New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-31

rivers mouth; also to the non constructiO
OF railroads; business here is certainly dii
trrbed; while large planters have bee
growing poorer, poor men have beel
acquiring property; majority of QUE resi-
dents are growing better off or acquiring
real estate; lmOst plantations were mort
gagged before the war; our mOnopolie
are the Gas Company, slaughterbouse, lot
tory, which were adopted before my cleo
ton; the Republican executive committe
issued circular to the country committee
urging them to make q manly contest ant
carly the State by 20 200 majority; tifteer
parishes are turbulent: Grant, Catahoula
Caddo, Bossier, jackson, Lincoln, Ra
pides, Red River. De Soto and others ar.
IN that list; it is q notable fact that where
ever the White League was established
there were troubles; the White League o.
this city was supported by voluntary sub
! scriptions; was charged with taking SlOO(
from the contingent fund for the Shreve
port sufferers; l contributed that $1,000 Out
OF my pocket; some of the recipients were
so ungrateful as to say they wished the
donor was there and dead, SO that they
] Gould use some of the money to bury him.
u. j. M. A. Jewitt-I am United States
commissioner, and reside in jackson parish:
have investigated things in Northern and
| Western louisiana; have prepared state
| ments of my personal experience: found
| CAAO pooC AOuI CdHb tudG tucFo uAS
been more or less system of political
| assassination; have taken more than 1900
| affidavits from persons who believed them
selves cheated; in Webster parish it was
known that 400 Republican ballots were
| deposited, but not half Of that number
came out; box was taken from the court
house to three different places, and then
carried back to the courthouse; these things
were exposed, and since that time it has
not been ''healthy" for me there; l was an.
pointed clerk Of the jackson parish court,
but they would not permit me to take the
office; then resigned; the person they said
they wanted for the clerkshp was then ap-
pointed, but they would not permit him to
take it; no one has filed it since; Harrison,
the recorder, is not allowed to take his
office; on the seventeenth of August Mr.
McEnery spoke in Vienna, and the result
was violence; several officials were ordered
to resign; myself and Harrison were told
that We must leave the parish; we were
told that if we did not leave the conse-
quences would be serious; up to the four.
teenth of September l Travelled around con-
siderably and found that intimidation was
constant; in October troops arrived and
took squad OF cavalry and assisted
teruty United States marshal; he arrested
quite number of men; we heard that
q crowd of refugees had camped near
Vienna with the declared intention of
resisting arrests; on election day very few
cOlOred men would have dared to vote had
not troops been there; as it was quite a
number of voters feared to go to the polls;
Allen Greene's character is excellent and he
is wealthy; there was not a full and fair.
election i'll Northern Louisiana; since 1868
twenty men have been killed, twenty-five
In Vernon and twenty. five in Bossier many
in NatchitOches; in De Soto 165; in Caddo
five or six; In Lincoln, none Of distinct
political character; the proportion chargea-
bic to politics is quite impossible for me
to say; twO-thirds were cOlored men: in
Winn parish over 400 Republicans were
registered, but not one voted; know Mr..
Fulford, OF Vienna, and he is a man of good
character; he has been prosecuted.
CrOss-examinatiOn, to Mr.. Marshall
Had never witnessed outrages, but had
legal evidence of the facts in the shape of
sifidavits; possessed evidence to confirm his
statements in examination in chief; signed
some atfidavits and caused arrests in seve-
raj OF the parishes; presence of troops did
not create panic among white people;
many white people left when the troops
arrived.
. 70 Mr.. Hoar-There are sixty days for
registering and only one day for voting; l
was charged with embezzlement in Shreve.
port; the alleged amount was 5000; it was
not in u public office; was arrested on the
charge; paid the amount; 1 was ready to
pay any amount that jury should lind
against me; do not know that there was
in Monroe, where Colonel
McEnery resides.
William NJ. Robinson swore to certain |
extracts published in the New Orleans |
taken from exchanges, which |
were made in the last political cal ts3en |
and since.
Democratic counsel objected TO all the |
partisan accounts.
Mr.. Frye stated that he had examined |
he extracts and found that some of them
ire not legitimate testimony.
Mr. Hoar thought that where reports were |
made representing speeches of certain per-
ons the secretary Of the meeting should
7erify them.
The committee will take the extracts and
consider what portion ls testimony.
Allen Greene-Reside in Lincoln parish:
AVE been slavehOlding planter; have
our sons, three Of age; was Union man
Turing the war; on that account was badly
reated; had to leave home at the end Of
he war; have been q Republican since the
var; we have had no peace since the war:
TX months before the last election we began
TgaAiziDg Republican clubs; we were ostra. |
ised; we did not disturb the white Con.
ervatives, and never intended to; was
hot in 1872, and my second son was
Allen Is the name of the man |
Tho did the shooting; they were tried, but !
OF punished: have q tannery and make
hoes; find it difficult to keep skilled labor;
rought out Northern mechanics, but they
'ould not remain, being Disguised with
1e state Of society; l could employ
xty men in the shoe factory and ,
ighty in the tannery; paid laborers
ON $6 to SlO per week; on account Of the
ifficulties my business is greatly reduced;
ON working for me; two indictments have Z
sen made against me; one for drawing s
stol on person and the other for shoot {
g the man who shot me; that is all that -
u ever been against me; one of my sons
parish judge; was tax collector; the pe0- r
9 there will not submit quietly to Repub- G
'an officials; there is feeling against Il
'anting equal rights; colored people did +
It vote just as they pleased at the last :.
9 war are lawless; the Ku-Klux o.
He'd people in our parish in 1868; II
was ordered to withdraw from the -
spublican ticket in that year; the Colfax y
ID COushatta massacres had a terrible p
ect on all Republicans; keep loaded fc
ms at home, and never 90 out without r.
y pistol; three years ago the American ~
g was not permitted to be displayed;. a u
of young men went to my house to | o.
ze an American flag, but succeeded in "a
inning them off; was compelled to re- -,
n my position of Senator by q committee r
10 waited on me and made threate; this 1t
IS Immediately after Mr.. McEnery made ga
peech in our parish 8,
Mr.. Hoar explained that he had been y,
rtly misunderstood in reference to his W
temeut concerning tha hearing of Wit | 81