
our homes have been made IL
10 homes ofpoverty, want, naked CT CT
ess, and famine almost stare us in te
ia faro. onI oil %h:c l,oo 49, :. n.