That honorable, law-abiuing and well
meaning citizens would with. revolv
ers, guns and bowie knives attempt
to disperse a crowd gathered to or
ganize an association for their mu
tual benefit and protection, would
be decried. Yet in this twentieth
century, on the evening of March
23 at the head of a paved street
in the civilized and wide-awake city
of Donaldsonville, so-called law abid
ing and prominent planters from the
neighboring parish of Assumption de
liberately rode in automobiles, mod
ern means of locomotion, and with
force and arms dispersed a crowd of
local colored folk, doing nothing
wrong but heeding the tempting of
fer of a labor agent, working open
and above board.
