The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-07-07
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Grant Parish As It Is.

long established, and, to a certain
extent, justly deserved notoriety Of
Grant parish, it might be thought
presumption on our part, by some
whose interest it is to condemn
and who have always manifested q
disposition to misrepresent us,
that we should assume to correct
the unjust imputations with which
we have been 60 maliciously SLAM
dered. Guilty of certain indiscre-
tions we have been, no doubt, but
much has been alleged that is
without foundation, and even that
which we admit is not chargable
to the masses, but to the direct
agency Of transient and irrespon-
sible persons who have made our
territory kind of neutral play
ground for the consumation of
their nefarious schemes.
In our first article of this series
we had occasion to attribute the
cause of all our troubles to politics,
and We repeat it. Not necessarily
90, but because of evil and i'm
proper influences, engendering
strife between the malcontents of
both parties. Hence our object
in referring to the present condi-
ton of society, is with view to
correctly represent our people
abroad, as they are, and not as
quoted by our enemies. We doubt
if there exists community nearer
on an equality, in their different
attributes, or who lives on terms
Of greater sociability. With few
exceptions there are no large es-
tates, real or personal, consequent
~ as rule there is no social ostra-
cism on account of property-no
question of caste between rich
and poor-every citizen feels him
self peer among his neigLbors-
no opposition is presented to his
claim, which right is not disputed
SO long as he acts worthily in his
pretensions. The few whom for
tune has favored with a greater
abundance of,worldly goods do not,
as in antebellum times, scorn the
poor or humble workingman, but
express considerable anxiety for
his welfare, partly from interested
motives aud more commonly the
result OF great social change,
resulting from our late civil war.
Before that period the laboring
white man was excluded on account
of his limited means from the pos
session of the rich river lands, and
was obliged to content himself
with the ownership of the less |
fertile hills; now a welcome invi- |
tation is extended to industry
The disposition of the once
wealthy planter to accommodate.
his poorer neighbor, is now appa-
rent on every hand, and honest
toll receives her due reward; and
while, as we before remarked,
here is an absence of the wealth
md splendor that once surround
I'd the owners of princely estates,
md the scale balances on the side
If the poor and less prosperous,
here is nevertheless not one pau
per in the parish.
A good public school system has
'een recently established, and q
'roportionately large number of
chools are being taught, which,
0 say the least. is always COM
and worthy of imita-
ION by some of our pretended
lore refined communities. The
ubhc schoolfunds, we are credibly
formed, are quite sufficient for
resent wants, and a pro rata share
lereof is literally dispensed to 7
% benefit of the colored schools r