Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-10-12
Comm, unicate1)
October LIST 1873,

Tlos. Dalton few nights previous, near
Bayou Sara, and the fight Of Armstead
and Duncan in great haste from our Par
ish. The Radicals in our State aud at |
the North may attempt to charge upon |
the people of our Parish, from the above !
facts, disposition to outrage colored |
people here on account of their political |
opinions, Or preferences. But the charge
would he false, for Dalton was put to
death as a murderer, who by. failure of
the law to convict and punish him.
was treated as he might have expected
to be at any time within the past five
years. The wonder is that the relations
and friends of the gentleman he killed
allowed him to live here as long as lie
did, when he rightly deserved death Mt
their hands. AS to Armstead and Dun
can, they may have been justly alarmed
by some demonstration which I have
not heard of, but their consciences, no
doubt, trouble them snrAlyr.-and thev see
the devil III every bush at night, are
alarmed at every unusual noise, and lit
orally like 'sthe wicked flee when no man
pursueth.' At this time of high political
excitement in our own State, and in
many of our sister Southern States, as
we'll as in the States at large all over our
Union of States, it becomes the duty of
every Democratic voter, in every com1l,u
nifty and in every section. to do his whole
duty to his party in'this campaign. After
| being deprived of control Of the govern
| ment for nearly twenty years, the pros
poet is most cheering that our grand old
party is once more about to rise, like the
| tabled Phoenix from it's own ashes, aud
in it's renewed strength ovcrwhelm and
sweep from existence the corrupt party
which has held the government so long
| to the ruin OF our people, of all Sec
tions. 1t is particularly the duty Of the
Democratic voters of Louisiana to do
their whole duty i'll tho crisis upon lis
and above allothcr people of oar state,
it is the duty of the Democrats of West
Feliciana to stand, as one man together,
in unfolding the flag OF our party, and
in carrying it through the approaching
contest to one of our ante be1lum glorious
Democratic victories. 1t behooves our
people at this time to exert control over
|
at all, if pos ble but to be sure to com
nit 10 violenccs which could be con.
strued by our enemies as political in theil
nature, and which could DE used by then
to sustain the false and libelous charges
made against cur people in the campaign
of 1876; that our State and PARTICULAR.
our Parish was carried by intimidation
| nd in1n all l; iplA r1s
ticular class Of our voters. Though w
carried our State in the Presidential cam
anti oIeariy, tne' 6solCai IIlIfy sucGrrnpt
in seating their defeated candidate III
the Presidential chair and will keep hin
there, upon the plea that any majorit.
!, obtained by the Democratic party il
Louisiana was obtained by intimidation
violence, bloodshed and murder, ant
that these acts vitiated the election ant
gave to the Returning board a legal RICH
. to throw out the votes they did. W.
proved to the satisfaction of all far ant
candid men, at home and abroad, tina
these charges were false. Before prope
tribunals at home and in Washington We
proved the charges wer false, we produc.
ed witnesses of all kinds, from men occu
plying the highest positions in society t,
the humble and illiterate colored men
who living here know every part ant
act taken by our peopls::in that campaign
Another tribunal has been ordered b,
Congress to investigate the whole bust
nees again, in order to convict and pun
ish the men, who by bribery, corruption
purjury and every species Of yillain1
succeeded in seating man in the Pres
dental chair who was defeated most
clearly in his election before the people.
We sent from our Parish before the sub
committee while sitting in New Orleans
a number of witnesses-some white ant
some colored, some of them even swor.
that the testimony once produced from
our Parish by the Radical party had beer
falsely sworn to by the very men the1
swearing-who recanted and confessed
the crime they were parties to. We sent
white non of the higest character and
standing before the committee to testify
in our behalf, among many others, we
sent the Hon. r. G. Wickliffe, who to
add to the might of his words and the
solemnity of his oath told the commit
tee how much bonored he had been by
our people, once before the war elected
Governor, and three times Senator FROM
his district to the Legislature. and in 1876
mad Q one OF the electors on the Demo
| cratic ticket; a man who had lived fol
| a generation in West Feliciapa was pres.