The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-11-27
The Organ of Assassination.

From the New Orleans Times, November 2Oth.1
The Shreveport Times is rapidly TAX
ing position as the organ of assassination
and i'll doing so it does great injustice
and serious injury to the real cOnServa-
tive people of this State. 1t claims to
he anxious to have The rue verdict of
our people at the late election fairly and
faithfully recorded hut the anxiety of
its blood and thunder scribe in this
matter Is no greater than that OF any
conservative citizen.
In view Of all the facts as they exist,
and especially the changed tone Of pO-
lltical sentiment throughout this cOun-
try, there is no good reason for suspect
ing that any attempt will be made by
the Returning Board to ignore or falsify
the popular verdict rendered at our late
election. The gentlemen composing the
board may be partiSanS, butthey are not
fools. They know that an eye of jeal-
GUS scrutiny is turned upon them in this
State, and indeed from every State OF
the Union, and there is nO likelihood
that, under the circumstances, they will
attempt to Justify the worst suspicious
of their enemies.
Yet the Shreveport Times looks upon
The room in which the board sits a. a
Nazareth, out of which nothing but
fraud, can come It has no appeals to
make to the people of New Orleans, but
1t thus gives counsel to its country
friends:
In every parish where the officers elected by
the people may be counted out by the Return
ing Board, the people should use hemp or fall
on the defeated candidates counted in. To To-
ralize the proposition: TfGeo.,L l. SInil h Is cOun-
ted III overW NJ. Levy, orif Twitchell is counted
in over E1am inf Smith aud ruifuhnlI hn killed
II johnson and Tyler, in DeSOtO, are counted in
over Scales andSchulcr, as the New Orleans, Re
publican thinks, Orif Keeting, Levisee and John
sou III Caddo are counted Ill over Vaughan, Koran
and Land, then letJOhnsOn, Tyler, Keeting, Levi
seeand Johnson be killed and sOletevery officer,
rom congressman down to constable, III every
district and parish of the State, be served whom
The people have defeated and whOmtho Return
ing Board may count ill.,"
This is the advice given by a paper
which claims tn represent the intelli-
gence and manhood of Louisiana.
Smooth down the proposition ns you
may, 1t still presents assassination as the
proper remedy for political wrongs.
When We complain that citizens Of Lou
lslana have been %wantOuly hunted down
and hand-c1fftd by army officers and
Federal officials. will the people of the
North not point to such articles as the
above as a Justification for these ex-
treme measures? A civilization which
calls upon assassins to serve az guar,
dams of the ballot box, and suggests
hemp AS an agent OF reform must be in.
dee d peculiar.
That the Shreveport Times is con-
'iucted with some ability we admit, but
1t times that ability assumesa demOniac
type which delights in destroying the
reputation of friends as we'll rs enemies.
1t doubts that it may damn ; suggests
frauds that killing may be encouraged.
One such paper does o permanent
injury to Louisiana than Il whole army
It carpet-haggers it 50 vigorously de-
1OuuCeS.
From the New Orleans Times, November 21st.
We yesterday gave an extract from
he fierce Shrevel ort Times, which de-
hands the blood of such political Oppu-
rents as the Returning Board may de-
'lare elected. To-day we give the views
Vt two leading Democratic papers, the
Boston Post and Mobile Register, as to
rlle position and duty of the South, in
view of the late elections. The former
declares that the late Democratic vic
ton .es in the North give no encourage
ment to the spirit of rebellion in the
South, aud adds:
The Democracy neither intend to disturb the
new amendments to the Constitution nor to pay
the rebel GlebtfrOIn the Federal Treasury. They
would be tmpOtent to do it If such was their de-
sire. so shallow a SANDER has served its last
turn In the strife of parties. Democratic policy
will insist on equal and exact justice to all,
white and black, rich and Door, North and South.
It will not permit the plundering OF States nor
the robbery Of any Gifts citizens. It seeks to
establish peace in the South everywhere, and
would not lnisChieVOusly magnify local crimes
md occasional Outrages into the dimensions OF
I state of general war. It would lead back the
southern States to their rightfui places in the
Union, leaving to them the punishment OF crime
and the enforcement Of the amendments, and
holding them to 1t aa rigldly as the other sec
tions are held to their own equal obligations.
The Register, edited by the Hon. Join
Forsyth, who holds the position of an
oracle in the ranks of the Southern De-
mOcracy, says, in commenting on the
utterances Of the Chicago Tribune:
Let the Southern States especially approach
the grave duties which have devOlVed upon
them with prudence and liberality! The vie
tories of November Sd mean, IL they mean any
thing. hard money, home rule. and free trade
1t will be a sad day for the South, Ii this section
mistake Northern sympathy at her oppressed
for remorse at the abolition of slavery,
pity at the conquest of the COnfederaey, or re-
gret at the acknowledgements the col0red races.
No doubt the manner in which Federal and
State laws have been executed at the South was
greatly instrumental in breaking dow the Re-
publican party, but we must not fall into the
error of surprising that the sweeping revolution
is Intended as a rebuke of the reconstruction
acts or Of the laws enacted fer their enforcement.