New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-12-29
pl1,1Af1ve POLITICAL MAssACsEs.

PAL.IAt1Ne POLITICAL xAssAcsEs'
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morning h.:. stma-ksi.e so' zeal 'hss
dissection. .hce.so:s to <ieas The Oene.
cts.ic ra-ty ct tbs South Of The 'espoas''
;,,xy 81 IL. -ario1S political massscre'
which ta~e s:a.r.d o., history darirg TIE
pas..iehs ,eass.,-:: can not be done, .na
iv.a!a BE- r:s.s ioy al friend. Of that
pa,;v. .nd 10 :hoes bidding fos IFS fa':on'
nee. 70 leave ,ts sad ana GsTaceftl 'n''
j.c, rn.cacsea 10 amount q soph:.:;!.
70 sois..sse4rens .: facts. 10 placing .
.s.ra in . 4.iss iigh.. can selie'' tie
cs,n~ea.e : ATTY ters and in cthes pot
! ,;oIs IS tie eo.;h. where sadica1 blood
icing iaA t.ea escorted to Is remedy
, &c. p..i:ica'. lis. f,e:s 'is ses9ons:S.':'s
I, ef suoh t:ood.te:.
IL, ..sus 1is.o.ys Q! The a.assac:s &:
+! lsee, il which more than three hundred
men we're Slaughtered. is net at d. like
tie ~ pare che given ~ such by tie
! 7;,.. II. facts Of this tu.chery may
b. learned % need be. ty reference 70
tie c.Ggrssaol seross Of thas tloooy
! transaction, published in che following
! vea.. III. Nc, our purpose 70 secapit''a:e
the circumstances connected with =.
Suffice :: 90 .epea. one CT Two ela'sss
from the report alluded 70; report nade
BY compe.en: authority aftes . full and
tais examination. during which nearly sHO
hundred witnesses were examined. , fa:s
propoytion Ct whom were selected by
,tose mos. solicitous 70 cieas sbe Gis
fame O: New Oslean. from she foul t.s4
O: this massacre. and VIVA: Is tie ianSsaIs
O: this report:
Tier, Hgs te.e 10 ccecs'os Siutn9 o .
aQ.aonai .isiory aciaes! q slot has 0rcasr.S ."
deshtuts Of Jmsi.fCblc cause. rssMn'"S IN q
massacre So i,,h1mGn and !fendlihs KS !Aas
,riich too: p.G.e II. We" ORIGINS - ~
airtieh. ct Jp.ly last.
Again:
The massacre was begun ana ani.hst IL
midday, and euch proofs Of preparation
were disclosed that We are constrained %
say that an intention 70 dispeIse and 70
slaughter the members OF tho convection
and ,bcfe Ie.sone, white and black. via
were presen. and were friendly to It's our
poses. was mercilessly carried intotull effect.
That tie persons forming that in:en'
ton and. with the aid Of Others. 90 fne-ci.
lessly carrying it out, were memoefs Of
the great organization which, under diff
ferent rames and with different slogans.
has always been moved by one purpose.
that namely OF deadly hostility to Repub-
ican rule and Republican principles: that
in other words they were Democrats and
nothing else, no rational mind can deub.
10 candid person deny. Equally certain
is j, tina. the responsibility o: the Grant
parish massacre. wherein over hundred
negroes we're brutality and treachetoas!y
murdered, rests on tie same party. Ihs
fendish ASSASSINATION Q. The six white men
a, Coushat.a, after their surrender, IS like
wise to b; set down to the account Q: the
Democratic party. That the Ticksharg
massacre. in which nearly three hundred
lives were rutl.essly taken. was The work
Of the same spirit. j. is absurd to deny.
And yet tie Times seeks TO psl!iate :hese
atrocities by at:ributing them TO patriot
ism: speaks OF ''maddened white mer.
forced to rise in defense Ct their eUa
rights
With all :hese acts G! violence, with
this bloody record OF homicide staring
them in the face, with the groans o: the
wounded ard dying, and the cries Of their
widows and orphans ringing in tha;r ears.
when have tie Republicans Of the South.
white or black been concerned in deeds o:
violence VIVA. bloody uprising. VIVA:
murderors attack. what :reacherons an
tuscade. what private act Of sanguirary
vengeance. san even the malignity Ct
party hatred lay 70 their account: No:
one. In Zach and all Of the tragic and
Lenicidai scenes which have disgraced
our section since the close OF the war.
they have teen the victims; and as Cor
iustitying their slayers on the ground OF
their icing '.torced to rise in defense g:
.hei- rights We echo the language Ct %:
contemporary and say: Let IS hsa. 10
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