New-York tribune., 1875-09-02

up the lands without astrugglcr
"To tell you the truth, Sir, didn't vwas thu reply.
"What did you propose to do if ycu INST with TO
sistancer
"The orders were to kill anybody who resisted'
"Would you have done il"
eyes. Sir. l suppose would would have obeyed
orders' .r.-. ....r
"Did you ever kill anybody, Jaker
"Oh no. Sir. never did"
sEai you had any misunderstanding or any cause
for hard feeling against any of the white people
whose plantations you were TO takeT
"No, Sir.r
sBut you would have Killed any Of them who
interfered with you in carrying out your pro-
Gamme~
"Wen, jake, what did yon intend to do with the
crvrsr
1--WE were going to take them, cell our own cotton
and give the white people their share"
Imay explain here that whore the blacks work
on shares TIE crop is divided after it is gathered
the owner cducts from the neggVs share an amount
sufficent To reimburse himself for the advances he
has made and generally at the request of the hegr"'
sails tho remainder on the Begro's account. MOOT
mans idea seers to have been thai the whites ana
the blacks were simply to change places or. as they
say ali over the South, the bottom rail was 10 De ph'
ON top: the negroes We're to take charge OF the
business and divide out to the white man his share
Well Jake" cOntlaEeu, What weio !"o =" ""
with the women and cldrenfS
THE black man was to have the right to marry
white woman if he liked. Sit. but all OF the resi- "eS
10 be killed, from the crib up-'
And the money of the white people, "na' was
70 be done with that"
I'VE were to take that and put it IN our treasury.
coERoBoRATIvE EVIDENCE.
For reasons given in the rsf part of this letter.
should not believe that any Such absurd plot as
Norman describes was ever even talked OF among
the negroes were it not that others who have been
arrested in other counties, and who have had no
communication with him. have made similar con-
fessions And this fact does not fully convince
me Of it, for the reason that the Corday Ha1ls le,-
ter the authenticity of which these confessions
seem 10 sustain, was published, and its contents
we'll known throughout this whole section before
these statements were made and don't know how
the story published a confession was obtalnad
from the negroes who have been arrested in other
counties If they did not know the contents OF the
Harris letter and they told their stories, the first
time. without prompting or ieading qnes-
tons their confessions would seem to be
conclusive evidence of the existence OF such
q plot ms Moorman describes. IT, Oh tic other hand
those who took the a1idayits. being familiar Win
the Harris letter. simply repeated to the negroes the
statements contained in the confessions, ard tIen
asked them to say whether they were true or not,
abould he afraid that the negroes had SWORN to
statements of the truth of which they knew nothing
As for Moorman, although he appeared to be dull
intellectually and i interrogated him very care
fully returning often suddenly and unexpectedly 10
important points of his statement, lie answered icy
questions very promptly, and did not once become
confused Some of the statements made III HE
confessions Of other negroes 1 do not believe
n, all. For instance, John Chiles in an
affidavit made in johnson County, said that:
the negroes had guns. 1t has been often
reported, since this trouble began, that the
negroes in different sections were armed with guns,
but believe that of more than 70 prisoners wh"
have thus lar been ght 90 Sandersvi1e moi cne
has been found armed do not mean by this II at
none of tie negroes guus for many Of them do.
and are invetrratc Squirrel hunters.
rHr AUTHOR OF THE LETTER.
Coraay Harris, who is said TO have been the second
IN command of the insurrecticn, and who is the re-
putea author Of the letter which led to the discovery
of the plot, is one of the prisoners here. lie is a
solored preacher, Baptist, and rs healthy looking
nerro about 32 years of Gge He is rather below the
medium size is a pure-blooded African, has smooth
face and uses very little of the negro dialect in
reakinr. The famous letter purports to have been
Sa,ed Anc g. 1875 was addressed to Jerry Walters
and Harrison Tucker captains of companies and ae-
eordnc 10 MOornan, was sent by the hsnd OF
Francis MerkersOn. Moorman says he saw 1t deiiv-
sred TO alters and that he heard tnat 1t was lost
krfore il reached Harrison Tucker. jerry Walters
lenies that he ever saw it or had it, Harrison
fucker never heard of il unt after it was found by
ahe white people, and Corday Harris denies ever
having written or sent il. have all three of
these men, and have examined them csretnlly.
Corday Harris admits that he went to the Waynes-
boro Convention in May, but says be did not hrar
Norriss speech and did not learn from MoTils what
ME object Of the meeting was. After ms return Ne
organized society which he says was entirely be-
,eyolent and moral IN its objects that he elected
some nancy and sent 1t 10 Motifs to pay
Gs printing the proceedings of the Wayhes-
hmo meeting, and that he never mad any
sorrespondence with Morris except in regard TO
Hais money He admits that he called the meeting
Mere for the oath of July. but does moi, he says,
know much about it, having simply received the
,aper from others he applied on that day for the
forya -honsa saw Morris Just out of town and con-
versed with him. announced to the crowd the post
conement of the meeting, and rode at the head ot
The procession in its parade. He denies that lac COM
so.ndod or directed the parade. tllt he belonged
70 any military company He says that there have
keen no lnusters drills at or alter his meet mgs
exceyt once when some members OF his church mus
tered and he rebuked them for it,
Ifesr that Harris IN his conversation with me told
f,e truth eny SO far st convenient. There is
m doubt that lie is much better acquainted with
Morris than he admits although 1t rs fair to say
that no evidence OF any correspondence between
them was found in Moiris's house when 1T
Was searched the other day; 1t is probable
sl.o that he learned the object OF the Naynesboro
meeting while there uId that he was acting under
Sirecticn of Morris when he called the meeting In
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