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lieo-llll.tilL i The follow ing is t lie reply of L. A. Martinet, editor of Tlio Louisiana Progress, to tlie Spiingfleld (III.) Republican, which paper com roented reproach-iit fully upon the Progiess’ support of the ts | Democratic party : J1Jt ••Wlien the proparlv-holders, hound down by adiabolical flection law, eorld s-r no longer stand the system ot robbery i an universally pievailin.fr iu the South un-M* det* the form of countitnted authorityduring the Republican regime, is it , I.,u strange that they icsorted to extra le- ’ •M! gal remedies to protect themselves andproperty Y When goaded to madness,,)J uitweic, by retreated and continual-e» ly accumulating acts of spoliat’on by unalien tribe, the carpet-bakers, withoutlegal remedy at hand, is it any wonder j1,1 ■ Unit they lesortrd even t mob violence to obtain relief ? When such a state ol)r a flairs exists excess* sate cummin od for la!10 w iiich no onir can la* held responsible, h*stB-ii-Iunt*oi1chimi'in*V.'llpriIlCI .1'* but w hich all regret n.terwaids. When j a student i*i this city iti 1874, the editor ol this paper passed through Feliciana on his way to take charge of a summer school in Wilkinson county, Miss,, and '• stopped a day iu Rayon Sara. The first j thing that attracted his attention were j signs nailed against tiees advertising j parish warrants for sale at ten or fifteenT cents on the dollar. He was very m,1,1 young and nti ardent Republican—a hi l* i bitter radical. But this was a urn la- ! si tiou. Iu mute solililoqtiy lie womlered jV how long the taxpayers would submit‘ to be robbed of their substance in this shameless and w holesale manner. The '* retribution c«me. It was awful. The re*;l guilty parties alone may not have IM suffered. An avenging crowd is not very discriminating: and the white scamps w ho protiled by this system of 11 spoliation, knowing the enormity of ‘ their acts, watched the signs of theV times and carefully weighed tlie temper l_ uf the people they robbed and op-apressed. As soon as thev perceived I?]l,: the storm about to break they decamped. Uy11 Their colored dupes suffered fov them.”
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Saint Landry Democrat
Opelousas, Louisiana, US
Sat, May 12, 1888
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