New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-01
ASSASSINATION OF DINKGRAvE
IN THE CRIME
THE TRUE lNWARDNESS OF AFFAIRS IN
0UACHITA.
Arms and Ammunition for the Cam
paign.
GETTING IN SHAPE FOR A NICHOLAS
VICTORY.

The bloody Democratic romance OF the
solitary horseman, one chapter of which
was located at Coushatts when the Re-
publicans, Twitchell and King, were shot.
has been continued in a second chapter at
Monroe in the assassination of Mr.. B. 81.
Dinkgrave, an estimable Republican leader
Chief Justice of the State.
A few days ago box of guns left we'll
known gunshOp in this city, consigned to one
DR.. Ably, of Monroe. and reached there last
Saturday night. A letter received here yes
terday from Mr.. Dinkgrave and written by
him the day prior to his murder relates:
The articles mentioned were received here
Saturday night, and sent yesterday into the
country, about ten miles from town, where
they have q military organization. The
colored people seem greatly alarmed, and, l
think, for good reasons. l have just re-
turned from the country, and learn that
there is terrible excitement in consequence
of the shipment of those arms.
The Democrats no. say that they can get
1000 men in the parish in twenty-fOur hours.
The rifle clubs, as organized here in town,
have been ordered out, and am very much
afraid that we are going to have trouble.
Yours, etc. B. H. D.
Before the sun had gone down on the
next day poor Dinkgrave was killed, and
the suspicion is we'll based that he was the
first victim of one of the very rifles which
had been sent to DR.. Ably, president of the
Democratic parish committee of Ouachita.
1t is worthy of remark that the day on
which the rifles reached Monroe q Repub-
lioan barbecue was in progress some Elk
miles thence, at what is called Morrison's
place. During the day number of we'll
known Democrats, fsigning inebriation,
| invaded the entertainment, broke down
| the rope tence that environed the table,
and upon being quietly demonstrated with
by some of the colored managers marched
off to Monroe, reported there that they had
been insulted, and rallied some thirty armed
men to accompany them back to the scene
of the barbecue, where, upon arrival, they
found the Republican gathering had dis
persed. The armed men then patroled all
| night up and down the river. Were theirs
some of the same consi gnment of riflss'
On Monday night the twenty-eighth ul-
timo, a report was alleged to have re&ched
Monroe that shots had been fred into the
houses of Mesers. Garrett and Foulk. few
miles below Monroe, whereupon the same
armed gang marched thither. to redress the
fictitious wrongs of those two Democrats.
When they reached the point, it was dis
covered that the colOred people, men,
women and children, had abandoned their
| dwellings, and fed to the woods. Very
naturally, as poor Dinkgrave remarks
above, 1.-The colored peopls are greatly
alarmed" and little did he imagine that
his own death would go soon and so terribly
emphasize his recorded opinion.
| Information is had that other boxes o.
rifles have been ordered to Ouachita, and
indeed to other parishes. Are these thu
means referred to in the confidential circu
lars of the Democratic State Central Com
mittee, which says. 1--WE have the means
and intend to use them!"
It is manifest that despite al the Dem
ocratic assurances of good will toward
citizens of another political faith, intimida
ton is the deliberate policy upon which tina,
party relies in the canv ass.
General Nichols will this week appear al
Monroe, and find the country thereshou,
''in good discipline" Deserted cabins and
fugitive citizens, whose only elm is thai
they love the Union and obey the laws, viii
| <hot oil ia -
Did the SOLITARY horse man" gallop off q
mile or so, turn his horse into Democratic
stable and walk back into Monroe to la
ment with pathetic face that ''such thingt
| could be p
Had the assassin been a colored man, and
the victim Democrat, how soon the
former would have been caught and swung
! from tree.