Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-01-02

peaceable election; heard doctor talk
ing TO cOlOTed man close by the poles
saying: 81 have attended YOU all thu
yesr, and have helped you along, now
you go against me.n The negro finally
voted Conservative. Witness didn't
! consider this intimidation,
! NJ H. TwitChell, of Red River parish.
! q planter by occupation, said he has
lived IN that parish four years; was q
| Union soldier; was married in Bienyiile
parish; is Republican; there have been
attempts at ostraCism, but felt it very
. .shtiy; since the murder of his brother,
tie people there seemed very anxious to
So az with him, doubtless hoping be
would assist them out of the trouble
they were IN; the reign of terror didn't
eet in until just before the COushatta af-
I III; he was warned by friends TO get
| away, and left COUshatLa with a reiay OF
2rses, getting fifty miles away; went
| back with two companies of United
states troops, and remained there until
alter the election; was not troubled, be-
cause he never went out of sight of the
troops without being well-mounted and
well-armet; he had information that it
was the purpose Of the White League to
drive out every white Republican, and
that they intended to get possession of
the government, peaceably If they could,
iOTcibly if they must; knew it would
not be safe for him to return there in the
absence Of the United States troops: in
COushatta, at the massacre, six whites
were killed, together with two negroes
who We're soon after hung, and several
others; ne could not tell how many, but
a large number; has been for four yeals
member Of the legislature.
I. j. Greene, of Lincoln parish, a
lawyer by profession; native of South
born, in Alabama; had lived in his par
lsh many years; was, before the war,
very popular; about two years ago he
went into politics with his father; is q
Republican, and since that time has
been socially ostracised; other RepubIi-
cans are treated the same way; had a
brother in the Confederate army; his
father was Union man; is parish Judge
Of Lincoln; the sheriff told him he had
been insulted; was Republican, but did
not vote in the last election; believed he
had been Ostracised; named half a dozen
members of his family who had held Of
fee in the parish
Charles PuCket said in regard to social
Ostracism, that he thought it was more
directed to individuals than TO party
men; during the recent campaign, which
was red-hOt one, he noticed that some
of the people gave him the cold-shOul-
der, but he thought it was because they
thought that he, being an old citizen,
should have voted with them; thinks
everybody voted who wished to do so;
there was no intimidation against the
mass OF voters; any ill-feeling was di-
rected against the leaders; the people re.
1uired the parish judge to resign because
he Was not a lawyer; about tweI-
ty negroes voted at the box where he
was, and there was no intimidation
whatever; the ill-feeling against the
whites was Lacause of bad local govern
ment; the Republican police-jury issued
large quantities OF certificates OF indebt-
edness, which the people now have to
pay; they hold the Republican party ac-
countable; they feel that they have been
almost ruined by excessive taxation.
The committee adjourned at eleven
O'clock this evening, to meet at the Gus
tomhouse at ten O'Clock to morrow
morning.