The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-03-13

| .o.eo' ~ meaA w hSpupucans ghOBeS ma
jority for Congress AS to Newberry Coun-
ty, in q fair election.I can only Judge of it
from the same Information had as to Alb
beyille. The majority in Nevberry could
! have been from 1000 to ], ,200-same as for
the Legislature. The violence in Newberry
was not to the same extent as in Abbeville
as to murder, but the same intolerance ex-
listed as to colored men voting. There were
two cases of murder in Newberry-Lee
Nance and a nun by the name of johnson
Glassgow-prominent colored mon that I
now recollect.
Examination by j. D. Pope, ESQ, for j.
P. Reed:
Q.-How many white men Of any party in
South Carolina supported you for Governor,
do you think?
Al have no means of knowing. It was
q matter of Indifference to me whether l
was voted for by white or colored men; nor
did l regard it as important to the result, so
long as there was fair election, and the
voters had the right to exercise the privi-
lege guaranteed to them by the laws of the
country.
Q.-That may be true; but was it not the
fact that you were elected by colored voters
almost entirely?
Al have no means now of knowing the
relative number of white and colored votes
cast 1or me; but know, as q matter of ne
cesslty, that l received nearly all the colored
votes cast IN the State, as they were Republi-
cans from necessity, and voted for the Re
publican candidates.
Q.-Durlng the canvass for Congress were
You, at any time or times, and how often, in
the Third Congressional District, out of the
County of Richland?
Al was never out of the city of Colum-
bia to visit any portion of the Third Con-
gressional District during the canvass.
Q.-Were you in any of these Counties
before the canvass?
Al never was
Q.-Have you been since?
Al have not. My duties here have
rendered it almost impossible to leave the
capital
Q.-Your information, then, is derived
from others?
A.-Yes. My information is derived from
information of citizens living in these Coun-
ties, from civil officers of the State govern
ment, and military officers who were ON duty
in these Counties
Q.-1ou say that the resistance to the
laws was entirely by Democratic organiza-
tions. Who gave you this information
Democrats or Republicans?
A.-Both Many men of the Democratic
party were opposed to these Democratic or
ganizations for the purpose Of resisting the
law huu SeutlDB aC uenanCe the authority OF
the State Government.
Q.-Pray name some Of these Democrats
who gave you this information?
Al am not at liberty to name them, as
they enjoined confidence. claiming that if it
was known that they gave the information
whereby the parties might be brought to
justice. their own lives and property would
be in danger.
Q.-You say that Democrats told you that
sixteen-shooters were imported to keep the
negroes from the polls. Name some who
told you this?
A.-Members OF the Democratic club told
me this. 1t don't follow that they are De-
nocrats because they belonged to Democra-
tic clubs. A number of Republicans Joined
Democratic clubs, in order to discover what
object they had in importing these destruc-
tive weapons. / do not, for precautionary
reasons. feel justified in giving their names
to the public
Q.-Would you believe the testimony of
any man who became a member of a Demo
cratic club for the purpose of communicat-
ing to outsiders what he there saw and
heard?
A.-When surrounding circumstances and
results corroborate testimony fully, would
believe them.
Q.-You spoke of white men being armed.
Do you not know that there were armed
bands of negroes in Edgcfeld and Able
vile, and were you not applied to frequent
ly to prevent their use of these arms? And
what did you do to prevent it?
Al do not know that there were such
armed bands in these Counties, nor do I
now recollect of any report of such armed
bands being made to me from Abbeville. It
may, however, have been made, as there
was general rumor of armed bands of
negroes
Q.-Do you know that the importation of
arms into the State was brought about by
the fact that every negro man in the State
was the owner of a fre-arm, and the white
man almost entirely unarmed?