New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-05-23
TLTCIANA INFEI.1N.
|Pacified People Danish
Their POstmasters
asossinate q Republican Ex-
Representative.

Representatives
,sr information more than con-
: previous meagre reports of law
with the addition of another
bclitical murder.
bula has reached New Orleans and
with him the coffin that was
his door Saturday, and bunch
hester rife cartridges which were
With it.
20 relates that the crowd of bull
after threatening him, went Oh
) information that they would re-
J. pu aud put their threats into exc
" proceeded to jackson and rode
,e house of James Laws and found
sted on his gallery with his
They said: "Hallo, Laws!
ID got back2" He rose to answer
hd was instantly shot dead.
M vas Saturday night. His funeral
=. Sunday. That day the main road
n ds from Bayou Sara to jackson
:, &koted by armed men. The road
Dsp rough Irving's plantation, and he
rel "a himself on it and forbade all
y. ~ men in Bayou Sara from going
10 the funeral
outrage appears to have been con-
co, in bolder and more defiant man
any during the campaign. There
secret assemblage, no masking, no
,vhid, but a cool, deliberate murder
" day light on political grounds,
." organized opposition against any
.. by for the victims.
d" Laws was very intelligent col
:. :. N and had represented his parish
. legislature for two terms. BE was
lie in his views, quiet in manner
81 ways desirous that his people
SS iss i've in peace with the whites. But
by characteristics made him the
ug I their malice, and his life has
'fsl safe for two years. He was not
'l' in the dispute of the last ses-
20 20 a ventured to retnrn home in the
"a Il. at his life would be safe under the
e, ees of the resolutions" of the
TO ure, the Democratic declarations
''new policy of peace" and the
IN, ~ Of protection by Governor Mich
. 4, lis life has paid the forfeit, and il
rhoI auous to say that his assassins
3 q Ter be punished.
Ell, sported that two postmasters, one
res, on and the other at St Francis
Il |, y We not been permitted TO perform
}, ties, or even remain in the par
Keat
are colored men, and Repub
Holding United States commits
key thought they were exemp
ecution, especially in this houl
ceiling. They consulted tho Stat,
,our nic authorities, and were encour
i / believe they would not be molest
a lel they found the contrary to b,
ther
Francisville, when the Democrat
d at hat Mr.. Dula had come there t.
ecrss smaster, after having been driver
% before, they considered it wa
AGO borne. A coffin, SO it is report
placed in front of his door, anC
.Ns oiifed that he could either get il
lion. We the town. Naturally, as Bre
puld say, he left.
.Ila nton Sam Chapman was inter
',G nd told he could hold no ofic,
Hs stated he had been informed
y or NOR Nichols that he could re
and ne with safety. They answered
Outit vas their business, and he coull
stern stay there than he could afte
nhs' i, Henry Smith, R. r. Ray, him
oTlss l,,Ss oihers had been driven away tw,
MS cre. If he gave up tho office b
en- at " and work, but if he kept it
4. ' ufs, knock-downs and wors
a.1 his lot at every favorable oppor
l he offered to retain a lady, on
Ne. to one of the best families in tn
UT1 bis deputy, but this did not ap
Wss' body. 1t was reported to hin
St Y saunders had snid that he woul,
q Sam Chapman's shoes for
sp0" dollars. Like Dula, he though
,vx. him to return to New Orleans
hd.sss di,.s matters may not be accuratel
~. d minor details, but the fact
chanl The two postmasters Of thes
nd S o { not allowed to hold thei
AGENT nd have been forced to leav
inss' 8 in consequence Of being ap
them.