nting the same, shall neglect or refuse so to do, and such wrongful
act shall be committed, such person or persons shall be liable to the
person injured, or his legal representatives, for all damages caused by
any such wrongful act, which first-named person or persons by reasonable
diligence could have prevented; and such damages may be recovered in an
action on the case in the proper circuit court of the United States, and
any number of persons guilty of such wrongful neglect or refusal may be
joined as defendants in such action. _Provided_, That such action shall be
commenced within one year after such cause of action shall have occurred;
and if the death of any person shall be caused by any such wrongful act
and neglect, the legal representative of such deceased person shall have
such action therefor, and may recover not exceeding five thousand dollars'
damages therein, for the benefit of the widow of such deceased person, if
any there be, or if there be no widow, for the benefit of the next of kin
of such deceased person.

ART. 7040. [7.] Nothing herein contained shall be construed to supersede
or repeal any former act or law, except so far as the same may be
repugnant thereto; and any offences heretofore committed against the tenor
of any former act shall be prosecuted; and any proceeding already
commenced for the prosecution thereof, shall be continued and completed,
the same as if this act had not been passed, except so far as the
provisions of this act may go to sustain and validate such proceedings.

CHAPTER XIV.

THE K. K. K. IN LOUISIANA.

Adventists--How they Practised on the Parasitical Blacks--A Little
Power is a Dangerous Thing--The Political Situation in '67--Whites
Refraining from Participation in Election Campaigns--The State
Press--The Order of K. K. K. in Louisiana--When the Government
Officials were first Notified of its Presence--The Feeling in Grant
Parish, a Shire Division of the State created for Political
Purposes--Riot Growing out of a Personal Difficulty--Blacks
Entrenched in the Court-House at Colfax--Besieged by a Force of from
Three Hundred to Four Hundred Men--Parley--Negroes Refuse to
Surrender--A Second Defiance--Building Fired--Massacre and
Termination of the Bloody Affair--Statistics of Losses in the
Fight--Who were Responsible--The White League or Camelias--Occupied
the K. K. K. Basis in Externals--New Orleans