The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-08
NOT GUILTY.


ended with violence" The same author from
whom we quote the preceding, says. "The
whole of history shows that all great revolu-
lions have been produced by disproportion
between society and its institutions II the
iIlustrious Englishman from whom flowed
these utterances lived in our day, and had
been discussing the prosecution of the people
of Natehitoches just concluded i'm the United
States Court, the Infamous laws on which
they were tried, and the brutal and malevolent
spirit which inspired 1t, he could not have
used more appropriate and graphic language.
"rhe barbarism" of hese prosecutions be-
longs to the Federal Government. But the
civilization which rendered 1t impossible for
partisan court, organized to convict, and o
vindictive prosecuting attorney, determined
on humiliating. disgracing and running his
TO send to the Penitentiary the
leading citizens of whole parish for the crime
lot being Democrats belongs to the people
from the body Of whom could not be drawn
ia jury that would consummate the infamous
purpose of the government.
In the prosecution OF the forty-nine citi-
zens of Natchitochcs, In violation Of law and
Ldeeency, the government has been involved
In an outlay of about one hundred thousand
dollars. But this is small item. The prose-
BUTTONS have cost the people of that parish
more than one hundred thousand dollars be-
sides. During the last two months planta-
tions and farms have been abandoned by their
owners, to obey the writs of the United
States marshals, and theliborers, without a
or without contracts, have sought
tother fields of labor. There will be no crops
tmade in Natchitoches this year." said Blunt
ethree weeks ago In the Custom House, gloat-
ding over the damnable raid the United States
Marshal, with his wIits from the United
States courts. had made upon one of the
fairest sections of this State. More than a hun
section were here, absent from their homes.
under arrest, while Mr.. Leonard, the law
officer of the government, God save the
mark and other Federal officials were
drilling ignorant or bribed witnesses,
and bringing the trickery of Infamous
laws to convict them before a stocked jury
and send them to the Penitentiary for having
beaten Mad Wells for Congress and elected
gentlemen and Democrats to the Legislature
Of Louisiana. There will be no crops made
in Natchitoches this year," smilingly OBJ
served Blunt. And why did Blunt say this2
Because the citizens of Natchitoches, instead
of taking him, after his ten years of incen-
diary teaching, and hanging him to the first
tree they came to, permitted him, in their
humanity and conservatism, to live and
become the tool of damnable con-
spiracy, concocted in Washington and en-
trusted to the Federal court here, to In
timidate the white people Of North
Louisiana and disorganize and destroy the
Democratic party of the State. This in the
language of Chatham, was the barbarism of
the government. But the partisan court, the
stocked grand jury, the furious and deter
mined prosecuting officer, the army of Fed
eral marshals, the villainous and illegal laws,
the whole moral influence of the Federal adj
ministration and Of the Republican leaders Of
the country combined failed to influence a
jury of twelve honest men to do their dirty
work, and the verdict of mot guilty." pro-
nounced by the foreman of that jury yester-
day morning, indicated the civilization of the
people, and while freeing from arrest the citi-
zens of Louisiana wrote over the names and
records of all the men engaged in this busi-
ness, from the highest to the lowest, "INFA-
NOUS"
And now, is it not time for the people of this
State to consider the gravity OF such pro-
ceedings on the part of the Federal overn-
ment as those which, though this time
brought to nought have nearly ruined two or
three parishes Of this State and filled them
with CONSERVATION and bitterness? BY these
scandalous prosecutions the government has
sQuandered nearly one hundred thousand
dollars Of the peoples money; it has robbed
men, unable to bear the loss, of as much more.
In their eagerness to prosecute, the grand
jury indicted a man long since dead. The
malevolence Of the hounds engaged In the
Republican conspiracy to break up the Demo-
cratic party in Louisiana pursued their
victims into the grave itself. In three
parishes of Louisiana mothers, wives and
daughters have lived for six weary weeks in
suspense and agony. The Geographic wires
from New Orleans to Natchitoches have
been loaded with messages of
fearful solieitude, expressing in brief
but graphic words the love of hearts
wrung with fear and agony. What language
can describe the scenes in these remote
parishes of our State when husbands, sons
and brothers were summoned from their
homes to be tried by partisan court for de.
Tending their families from outrage and theil
property from destruction? Wives clung
around the necks of their husbands in terror
sisters wept and mothers trembled and
bowed their faces in their hands. And through
all these long weeks these women, sitting by
their desolated hearths, have wept and hoped
and longed for the end, while the sleek, we'll
fed, round bellied officials of the govern
ment drank and laughed and eat as they
drilled the ignorant negroes and debased
white traitors in the perjuries they were tc
commit for the purpose of sending these citi,
zens of Natchitoches to the Penitentiary fol
being Democrats
Butnow the end has come and there are GLAD
hearts around the hearths of Natchitoches
Tonight, and tender and loving hearts are
preparing the glad welcome for the men who