New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-16
mittee from the tenth ward. Evidently
there is serious struggle for the support
of the great German element.
Ano,,ufes for COushntta.


Anoiostes for Coushntta.
While tina men of all parties Of the great
North and West are pointing their fingers
at the ch;yalrous Democrats of Coushasta,
and cryins '.Shame! for the deeds OF in
famy done, it is left tor New Orleans
paper to apologize for the violent monsters;
TO seek to tighten their crimes; to take to
its heart the shooting stranger and bis pc
cular colcred pony; it is left for the Buue-
tin to most unexpectedly break away from
an attempted better course to seek to pal
late the crimes Of murderers and assassins
by heaping infamy upon the murdered and
MANNED. That plan of defa ming the dead
is as old as Democracy, and as common IN
that party as shotguns in the hands OF
Write League voters. The pretext OF the
Bulletin for assuming to defend Coushatta
ira gedies is the statement il an Indian
apolis paper that the death of Mrs. Helen
E. Willis. sister of Senator Twitchell is at
t1ibuted to the Ku-K'ux spirit Of proscrip-
ton in Louisiana. Mrs. Willis had seen
her husband and one brother murdered by
the political Kr-Klux of Coushatta, she
had seen another brother, her favorite,
mutiated by the same murderous band,
and left without an arm to defend her or
himself, and in q condition worse than
death With this helpless living brother
Mrs. Willis was removed from Louisiana in
diving condition. ard gave up her life at
indianapolis, being unable to reach her
fathers home in Vermont. She was ten
derly cared for by strangers in Western
home where hearts are found; but in the
delirium att ending her death the picture OF
Coushatta horrors was constantly before
her, and her last words were, 'Is the guard
here9" Because she was an educated, re-
fined and intelIifent lady, her sutferings
had been felt all the more keenly. The
man of God who spoke at the funeral of
Mrs. Willis charged that she was the vic
tim of Coushatta cruelty and inhumanity.
He spoke Gods truth, and opposite testi-
mony from every Democrat in the land
would not alter the facts in the case.
The Democratic argument to justify the
outrages on the Twitchell family is that
Senator Twitchell is q bad man. Such 9
charge against the Senator is false. He is
as good man as any carpet-bagger who
ever came to Louisiana, even including the
old crop gathered here thirty years ago, and
now ranking among the oldest and best.
The Democrats told the Congressional in
vestigating committee that TWitchell was a
corrupt man. Well, it was expected they
would tell that; and the. committee, having
never been introduced to the assassin, and
knowing nothing Of his motives, certified
that the man who killed King, the tax-col-
Iector, and did his best to kill the Senator,
had no political feeling on the subject of
murder. For that are they investigating
committees. Consider the whole bloody re-
cord of Coushatta Democracy in detail,
which can never be wiped out, and
which can never be made less Grim
inal by apologies for the assas-
sins and ISLANDERS for the victims.
Should the life Of every white Republican
be taken because one is thought to be cor
rupt! Years ago, when Twitchell, with his
wonderful energy, brought his money to
that Ill fated region, and induced his friends
to make homes there, it was said by the
natives, "We must get rid of these Twitch-
ellis, or this parish will be overrun with
Vermont Yankees" Murder was meditated
before the character of the new corners was
known.
If the apology had stopped with the
slander of Senator Twitchell there would
be little LETT for US to say. The gentleman
who has been driven from his property,
who has been robbed and MANNED, and who
mourns the death of his brothers and sister,
by cause of the same assassin hands, can
scarcely be injured more. The Bulletin
does not stop there; it passes to criticisms
Of the dead lady who has just been laid to
rest in the far West. For her the guard
has come, a guard of angels that never
were on duty in Coushatta. 1t pleases
the Bulletin to cay OF this lady
that her woes were as sacred as were
those of Nancy Sykes. The idea and the
comparison was SO agreeable, so happy in
the conceit Of the writer, that further on in
the apology it is repeated, and the Bulletir,
saws again of Mrs. Willis: "We are very
willing to have her made a martyr of, but
sbe must rank with the Nancy Sykeses OF
history"' Nothing much worse could be
said OF true daughter, wife, sister. Nancy
Sykes was the darkest female picture in the
Dickens gallery. She was the degraded
thief among Fsgin's thieves, the outcast OF
women. Such language goes beyond any
thing we expected to see, even in a Demo
cratic journal Of New Orleans.