The New Orleans Daily Democrat

THE BLOODY SHIRT WITH A VENGEANCE.
The bloody shirt has never been waved
with greater ferocity and unscrupulousness
than in the canvass just closed. All the Re-
publican papers throughout the North on the
morning preceding the election published the
following scandalous and lying dispatch.
We have no doubt this infamous batch of lies
had considerable effect against the Demo-
crats. Comment is unnecessary:
A MILITARY TYRANNY-A BATTLE IN LOUISIANA.
IN WHICH CANNON WERE USED-THE COLORED
MEN AGAIN MADE SLAVES.
[By Telegraph to the Tribune.]
Washington, Nov. 4.--Advices received from
the South show that the old slaveholding ele-
ment has regained its former political ascend-
ency, and that the colored race is as much at its
mercy to-day as in the days of Calhoun or Pres-
ton Brooks.
In South Carolina the entire Democracy of
the State is organized into an army, fully
with cavalry, artillery and infantry, ready at a
moment's notice to rally and disperse any as-
semblage of Republicans within the borders of
the State. This state of affairs is not pictured
by refugees alone, but is confirmed by the local
organs of the Democracy received by every
mail. In Louisiana a still more lamentable and
terrible state of affairs exists. The country
parishes are less accessible. No newspapers
except those which are controlled by the De-
moeracy exist in the State, and the means of
concealing crimes which are committed in the
interest of the Democracy are more abundant.
Dark hints occasionally come to the light, only
to be smothered under a cloud of conflicting
stories sent out to confuse and cover up the
truth. The following extract is from a private
letter received to-day by a gentleman in Wash-
ington, written by an ex-slaveholder, but one
who abhors the tyranny and persecutions
which are being perpetrated by the Democrats:
"The troubles in Tensas and Concordia par-
ishes are about settled so far as the killing of
negroes is concerned, but the whites over there
are indulging in recrimination
likely to result in their killing some of them-
themselves. They are scrambling for office now
among themselves, none regretting the killing
of the negroes. It was a terrible slaughter of
the negroes. The Natchez Democrat and other
papers try to smooth it over but there is no use
trying to hide it. They killed thirty-six in one
charge with cannon chiefly, and I heard reports
of cannon during two days. I know I heard at
this distance fifteen reports, and for four days
and nights they were riding the country over,
hanging and shooting. You could see negroes
hanging on the roadside all over Tensas and
part of Concordia. I saw parties that had seen
several. When the whole truth is told 200 at
least were killed. I have gained this much in a
roundabout but reliable way. Every effort is
being used to keep down the truth, for fear it
will injure the Democracy in the November
elections North."
In the Fifth District, where Judge Ludeling
has been making a vigorous and plucky can-
vass for Congress, a similar state of affairs ex-
ists. A letter, dated Monroe, October 28, written
by Judge Ludeling himself, says:
Three days before the day appointed by me
to speak here, Dan Hill and Herman Bell were
assassinated in town, and two colored men were
assassinated on Pargoud's lower place. D.
Hill was shot in front of his shop, and later in
the night his murderers returned and shot him
again while lying on his bed. H. Bell was taken
from his house at about midnight, dragged to
the woods and shot, and his body was found the
next day. Judge Baker, Whitehead and Judge
Caldwell, who were the Republican candidates
in this parish, withdrew after this, and nearly
all the colored men in the parish have been
forced to join Democratic clubs, although they
say they won't vote the Democratic ticket. In
Morehouse, Dunn was candidate for Represen-
tative, J. O. Weeks for judge and Pratt for sher-
iff. They were waited upon by committees
and forced to withdraw from the canvass.
"King was nominated. I am satisfied, on
pledges that he could and would bulldoze the
river parishes. After his visit to Morehouse
the rifle clubs were organized. These organiza-
tions sent their men out among the colored
men in the fields and everywhere, notifying
them that on a certain night a Democratic club
meeting would be held, and that they must go
to it or they would be visited. Very few paid
any attention to this. Squads of armed men at
night rode around and whipped and beat
prominent colored men. They whipped Ned
Williams and Roy Smith on my place, Judge
Smith, Al. Baker on Gordon's place, and a num-
ber on Whited's place, and on nearly every
place in the county. The last was Pargoud's
lower place, where they killed two men. One
white man, young Ashby, was wounded there.