New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-04
THE OLD TEMPER STILL,

the Democratic candidate for the governor
ship of Louisiana, to make good the terms
of his speech Of acceptance at Baton
Rouge, it is about time he insisted that
its pacific pledges are peremptory man.
date upon those who have already begun
their mischief and violence in the espousal
of his political interests. If he can not
restrain them, let him make acknowledge
ment of the fact at once; if he can restrain
them, it is due to his own good name, as
their highest political representative in
the State, that he should lose not mo-
ment in addressing himself to the effort.
General Nichols is announced by his par.
tisans to be scrupulous gentleman, and
we are inclined to accept their judgment
in this regard; he can not, therefore, with
proper jealousy as to such pretensions,
be Indifferent to crimes perpetrated solely
to advance the political cause he leads
Tidings reach us from different parts of
the State that the old Democratic system
of violence has already been revived.
Our information comes from respon-
sible gentlemen, known to as as being
entitled to full credit, and We do not re-
veal their names simply because the bru-
tality they narrate would be vengefully
visited upon themselves after the dis
closure. Many colored citizens have
recently been run out of the parishes of
Richland and Morehouse by Democratic
rifle clubs" end midnight rangers, .
while in Tangipahoa parish the ''regu-
lators'' venture out in open daylight to
prosecute their hellish designs.
Our informant writes as follows con-
corning the last named parish:
An armed force of forty regulat ors rode
through the town of Tangipahoa to day
July 26). AS there was q funeral of
colored man here they even surrounded The
graveyard and excited great alarm in the
minds of the friends OF the deceased They
had already rushed through the town, yell
ing, bowling. cursing 'niggers,' firing and
reloadlng their weapons, and at times
directing their fire recklessly amid even
women and children.
y +. MI reopen this letter to cav that a
colored man has just come nearly fifteen
miles by clrcultous route to say that
something is afoot. He passed near one
crowd of armed regulators, mum boring
about sixty, and further on another crowd
Of thirty men. Their openly avowed pur-
pose was to arrest and ..Iay out" the five
delegates of this ward so as to break up
the Republican Nominations. The feeling
IS one OF intense alarm in this community
among the peaceable elements.
The recent infamy at Coushatta is ia.
miliar to our readers. Our informant,
after describing the escape of Tax Collec-
tor Sheridan to the military camp for
safety, states:
The Democrats here held meeting on
Saturday and passed resolutions. These
are already known to our readers The re-
were quite 100 in the meeting, many of them
armed and violent.
We are in possession of other data
which we wish to have more fully authen-
ticated before they shall appear in print.
We give the "bulldozers, rifle clubs,'
midnight rangers, regulators" and all
other rascally gangs in Louisiana, due no.
tice that We shall pillory them in public
opinion from this time forth. The De-
mocracy may be vain of them as diligent
partisans. Or it may not, but we call upon
General Nichols, who is claimed as a
representative of less murderous and
more Christian sentiment in the Louisi-
ana Democracy, to declare at once
whether he disowns or countenances such
combinations against law and order. If
he can not control them he should resign
a candidature whose success must entirely
depend upon their activity. Republicans
will continue to keep the peace, and if
the Democracy shall be content but with
disorder, the former will be left no re-
source save as United States citizens to
remind their national government that
this fragment of its territory needs to be
held so far in ward as to be able to save
herself from the ignominy of systematic
murder. Now what says General Nichols?
We owe our gentlemanly neighbor, the
Bulletin, an apology for the oversight by
means of which an ill-natured, character
istically mean and malicious paragraph
from the Alexandria Democrat found its
way into our columns. The Bulletin is.
OF course, an uncompromising Demo-
cratic journal, and as much opposed to
the REPUBLICAN, politically, as any in the
State, yet it bears itself in courtly man
ner, and defends its principles, and such
as its party has, without descending to
coarse abuse of its opponents. The
smaller fry journals, especially those in
the country, not having the ability to imi-
tate it in this respect, show their envy by
malicious attacks on the supposed owners,
editors and writer's. This is what our
neighbor, the Times, the other day called
personal vindictiveness," and is un-
worthy of imitation by honorable mem.
Ders of the profession.