6-14-1874: “There is no more terror in the fact that a negro has armed himself in self-defense than there is in the fact that a white man has done so for the same reason . . . We rarely hear of unprovoked assaults upon those who are known to be ready.”

New Orleans Republican, Official Journal Of The State Of Louisiana, “There is no more terror in the fact that a negro has armed himself in self-defense than there is in the fact that a white man has done so for the same reason . . . They have as clear a right to do this as the white man . . . We rarely hear of unprovoked assaults upon those who are known to be ready.”, June 14, 1874