New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-08

from the Democracy, proper appeal tc
Republican protectionists may convince
them that their own principles demand
the protection of sugar and rice, and that
their constituents will be protected by
adding the vote of the rice and sugar in
terests of the South to those of the cotton
and iron interests of the East and West.
UNCANONIZED DEMOCRATIC MARTYRS
Prompt to defend the oppressed, the
REPUBLICAN calls attention to an outrage
which has not yet enlisted the sympathies
of its Democratic confreres. The case is
infinitely more heartreuding than that OF
the Feliciana bulldozers whom Chairman
Patton fears may get into trouble with
the United States marshals before election
day. In this instance the wrong has al
ready been committed, and what is more,
some of the men are dead-shot down in
their tracks-and others are on their way
to the penitentiary. Their standing in
the community in which they lived is
abundantly attested. All the leading
Western newspapers give them elaborate
obituary notices. From these records we
learn that the father Of one of them was
district judge in Missouri. Two Of them
had an uncle who till lately was Demo-
cratic member of the Missouri Legisla-
ture. Another uncle of theirs once ran
for Congress on the Democratic ticket in
California. They were all piously brought
up. Their leader has placed on record
touching statement of his early expert
ence. He writes, since his Incarceration:
Thomas W. Hughes:
DEAR SIR am proud to say to you We
were raised by religious parents and at
tended Sunday school regular in our boy.
hood, and, too, had charge of Bible class
while IN Texas, at Seyne, Dallas county.
have ever respected Christianity. l have
known the right, and indOrse it. l con-
demned the wrong, but yet the wrong pur-
sued. COLE YOUNGER.
A correspondent of the Minneapolis
Tribune pleasantly sketches this martyrs
physiogomy, and becomingly consoles
him:
Captain Cole Younger says that he is
thirty-two years old, is about six feet,
weight about 200 pounds (estimated), thin,
sandy whiskere, little hair. with high fore
head, large, noble face and forehead, phi.
we'll developed, with mild. blue
eyes. He looks anything but q villain; but
every feature and expression indicates eau
ton, shrewdness and high order of intel
lect
The kind-hearted journalist listens to
the story of his heros life and peccadil-
loes, and says:
In speaking of his boyhood. his mother
and sister, he seemed much affected. Said
he: "a mothers love should have made
me q good man; but oh! if my two brothers
had escaped should not care 1 could
but sympathize with him. and he said that
lie had not received such kindly sentiments
fer years.
All of them appear to have seen service
as Confederate guerrillas during the war.
Yet these we'll connected, piously edu-
Gated men have been hunted like wolves
from county to county in the State Of
Minnesota. Hungry, wounded and weary,
they have been compelled to skulk in the
underbrush by day and take long rides
ACROSS desolate wilds by night. Finally
brought to bay, they are described as
lighting ''until their force consisted Of
one man who only had the use of his left
arm, while those wounded in their bodies
md unable to get up, loaded revolvers for
lim."
The cloudy Associated Press dispatches
10 not give any clear idea how many of
hem have been killed and how many
captured, but it is safe to say that at
east three have been killed and three
made prisoners. There are two others
whom the minions Of the law are still
and who may any day be made
he recipients of suffering indignity and
loss''-or even worse.
As to the cause of this relentless perse-
'ution we have only partisan accounts
which, of course, must be received with
certain degree Of caution. The news
papers assert that on the seventh of last
Month body of men, we'll mounted and
lrmed, rode into the little town of North
ield, in Minnesota, and proceeding to the
,ank, demanded of the cashier that he
hould open the chronometer lock by
which the safe was secured. On his re-
usal one Of them shot him dead, and
mother put bullet through the arm Of a
Jerk who had similarly declined to oblige
hem. The people gathered, killed two
f the men on the spot, and organized a
nrsuit of the others which never ceased |