The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-20

the other end Of the Capitol A witness in til
- - lass lew days appeared and testified that &
y Lufauia, Ala, IN the last campaign, had made
. speech IN which ! advised the Democrats
u, Al ,bama to carry the election by force. Their
IS the same amount Of truth ia tina. charge as i
- many others made against the South; and tn
" facts are that made no such speech anywhere
10 L was not within three hundred miles of Eufaul
I at the time, and have made no political speec
q In Alabama at any point for five years. Yet ther
. stands the testimony. Among the witnesses
9 introduce there will ba no Jack Browns" VIII
y run for Office first upon one side and then upo
l. the other, Democrat in 1872 and Republican il
a 1874, and always beaten on both. [Laughter.l
! Shall not introduce any witness who assigns a
! his reason for becoming candidate for Congress
the fact that lie had failed at everything else an
t was obliged TO have an office. Iprefer differen
/ class Of witnesses, and different kind Of test
r mony.
t Georgia is stronger Democratic than any @
I the Gulf States and ii the Southern people are
! as represented, such oppressors Of th3 e-,roes
. and Republicans If, indeed, it be true that u
I man c,uld live in the South aud be Repub
lican, if the whites had possession Of their State
3 Governments, certainly there ought to exist il
Georgia reign OF terror, of lawlessness and OF
blood, which, as Sena tor from Indiana charges
| could not IT sist- What is the condition Oh
} Georgia society? | ask to have read telegram
from gentleman who is very well known here,
: who bears an honored name-a Northern man
who has voted the Republican ticket since that
party was organized, who has the confidence of
The present Administration, and but few
months ago held a position under it, He is a
gentle man; and sncn have always found, aud
will never fail to find, hospitality beneath q
Southern roof as long as there is money left 10
extend it. The witness is Mr. w. @. Morrill,,
lately of Maine. ask the Secretary to read his
! telegram.
| The Secretary read as follows:
ATLANTA, Ga. Jan. 8, 1S75.-Tne Hon. John B.
Gordon, United States Senator, Washington-The
treatment | have received from the people Of
| Georgia during residence Of nine Years has
| been more than KIND, and better than deserve.
W. G. MORRILL,
| Mr.. Gordon-I ask also to have read q telegram
| from the same gentleman who was the Freed
mans Eureau agent, AMI ought to have some
| knowledge OF the subject-matter of which he
| speaks. | wish the country to know what Mr
morrill, has to say OF the treatment OF negroes IN
| the Democratic State OF Georgia.
The Secretary read as follows:
ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. II, 1875.
The Hon. John B. Gordon, Washington:
For the last four years my residence has been
in the city, and during that time have had no
reason to believe that the colored people have
been treated different from any class Of labor
OF the Freedmen's Bureau, l found very Ii tie, if
any, bad treatment from former Shareholders
but all trouble that to my knowledge
almost invariably was from that class that never
owned either land or slaves, but usually rented.
1 think You will find the abov. substantiated by
nearly all the late intelligent agents OF the Bl.
reau. W. c. MORRILL,
Mr. Gordon-I ask now to have read tele-
educational privileges Of the two races in Geor-
Sla.
The Secretary read as follows:
ATLANTA, GA, Jan. IL, 1875.
The Hon. J. b. Gordon, United States Senator,
Washington
No distinction between whites and blacks. |
Under our school laws the whites DIV l1pon two |
hundred If tbn
blacks upon six millions of property Of general |
taxes, about one-titieth paid by blacks of poll
tax, about one-tenth paid by blacks Over AZ. 900 |
colored children al pubic schools last year; about
80, coo white children. JAMES NJ SMITH.
Mr.. Gordon Now ask to have some brief ex-
tracts read from very long letter written by
Mr. W. H. Savage, OF New York, who has been
teaching coiored schools in Mississippi. Tenncs-
see, Georgia and Alabama for the last four years
have selected few passages which Will ask
.he clerk to read. Ii any Senator desires to hear
,he whole letter 1 should be glad to have it read
The Secretary read as follows:
" For the last few years have been engaged
n the work Of educating the coiored people.
"An experience Of over four years in the South
in Tennessee, Alabama, Iississippi and Georgia.
lbie to lay aside little political differences in
'pinlon and welcome gentleman such if he
zones among them as All honest man, let him
'e from whatever section he may.
"!And give it as my honest opinion that most
u the so-called outrages nothing moro than
iccur III any other state from time to time but ,
lere every lawess deed of any outcast and ruff
ian Is distorted into enmity toward the Federal {
rove nment.
g | have known many instances where villain :
us carpet-bag politicians have been allowed to 4
cave the country with much less punishment t
han they mer ed; for all must know that the 9
outh is Hooded with class Of men who followed /
ne armies and have scattered themselves {
b. oughou5 the South-men WHO would not be | q
ecognlzed in any respectable household of the i
'orth and yet they complain that they are not S
Telcomed into the families of people whose
haracters they malign most unscrupuously for q
eltish political ends" "
Hastily, W. H. SAVAGE /
rincipal Excelsior Colored School, Griffin. Ga. 4
Mr. Gordon-Other testimony flom equally re- i
pectable Republican sources could be intro i,
uced. But, sir, what is tho use, when none but | n
nose who dcfame are beieved2 When your ii
"n Republican Committee, appointed by Re- o.
hitewashing report. It cannot be forgotten r.
lat Gen. Grant himself made a tour Of the rs
outhern States since the war, and t,at he re- 3
'rted what he saw and heard. Yet even Gen. G
rant was charged with ''whitewashing" the m
'uthern people. Gen. Grant has not been in W
&c South since, and all the information with re- la
renee to that section which has reached him or of
s subordlnates has come through those whose | ne
isnesS ana lnteSest IL mas Deen to SANDER that
ople for the last nine years. bI
RESPONSIBILITY FOR CRIME IN LOUISIANA. WI
Great stress has been laid upon the outbreaks N
Louisiana; but, sir, bloody as they have been, ca
latever the causes, the President himself seems
have been imposed upon in some particulars. =,
BON what other hypothesis are we to explain W.
9 statement in his message that all the Colfax SO
niscreants go unwhipped of justice" in the pa
e OF the fact that many were arrested tried Pc
fore Judge Woods OF the Circuit Court, and oe
e convicted; and that the very decision which co
9 President quotes has undergone revision ne
reversal by Mr.. Justice Bradley of the az az
preme Court? Is it true that the murders in 10 s;
South are perpetrated by Democrats or white Ct.
ople solely? Let an Off .ial record speak | ~. .h
Id in my hand the record of the one hundred !d
4 two murders committed in the last few wears ,al
the city of New Orleans, Of which seventy ~
zee were by Radicals and twenty nine BY De- ms
crats, eight by black women and one by = a.
lite woman. tu'
New ORLEANS, Jan u, 1875. ii ~
Gov. A. Voorhees, New Orleans: . Ke
.fter perusal of the official dispatch of EN-. by