The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1875-03-27
9. Had it not been safe for you to
On hacL, thnrn

me not to 60 back.
Q. Arc there any Republican off.
GERS in the parish howi
A. No, only tho Parish Judge, who
Just returned homo, and believe
there is a letter in town stating that
the members of the lsar has agreed
not to practice before him.
Q. So that tho law business is stop
ped entirely in tho parish I
A. Yes, except before tho Magis-
trate's Court.
9. Do you know what tho vote of
the parish was?
A. l cannot tell you. Tho registration
amounted, l believe, to 1866, of which
1896 were whites and 226O colored.
Q. Who carried the day1
A. That is q matter Of contest be-
tween both parties. The Democrats
declare to have carried the election
of Parish Judge by eight votes, and
tho Republicans claim to have car
ried it by twenty.six.
So it was very close any vay'
@. BY the Chairman.-Who deter
mined tho election Of tue Parish
Judgei
A. The Returning Beard.
Q. This same Returning Board
hero
A. Yes.
@. And the Republican was de.
clared elected I
A. Yes.
@. by Mr.. Frye.-Was there any
outrage which you were cognizant I
A. know Of none. Up to the
time l left since 1866, there were
thirty persons killed.
Q. Generally colored3
A. lean inform you of that fact in a
minute. G. w. Stauffer was killed ;
the reason, l don't know anything
about.
@. l don't care anything abou,
namesf
A. l will give you the colored men
killed as far 40 I know. There are
twenty-five that count killed fol
political reasons or on account Ol
color.
Q. Twenty tive colored men .
A. Yea, there are thirty-three OF
thirty -four altogether.
@. Do you know whether anybody
has been convicted and punished foI
any Of these murders3 v.
A. There have been four persons
tried; l think they were all acquit
ted.
Q. So that nobody has been punish
ed Tor any of them
| A. No, they, these four, passed
throug regular trial and the jury &C
quilted them.
Q. Where there some negro a. huu
that were not tried1
A. Negroes hungi
9. Didn't they hang seme uegroe
up there9
A. What time
@. Any time
A. No, cir, not to my knowledge.
| @. Where the colored men alarme'
when you loft
Yes, they appeared to be /; this va
rather o sudden movement; It sprun
up suddenly. 1t was suspected thu
something Of tho kind would Tux
place, but it sprung up suddenly
Some of tho colored men came t
ask me what was the matter (; wha
were all these people coming to tow
for at this large meetipgs l reall
did not know myself.
@. Then this organization Of tn
White League and the overthrow {
the officials was something thu
sprung up suddenlya
A. There was some notice give
prior to that meeting, seven or eigl
days, asking or calling q meeting
repei the Republican officers, sllegin
charges against them. Some of ths'
parties were found in Red River pa
| ISL. l don't know why they slloul
= have been found there. The poop
there were not certainly interested.
@. You sai1 something about 20,
people not paying parish taxes -
Il A. The town 10 exempt by 10
q from parish taxation.
@. DO you know what is the p
pulation Of your parish about
| A. l think according to tho cens
Of 1870, it was eighteen or ninete'
thousand. But since that time
large number Of colored men ha
! come in from Sabine and some fro
the lower eud of DeSoto and col
> from VIM but I could net toll y
8 8 how much the population has be
s, Increased.
s @. How many school houses q
|, = there in your parish I rs
= A. The first school was organic
y in September, 1871.
. 9. Did you have any school sir
1917
A. No, sir, not in operation. Th.
was q school board appointed
there was no school. There had be
three Or four in the parish Il
taught there four or i've months a
u then quit. I think that Was in IL
- Q. How many school houses .
n there now I
- A. We started there with fit,
: scl.ool frsm March 30, 1871, Ia Ma,
' 81, 1872; and on September >
there were twenty. three schools.
y December, 1873, there were TWEEN
70 four schools, and they have b,
CT averaging from that time, suppo
fifteen anyhow.
@. Was the attendance Of schol
good
A. Yes, they have increased Il
u tho fret establishment Of the scho,
IL tho Duuber Of oolored and vi