The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-06-28
Communicated

of the sCalcasieu war. 1t says that anticips-
tions have been aroused, the people are upon
the tsntsr hooks of expectation, and have en-
fiured this state If affairs as no other nation
would have endured them, indeed have mani
tested patient fcrtitude throughout all these
trying emergencies for which they could not
have been accredited heretofore. They are
still in anticipation of horrors such as the
stage hero never "supped full IF" It'll hang
ing to the ragged edges of expectation.
Still hoping, still tearing, that there hangs
over the pine clad hills Of calcasieu, the en-
sanguned clouds Of war which for immensely
of PROPORTIONS, is to be unequalled by any cum
fiict, recoroed in the annals of history.
The press, the great palladium of the moral
and political rights of the people now comes
forward to their relief, and in tones Of authur-
ity tea,and, why such a state OF things should
be con inued C aiming that if there is to be
wiz in Cnlcasi'u the nation, the people OF the
nation, have rights to know of it-tnat this
war is the properly of the people, and they
must enjoy the privilege OF being acquainted
with 1t in Ill lis features. OF what nvail is It
now that this thing is discllaimsd by parties
d, eply concerned and thoroughly infor-.ed as
affairs here, the disclaimer is suppressed in
the very breath with derid'ng incredulity.
To what purpose mny 1t be denied that the
officers OF the United -tates have been resisted
by overwhel ming numbers of log mel? Has
not the State press announced such things?
aud is not this statement Sustained by the de-
tailed reports of deputy marshals as Ibex and
V,docb, and by the Special Agent of the United
States? Have not reports gone to the Depart.
ment of the Interior at Washington which
plainly show that this same United States
Agent has passed through showers and flames
or theie equivalents, in order to secure this
property to the United States and these
not fully accredited there? Did not marsha
Pitkin, (unfortunate chieftain) while in the
for reinforce nts, in the form Of United States
soldiers, starving deputy mar-lIals, newspaper
broa,lsides. or anything on earth that wuud
suppress the "heady war" wased over these
HSH'Nu ~" 'pSr' .''''iy, ~ Wv S'''SS."' my "
fortnight or little more, have rern!orc ments TO
the extent Of n surveyor. keeper and two
deputy marshals been nassed upon Calcasieu
soi2 Have nor some of the most respectable
citizens of the parish been stig latised in the
federal con,ts US log thieves? ana thai, too, by
representatives. of the interests Of the United
States? Can it for enc pass ng moment BE-
supposed that the Us. COVE nment, whose
off ers for the last eight or ten years, have
secure q world wide fame for pui y OF motive
and integrity Vt conduct, would permit this
escutcheon to be furnished h oOun tenancing
an agent capable of alander.ng 'r even scan-
d.Iizng one 0. its most preciou. citizens? Has
not the many iol,gued run'or spread far and wide
the fac that f ME or ten weeks three~t ourths
of the source Of the revenue OF Calcas'u river
has been, as it were, locked mp by a,dr gnet
seques ration without the sig test Efforts on
the part of Marshls to take such measures as
property of private citizens, arroeantly unh'w
fully and ,wrangfully seized under this writ and
there held in wanton 10 kltssness Of the rights
Of citizens of the United States? And W en-
the federal courts saw fit in the panitu,le, of
their power and grace to empower and instruct
three citizens to proeeed from New Orleans TO
CHS scene of confusion and oppression, with
positive orders; and when those commissioners
80 instrnsted. proceeded 10 discharge their tu.
ties nnder the same, did not deputy marshal
Gainey the ''tall and determined" lpoking.
defying the tcourts order them to de'ist on
pain OF arrest? is it not currently reported
through the press and otherwise, that the best
citizens TO be found 10 CaIcaseu sbarish are
utterly un~orthy of the confidence of the Off.
GERS Of tbs United States?
Answer these questions, say the people, and
then let any one dare to affirm thai there has
been a false alarm as to the existence of war
in our midst.
The conclusion is inveritahle, war with all 4
its horrible eonc0mitants Of rapine murder,
plumber is drawing along the disc of time its
purple length and lsanguinary folds a United
States special agent, and minor appointments
are daily, hourly in danger Of being decspitated
officially if not MORALLY. and in tho name of
violated expectations, bafled anticipatiops and
outraged curiosity, the people Of this glorious
American nation CRY aloud for satisfaction and
security, and With eyes turned to Gen. Whar-
ton IN unmlstakable tones demand that be for
ward forthwith TO the front o further reinforce
ment Of ut least one more discreet and watch-
ful keeper to have charge and care Of those
now on the ground. and see them safely depos-
ited in the Blossoms of their families, or within
the sanitary precincts Of some llnnasic asylum,
whore such treatmeut may be administered as
Tho moro charitable deem necessary.