New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-10-23
"Federal BlOO(iIOunds.s -

The above title is given an article de-
nouncing the arrest of persons charged
with the worst OF crimes in our country
parishes. ! have looked in vain in the
columns of the paper representing the sold
est and best tor severe denunciatiOns of
the massacre of six citizen of Coushatla
last August. No strong editorial demand.
ing the arrest and punishment Of the per-
petrators of that bloody deed. but sympa-
thy Is craved daily for the families of these
who died while fighting the State authori
ties on the fourteenth of Sep tember. Not
an utterance of commiseration for the DESC
late widows and orphans of the Coushatta
victims, and now when tardy justice is
about to Overtake the cOwardiy assassins
who shot those men in cold blood. when, as
the Picayune says, ''there was no political
excitement" mot even that paltry excuse
to palliate the crime), the officers making
the arrests are termed federal blood
hounds! A holy horror is manifested
that those highly respectable gentlemen
should be in the hands Of the law, with
some faint hope that the punishment due
their crimes may yet overtake them! This
is intimidation, and demands ''mass meet.
ing" in the words of another White League
journal circulated in our city, and all law
abiding, peaceful citizens understand what
mass meetings of White Leagues portend.
The Picayune appeals to citizens of other
States against this "high-handed outrage"
viz: The arrest of men who, not content
with murder, have since ridden b0astingly
over the parish, wearing the watches and
revolvers of their victims. Fair, degraded
Louisiana, when such deeds are counte-
Danced and not denounced by paper of
the old and once fair fame of the Picayune.'
Does not the Picayune know, if not
let me, daughter OF Louisiana,
whose only ties are here. to whose
heart every foot of her soil, every spray of
gray moss in her native State is dear, beg
leave to tender the Information that the
blood of those victims of the enemies of
Republicanism in Louisiana cries out with
an everlasting appeal Tor vengeance; that
the law-abiding people Of the North shrink
with horror to know our State. once 80
deeds and not be held up to universal exc
Grafton by all who would claim to be human
and not akin to the savages who ravage the
Western frontier. And as if not sufficient
70 denOunce the arrest Of men who have
taken the lives of their beings for no
crime, save that Elost heinous one now in
our milst-daring to be an outspoken Re-
publican. That fearless, honorable gentle
man, Attorney General Williams, is re.
ferred to in the vilest terms.
Thanks to a just God mot of 1.-TWO days.
as a White League expounder of new
style of Christianity has it), the tears of
those widows and orphans, whose only pro-
tectors were torn from them by assassins
are heard in the North, and the strong arm
Of the Uuited States government is reached
forth to punish the murderOus horde, who
would to-day mete out like fate to every
Republican in oar State we're it in their
power. The appeal went forth in trumpet
tones to nation when this.
1.-The most arch deed Of piteous massacre
That ever yet this land was guilty Of
flashed over the wires.
Sisters of the North, let the thought of
the hundreds of desolate widows whose
husbands have fallen martyrs to
their devotion to their political faith
speak for us. You can lay your heads
on your pillows and sleep, feeling that
your husband, sons and brothers are
safe, even though they be Republicans. We
can not; for in every sound is dreaded The
step of the assassin. Let your voices in
sympathy urge your voters to
give US laws in the national Congress that
will embrace and punish all such crimes,
and thus help to make good the words of
our great and noble President, that Lou.
isiana. disgraced, fallen, as she is now, from
her once high estate through the deeds of
her oldest and best" citizens, ''shall yet |
be safe in any portion of it for man from
any State"
Nor cus.o on. vast numbers example.
OF such offend make less sin.
For each particular crime strict account
VIII be eXacted.''
A SOUTHERN WOMAN. |