Year: 1868

We have received a dispatch from Amos
s. Collins, clerk of the Seventh Judicial
District Court, stating that the press and
printing materials of the Marksville Register
were yesterday completely destroyed by
mob led by the editors of the Democratic
paper published in that place.


The Register was conducted as a Repub-
licau paper and published the judicial ad-
vertisements of Avoyelles parish, and this
publication probably led to its lawless sup
preston, by the parties interested in the
Democratic paper at Marksville.


The tone of the Register was mild and
temperate, as the following editorial from
that paper of the twenty.third instant will
convince any reader:


We notice with pleasure that the excite
ment and much of the bitterness incident
to the election and political canvass in this
parish has sutsided. That portion of the
people who favored Seymour's election have
evidently arrived at the conclusion that
worse might have befallen the country than
the election of General Grant, and that mat
tiers are not so bad after all. They see that
It is the wish of the majority that General
Grant should be President, and very sensi--





cept the situation.n We hope hereafter
that the people of the South, who
gave their best Efforts to sustain
the Confederacy, will cease to
heed the vaporing advice of the
peace Democracy of the North, or longer to
cooperate with them politically. No good
can come to the South from such political
combination, and as long as it is continued,
SO long will exist the most Irritating ques-
ton in American politics. The war is end
Ell, the question of reconstruction is settled.
now let the dead past bury its dead, . and
the people of Louisiana escheW politics tor
the present, and devote their efforts to the
Development of the many resources OF
wealth that so inVitingly open to the grasp
OF industry. Let emigrants from every ma
tion be solicited to make their homes here,
aua let them be encouraged and assisted if
need be. Here are the cheapest lands and
richest soil on the continent, producing in
abundance the two great staples of civiliZa-
ton, sugar and cotton, beside every other
sgncultural production of the temperate
| zones, easnJ aece aafbio at all times to one
OF the best mark cts of the word we need
only the braWny musole of labor to make
Louisiana the most fourishing prosperous
and wealthy of American States. The
trouble has been too much politics, and too
many demagogues. Let the people see that
the one ceases to engross their entire time
and attention, and the other to rule them
with an iron despotism.


This is the sixth Republican printing es-
tabishment that has been destroyed in this
State by mobs, acting mainly in the interest
OF Democratic newspaper publishers, who
resort to this desperate means to secure for
themselves monopoly of judicial adver-
tising. The State authorities should strip
these Democratic publishers of every legal
advertisement obtained by such lawless
acts. These men should be taught that the
whole power of the State and National Gov.
ernment will be brought to bear to sustain
the freedom of the press in Louisiana. The
other Republican newspaper establishments
that have been destroyed in this State by
mobs are Blackburn's Homer Ihod, (twice
destroyed), the st. Lancry Progress, the
Attakapas Register and the Rapides
Tribune.


1t Is about time that the whole people of
Louisiana should learn that lawlessness
and violence will not be tolerated by law,
even if it escapes punishment.


The State authorities should prohibit the
publication of judicial advertisements in.
the Opelousas Courier .the Alexandria Demo.
crdt, the Franklin Banner and the Demo
cratic paper at Marksville. In all these
parishes suspend the courts, if necessary,
until there can be some adequate protec-
tion to the Republican press.