The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-21
And Will Turn Them Over to the
Tender Merc;es Of the Law.
Official Presentment of Facts as TO
Louisiana Frauds ard Outrs9es.
THE ATTEMPT To EsTALIsH POLITICAL

Q
, consideration of the duty of the Attorney.
: General in The premises. When the S1uth,
cru policy was orig mated it Was with an
earnest desire to cunciliate the Southern
leaders, To round of the sharp angles # the
> sectional differe' c.s, and to soften the as
Feriii.s Of political STRIFE No one will de-
ny that the attempt to enforce this policy
. WAS MOST EARNESTLY MADE
nor that it was carried out with conscien-
tious desire to accomplish the result for
which II had been inaugnrated. Of the
personal and partisan sacrifices / made in
this effort, and of the consequent interruD-
tion of certain relations which had previ-
ousiy existed between myself and some of
INV supporters, | have nothing 10 say Just
now. But il appears that the leaders who
made rhUse pedges either did not exert
the emselves to keep them, or were unable to
do 20. In fact, | am reluctantly forced 10
admit that the experiment was a failure.
The first election of importance held since
il was attempted has proved that fair cleo
tons with free suffrage for every voter 10
the South.
| ARE AN IMPoSSIBILITY
under the existing condition of things II
is not because the Republican party ap-
pesrs a. sufferers in these results that |
complain. 1t il because free suffrage and
freedom of political rights have been in
teri, red with that | am called upon to take
cognizance Uf these disturbances. Ii the
facts were essctis reversed, and ii the Re
pubiicans had Committed these outrages
upon the Democrats, my duty would be the
same IL will mol do FOR Inc or 10. any
,.rtur ,tFi.r.l h. 4, xh hop, I..
may come to treat them otherwise than in
bipartisan wty. The partisan press
will naturally take a partisan view OF the
case, and will be h-ld to account for aid
ing the Republicans IN Haunting "the
blo"dy Shirt" as it Is called; but for all
that
SHALL Dc MY DUTY
as Chief Magistrate Of all the people, to
Democrats and Republicans alike, and il, |
in the faithful execution Of the laws, JUS |
lice thali demaI the punishment OF this |
OF THAI man, whatever his political con-
nections NAV he, | shall not be deferred by |
partisan criticism. All that know i, that |
great crimes have been committed, and it |
my dury TO aid in the punishment of the |
criminals. ! do not think the Southern |
leaders who have promised to protect the |
black- in the exercis- of their rights are re-
sponsible for these crimes. Gov. Hampton,
for example, has uied repeatedly TO repress
the violence which has characterized the |
campaisn in South C,rolina, and failed
such Republicans As Judge Lee, Mr. Raj
ney, and * State Senator Swails, Of that
State, have advised me OF tn, Sc facts They
say that Hampton
CANNOT CONTROL THE RED SHIFTS,
as they call them, and they have repeatedly
informed me Of speeches he has m sde dep
recaiing violence in the conduct Of the cam
paign, and it appears that Gov. Nichols,
in Louisiana, Is earnestly opposed 10 these
proceedings or the same kind of violence
in his Stale. The officers of the Department
of Justice have been instructed to carry out
the proceedings already begun against the
onl against those who
have already been arrested, but against
others who will soon be arrested 1t is
proposed 10 make a clean sweep Of this bus
iness, and
EXHAUST EVERY LEGAL RESOURCE
in the execution of Justice The integrity Of
American citizenship has been grossly VIC
lated in widespread localities. Itmu-t and
shall be vindicated."
hC ISsiuCht pv ray |
10 district attorneys in the Southern States,
that IF il is discovered that any officer of
the class you refer to il not earnestly en-
to do his whole duty in the mat
there will be no hesitation in taking the
proper steps TO replace him, and to secure
a vigorous prosecution OF these cases."
WHY IT FAILED.
~ orp,-y.r prpnp- or rup ,n,-, ,.~. |
oUTRAGEs.
Especial Dispatch to the ChicagoTribune
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. 12-United
States District-Attorney Leonard, of LOUIS
anna, formerly Confederate officer. who
is here to confer with the President about
The late outrages in louisiana, conversed
1t length TO day in regard to the situation
IN that State. He said that "if there had
been a fair election Louisiana would have
gone Republican by 5000 to $1,000 majori-
y, and thee, possibly four. Republican
would have been e!ec'ed. My
,wn personal experience of the election was
limited to Caddo Parish. That pa ish had
registered the vote Of 1913 whites and
nearly $500 blacks. Of the whites al least
80 would have voted the Republican tick
u, anu lHtlI luttHtlOH 10 90 SO. |
)n fair and peacable election the Repub-
leans would have carried the parish by
800 majority. The vote "a returned was
| Democratic msjority of $40. The ,
Democrats
OPENLY TOOK THE ELECTION BY FoRCE AND
ARMS.
There were twelve voting precincts in the
,arish. United States supervisors were sp- !
'oin'ed for all of them by United States l
Judge Woods, but except at two precincts
n shreveport, these supervisors were not
allowed even to witness, much less TO scrut- $
nize, the election. They we're told that I
hey were Lot wanted, and, of my personal I
in some instances, we're forcibly
emoved from the vicinity Of the ballot box.
bou; week before the election two mill :
airy companies we're organized in Shreve- !,
'ort, and some in the country. These CON- !
,anies appeared on the streets with arms,
md traversed the country roads. The night
4 election armed men Travelled the country c
Dads and fired into the houses of negroes,
n many instances taking negroes and beat t
ng them. Ten days before the election the q
republicans had much difficulty in holding
h, ir meeting at Spring Ridge, twenty miles
rom Shreveport. Public notice had been 4
iven of this meeting for . long time, but c
he Republican speak RS, consisting of the a
andidates for sheriff, the candidate for the b
legislature, William Hooper, . noted CT 4
red leader and the present Senator, aud
eonard himself we're notified at o'clock Il
a the morning. before arriving there, BY !
-iendly negro, that
THEY WOULD BE KILLED. O
he Democrats learned that the meeting L
allied was their own. A compromi-e ~as
,ade BY dividing the time. The request p
= the Democrats for joint Discussion wa- r
Fgsrded NJ peculiar, as there were only x
IS white men registered in the place; Yet n
here was large humber of white persons y
here, the purpose of whose visit was no,
nown. The Democrats agreed that order
nould be maintained. The joint discus
on proceeded. Leonard was the fret
oeaker. In the course of his speech he
as interrupted by loud cries denouncine
i'm as q liar, and dozen men rushed
ON the crowd to attack him. He stood
uiet, and the attack was postponed. The
'emocratic speakers we're not interrupted.
|hen the turn came for William Hooper,
'e colored Senator, to speak, he had only
lid q few words when . violent tumult
rose. He tried for three minutes, in the
in. to speak, but was denounced BY the
lldet shouts from all quarters.
CRIES OF "'KrLL H1xvn "sK1LL HIM"
ere heard. "Destroy the damned scoun-
relsr" "sEud the Republican narfv