The Opelousas courier., 1896-03-28
The Sequel.
Lafayette Gazette.

A majority of the white people Of st.
Landry have determined to eliminate
the negro as political factor and are
doing their best to prevent his registra-
ton. The leaders of minority faction
OF thCr bite people assert positively
that the negro shall vote. And there's
the rub. Unfortunately there are ar
rayed on the negro's side some good
men who are led astray either by ambi-
tion or factional bitterness, for it can
not be that they are raising all this fuss
out of pure love for the colored brother.
Some of them say they are still Demo-
Gratis, while most of them are openly
espousng the Republican cause. 1t is
been any serious trouble but for the in
cendiary speeches Captain Pharr deliv-
cred in that parisl. some time ago. Since
that time his fanaticai supporters seem
to be following his advice and have al
ready started to carry out his bloody
program. 1t is very true that the par
ties who shot the Roys, the so-called
regulators, were special officers, but it
is none the less true that they were ap-
pointed by a mayor who is a supporter
of Pharr if not in accord with his damn
able scheme to vote the negroes though
it should cost the shedding of the preci-
ous blood Of white men who believe that
this country should be ruled by the Cau-
casian race. Candidate Pharr has told
his supporters in st. Landry that the
men who died in protecting the negro
in the exercise of his political rights,
gave up his life for worthy cause and
was self-sacrifcing hero. We differ
with the captain and believe that in
stead of being the EN- bodiment of virtue
lu i
he be of Southern birth, is traitor to
his race, an enemy to the negro and
disgrace to any decent community. Ii
a man who dies in the attempt to estab-
lish or perpetuate negro rule is gentle
man of valor and patriotism, as suggest
ed by Captain Pharr, then the heroes of
the Fourteenth Of September, who died
to wrest Louisiana from the unclean and
sacrilegiOus hands of the black hordes
under the leadership of the kelloggs and
the WarmOths, were enemies of society
and Infamous bandits. 1t the man who
dies to protect the negro in his legal
right 70 vote is the hero that Captain
Pharr says he is, it necessarily follows
that the man who dies in an effort to
suppress that vote to establish or main
tain white supremacy is a mean scoun-
drel. We had been taught to look with
tCuOt dGlOH " tuOsC Sdiluub dul UtdSG
LOuisianians who sacrificed all, aye,
their very lives, so that the white man
might rule, but here is man who Phar-
isaically proclaims himself "christian
gentleman" and a lover o. bis State and
declares that it is heroic, brave and no.
BILE to die not to perpetuate white mans
government, bet to overthrow it,
We do not believe that Captain Pharr
was sincere 10 what he said to bis friends
in st. Landry. We cannot believe. But
it is just as clear as the MONDAY sun
that the bloody chapter just enacted in
our neighboring parish is one of the IN
evitable results of his inflammatory and
demagogic speeches delivered there q
few weeks ago.
Let us pray that the tragic nature of
the first sequel of this old mans wild
pratings Will deter thinking men from
acting precipitately in the future and
that no white mans blood will be sacri-
feed on the altar of negro suffrage.