The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-27
NEW ORLEANS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27,

Search for them had been made In vain, until
it was discovered that they were on the Dan
ube and bound for New Orleans. The warrants
were then placed tn the hands of the consta-
BILE to arrest them, and they were arrested.
Did Leonard telegraph to the Department Of
Justice when the Radical candidate for sher-
if shot down on the streets of Shreveport
Chas. A. Flanagan, three weeks after the
election, for no other cause than this, that
Flanagan was Democratic commissioner in
the ward, where Alston was attempting TO hold
an Illegal election, and was stopped without
any one being hurt? No flaming bloody shirt
telegram passed over the wires when tho vic
tim of Radical assassination died and left be-
hind him a widow and children, cut off from
their stay and support.
In the New Orleans Times OF yesterday
morning is a statement from Mr.. Leonard
that Clark and White were killed because
they would give evidence as to the Caledonia
riot, and he stated further that they were the
only ones who could give testimony. This is
false an toto. Clark and White were not the
only witnesses; there are more than a hun
dred others, and one came In safety who was
president OF the Republican club. Sardius
Whitehurst knew all about the riot, and was
before tho grand jury. Clark and White were
arrested because under Radical teaching,
they had become assassins. 1t was useless
for the weaker brethren Of the colored per-
suasion to resist the powerful bulldozing set
on foot by the Radical leaders, and no wonder
that one old man, from the depths OF his
heart, exclaimed tnat ne was done With lie
publican politics, system which held him in
bondage and made him q weak tool for hell
sh ends, and when the retribution should
come he would be the first VICTIM while the
designing knave who led him on was hid In
safety. Is it not time for the government to
examine the other side; to call men OF
integrity and intelligence? Is it not time to
indict the Kearney leaders OF the ignorant
negroes In Boston, Kearney could howl his
TRADES OF abuse without effect us he spoke
to working classes of intelligence; but in
Caddo, where the ignorant are so large a pro-
portion of the population, self-preServation
demands that long-sulfering people shall
have some protection from these social fire
brands.
Since the administration OF Francis T..
Nichols the negroes of Caddo have been bet
ter protected in their rights; their children
have had better educational advantages and
a larger outlay of school funds, under com
petent instructors, than under the previous
eight years rule and we challenge contradic-
tiOn. The negroes are to-day safer in their
homes, securer in their property and are be-
ing better educated than under the wolves
who had them In charge in previous years.
Why? Because we are directly interested in
making them intelligent men and women !;
for In proportion to their intelligence they be
come more valuable as labor. The people of
Caddo court an impartial investigation; they
do not want any star chamber proceeding,
but are willing that all their acts shall be ex-
posed to the light OF a monday sun.