The Lake Charles echo., 1876-10-12
Bloody COIfaX.
ASA RYAN,
Clerk of said Court.


Flowers, (colored,) } of Grant parish
nOtoriety, as given by them at a
large and enthusiastic meeting
held on the night of the Sd inst,
by the Fourth Ward Colored
Democratic Conservative Club of
New Orleans, we will give the fol-
lowing extracts taken from the
New Orleans Democrat of the 4th
inst:
EXTRACT FROM Flowers SPEECH.
To tell you how, after working
in such a manner as to feel
ashamed of it now; to tell you
bow Ward, my bosom friend, and
myself were used as catspaws by
Kellogg, Packard, Beckwith, and
Others, would take all night. [
! charge emphaticaEIy and distinctly
! Tie republican leaders-Kellogg,
Packard, Lnngstreet, aud others
with having coolly ard deliberately
planned with consummate per&dvr
the dead lock in the struggle for
Office in Grant parish between the
democrats and republicans, which
eliminated in the terrible sIaugh-
Ter Of cOlored men at C0!fax, on
the 18th April, 1873. Ny friend
Ward will tell You more about
this. [ was Ward lieutenant, and
both he and I soon discovered
what was their beltish plans. KeI-
lOgg, by the advice OF his spirit
uai adviser, s. 3. Packard, ap-
pointed in Grant parish two sets
Of officers and told each of them
to take the offices. Kellogg and |
Packard knew Il fight was ineyita-
bic, which Was just what they
wanted. Kellogg wanted a few
negroes killed to make his hoII to (
the uSurped GubrruatoriaI chair
Doli,icrI necessity in tho eyes of 7
he Northern people and the Ma !
;ional Congress.
EXTRACT FROM WARDS SPEECH.
1t was their purpose to have
these seventy-Dine cuIorpd men
killed, for the purpose of gaining
the support of the Northern /
people and sustaining Kellogg
MS Governor of Louisiana. II
charge that Governor Kellogg
and S. B. Packard were the In
ventors of the murder and riot,
and that they deliberately planned
the killing of these poor colored
men because Kellogg wanted to do
something that would keep him in
his seat as Governor, owing to the
influence it would have on The peo-
pie of the North. The Bulletin,
and the other newspapers, have
given me fits ; [ know what it was
for; | ought to have come out be-
fore, but | held my peace, because
the republicans asked NE to do so.
l was several times in the act of
coming out and telling the whole
truth but they told me " the Gov
will all be overturned if
you do, and all Won negroes will
be put back into slavery" Now |
know better, and do not fear to
tell the truth. [ have been abused
by that party which has used me,
because they thought I was no
good any more; but I tell you,
gentlemen, I have joined the Con-
party tonight for this
purpose. I will go from one end
Of the State to the other, end |
will talk to the colored people /
have known in the Red River par
shes but I tell you, sirs, tonight,
that [ have % hard work to 60
through with. There are white
men in those parishes, up there,
.hat are called republicans, and |
know they will seek to take my
life, because they think I know too
much. l ask you here tonight,
and every colored man for the pur-
pose of having good government,
not to vote for that scoundrel,
Packard, but to Join the Conserva-
i've party, q party composed Of /
he noblest white men lu this
State. | ask you, my friends, to
.Ote for Nichols and Wilt. nnl ] ,