The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-05-05
THE COUSUATTA TRAGEDY.

The RcpUDhcnu TINS morning IL HSaiu
filed with the most violent utterances
in relation to the Red River tragedy.
and has enlisted i'm its cowar1ly crusade
against the people OF Coushatta batch
Of correspondents as malignant as it
self. and so INSCRIPTIONS as to repre-
sent Twitchell as an honorable, gener-
Gus and enterprising man. We do not
propose to discuss the character of the
wretch who has been nearly shot TO
death, except SO far as to state that. in
all the annals Of reconstruction, no
more rapaeious and unscrupulous a
villain than NJ. Ii. Twitchell has
been put upon the people OF Louis
lana to rob them and organize discord
in their midst. We deprecate as much
AS any man in the State the deed Of his
assassin, and trust that the murderer
will be captured and brought to justice ;
but. we dcnouncc as little better than
the assassin. those who attempt to
clothe a villain who ought to he in the
Pententiary, in the mask OF saint,
with view Of exciting popular pre-
!
honorable community. That the assas-
sin was not arrested is no reflection
upon the Coushatta people. Deeds
Of this kind are frequently com
mitted in the midst Of a crowd
and the murderer rides cooly off. He Is
Usually cool and collected. having his
plans arranged beforehand; the crowd
Is struck with amazement. and before
I hey rally. the assassin Is beyond reach.
Scarcely n week passes but what in this
city, with large police force, main
tts,ned at vast expense, and whose duty
it il to arrest robbers, breakers Of the
peace and murderors, murders, as de-
liberate as the one just done at Cou-
shatta, are perpetrated and no arrests
made. or even attempted TO be made.
Yet, because the score or two OF inhab-
itants of a little settlement in the will
derness have failed to instantly arrest
a well armed, mounted and desperate
murderer, an outery goes up from por-
tion of the press OF this saintly city
against the little unprotected village.
No such dastardly assassination has
been perpctrated In this State. says
the Republican and its correspondent.
We presume the assassination Of poor
Bourdounay, because he was Demo-
crat, by the murderer Newton, on the
streets OF this city, has been forgotten
by the Republican people. And before
they denounce the white people Of Red
F,>.. L.. 4 ,,, t,r, tnr Of
capturing the Coushatta murderer, we
ask them il it is not extremely probable
that the action Of the Radical Governor
In committing the sentence OF Radical
ruflian for numbering Democrat and
in extending. for partisan purposes.
pardons by the wholesale to murderers
and thieves, has bad much to do with
rendering people everywhere in this
State Indifferent to the capture Of the
murderers of men who have been public
and malignant enemies OF the com
munity?
We rcprobate the murder Of King and
the attempted murder OF Twitchell. as
do all other peaceable citizens, and we
hope the murderer may be arrested and
dealt with as he deserves. But we also
reprobate the men who have brought
society to that state of degradation and
lawlessness in which wretches like New
ton may murder inoffensive men In cur
ia which the violent men of
the Southern Republican Club may
shoot and stab each other TO death
without ineurring even the danger
Of arrest, in which at nearly every
Radical meeting some man is
wounded or killed. and In which
reckless men in the country take the
law ia their own hands. and murder
their enemies or despoilers, as was
the case at Coushatta. The better
classes of our people will deplore the
bloody deed OF the unknown man at
but, if they are just, they
must lay the responsibility to Warmoth
and Kellogg and their infamous party,
who have organized robbery, murder
and perjury into political and govern
mental system and if they would in
future prevent the recurrence of sucn
terrible deeds. let them arise in their
might and overthrow the foul and in
famous despotism of thieves and muir
derers who dishonor and impoverish the
State