New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-02
ernor with the same. feelings of justice
tempered BY lucre. He said: =.

srnor with the same. feelings of justice
tsmpssed by lucre. He said: -
| think Lean bring the murderers of
Ie0rge Hsadrick, near Lnaansport, in De
Soto parish, to justice if I can get assist
ance 1t you will offer q reward of five
Thousand dollars apiece for them l will
make the attempt
Murderers in these parishes know what
is going on as well rs other people. They
take the papers, converse with the citi-
zens, and keep we'll informed. Rewards
for the arrest Of criminals are published,
and when one sees 5000 reward offered
for his head he unwillingly leaves his
home and family and the blessings of
society, and goes to Texas.
The Catahoula Ne,os, q Democratic
paper, happily SO, being the official organ
of the parish under the ''infamous print
ing law" takes exceptions to Governor
Kellogg letter to the sheriff, and while it
admits that the police jury did instruct
the sheriff to apply for rewards, it says
'the police jury did not request the Gov
ernor to write letter of advice to our
sheriff What was wanted, if we under
derstand the case, was money, and not ad-
vice; and when the Governor suggested
that the sheriff summon a posse of re-
spectacle citizens and make lawful arrests,
he got beautifully snubbed in Catahoula.
Other parishes manage differently New
Iberia has vigilance committee. There
they arrest men for using disrespectful
language, and recently man was shot
for not surrendering promptly. The vic
tim jumped into the river with bullet
in his shoulder. He sank, and the local
paper said he died of ''cramps" in at
tempting to swim. In justice to the vigil.
lance committee of New Iberia, it should
be repeated here that the man shot and
run into the river was colored man. In
fact, the vigilance committees are for the
purpose of prosecuting colored men.
In contrast with the action of the off,
GERS needing the advice of the Governor is
that of Sheriff G. G. Duson, of st. Landry
parish. In February last Louis Rousseau
murdered Cyriaque Brignac. Sheriff Du-
son Immediately commenced search for
his man, spending his own money to
carry out his plans for detection of the
CRIMINAL, and on the eleventh of August
the criminal was arrested at Chateau sta
ton in. the Indian Territory and brought
back to the parish where the crime was
No reward had ever been
offered for Rousseau, and the parish had
no public. funds that could be used in
making the arrest, yet sheriff Duson
worked carefully six months to find the
trail, obtained reqnis,tion, and travelled
over twelve hundred miles to capture a
man who had criminally shed blood in the
parish Of st. Landry. The police jury
might have stipulated for a reward, but
The sheriff goes out and catches the man.
When it becomes known that persons
who commit ontrages upon blacks or
whites in Northern Louisiana will be
surely arrested by officers of the law, and
iealt with according to law, that section
If country will become peaceful and pros
porous, and not till then. Vigilance COM
nittees organized to hunt down colored
men do more harm than good. Crimes
ire committed by hot-headed men to
punish misdemeanors The colored labor
ng man, from his occupation and humble |
is least able to protect
himself, and for that. reason be
should receive the best protection |
If others from outrage. The arrest of
criminals in country parishes is some
hing in which all citizens should be
leeply interested, and they should be
Wiling to assist the sheriffs upon all oc-
,asions. When criminal is found in the
parish it would be infinitely more to the
heriff's and peoples credit to arrest the
'utlaw than to pursue the plan of asking
low much the Governor will pay to have
criminal put in Jail, to say nothing of
be combinations of bad men who are
eady to resist sheriffs and shield criminals.