Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-01-20

ana others was equivalent 10 twenty
thousand votes, and they add that, to
recognize the McEnery Government,
would he recognizing government
based upon fraui la defiance of the
wishes aud intention Of the voters of
the state.
Assuming the correctness of the
statements in this report-and they
seem TO have been generally accepted
by the Countrywide great crime in
Louisiana about which so much
has been said is that one is holding
the office Of Governor who was cheated
out of 10000 votes against another
whose title to the office is undoubtedly
based on fraud and in defiance of the
wishes and intentions of the voters of
the State.
THE COLFAx MASSACRE.
Misiuformed and misjudging as to
the nature and extent of this report,
the supporters of McEnery proceeded
to displace by force, in some counties
of the State, the appuintees of Governor
Kellogg, and on the 18th of April, in
an effort of that kind, butchery of
citizens was committed at ColfaX
which in bloOdthirstiness aud barOarily
is hardly surpassed 10y any acts of saw
age warfare. To put this matter be-
You'd controversy, l quote from the
charge Of Judge Woods, of the United
States Circuit Court, to the jury in the
case of the United States VS.. Cruik-
shank and others, in New Orleans in
March, 1874. He said:
IN the case on trial there are many
fac not in controversy. | proceed
to state some of them in the presence
and bearing of the Counsel on both
sides, and if | state AS a conceded fact
any matter that is disputed they can
correct me-"
After stating the origin of
the difficulty, which grew out of an
attempt of white persons TO drive the
| parish Judge and sheriff, appointees OF
/ Kellogg from Office, and their attemp.
/ ted protection by cOlOred persons,
which led to some fighting, in which
quite a number of negroes were killed,
/ the Judge states d" Most of those who
were not killed were taken prisoners.
Fifteen or sixteen of the blacks had
lifted the boards and taken refuge un-
der the floor of the Court House. They
were all captured-about thirty seven
men were taken prisoners. The mum
Der is not definitely fixed. They were
kept under guard until dark. They
were led out two by two and shot
most of the men were shot to death-a
few we're wounded, but not MORALLY,
and by pretending to be dead were
afterwards during the night able tC
make their escape. Among them was
the Levi Nelson, named in the indict'
ment. The dead bodies of the ne
groes killed in this affair were left un
a q Ill /,
when they were buried by Deputy
Marshal and an officer of the militia
from New Orleans.
These persons found fifty-nine deaC
/. bodies. They showed pistol sho
wounds, and the great majority 0
them in the head, and the most q
. them in the back of the head. In ad
dition to the fifty-nine dead bodie
f found some charred remains of deat
bodies were discovered near the court
: house. Six dead bodies were foun'
: under a warehouse, all shot in tn
e head, but one or two of whom were sho
: in the breast. The only white mel
c Injured from the beginning of thes
troubles to their close were HunO
j and Harris. The courthouse and ii
e contents We're entirely consumed
There il no evidence that any one i
# the crowd of whites bore any Law
q fui warrant for the arrest Of any of tn
! blacks. There is no evidence tbs
# either Mast or Casabot, after the ailai
e ever demanded their offices to whic
e they had set up claims, but the Regi
IS ter continued to act as Parish Judg
) and shaw as sheriff. These are IL
It facts in this case as | understand thel
TO be admitted"
j. MURDERERs UNFINISHED.
,e To hold the people of Louisiana gel
E. orally responsible for these actrOcitie
n would not be just, but IL Is lament
1t BILE fact that insutferable obstruction
n were thrown in the way OF punishir
N these murdercrs, and the socalled Co
Is servative papers Of the State not on
TO justified the massacre, but denounc'
te a. Federal tyranny and despOtigm, Il
al attempt Of the United States officers
re bring them to justice.
W Fierce denunciatiOns ring thrOue
" the country about office holding al
he election matters in Louisiana, whi
q, everyone Of the COlfaX miscrean
to go unwEipped Of justice and no VIZ
o. can be found in this boosted land
A. civilization and Christianity 10 puni'
l. the perpetrators OF this bloody Al
le mOustIOu- crime.
Of Not unlike this was tine massacre
il August last: several Northern YOU
ne men Of capital and enterprise hi
IN started the little and fiouri-hing tow
10 of COushalta Some Of them we
Republicans, and oilice-holder- und
ld Kellogg They were therefore dOOm
II, 10 death. six of them were seiz
al aud carried away from their homes al
~ murdered in cold blood. No one h
Of been punished, and the Conservati
e press of the state denounced all
50 fort 10 that end, and boldly ju-liil
We the crime.
u Many murder, Of Ike character ha
u- been committed iu individual cas-
Us which can not here be detailed. r
be example, Il. Is. Crawford, Judge, al
he T.. u. Harris, District Attorney Of 4
er Twelfth Judicial District of the Sta
A. on their way to court, were shot fro
ne their horses by men in ambush on q
lrt Sgh Of October, 1873, and the widow
.ly the former, in a communication 10 [
nd Department of Justice, tells a piteO