The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-08-17
DAILY DEMOCRAT,
THE MISSION OF A LOUISIANA JUDGE


Campbell, the worthy Judge Of the
Fourth District Court, he had given up
the job Of organizing the negroes In
West, and was engaged In an ef-
fort to organize strife and riot. through
the misnamed Councils OF Freedom"
in East Feliciana. We have fuller In
formation Of this fellows mission to
the country than has yet been made
public, or than he and his party ever In
tended should be made public. Our in
formation, we assure our country friends,
is entirely reliable, and while we coun-
sci them TO treat Campbell with no dis
courtesy, we warn them to watch ham
closely and counteract the nefarous
plans he ID travelling through the State
to perfect. ---,..
After Campbell leaves the Felicianas,
his route lies through the parishes OF
Concordia, Tensas. Madison, Carroll
| and the other strong negro parishes on
the Mississippi. After visiting these, he
will go westward, through North Louis
| lana. and thence down the Red River.
This was his proposed route when he
left New Orleans. The discovery OF his
plans. the mpracticability OF carrying
them out in face of the rigid organza-
tions Of the Democrats and Conserya-
tives, and the growing confidence be-
tween the whites and blacks. may
prompt him to give up his mission, and
he may not follow out the route. But
| we know the line herein designated was
that he left this city to travel. And
for what?
The leaders OF the Radical party here
have fully realized the fact that their
party is disbandiDg; that the negroes
have at last come to full comprehen-
sion OF the hypocrisy and rascality Of
the whole gang Of thieves whom they
have been following for years. and are
going over in hundreds to the Demo-
cratic Conservative party. The Radical
leaders realize. in short, that the cleo
ton In Louisiana is likely to prove
counterpart Of that in Alabama few
days ago, and that unless something IS
done the State will give, a majority OF
forty or fifty thousand against the Rad
ical party They propose, therefore. to
do something, or to try to do something,
and they know OF nothing to do but
what they have done before.
The safety of society lies partly. nay,
chiefly, in the fact that thieves can
invent no new devices, and that all rob-
bers, from the freebooters OF the earliest
times to the carpet bag thieves OF Lou
isiana, have adopted precisely the same
methods. The sense Of security felt by
communities sometimes permit these
fellows to get the upper hand, but So
ciety RECEIVERS itself, rallies, and the
rascals are broken up.
Now, the carpet baggers, in their des-
perate straight, like all other thieves
before them, are going to try their same
old game.
Hugh J. Campbell is man OF ability
and boldness and at the same time
most consummate rascal. He
Is the man who headed the mob
Of thugs and murderers whom
Kellogg had assembled in the State
House on the 4th Of January to butcher
the Democratic members Of the House
OF Representatives; he Is the man who
attempted to seize the Superior District
Court few weeks ago, by armed vio-
lence, and he is now the man who has
been selected to 90 into the country
parishes for the purpose OF checking
the growth Of confidence and good feel
ing between the whites and blacks, and
of organizing the latter, through the
Councils OF Freedom and Union Rights
Stops, against the whites. In organiz-
ing these clubs the purpose is to bring
the worst and most brutal negroes to
the front; to inflame the whole body
against the whites, and, finally, toward
the approach OF the election, precipitate
violent and bloody collisions which
will insure the armed intervention Of
the Federal Government.
This, beyond question, is the mission
in which Hugh J. Campbell, the Judge
of the Fourth District Court is now en-
gagged.
The field OF his operations has been
we'll chosen. He has selected those
parishes in which the negroes largely
outnunber the whites. In such localities,
1t is significant fact, where the negroes
are left more to themselves, where they
come least In contact with the whites
they are more brutal and more easily led
into such schemes as that Of Camp
BELLS. The murderous Union Rights
Stop was organized In neighbor
hood almost entirely composed oi
negroes; the black murderers who pro-
voked the terrible riot in West Feliciana
and Wilkinson county, with all theil
savage following, were from sections o
that parish and county almost entirely
occupied by negroes; the eneighborhoods
Of Colfax and Coushatta are densely
settled by negroes and by very few
whites. This is always the case. The
rpet-baggers work in such localities
there they have free scope and easily