The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-03
FACTS FOR THE CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEE.

Besides proving that the present admins
tratlon OF government of this State has bee,
obtained by fraud, and sustained hitherto
against the people by exterior and inimica
force, 1t should be shown that as a fact tina
our base tyrants are not supported by the
moral force of the people, while the physical
force OF conflict would be overwhelmingly
against them.
In this condition of things, the vile horde
from the prison slums and proletarian classes
| OF the great abroad, who practice chartered
vlllaIny here, have established a system of
! unprecedented, absurd and wicked laws, to
defend their robberies of power and wealth,
which should be carefully proved as facts, in
much the same way that Capt. Fenner testi-
fed to certain laws before the previous sub
committee.
l. Laws pretendedly for the public good.
and to develop resources, ETC., but so framed
as to promote venality and private gain; and
to make what leading Radicals called the
New Louisiana" negro paradise
2. Laws to defend themselves and their
tyranny against the people, such as the con-
stabulary, the police, the riot, and other laws.
3. Laws to prevent the people from regain
ing power through the ballot-box, such as the
election law, the registration law, the Return
ing Board law, etc.
4. Laws to prevent judicial investigation
and remedy, and deprivlng the people of the
defence OF their own courts, in fragrant viola
ton of the fundamental institute of republi-
can freedom person shall be deprived
OF life, liberty, Or property, without due pro-
cess of law" Let all those laws be exhibited
And pardons tor contempt should be pre-
scented to the curiosity seekers now in session
here. And the habitual defeat of punitive
justice by the so-called Governor should be
specially exposed. The worst of criminals
are Radical voters, or can be made so by a
pardon. All our people should send their
contributions, such as the following, from st.
Landry:
A man named Prudhomme waylaid and
killed Mcdaniel, as he was going home from a
ball, for some indignity, was convicted of
murder, and was soon after pardoned, without
any new evidence or supervening doubt of
his guilt.
Another case was that of Earnest Feray, |
who got quiet, inoffensive man named Jesse |
Hutchins drunk, went out of Opelousas with
him, beat his brains out with club, took his |
money, was convicted, confessed the crime as |
above, was soon pardored from the Peniten-
larry, and became deputy tax-collector IN one
of the southwest parishes.
Many other cases just as bad can be shown.
Now IS the appointed time, and while the
is here, let every one be quick to
urn the hate of our foes to our good.
Let us, for instance, aid poor Sheridan in
lis endeavor, by falshehood and fraud, to have
dragooned and her people MUIR
Tered. Put before the committee the crimi-
lal statistics of the Parish Prison and Pen-
entiary, and let all parishes as have such
acts as those of Plaquemines parish. where
ii, of about twenty murders recently COM
nitted, have been of negroes by negroes. l
emember many similar ones in other parts
f the State, some of them most brutal One,
or example, on the next place to mine few
ears ago, negro sitting by the side of his
rife, without quarrel, pushed her head back,
ut her throat fatally and fled has been seen
4 New Orleans several times since, but has
ever been punished. In st. Martin or St.
larry think, an old negro, respected by all,
rivately demonstrated with young negro
'r stealing his old masters hog. The latter
eemed surprised but not angered, but at
nee took down his gun and shot the old man
cad B. J. S.