New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-19
PROCLAMATION
Bv THE ACTING GOVERNOR,
tAWlESSNESS IN EAST FElICIANA PARISH,

SrArR OF LOUISIANA,
Executive Department,
New Orleans, October Is, 1875.
| WHEREAS, Official information has been received
by the Executive Department that in the parish
of Bast Felicians, in this State certain evil dis.
posed persons acting in concert with residents
of the adj dining State of Mississippi, have banded
together for unlawful and dsorderly purposes,
and brought about in the parish of Bast Feiiciana,
and in the district Immediately adjacent therero,
. condition of anarchy and mob violence which is
dangerous to the peace and prosperity Of that
section of the State. and which has eliminated,
among other results. in the following;
l. In the violent expulsion frem the parish of
Bsst Feliciana Of . large number of the parish
officials, admitted to have been legally elected and
qualified.
2. In the compulsory adjournment of the Fifth
Judicial District Court in said parish and the
shooting of the sheriff while in the discharge of
his.oficial duties in connection with said court.
3. In the patolling of the parish by bands of
armed and masked men on pyramids of violence
and bloodsheA.
4 In the murder by masked assassirs of John
Gair, one Of the leading coored citizens Of said
parish, while under the nominal protection Of
sheriff's posse, and while on his way to answer
criminal OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES him.
S. In the hanging BY . lswless mob Of . woman,
q near relative Of said Gair, accused of an at
tempted crime, and who ct the time of her unlaw.
full execution was lodged in the parish prison,
awaiting trial for the ofense alleged against her.
g. In the incendiary burning Of country stores
and cotton gins in this and adjacent parishes; and
Whereas All these disordery and lswless acts
are productive of great injury to the State and
are subversive of al the conditions Of pesoe and
prosperity; .s.l
Now, therefore. l. Q. 9. Antoine, Lieuten.
ant Governor and Acting Governor of the
State of Louisiana, do issue this my procla.
nation. commanding all illegal and disor.
DERBY bodies of men in said parish Of East
Felicians to disperse and retire to their homes;
and call upon all good citizens to cooperate with
the civil authorities in arresting and bringing to
justice all such violent and disorderly persons to
the end that public peace and obedience to the
laws may be speedily restored.
Given under my hand and the seal of the State,
hereunto attached this fifteenth day of October
in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and sew
enty-fve, and Of the Independence of the United
States the one hundredtb.
&C ANTOINE,
Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the
State of Louisiana 9 .I..- do.
By the Acting Governor: .l i
P. q. DRSAONDR,
x Secretary of State. ocls
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