The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-05-21
LET Us HAVE THE TRUTH.

troublesh West Fsliclana ana ilkM
sod tounE. NThat farer has dathaasd.
this state TO the amount OF millions by
It's persistent and malignant misrepre-
sentations OF the white people. and as
tlle canvass of 1876 approaches. It Is re-
beginning its Infamous Work with re-
doubled energy and audacity., We do
not hesitate to affirm that the responsi-
blity for all the blood that has been
shed in the broils In Louisiana,
during the last ten years. rests
upon the shoulders Of the heart
less wretches who conduct the ne
pullh,dn. and In whose interest the re-
publican has been conducted and yet,
that paper and those men, aggressive
and uutiring in their purpose to utterly
subject the white people ana eontFol
absolutely the State, have succeeded In
creafit,tr The impression abroad that We
are n race Of blood thirsty villains. the
object and end of whose lives are to
murder negroes and Republicans, II
our people were the wretcbes the Re
nublicau has represented them tozbe,
parishes survive 10 plumber and
hefame Ms? II our people are
villains tbirsting FOR negro and
Republican blood. would il have
been possible cor Twitchell and Devices
to have lor1ed il for years over Red River
Parish or for Meyers. and Blunt, and
Bouet to have pilIaged and scourged
Natohitoches At their pleasure, or for
Keeting and lievissee to have disgraced
Oaddo from 1868 TO 1876 or for Weber
and Swazie 10 have agitated. year after
year, West Feliciana. arraying the
negroes there against a too patient com
munity? II our people were the lawless
ruf1ians. intolerant Of carpet-baggers
and scalawags. the Republican day
after day asserts they are. how long
could a journal, sustained by money pill
laged from their pockets, exist in their
very midst to defame and villify them
and their families. and their Interests 7
The people Of Louisiana have been
tolerant, and forbearing to point
which has emboldened the Republican
aud its party leaders to abuse aud mis-
reprceent them in their very teeth, to
charge them with being murderefs and
traitors. and to insult every tradition
andevillfy every. memory they respect
or reverehcs. The tolerant and for
bearing spirit OF the people Of Louis
lana tbward their plunderers and ira
ducers has .emboldened the RepMbtieda
to, continue it's villificatiohs. ami they
must thank themselves for having built
up. or Permitted TO grow zip. among
them malignant sheet which has ad-
vertised them from Maine to California
AS mlrderete aud rebels
The audacitt Of the Republican has
never been moro conspicuouely dis
PLAYED than I'm its Misrepresentation OF
the recent ARRAYS IN Nest teliciana and
Wilkinson county. All the lying hench-
men Of the Radical party In those 10
calities have swiftly sent to it their
falsehoods. knowing that In its columns
they would be blazoned to the country
as the truth We happen to know that
the Republican has received ftom the
acter and most unmpeaohable veracity,
the real truth of the riots referred
to. But II has preferred to publish the
lies 1t received from the white and negro
instigators Of the affray: men utterly
unworthy of credit. and who, instead of
being Senators and Representatives Of
I,ouisiaha. should be In the Louisiana
Penitentiary.5 s-.lE mHi .al4 alf e. Al.
III q few words the whole story Of the
West Feliciana and Wilkinson riot may
be told. Eyer since the planters OF that
portion OF Louisiana and Mississippi
took active and efficientetep TO break
up the illicit traffic In seed cotton and
stolen cattle, the evil-disposed negroes
Of the county have been sullen and
threatening. Mr. Weber, the Radical
State Senator from West Feliciana,
encouraged and built up that trade.
and made large sums Of money by it
As the action Of tho planters was inju-
rious to him. he has fomented the dis-
content Of the negroes and studiously
cultivated their bad feeling toward the
whites. The night before the murder
of Mr.. Aranson. Swazie, q negro politi-
elan and bosom friend Of Weber, was In
the peighborbood making inilammatory
speeches to the negroes and appealing
to them to defend their rights Some
trouble had recently occurred between
Aronson and negro who had been.
in stealing his (Aronson q
cattle. and in rough and tumble fight
the negro got we'll whipped ISuch
affairs occur daily In every city and
in the Union. In
oensed at the drubbing their
had received; influenced by
The incendiary harangues Of Swazie,
aud it is believed, supplied with ammu-
nition by Swazie and Weber. band of
negroes, as has been related, visited
house and murdered him.
The whites assembled, captured two Of
he murderers and, after being perfectly