Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-29

! for he manifestiy had read VII;
~" probably never took i've troub
to 10 K at-the reports made I
Cong'es - by Mes-rs. Potter. Fo.
ter, Wheeler, Phelps ard other
which es'abIish the facts incontes
tibl1. 1t was Gin and a shame /,
make you express admiration an
respect Cor these unmitigate
scamps. and. facile as you are,
wonder that you submitted to j,
They might have spared you thi
degradation. Was it not enoug
for yon to have sad that tho ras
cality Of the Returning Board W.
''thc exercise of a wise disc, elton :?
You. or somebody for you. hav,
undertaken to repeat the amnzins
argument that The Re urning Boa
and tho Electora; Commission wer,
right in disreyarding the popula
vote and setting aside the eI,c' 10,
in Louisiana Gree, full, and TAI,
though it was). because numert Us
murders had been committed in the
State duri~ e the period Of carpet.
bag rule. 1t was alleged that these
murders had been going on steadily
for Yeas at the awful average Of
about four every day and though
The perpetrators Of them were well
known, the public authorities bad
not taken measures 10 punish a sin,
gle one. Nobody was hung or tried.
or even arrested. l did 10, believe
this story. 1t was d,ric on good
authority and supported by no
credible evidence. But I insisted
that, if it was true, the people wer,
right in turning out offic, rs who
snch STATE Of things TO
exist, and elccting others who would
project lite by faithful execution
o' the laws. II did seem to me like
new species Of moral insanity 10
.ay' that the law-abiding and hon
Eat citize1 8 Of the State should b.
iisfranchlsed because they had cast
heir votes against officers w.,o, be- |
Hdes being public p 'undsrers hat
AIKEN away all security for life by
permitting 1000 murders in thre.
ears to go entirely IN, u1:shcd.
Upou this you assert, or at least
Ign your name to an assertion and
ubiish II in a magazine as yours,
hat l admitted tho repatriation of
re murders referred to; that l JUS
lied them, alleging that the State
avas too aucok to punish
: prevent them. This represents
e as the most inhumsn monster {
the earth. A man who would {
stify the unprov iked assassina ion s
1000 peaceab BILE and HELPLESS per- J
ms, Including women and children. =
the mere ground that tie gov.
nment was unable to prevent it z
'uld not hesitate to comm; lnur- r
r himself whenever he could do d
with impunity. This odcus n
arge is pressed upon me explicitly n
q repeated in many 70, ms through r
'erai pages OF violent denuncla-
u. Now, mark my an-we. we'll a
e man who wrote this part OF The lr
icle which passes as yours ia il
;e imposter. Every opinion -
'ught and sentiment EXPIRE scd by -
Is precisely the reverse of wha, be "a
'u,es 10 me. pronounced tie ="
~ OF the four thousand murders m
at l did then, and do still be- Ia
'e 1t to bc-a sheer fabrication w.
up TO order for partisan purpo-
30 far from jnstfying those 4,
'ders, declared that if suci, Ia
RACES had real y been committed co
carpet-bag authorities of the to
lie had made themselves infa- be
* by their failure to punish m
n. Furthermore, l averred il ~: ~
matter of fact, and showed !. uo
conci usively o be true, tina, sal
Stale government was AIMED to
physical power amply suite eie
to enforce the law, preserve of
oeace AID protec, life. All this a.
d, not in doubtful or obscure "e'
aage, but 8, plainly that no co
with intelligence one degree de-
e that OF an idiot could misun> sit,
land me- ho>
re direct, straightforward men, s,o
y OF this effort to datame me is W.
lily wonderful. I Speak Sob
and without passion when | yer
that l think there is nothing owe
t ON record. No reader will wit
w , w. Ho n s.; tce gr"ssne.s pla
pages 1856 Z, with mine a, mel
9~iO-ll. Even then he will Wol
ndei stand it unless he locke awE
WY at the passages which the con
r prctencs to copy from me. whc
are all fraudulentIv chang, d