The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-29

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one with contempt for 1t, and
for Northern decency and manliness.
The New York Times, which usually
kee % q hired liar and defamer OF the
South. named Charles Carroll, In some
one of the Southern States, has made
itself especially conspicuous by the
falsehoods it has circulated in rela-
ton to the murder OF Law.
when we observe the utter disregard
Of truth exhibited by the Northern
press, the alacrity, indeed. with which
Northern Republican newspapers lie
about Southern affairs, we cease to
wonder at the brutal, cruel and bestial
crimes which are daily perpetrated In
the North, for nothing better could be
expected from people whose sense
OF honor is 80 feeble, and whose plane
OF morality is 80 low. that newspapers
which habitually misrepresent and lie
are 30 we'll patronized that they grow
rich and powerful.
The Northern papers declare that Law
was murdered by the white Democrats
because he was Republican. In the
name OF Heaven what reason had the
Democrats Of East Feliciana to murder
Law or any other Radical on account OF
his politics? The Democrats have COM
plete and undisputed control OF the
parish. Every official Of the parish Is
Democrat. There Is no political issue
before the people to excite them to acts
of violence and intimidation, even II
they were disposed to resort to such
measures to obtain political ends. 1t
will be nearly two years before there will
be any election, and in the meantime
all their interests demand peace, quiet
and the reign OF law and order. There
is positively nothing upon which to base
the charge that the murder OF Law was
a political murder.
The truth is that Law was murdered
by one Of his own people, and the MUIR
der was the result of a family feud.
Law was jealous of his wife; he had
charged her with infidelity and sued for
a divorce. Her relatives were much in
censed, and the account given OF the
affair in our letter from Clinton, which
was written by an eminent citizen OF
East Feliciana, shows that the quarrel
had assumed threatening aspect and
that Law went armed to protect himself
against the relatives.of his wife.
The murder was, as we said the other
day, murder of the ordinary class.
Similar ones, infinitely more beastly,
cowardly and atrocious, occur In the
Northern cities almost every day. The
local authorities Of East Feliciana are
willing and competent to do all that
ought to be done in the matter for
the vindication of the law. A party,
strongly suspected Of being the muir
derer, has been arrested and Is in
jail, while the parish judge and the
Grand Jury are Investigating the
murder, and doing all in their power
to arrive at the whole truth.
What more do the New York Times
and it's lying and foul-mouthed fel.
low-defamers OF our people desire
Do they want a wholesale massacre Of
the Democratic citizens Of East Fell.
ciana because b negro politician has
been murdered by some unknown per.
son? Do they want Phil Sheridan, the
murderer of the Piegan Indian women
and children, or Dog Merrill, or some
other army brute, sent down here with
q few regiments to again take military
possession of Louisiana, because Rad
ical politician has been assassinated by
one of his own class and color?
We advise the Times and other North.
ern Republican papers and politicians
to mind their own business. Louisiana
can take care OF herself and, though we
have no idea that murder will ever be
entirely suppressed in our State, we are
certain that our people will have to sink
many degrees lower in the moral scale
than they are now before the beastly
crimes which are constantly occurring
in the North, the accounts of which II
the Northern papers make those sheets
at times unfit to be read, will disgrace
our annals.