The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1890-04-19
At the town of Moreland, a little

Castle, there lives a well-tO-dO far
mer and colored man by the name of
Ladd. The family had resided in
that locality for many years and are
well known to many of the colored
residents of this city, and bears a
good reputation among them. On
last Friday, a young n by the name
of Eli, belonging to the Ladd family,
left his fathers home and went to
Brownsville a small town in the east
ern part of Henry County, and about
four miles from Moreland, to trans
act some business. During young
Ladd's stay at Brownsville he got in
to Il difficulty with % druggist over
some tritling affair, and was elected
from the store. Laid left the premi-
SEES with the threat that he would get
even with him. The druggist inform
ed a posse of the Negroes threat and
a small sized company at once flew
to arms and laid in wait for young
Ladd's return. 1t was not long I'M
til this lone negro was seen coming
up the principle street of the burg
with a shot gun slung over his shout
der and it is said with a revolver in
hand. 1t was only the work Of n mo-
ment to open battle and the negro
seeing a score or more of armed men
confronting him, retreated, firing at
his pursuers as he did so. The fight
was kept up for nearly a mile out of
town, when young Ladd fell dead,
riddled with bullets. We are inform
ed that Ladd's body laid several
hours in the public highway where he
died, before anyone could be found
to remove it..
In the killing of young Laid, We
have the spectacle of a posse of arm
ed men pursuing a lone negro for
nearly mile On public highway
and only desisted after death came
to the object of their wrath. And all
this occurred in a county that boasts
of being the banner Republican coun-
ty Of the State of Indiana, and in q
town and township overwhelmingly
Republican. Had this bloody deed
been enacted in some Southern State,
the Republican press of the country
would be loaded down with the de-
tails of the bloody affair.
Ladd was a young man a little past
Fl years of age, and has frequently
been In this city and is we'll respect
ed among the colored people who
knew him, and while he was a power-
full built man of his age, yet it is not
known that he had ever committed
any crime and in the difficulty which
cost him his life he had harmed no one
up to the time he was attacked in the
public highway, after which he sue
ceeded in wounding one of his assail-
ants. One of the parties who shot
Ladd to his death, and as we are in
formed, all who participated in the
deed are men who do not believe q
Democrat has any rights that a loyal
Republican is bound to respect. How
ever this may be, the killing of the
negro boy Ladd is an outrage upon
the laws of our State and IL blot upon
its fair name that has no parallel in
the annals of crime North or South.
The pursuit of this lone negro boy,
for nearly a mile on the public high
way by posse of armed white men
and the Kidding of his body with
bullets, stands out in bold type side
by side with any crime we have vet
seen reported from the South in a Re
publican paper, and the Republican
Congress and especially the Jay Haw-
king Judge Advocate, John j. ingalls,,
of Kansas, should turn this way and
lift the cloud of infamy that has set
tied over this banner Republican
county of Indiana.-Muncie Daiy
Herald.
The Republicans in the South have
been greatly encouraged by the man
ner in which Democratic Congress-
men have been nnSeated by the ma