New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-20
VOLUME x.-No. 81


Moro Murder.
The lawless people Of tho Feliciana and
Baton Rouge parishes have mot yet ceased
their outrages, though the dispatches no
ceived omit the customary conclusion to
the killing of negroes Of IAN is now quiet" I"
This time the affair culminsted ct Port
Hudson. The accounts are conflicting but
the following is probably an accurate state
ment of the events of the week.
Monday or Tuesday night w. Y. Payne,
colored man. of East Baton Rouge, was
taken from his home, st Hollis place, at
night, from his bed, and was afterward
found hung to tree, two miles above that
place, on the plank road near Whites
bayou. He had committed NO ofense; all
had been quiet, but he was the secretary Of
the Third Ward Republican Club of that
parish. He was therefore "bulldozled," !"
which is of late the local name Of the
actions of the Regulators" Besides this
many other negroes have within . few
| days been taken from their homes and
brutally whipped and beaten, milder
means of correction sometimes adopted by
the bulldozers. These outrages were es-
pecially aggravsting because. though the
majority were of course white, al faces
we're blscked, and it was more than sus-
pected that some negroes were of the party.
Saturday there was mass meeting, .
picnic or barbecue at Port Hickey, and
these matters were discussed among those
present. Ooe colored man was imprudent
enough to boast that he had taken part in
the whippings, and this caused some indig-
nation. With the examples of the white
citizens fresh in their minds, the negroes
we're foolish enough to think they could
punish one of their own race in the same
manner they had been treated. Some of
them found him and beat him severely.
They did not kill him.
If this negro had been . Republican
nothing would have been done moro than to
chronicle the fact ass'another negro row."
But he had said he WAS . Democrat; had
mid he was . "bulldoser," /" and this was
probably true. His white friends imme-
distely arrested Ill the innocent negroes
they could lay their hands on. Failing to
fix any act Of violence ON any Of them, they
armed themselves, - usual, with the extra
artillery of . warrant, and went hunting
for more.
The negroes were collected together. The
whites demanded the surrender of those
svn< <ho n< &c
the amount of protection such documents
afford unfortunate negroes, who imagine it
puts them in the custody of the law, made
them refuse. They had no desire to sec
their friends rescued" by . greater force
than the ostensibly legal posse, and strung
up OF filed with lead.
Firing then commenced, and singular
circumstance varied the monotony of SINH
| lar previous conflicts. Several whites were
wounded and the report says NO cOlored
man was. By some it is stated the negroes
were ten to one and had . cannon. All
agree that the horse was shot, and the
whites stampeded and sent to Baton Rouge
and Bayou Sara for relnforcements to
tachment of sixty men, that came down on
the Katie-''complete the business in hand"
The only official information on hand yes
hrday afternoon at the State House was
the following dispatch from Sheriff Fore
man, of East Baton Rouge:
Rumors of serious trouble at Port Hud-
son. / am just starting up with posse 10
aecertain " hat the trouble is.
By later but more vague reports it seems
that not only he, with . poese, but the
heriff of East Felicisna with . posse and
Endorsements of various independent
posses together with all the posses that had
previously assembled, marched on the ne
roes, on the favorite day for such work
he Christian Sabbath. The accounts all
hgree again that the negroes Il ID to the
swamp and the whites were in full pursuit,
thus ending the affair in the orthodox man
her. Some were captured, and, it is said
we're not harmed, but the best evidence Of
that will be their future existence. One
circumstance casts doubt on it. A negro
Was taken from boat and hanged. Who
le was no one knows.
Associated Press dispatches last night
detail the return of the sheriff of East
Baton Rouge from Mount Pleasant with
ourteen prisoners. 1t is said NO negroes
we're killed or wounded. Thirty passed
Baton Rouge on the opposite side of the
liver going toward Plaquemine. An armed
body of whites started on tug 20 capture
hem, but returned on being informed the
Iegroes had been disarmed by the whites
h Brusle Landing, five miles below Baton
Rouge. The dispatch ends, "All quiet
low."
The results seem to be, two negroes
hpged, thirteen taken prisoner, thirty IN
rued wandering in strange parish, and
wice as many more in the swamp now
eing hunted down. Pr0babilities-Terror
nong the blacks, their homes abandoned,
heir summer labor lost, their families des-
itute and the parish abandoned by hun
reds
At the Passes.
The steamship City Of Havana arrived
Own at Snuth weat Pass Sundav and took