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 Riots--Their Effect on the Returning Boards--Coushatta--K. K. K. in Texas--Border History Uneventful--Texas Legislature Interferes. In the States of Louisiana and South Carolina the war between the K.'s and Loyal League waged fiercest, and was longest protracted, for here the fires of political proscription were earliest lighted, and the boundaries of party maintained with the greatest fortitude. In the former State, a party of men, who were known in certain quarters by the derisive title of "Adventists," had assumed to control its affairs, not so much in the interest of, as by the use of, as a means, the negro element of its population. Practising upon the credulity of this unenlightened class, it is not too much to say that they effected their object; and for a period of more than seven years around these central suns of the political firmament the parasitical blacks fluttered. Governors, congressmen, and legislators were created from this material without any reference whatever to the legal attainments or other qualifications of the aspirants, and with a view only to such class legislation as could be made available to the negro rings, and destructive to the people's interests in that quarter.