Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-06-06
CANCELLATION IN LOUISIANA.

special Telegram to the Inter. Ocean.
NEW ORLEANS, May 29.-Jude,
Dula, of st. Francisville, West Felici
ana, one of the parishes in which th,
reign of terror prevailed during tn,
last election, was elected Justice o
the peace by large majority, ant
commissioned by Governor Nichols
lie likewise received a commission
from Postmaster General Key earl,
last month. On the 15thf instant h.
lett New Orleans for home to enter
upon his duties, He reported to TIL,
Postmaster General that the Demo
cratic Postmaster refused to surren.
der the Office, that the Democratic
Sheriff to whom he appealed for pro.
lection, refused to execute any pro
cess issued by Dula, and said the
white people were tired of Republic
cans, and would no longer tolerate
them in Office. The parish attorney,
Leak, advised him not to qualify as
justice of the peace. The clerk Of the
court told him if he had returned to
organize the Republican party he
would get load of buckshot, and
that the people would no longer per-
init such organization. Many of
DuiaYs friends clandestinely sought
MIN at his house and warned him not
to remain at home or he would be
at night. He sought an
asylum with friend near his home
and saw men walking around in the
dark watching for him. The next
he discovered on his gate
miniature coffin, upon which was a
heart painted in black, bullet hang
ing from a string, sealing wax for
oiooa, his name upon the lid, and
within 1t a Winchester bullet with a
paper in the handwriting of we'll
known citizen with these words: "Pos-
itively, if here by the first of june. !"
Said coffin and accomplishments.
and also the one left dtv Laws house
just before his assassination, have
been sent to General Butler. The
parish attorney said that had he re-
celved such a thing he would leave
the parish at once, and that Il would
not DC safe for Dula to remain. The
Clerk of the court said the white peo-
pic would not tolerate Dula, and he
had better leave at once, and it would
not be healthy for Senator Weber.
whose brother was recently murder.
ed, to return there.
Later in the day crowd of white
bull-dozers sought Judge Dula and
tried to force him to resign the post
office in favor ofa white man named
Benney, saying Dula should not hold
the postoffice under any circumstance
es. nor any other republican. They
cursed Key for having commissioned
him, and told him they were the mas
ters there and not Governor Nichols.
Dula held out bravely till the NOR
row, when the news reached him of
the atrocious murder of James Laws,
who had also received a coffin a few
days before his murder.
Judge Dnla is here awaiting the
action of Postmaster General Kew
upon his official report this day for
and Of which the above is an
extract. He is very respectable. in
telligent and inoffensive colored man,
and a native of the parish. A party
just from the scene of the Laws trag-
edy says the assassins were white
men with blackened faces, and that
they could be arrested if the Nichols
dared to exercise any
power in the Felicianas, but that the
bull-dozers defy him to make even
IN attempt. Upon what part of the
globe does the American government
protect its citizens?