The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-11-16

circular were equally direct and effective.
Mr.. Laws, the leading Republican of the
parish, was shot dead only q few days
since, mot for political Ieasons. as one
OF the New Orleans Democratic papers
said, though he was a prominent Radi-
cal About the same time a Bastrop
| (Morehouse) special to the New Orleans
Bulletin announced "the trouble near the
Ouachita line has been settled by the
killing of three negroes and the wound
/ ing of several others. All quiet
simultaneously with the successful in
auguration of the Mississippi plan" in
| its sister parish did a reign OF terror
visit death and desolation upon the
| hearthstoncs in West Felicana. Under
/ the pretext that negroes were stealing
cotton from the fields and selling it to
the country storekeepers, a dozen of
stores, where colored people congregated
and exchanged their political views,
were burned, and in some instances their
owners hung Bodies of White League
cavalry, calling themselves Regulators,
having thus scattered or destroyed their
leadership, visited the colored people in
their cabins and hesitated not a murder,
with the most fiendish accessories, in
order to strike a lasting terror to the
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combatants. The fearful array of vic
Tins of these bloody raids, with the
names Of perpetrators, have already ap-
peared in these columns.
After the Mississippi victory in 1875
the parish of East Baton Rouge prompt
ly put in it's claims for the championship
as the best igger-killing' community
and right well the "bulldozers," as they
call themselves, stroYe for pre-eminence
| A leading Conservative OF the parish
three months ago-and new martyrs to
RepublicanIsm have since been added to
the store-estimated the number oi
slain colored men and women at over
100, while no estimate was ventured az
to the number who had been half stran
gled by. hanging or brutally whipped
with Tawhides. Prominent and wealthy
planters have testified under oath TO the
innocence of the victims to the crimi
nality OF their white prosecutors; tc
their efforts to enlist the aid of the more
respectable whites for suppressing the
horrid cruelties, and to their failure be
cause OF the underlying political mo
tives. On the day the Democratic Con
ventiOn assembled, it was openly boasteC
that the last remaining carpetbaggel
had been run out of the parish this
1
tion being Major Husted-a gallant sol
dier and cultivated gentleman, agains
whose good name no breath of suspicion
had blown, and whom the Democrat
themselves had supported for parish
Judge, before the hope OF a solid souil
seemed to them a realizsble fact. Hon
w. 6. Lane, Republican Representative
had but few days before been assalleC
in bis hotel bedroom by an armed band
but successfully repelled his would-b,
assassins, killing one and woundinl
others. On the killed man no inquest
was held, the coroner being warned tina
the attempt to make a process verba
would cost him his life. A few week.
anterior, five negroes were hanged tc
their own gateposts, and although thel
were subsequently buried, under officia
supervision, the public has yet 10 learr
that he dared to disobey the bulldozer
mandate to make no record Of the fear
full tragedy.