The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-06-09
LOU Is l A N A.
ARE REPUBLICANS SAFE :
WHO ARE TILE MUQDERERSs
New ORLEANS, April %, 1875.

AVE" ORLEANS, Aprit 20, ao1o.
n friend writes me from the Nortl
this ques stiop, "Are white aud blacl
Uuiou men safe in life, liberty an,
property in Louisiana 7 Th,t ia tn,
question which wo Of the North wan
to have honestly and seriously an
swercd."
l answer First, the popul .tior
of Louisiana is divided POLITICAL,
into republicans, called here radicals
and democrats, called here o, ,.nserva.
tiyes. They arc al Union men. Il
IL absurd aud wicked to keep up the
old war animosity by giving to the
Southern republicans the special
title ''Union men," The epublicar
party in Louisiana Con I'd ins a great
many men who were bitter socess ion.
lists, now only during, but after the
war. Sne of the most 'couspic uous
republicans, who oamc before the
Cong essional Committee With com
plants, and who was proved there
and then by do'u meutary evidence to
be rogue. Judge Myers, If Natohi
.tochcs, was Breckenridge democrat
before the war, Another, Gfeeu
who admitted that hc and his SOUS
held pretty much all the Offices in
Linooln parish, made a speech la the
deg gislatuFe after the war advocating
payment 6er slaves. l could mon
tion dozens of suoh .cases. On the
other hand, iu my limited acquaint-
auce in tho State, know at least
fifteen Northern men, who were
strenuous republicans in the North,
most Of whom still openly act with
she National republican party iu fed
.eral' elections, but who vote and use
all their influence for the dom ocratic
or conservative party in State and
saarish affairs. There are hund reds
Of suoh men in the State. Even the
republicans themselves are uot 80
;ab' urd @s 20 'arrogate to themselves
the title of "Union men," They
would bo laughed ut.
THE npHTHsaN MEN AND NEGROES
What my correspondent, and nc
doubt ma3y other Northern men
want to know il whether :Northerr
mon and negroes are safe and can 90,
ssncArity and Justice in Louisiana. =.
AID to this reply, unhesitatingly
"Yes." 1t is perfectly truo, as j
said ina.previous letter, that between
1865 and 1858 there was a good deal
of savage I'd brutal wrong inflicted
'on tho blacks and in the same
period, and probably for year o,
two later. Northern men who came
here 'to.take possession Of the State
politically, and who at once began u
'prodigious System Of public pluuder,
were not always safe from the anger
and resentment Of the native whites
but several Of tho most prominent
.replblicaas Of the city have told me
positively that the State 'was pea cea
bio aud quiet from 1868 to Aa72
and that .since then the whites hud
been dissatieGe mainly because tho,
'bclieved sincerely that Kellogg was
not fairly electea Governor aud tha,
'his rule was that oc q usurper. II
General Sheridan ever turns in hi
famous list Of 2,50o MURDERS, and if
= ire pats dates to item, it will be foun,
that the ,puliticAl murders hap
;pened before Aa6S, with the excep
ton of the Coushatta ahd Oolfax af
fairs. Myers, the corrupt Judge VII,
"claius to have been driven out o
Natchi,oches pari-h, assured me tha
that parish was one df the most quiet i
the State until 1874, when he and
swindiing tax collector were drive,
,out.
AN UNRUEy rARi,H.
This parish has become so notori
GUS as the most unruly in the Stat
that | have takon some pains to as
certain the facts; 'bccuuse there, /.
anywhere, persecution Of Northerl
men aud heroes would be found
Now, thcn--iEirst, an official report
properly authenticated, of tho mur
'ders committed in this parish from
1868 to 1875 lies before me. The,
number forty~ope. aud Of thes,
there were whites murdered b,
whitep, l3; oolored murdered bl
'oolored, l3; whites by .eolored, d;
oolored by whites, g.; whites by IN
Known persons 8; oolored by unknown
j.; oolored by officers of Justice il
serving process, g.; Indian by whit
man, !. Now somebody may objoc
that the record is not correct, but t.
that the reply Is that the parish ha
been almost continually since 1876
ander Republican officers and tha
the Coroner is reputed here as else
where, to be an officer very Jealous i