The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-12-07


prise to emigrate to this country and
I ;s-lst in imprnving and building il up.
Many responded to the call. Among
/ them were some political advcnturer-,
! who have been n source of trouble and a
4 curse TO the State Ii is not To be dcni-
/ ed that scores Of these fellows have no
I interest in Louisiana hut to plumber her
no residence here, and no baggage be-
yond trunk and valise. These few
/ would. il the State were declared for Til
/ den and Nichols, pack up their few
/ traps quite hastily and depart for the
/ North. aud il would be good riddanc~ to
/ had rubbish for the State. But they are
very much i'm the minority among the
| Northern immigrants What has been
| the late of others who came here at the
/ invitation TO make this their home, and
! to assist in retrieving thu shattered tor.
/ tunes o. the State, aud lrud hand in
making her wealthy and prosperous
I Take an instance. In answer to the iuvi-
f, tntinn. six men. headed Toy two brothers
named Mitchell, came down from New
! England with all their families and
earthly possessions. and settled in Rcd
1 River Parish They brought their North.
I ern views and energy, and pluck. and
| the result was soon apparent pretty
/ little village. with white houses aud well
/ kept yards. sprsng up. Improved ma
chinery aud agricultural tools were i'm
/ ported mill and factory, aud church,
were erected. aud -chool-house tor
white children and "a school house for
colored ch h.ldren. The negroes were
I given regular employment at good wages.
/ More NortherBerS came The little vii.
! lage increased and fourished and paid a
steadily increasing tax into the State
/ Treasury. Upon all this the shitless
natives. who had all their lives lived
upon the labor Of slaves. and cared Tor
nothing while they had sufficient To eat
and drink and smoke, looked on with
envy and Jealousy. They began a sys-
tematic persecution of these prosperous
people aud inIlly armed men in the
night time ordered the SIX leading men
to leave the place. There was no altern-
alive IL was sure death To remain. The
men sent away their families, disposed of
everything at runou- rate and prepar-
ed to leave. Their prosecutors promised
them an armed escort To the river on
their way to Shreveport and they started
Tor the river under guard. Once within
the woods the six men, including one OF
the Twitchell brothers were stood up in
a row and shot full of bullets aud their
bodies lett to the buzzarls. year later
the other Twitchell brother who still re-
mgined, was shot all to pieces in broad
daylight, so that both arms were ampu-
tated lie is now back in the North
with half dozen bullets in his body and
both arms gone. That's the way North
ern immigration is encouraged. King.
who was with Twitchell was killed at the
same time, but for tue murder Of these
men no one has ever been punished.
~.
"Fairy-tale bulldozers," and have no cx-
istence, excerpt in the minds of Northern
newspaper correspondents. Those seven
rotting corps-s ani that poor fellow 50
horribly MANNED forever, tell different
tale.
Now, it is true that many of these
outrages except to show how rotten Lou
isiana is in Law and politics. have no di.
rect political significance Our Northern
Democrats seem to insist on that dis
tinction. They are outrages, TO he sure.
but not political outrag-s. they claim A
negro steals pig, and a company Of men
go TO his cabin at night. take him out,
and give him bull-doze on the bare
back well laid on. lie steals a horse or
mule aud h- j. taken out at night and
hanged on a limb of the nearest tree
I here is no political significance in that
II is merely the Ord-r-lOyIng citizaus pre-
sewing law and order. ! am willing to
allow this distinction. But what about
the scores OF negroes killed in st Mary,
the 81 negroes killed an thu 1T Llndy
massacre in &C. What about the killing
81 leo negroes at NJ chanics' Institute in
'6S2 THE dozen or two in Bo-si-r; the
I'm and over black men slaughtered AZ
Colfax Court house in y; thu killing oi
30 policeman hv the White League, on
the lrvees ia 742 The twenty or thirty
IN l~sacres OF from 5 to 20 color-d men in
other parts OF the STATE at one tImr aud
anotherP Is there no political signili
cance in that terrible list kept by Gen
Sheridan og over 3 OJJ murders Of r.
duhlicans in the State2 Was all this ac-
complishel by "Ftiry-tale BIlIdozar-2"
verify. these gobllns are active aud ener-
gctic TO- the characters of a fairy tale,
and those imaginary Outrages" were
"transparently aud obviously pretty So
rious fraud" for the victims l. there's
no such thing any reply to men who are
here who are ready with instances, with
specific instances, with causes, with
causes, with names aud dates and places
all verified beyond doubt2 Who came
not here to hide and To cover up. but To
lay open aud reveal2 ! care not how
many Democratic emmiSsaries or repre-.
sentatives of Northern Democrat,c news.
papers come here and shout back that
everything is quiet, there are no out
RACES, no violence, no intimidation, or
that the blacks have committed the out
RACES aud intimidated the white. When
! believe the latter statement ! will BE-
lIeye that "A sheep lrOke out OF the flock
and bit the shepherd dog and drove off
4. l.. L.
eral deuals are made, here are the iac
and the proof, undcniable and conciu-
sve. Let my friend. who ! believe Is
honest in his belief. and expresses il so
unmistskably as we'll as wittily. possess
his soul in patience, and in the interest,
/ Of impartialiiy read the testimony, on
both sides, that will be Offered before the
Returning Board. and then ,ay what h
thinks of imaginary Outrages' aud
then say what he thinks Of "imag-
iuary outrages' and Fairy tale
Bulidoz~rs.' 10 is true this 'vutrag,.
porridge' has been served up OTTER,
but so have the outrages to Tut IN
the pnTridgc And IL IS true that the
business has often been ovrrdoua aud
oycTdrawn tor political purposes But
! there is no need t. Overdo 4. IL is bad
enough without colnrIng. And in answer
to what is said about inf iming the
/ North with hatred oi the southern pro
I PIE, will say that the men who cummi.
/ these outracrs who ride by night booted
aud spurred and armed ays. not fair rep
I Trscntativcs OF the southern people
+ Going into those desolate back parishes
i AID places OF ignorance and vice Tor rep
. rcsoutAtiye S"utherner- would be- some
thing like srarching in Cincinnati along
. Front stra.sf ar iu Inc latv l.4Uz la fi+.
S.x u Ward, or about = Xth Str 1T II ,r
krt Space TOR representative Cincinnati.
ans These outta..-- are not To b.. chtrg
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