The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1875-05-22

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=. Have You never heard that he
was stunned because of his suspect.
ell connection with a gang of high.
way-men, who committed robbery in
1869 and 1870.
A. Some of the whites in the city
| of Natchitoches told me that the peo.
pie Of Winn were opposed to DR..
bou''t, bnt they themselves volun-
teered their services in favor of DR..
BonIlt, and said to the people in Winn
parish that they could attend to their
own affairsf
Z. You stated in an answer to a
question Of Mr.. Frye, that the color
ell people were making y good deal of
money, and buying land. Will you
state what are the general terms up
on which the colorel laboyers work
there?
A. AS general thing they work
for a part of the crop.
Q. For how much?
A. One-half, where they furnish
themselves, and l believe their teens
and all Of the farming implements.
Q. What will a good hand raise on
an average in cotton7
A. A good working hand will aver.
age about five and /. half to six bales
Q. In a bad or good season!
A. l couldn't say that iu a had sea-
son he conll raise that.
Q. Would three bales or three and
q half bales he fair average, one
year and another, in and out i?
A. ! think it would.
Q. What docs that sell for I Ia a
hundred dollars bale fair price?
A. 1t would bring a hundred dol
lars.
Q. Then the cololed laborer's share
would not be q hundred and fifty dol
lars a share, to support themselves?
How can they buy land?
A. The best way to get at that, l
will give you tho names of parties
who have bought plantations.
Q. | wanted you to make q c0rrec-
ton if you found ;ou were mistaken.
A. There is my brother working on
Simmons place, right close to town ;
he made nine bales Of cotton-but he
is an extraordinary hand.
Q. | spoke Of all average aand?
A. Five and a half or six bales.
Q. Then in addition to this you say
that the colored people were gene
rally .swindled at the end of the
year, By the white Employed
A. l don't say say that they all do
it, but a great many colored men now
work for themselves, they make the
crop and divide with others who are
not able to buy land.
9. Don't the largo majority, say
nine tenths, work on shares ;
A. l don't know, because every
year they get more and more out to
themselves. They rent q whole place
aud run it themselves. l know seve
raj colored people who do that. They
have paid as high as ten dollars an
acre rent.
Q. You spoke of driving Judge My.
ers out. Was not that on account Of
bis )egalizing, by Judgment, these
fraudulent debts Of the parish3
A. l don't believe it; it may have
been the case, but | have asked those
gentlemen what the objection was
against him. I told them, l notice
that none of your people have taken
an appeal to the Supreme Court from
any Of his decisions. l asked Col.
Pierson-I said to him, 'Isn't he COM
petent," he said, '..yes." l asked,
"what is your objection then.' He
said, "IIe is such !. damned trickster
We don't want him." Iasked, "Is it
possible that he beat you ALL" lie
said, "Myers amt a good man, and
if you continue his support you will
be sorry" His objection was just
that way.
Q. Did he charge him With corrup.
ton ; i ~
A. Yes, he charged, him with cor
ruption. In fact they will charge
any body with corruption to get rid
| Of him.
You speak Of "curly headed Hynes";
| is he not in bad lepute in the parish ?
A. Yes.
@. And you say the White League
| is made up of all the white men in
the parish {?
A. Yes, I don't believe that any
white man who lives there could live
in the parish and not belong to it.
@. You say that the White Leaguo
is made up Of all tho white men and
"curly headed Hynes" is at the head
| of them
A. He was captain Of that company
that secured Cane river.
@. He has not tho respect Of the
people and yet they pat him us their
YCaptain I
A. He performed that service. !
know white men who said they would
not 60 into it if they We're to have
such man as Hynes at the head Of
it.
@. In regard to murders, who are
the most murders committed by, the
colored or whites
A. A good many have been com.
mitted and some that We never could
be able to learn who did it. l will
say, as far az know, that tho larg-
est portion have been committed by
white people.
Q. Have you had any political mur.
ders up there I?
| A.. Yes.
@. Name them !?
A. One man, Alfred Hasel, wa'
taken ont Of lis house between hi
wife and daughter aud shot down.
@. Who WIS he :
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