The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-01-08

familiar. The testimony taken is so
long that a condensed form, is all
We can give.
Before the Louisiana committee,
State Senator Stamps testified that
negroes we're threatened with q loss
OF work if they voted the Republican
ticket, and that the white man who
voted that ticket was ostracised and
generally called "nigger." Some
white people went to the polls with
the negroes and gave them Demo.
cratic tickets, seeing that they voted
them. The colored people he testi.
fed, we're really afraid White Leag.
uers would kill them if they voted
the Republican ticket. A candidate
for Mayor, in Kennerville, had said
in speech that if the "colored men
voted the Republican ticket they
could get work elsewhere" The
colored people were generally afraid
to register their names as voters.
A number of witnesses were pres
ent from different parishes. Their
testimony was very conflicting. Sew
eral witnesses testified that in the
parish of Rapides there was no in.
timidation and that the colored men
voted the Democratic ticket on ac-
count of the misapplication of the
school fund. The next witness af.
frmed that intimidation of very
effective character and q thoroughly
| illegal form, had existed throughout
the parish and that White Leaguers
had paraded through the country
threatening colored men who refused
to vote the Democratic ticket. He
testified that from five to six hun.
dred colored people did not vote at
all, and that where fifty voted the
Democratic ticket but five or six OF
them voted according to their views.
Then came another witness, a re-
spectacle white man, who testified
to the existence of the caucasian
League" which sent a squad tf
mounted men around the country,
preventing white or black Republi-
cans from organizing and making
various threats. The names were
given of a number of white men, re-
siding in Alexandria, who were pre-
vented from voting through fear of
Democratic White Leaguers. A
planter residing in Rapides swore
that be had never heard of the ex-
istence of the White League in that
parish, and that the colored people
had been induced to vote the DemI =
cratic ticket by the arguments of a
colored preacher. He had heard no
intimidation. Similarly conflicting
was the testimony concerning a
number OF other parishes.
During the session Saturday, Gov
vernon Kellogg sent a communica-
tion to the committee, soliciting a
full and careful investigation of the
election of 1872 by which he holds
his seat as Governor. Mr.. Kellogg
enumerated the charges that had
been made against him and requested
the committee to examine into them.
He offered the committee all posi-
ble facilities for carrying on the in
Yestigation, and hoped that his enc
mics would have an opportunity to
make good some of their allegations
of fraud and corruption.
Nothing new was elected from the
witnesses before the committee in
VIcksburg. The White Leaguers
testified that they had made every
effort in their power to conciliate the
negroes, upon whom they threw all
the blame of the late troubles. The
negroes, they said, had drawn the
color line by being led by the "car-
pet baggers," The only intimida-
tion they knew of was that directed
by negroes and against negroes @ho
voted the Democratic ticket. One
witness had heard men refuse to EN-
Iploy colored men because they
helped to SADDLE the enormous tax,
Ies upon the country by voting for
Republicans" All the witnesses
were examined upon the subject Of
the late invasion of the town by
armed negroes, but their testimony
revealed no facts which have moi
previously been publis he'd.