The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-08-07

have beer arrested and acquitted, oop-
traty to tho law and the facts, IN true
that these things have In u great meas
ure removed the fear OF the Inv from
violent men, aud given them u fearful
prominence In our community 10 true,
and that, owing TO these facts. there 40
not hero that security of life whioh 4
should exist In u civilized COMMUNITY
Ia true beyond question. 5.aH a4
But when the Repnblica,, says That
this condition Of society ~ attributable
to the influence OF the Demoorats ana
White Leagues, IL utters ialsehooo
go vile that we wonder " did not blister
tts throat. Murjerera have escaped ar-
rest In the city Of Now Orleans, because
tho police force Ia snder tho control OF
state government utterly corrupt
and impotent. and which has made 1t
pieco of partisan machinery The Me
tropolitan Police, IL In well known
| fact. in entirely under the control OF
the State government: the city govern
| ment has no authority whatever over IT.
| Under this Radical organization MUIR
der. robbery aud every species OF crime
haye been rampant. Indeed. there is
very oloar evidence to show that the
4 chief of this army of ruflians In him
aelf In cahoot with the bunko thieves
| who infrst this city. Men have been
Ahot down in broad daylight In pres
nnoa OF members Of this force. and
no one has ever found out who
tho murderer was. Quiet convlvlh
asseInhlagos have been broken In upon
by Loans police aud forced to accept
the uompanonship Of negro policemen
or disperse Only q few days ago tilis
band, backed by the State officials.
ATTEMPTED to prevent the arrest of two
men who were indicted for the murder
of u Democratic negro In East Baton
Rouge. and for four days they baillcd
the efforts of The officer Of that parish
to take his prisoners away from Now
Orleans. Only yesterday. we believe,
! the papers reported the arrest OF sew
eral Of these metropolitaDs for bur
glary. These facts give but a faint
idea of the sort Of police force the Radi-
ea State government has created and
holds possession OF IN this city.
Our courts. in many tnstances, arc
the roadiit Of the murders and the
police. Tho perpetrator Of one OF
the murders the Republican refers TO.
while under indictment for murder In
the irst degree. was bailed by q Radical
Judge. Matt Hogan. notorious thief.
who was directly concerned In the muir
der of Inreeche n few weeks ago, In
now at large In the city on bail and will
probably soon be restored to his place
on the police. Hundreds Of similar la.
stances might be mentioned
Finally. ir tho police In tho city or
the Radical officials in the country
arrest murderer. and the corrupt and
imbecie courts convict him, he In speed
lily parionod by tho Radical Executive
of the State. There are now At large in
Louisiana several hundred convicted
murdorora, burglars. house burners and
perpetrators Of rape who the Radical
Executives have pardoned. In one case
Kellogg actually pardoned two men,
charged with murder. before they were
tried. A negro convict, who was sen.
fenced to the Penitentiary for highway
robbery, was pardoned by Kellogg and
In now or has been recently a city official
In Shreveport. Recently a man named
, Myers, who is under indictment IN
Natchitoches for stealing, was spoken
of as Radical candidate for Congress
, we believe. and he Is still an influential
leader In the Radical party. All ovel
, the State the administration Of public
; affairs Is In tho hands of thieves ant
, rapscallions OF the lowest sort, and the
execution of the laws la totally neg
lected Radical sheriffs are weak, dis
honest, cowardly fellows, who owe thoil
official existence to their intrigues with
negroes and to the practice Of the bases
/ arts The Radical judges are, many o
4. them. grossly corrupt, many OF then
! utterly incompetent.
Whatever of law and order prevails Il
the State; whatever security to lif,
, exists here and In tho country, are du'
{ in no respect to the officers Of the law
J. but entirely to the men who constitut,
0 the Dem ooratio- Conservative party, ant
i who constituted the White League II
S is74-the white citizens OF the State.
II Here and there a case may be foun
Q whore some brutal white man has. with
8 ont provocation, outraged a negro. Blu
n tho whole Radical party, from the negr
Il buldozers who murdered poor Ellis a
Il Mount Pleasant. and created the Felic
r ana riots. to W. Pitt Kellogg, who com
= muted the sentence OF Newton for tn
II brutal murder OF u man because he wa
IS Democrat; from all the dirty littl
D. thieves who swarm in tho parish Office
in the country to the officials {
% the State government in New o.
ye leans. is engaged in systematic, POI
of sistent and infamous persecution of tn
1t white people Of this State; In Cigar
IS tic scheme of plunder and slander an
W violence. The Radical party hs