New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-08

Witnesses Before the ku.Klux Conn
mittee-Ladies Require Passports to
Enter France.
WASHINGTON, July Joseph H. Speed
testified before the Ku-Klux committee
that in Alabama affairs were quiet until last
winter, when disguised bands commenced
various Outrages, and continued until re-
Gently. Their outrages terrorized the col
ored people. The opposition to the educa-
ton of the colored people came from the
lower classes; the former owners are
strongly in favor of a general and impartial
education. Speed claims to have been a
confederate officer, but is now regent of the
State University and superintendent of
education in Perry county, Alabama.
Albert Richardson, of Clarke county,
Georgia, formerly a member of the Legis-
lature, testified that in January last band
of disguised men, whom Richardson be-
lieved to be Ku-Kux, came to his house,
fired at and wounded him. Hr returned
the fire, wOunding one assailant mortally,
whereupOn they retired carrying off the
dead man; knows of no cause for the
attack.
Whipping, and similar outrages, continue
in that section, creating such terror that
the negroes living in isolated places have
abandoned them for the towns, where they
have nothing to do, and suffer distress.
ladies require passports to enter France.
Wives must be mentioned in their hus-
bands passports to avoid annoying investi-
cations.
The Secretary of the Interior to-day re-
ceived from the War Department a copy of a
report from Major Bliss, commanding the
twenty-ffth infantry, at Fort Duncan,
Texas, relative TO the proposed removal of
the Kickapoo tribe of Indians from Mexico
70 ha iaE in Inf iaD
Territory, United States. These Indians
emigrated from the United States several
years ago, and have since been in the habit
of frequently crossing the border TO commit
depredations, afterward finding safety and
refuge in Mexico. Major Bliss, on May q. pro-
ceeded with the Indian Commissioners and
two friendly Kickapoo chiefs to Santa Rosa,
Mexico, near which place he met Chino, one
OF the chiefs, and about one hundred
kickapoOs. After waiting six days for the
other principal chiefs to come in, and find
ing it uncertain when they would arrive,
Major Bliss returned on the eighth of June
to Fort Duncan.
He reports that he has received letter
from Commissioner Miles, dated Santa Rosa,
June II, in which the latter stated that the
Chief Wahpah, for whom he was waiting,
had not up to that time made his appear
ance. Major Bliss adds On my arrival at
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missioner was there, issuing provisions to
the KickapoOs, and had five thousand dol
lars to be expended for them. From what
saw and heard while in Santa Rosa, a large
number of Kickapoo men and women of that
tribe are anxious to go to the United States
reservation, but their chiefs oppose it.
Chino, the only chief of Importance that
met with, is very friendly, but opposed to
leaving Mexico. Shunan Jose, the chief of
the Pottowatomies told me he would return
to the reservation but that his tribe would
not go.
l called on the Mexican alcalde at Santa
Rose officially. and was informed by him
that he had no knowledge of any intention
on the paJt of the Mexican authorities to
assist in the removal Of the KickapoOs, and
had never received any instructions of any
kind looking to such a movement.
The commissioner and Kansas Indian
chiefs who accompany him will remain in
Santa Rosa until something definite can be
ascertained.
The Olympics beat the Kekiongas, in
this city, to-day, by the following score: