The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1875-01-23
TIE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

ference Of the military il Lonisia
M affairs, us. GIANT, the wolld- he
Dictator, responds ina message OF
nearly ionr columns of solid mat
ter and he gives them n rc|,ash Of
all The ISLANDERS and base falschoods
that have been ground out Of the
Southern Outrage Mill for tho last
tour years. AS " State paper it IS
exceedingly weak and as an argn-
mcnt it is only q fair sample Of what
lawyers call special pleading. liz
argues the case from the Radical
stand point aud makes the most he
can ont OF it for the radicals, with
out so much ~ intimatimg that
there is amy excuse or arguments
on the other SIDE. He says that
the Colfax affair was n horrible
hatchery on tho part OF The whites,
but he snrprtasrs any lnllmntloh
Of the fact that tho negroes had
gathered there two or three lnu-
drcd strol &, with arms in their
hands, with murder in their hearts
and with threats of tho rape Of
white women and the cXtcrmiua
ton Of white children upon their
lips.
lie says in just SO many words
that the killing OF the six white
radicals at Cousl,atta, which we
have never justified, was wholly
without excuse or prOvOcatlOn,
while it was actually the ease that
the negroes had gathered there III
numbers threatening to burn, kill
and rob and that they had actually
fired upon the white citizens, be,
sides having announced their pur-
pose Of attacking a house where the
young people OF the town and
Dci .hborhood were having a party,
with the expressed intent Of muir.
dc1ing the men and rap'ng the wo-
men. lie holds mp his hands in
holy horror at the murders that
have been committed in Louisiana
and gone unpublished, without even
SO much as suggesting what is ac-
tually the fact, that nine ont OF ten
hOmicidcs which have been com
mittcd in this State for the last six
years have been in eases where one
negro has Killed another for some
trii|ing oti'ensc; and without inform
ing the honorable Senate that rad.
ical Judges have set upon our
benches, radical District Attorneys
prosecuted, negro Grand Jurics had
the iulictmcnt and negro petit Ju-
rics HE trial of all these cases of
hOmicincs. 4 he document $
strongly marked as an intensely
partisan, unfair and untrutl,luI
statement OF tie condition of affairs
in Louisiana, and bears upon its
face the Impress OF the hand OF that
intcnsel y radical and utterly IN.
scrupu|ous enemy NJ, the South
Laundeict Williams
AS to the rcvolul,an Of the 18th
OF September, he attributes it en-
trely to tho Fact that he had with
drawn the troops and that Lieut.
Governor Penn cmbolNcncu there
by sought ~ overthrow the Kcl-
losg usvurpation for his own bcnc-
ut. He had not the manlintss to
say that Kellogg through his police
bad already made frequent seizures
OF private arms, while the Constltu-
ton of tho United States guaran-
tees to every one the free rights to
bear arms, and that the conflict was
brought on Ly the attempt of tho
police to seize and the citizens to
protect another lot Oh arms then on
board Of a steamship.
With all his maIignity he has not
courage to assume the responsible
ty for the acts Of his agents who act
ed under instructions from him and
he shifts the odious burden from his
shoulders on to theirs. He says it
was not right for the soldiers to in
tcricrc in the organization of our
Legislature and that he never gave
any such orders or authority to