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te-linCowinouicated.The VerdictWei! may the foreman of the Jury have banded it with trembling hands and bis co partners hardly dared to raise their eyes on their doomed victims, the holocaust to be offered to the vengeance of their party. Guil ty ! Guilty of whaj? Guilty of conspiring to defend their lives; guilty of conspiring to prevent the whole country fiwn being laid in ashes ; guilty of conspiring to prevent riot, bloodshed, rape aud all the concomitants which generally accompany the rising of a lawless mob.The human mind almost shuddersn-OCm-r-chiniCorn-ixlseit-licup■idupn.ofn4.Knlt;*»R.iIrinrul»«eVePdudviin II-i’e to re i*dii-r-ii-oflierer-at the thought, and tremblingly awaits the next act of the drama.Jlt;wV81Clno:clka:a»haaain*nCiAciThe acquittal of five of the prisoners amounts to nothing in the solving of the question before the country. Tbeir case was a clear alibi, and their conviction was an impossibility. They ivrre at home! .While the three convicted prisoners weio a part of the noble band to whom we owe that we are now alive, and our firesides un molested. It is their case which is our case; their conviction, our con- |o viction; their dungeon, our dungeon.Tho blacks have gained the victory® and yon can hear their demoniac laugh, as they exultiogly boast of the result. Where is tho spirit of the peop’c? Where are the mea of the land? Do they think they‘can Fit at their ease and chuckle that |( |f) hey are beyond the grasp of tbo irou of band? No, a thousand times NoJ It is not the manacled, condemned mariyra that are the felons, to-day !It is you, it is n e, it is all of us! TheWll same power which is crushing all the1 ju*orasotaiotoJO9II-i»r■d•n*droie10idid•Plit1-ofatatiey*IVIt**rI-Imn»tcylt;ineitlmfrestnblsiied landmark^ of our ^oreui-incut has to-day, overridden all lawsnd i^cedcnls and lowered us to therauk oi bondsmen; that same powerkitt!fllwhile you are supinely waiting for the tjresult will silently tighten the bands,ajaround your wrists and when you jM awaken to a sense of your danger you will find 3ourselves prostrate and powerless. #Emboldened by tbeir success, willthey not fill our country with theirVIscemercenaries, and surrounded a9 we are, by a race iu whose ears has been instilled tho creed, that everything! W is lawful which leadrf to our downfall; \v where will be our security ? Driven,h;SI8tracked and hunted, our tenantless homes and deserted fields will stand scas a memento that not daring, we tb lost all, the victims of policy aud iu- pi difference. JtltTho verdict of that Jury has placed co tho question of races squarely before in us, aud the parishes of Graut and fri Itupides have to decide it. They can- ze not evade it, nor can they heal the wound by compromise. Eight of their fellow citizens havo stood their trial, accused and prosecuted by a solid phalanx of suborned, peijured blacks, consistent and vindictive io their hatred of our race. They are now ready, willing and anr'ous to re? now the trial. The privileged ftets of a soulless government, they consider themselves liceused to override all rights and all laws.Under the promptings of such a District Attorney and the rulings of such a Judge, will they not place all of us before the same’ court? And tho very verdict which cons:gus Uud-jan not, Irwiu and Cruiksbnuk to a living tomb, Will people tho governmentIqi,P*isCilsatalietbtriclianpi.iswlm.friprisons with our fellow-citizeus.Last year tho blacks dared to force the issoe on these parishes and they soon leai oed that tho Caucasiau race was still their master. To day, backed by an unprincipled government— they bavo dared by perjury to condemn three of our citizens, and have£| returned exultingly to boast of theirI prowess. Shall they be iefttoenj6y their victory while our brethren areto moulder ayitbm tho walls of penitentiary ? God forbid! Thcro is enough vitality left in tho land to teach the presumptuous vandals that thus far they shall go, and no further.Tho volcano is merely slumbeiingi—’ and the spark is abeady fired which *; will burst its [crater and scatter I i those minions of corruption to the 8lt;?I s four winds of Heaven. . *****1piiansisusSOIeainanthlt;cumidannsa*sa 1agPacupei
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The Caucasian
Alexandria, Louisiana, US
Sat, Jun 20, 1874
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