Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-04-09

laWlcSS men.
Q.-What was the condition Of Abbeville
as to outrages also, of Ncwberry?
A.-The same as in Edgcfcld. In Able
vile County / have reports on flo of nineteen
murders. Those murders were also commit
ted before the November election. Judging
from the former election in April, and max
Ing due allowances for natural changes and
influences that might legitimately have been
brought to bear, judging Furthermore by the
statements of mel from the county Of both
political parties, in my opinion that the Re.
publicans would have carried tho county by
1900 votes. I mean by Republican, Hoge's
majority for Congress. AS to Newbcrry
County, in a fair election, I can only Judge
of it from the same information I had as to
Abbcville. The majority in Newberry could
have been from ten to twelve hundred, same
as for the Legislature. The violence in New
berry was not to the same extent as ia Able
vile as to murder, but tho Same intolerance
existed as to colorcd mon voting. There
wcrc two cases of murder in Ncwberry-Leo
Nance and a man by the name of johnson
Glasgow-promincnt colorcd men that I re.
collect.
discrimination by J.. D. Pope, Esq, for J..
P. Reed:
Q.-Iiow many white men of any party in
South Carolina supported you for Governor,
do you think?
Al have no means of knowing. It was
a matter of indifference to mo whether I was
voted for by white or colorcd men, nor did
regard it as important to tho result, so long
as there was q fair election, aud the voters
had the right to exercise the privilege guar
anteed to them by tho laws of the country.
Q.-Thnt may be true, but was it not the
fact that you were elected by colorcd voters
almost ontirely2
AL havo no means now of knowing tho
relative number Of white and colored votes
cast for me, but | know rs a matter of peccs.
sity that I received nearly all the colored
votes cast in tho State, as they were Rcpub.
licaus from necessity, and voted for the Re-
publican candidates.
Q.-During 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, Columbia,
to visit any portion Of the Third Congress
sional District during the canvass.
Q.-Wcrc you in any Of these counties be.
fore the canvass?
Al never was.
Q.--Havc you been since?
Al have not. My duties here have
rendered it amost impossible to ave the
Capital.
Q.-Your information then, is derived
from others2
A.-Yes. My information is derived from
information of citizens living in these counties,
from civil officers of the State government,
and military officers who were on duty in
these counties.
Q.-You say that the resistance to the
laws was entirely by Democratic organizations.
Who gave you this information, Democrats
or Republicans?
A.-Both. Many men of the Democratic
party were opposed to these Democratic or.
CARNATIONS for tho purpose of resisting the
law md setting at defiance the authority Of
tho State government.
Q.-Pray name some Of these Democrats
who gave you this information?
Al am not at liberty to namo thom, as
thoy epjolnod confidence, claiming that if ii
was known that they gave Che information
whereby the parties wight be brought to
justice, their own lives and property would be
In danger.
Q.-You say that Democrats told you that
sixteen shooters wero imported to keep the
negroes from the polls. Name some who told
you this?
A.-Mcmbors Of the Democratic club told
mo this. It don't follow that they are De.
moorats because they belong to Democratic
clubs. A number Of Republicans joined Do.
mooratio clubs in ordor to discover what OBJ
ject they had in importing these destructive
weapons. I do not for precautionary reasons
feel justified in giving thoir names to the
public.
Q.-Wouldy YOU believe .he tessisaony d
any man who. hsaame'a member Of o Demo
cratic CLUB for the purpose Of communicating
to outsiders what he there saw and heard?