The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-12-27
COLLAR, GRANT PARISH. La. SATURDAY. DEcE,IRER D.
THE "AULD oLooTIE" WILL SHOW.

had cause to nudge our Alexandra
neighbor, We The People, for its ar
rogant assumptions and unwarrantet
assertions, and fain would have be
lieved that its bad taste had i'm
proved since our suggestion for it
consideration of the trite old adagt
OF chow we apples SWIM" but al
hope OF cure for it is now at an enc
unless a radical change takes place
soon. After spreading itself about
ward two, and commenting on the
martyrdomQ of our old friend Will
lett and his bombastic protest, il
gets off the following sample of im-
pertinent interference in the affairs
of this parish:
Grant parish, for years and years.
has been the scene of riot, bloodshed,
arson, rape, etc. The courthouse and
records of the parish have been burned
once or twice, and individual property
laid into ashes by the incendiary's
! torch. Poll books and tally sheets
have been stolen on more than one &C.
cassion, and the liberties of free peo-
pie denied the right to express their
choice at the ballot-box. Law and
justice there have never been enforced,
and we suggest that the territory that
Is now called Grant parish be given
back to Rapides and Winn. 1t can
then be controlled, and, we believe it
would be an act of charity to those
who have and always will suffer for
want of legal proceedings.
Aside from its grammatical con-
struction, for cool cheek and an ex-
tensive display of brass we commend
our readers to the above. Thanks
10 wise provisions of law the wild
scheme of wholesale adjustment
proposed by this Bombastes Furioso
writer, who can champion any and
all causes with equal (ill)gTace, is a
matter left entirely to the people
whom it directly interests, and can
not be interfered with or directed by
their neighbors. When Grant par.
ish needs or desires the kindly intru-
sion referred to we will inform our
contemporary of the fact, but until
then We recommend it to follow the
course of an old gentleman who is
said to have accumulated an immense
fortune by attending to bis own busi-
ness. We do not desire to be quar-
relsome in the least, but cannot have
our parish villifed by man who
first espouses the cause of the very
enemy that is alone responsible for
oil the misfortunes and Irregularities
that have occurred and then turns
and under the guise of friendship
gives a treacherous stab. 1t looks
bad, friend Connelley. and you had Mt
ought to do it. Some terrible scenes
have been enacted in this parish, we
admit, and at one time bad set
'uled the day. But this is not the
'ge Of carpet-bag rule. and the roughs
Who infested our parish then have
been scattered to the four winds OIL
in warehouses;, jails
ind penitentiaries, some in disgrace
md poverty, some in their graves
md our citizens enjoy quiet and
,eace. They did not permit the
tealing of the tally sheets, for it was
thing they could not prevent 1t
ould not, nor would it have been
prevented in any other parish.
Our contemporary says, claw and
nstice there have> never been ell
orced," in saying which he exhibits
ross want of information or else
esires to make wilful and mali
ious libel on our parish. In reply .
re will only state that Grant parish .
an show as good, if not the best,
ecord of any parish in the State for
be past two years and half.
Our people have cause to appre-
late law and order, and they have
etermined that an eternal stop shall !
e pat to evil doing; but while they
re engaged in the laudable occupa-
on OF attending to their own affairs /
nd striving to SO regulate matters |