The weekly Louisianian., 1872-10-12
THE NEW r WEEKLY .LOUISIANIAN.
De,palate aatez Il AFFAIR." in Portion. u
Alabama.

Despalate State Of Afiairss In Portions d
Alabama.
D~rAoro11s, Ala, September q, 1877.
10 the Editor Of The Chronicle:
/ As a Grant and Wilson electo1
for the 4th Alabama Congressional
district, comprising fourteen Of the
wealthiest counties in Alabama, as
the chairman of the Fourth Repub-
lican Executive Committee, as m
ex-delegatet to the Philadelphia Con-
vention, as IN ex-senator, and as a
native Alabamian, I deemit my duty
to inform the public, ~ we'll as the
Administration, of the awful state
of affairs which exist in, this portion
of Alabama.
On tho 21st inst, in accordance
with a previous notice, I proceeded
to Livingston, Sumpter county, Ala ,
in my buggy, pulled by two fine
mules, for the purpose OF address,
ing the Republicans Of said county.
I went in the daytime, by way Of
Belmont and Bluff Port, two i'll
terror villages OF Sumpter. These
two little villages were once -four
ishing and prosperous, but the black
deeds, such as whipping. hanging,
and killing of the colored people,
have caused ruin, waste, and DESC
lation. The store-honses have
crumbled down, the dwelling houses
uninhabited and decaying, the fields
where once were labor and cultiva-
ton, are now grown up in weeds
and broom-sage. I arrived at Liv-
ingston precisely at II o'clock a. IN.
I found Il tremendous assemblage.
Shortly after my arri ;al, Hon:
Charles Hay, member OF Congress
from the 4th Alabama district, and
who has been renominated by the
Republican convention, arrived. A
short while after my arrival, two
men, ono quite a youth, the other
quite advanced in age, with tre,nen-
dous pistols buckled around them,
approached me aud said: I'LL bet
you SO hat such q man can whip
YOU" I informed them that I was
not there to fight, but belonged to
the Republican party; which is the
party Of peace and prosperity. Al
most every white man had pistols
buckled around him. I soon found
out hat I could not speak there.
Some of those present, hearing that
I had expressed the opinion that I
could not speak, insisted on my do
ing so. / assembled the stand and
told a good many humorous aimee
dGtes and stopped. I could not
have spoken there.
About G O'Clock p. N. I began
my journey home, the same way IL
had travelled in ths morning. A.
ter proceeding about fourteen niles
a cclored man met me, very mnc!;
excited, and said, "tIars Will f
crowd of white men have gons
down the road to Deinopolis, armed.
Ny family wSre i'll, and I had to go
if possible. On arriving in
I drove a short distance
the Mcdowell road to see an
old schoolnfate of nine and ascer~
;ain from him if he had heard any
thing of those men. He said he
had not. concluded to brave the
A colored man let me
have two pistols I instructed my
an it was very dark-the
not then being up-to drive
vtry slow, 50 should any ono be
approaching rs, We could hear
and prepare to fight, I
through the "Bigbec swamp"
safe, and woke up the ferrynan to
put us across the Tombigbee river.
[ drove the buggy in the dat-boa,
myself, my driver assisting the fer
ryman. just as we got half wa,
over the river the dat-boat rur
aground on a sandbar. I was sit
ling in tho buggy, holding my
mules. All at once there came a
Of pistol shots. One ball
struck my right b! hand mule; I heard
several hit the ~Gggggy:I was bold
to my mules; one ball went
through my coal, just above my
nip then iumpedont and told them
shoot me aud not kill my mules.
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