New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-13


was not considered by the board as any
thing more than passing remark If sucf
was the case, the contending parties on thu
other side had ample opportunities to es
tablish it, AMI they should not state il nov
unless they made the allegation good al
that time.
Now, what does this committee show wa:
done with these returns! They start on:
with the broad proposition that twenty
nine men were changed, and they only show
YOU by their report that four were changed
In the parish of Rapides three were chang
ed, according to the judgment OF the Re
turning Board, and in the parish OF Terre
bonnie one was changed. So with all the
scrutiny and investigation OF this committee
starting out with the broad assertion that
twenty-Dine were changed, they only show
YOU that four were changed. We come now
to what this committee say upon the general
subject of the eneraliconditiOn of affairs in
thesState, and they start out with this prop
Osition:
Both parties agreed upon four parishes
as samples OF the condition of affairs, in
that respect, N the State. OF these, owing
to the impossibiiity OF procuring witnesses
from the locality il time, your committee
were obliged to contne their especial exam
nation to two parishes most accessible"
Then this investigation that went broad
cast over the State of Louisiana, that pre-
dltion, moral political and social, confined
itself ultimately to two parishes, and
the testimony does not show that they ex-
amined more than one. How were those
who assumed the negative of the PROPOSE
ton which seems TO have impregnated the
whole action of this committee to know
what parishes We're examined! How were
they to get their witnesses there to testify
as to the facts! L. it any wonder with such
proceeding as that, that they came to the
conclusion that they were constrained to
say that the intention charged is not borne
out BY the facts, that no general intimida-
ton of Republican voters Is established!
/ can take you TO a parish in that State
where there is no intimidation, and it is
possible that this committee selected those
very parishes to examine. Intimidation in
the State Of Louisiana and throughout the
South did not commence with the election
of 1874. The echoes of the last gun fired at
Appomattox had scarcely died upon the ear
before this intimidation vas practiced broad.
cast throughout tie South, and it has con-
tinued to be up to the present day. speak
for my State. l show to the Senate the
record that throughout it's existence since
the day of reconstruction there has been
nothing but intimidation, prescription, muir
der and violence practiced by the Democrats
in that State.
From 1866 to the present time there have
political reasons in the State of Louisiana.
In 1866, in New Orleans, two hundred per-
sons were killed, and one hundred and sixty
were taken to the Marine Hospital, and the
surgeon on duty at that time, and the
surgeon now on duty-the same man-has
asserted to the fact that after those wounded
men were taken to that hospital the rioters
formed q line in its rear and fired volley
into its chambers. Here is one of the vol.
umes Of the history of affairs in Louisiana.
The history of violence in Louisiana is not
to be learned in eight days. 1t lies here
under my hand in eight volumes Of testi-
mony, every page telling of life and every
word upon every page counting for drop
Of blood shed in the sacrifice of political
opinions. What did the committee then
say l will read briefly their opinion OF
that horror: |
"There has been no occasion during our !
national history when riot has occurred |
so destitute OF justiiable cause, resulting
in massacre so inhnman and fiendish, as |
that which took place at New Orleans on
the thirtieth ct July last.
THE massacre was begun and finished in
midday: and such proofs OF preparation
were disclosed that We are constrained to
say that an intention, existing somewhere,
to dispense and to slaughter the members
Of the convention and those persons, white
and black, who were present and were
friendly to its purposes, was mercilessly |
carried into effect.
No intimidation in louisiana! And vet |
in the same year the Bossier parish massa-
ere took place, in which over 300 were killed |
and wounded; the St. Landry massacre, in
which 200 were killed and wounded; the
Orleans massacre, in which sixty-thrae were
killed and wounded; the Caddo massacre.
in which forty-six were killed and wound
aH. IptfarsnD ~ 81 wi |
seven were killed and wounded; the st.
Bernard massacre, il which sixty-eight
were killed and wounded All these
IN the one year, 1868.
Here is the experience of some of the !
officers of the army of those practices. Here
Is an officer reporting about the IN assacre in
st. Bernard parish. Hessays:
practically there ia no civil law in St. !
Bernard parish. company of United
States troops are now doing duty there, and
heir continued presence is necessary to
protect from outrage men loyal to the gov
to prevent the murder Of freed
people. and to preserve general peace and |
tranquility throughout the parish; and it is
ny opinion that the men now living in that
parish, who have recently committed murder
With impunity. will not be arraigned nor
'rOught to justice except through the direct
'gency OF military power.
II am, major, very respectfully, your {
bedient servant, j. NJ. LEE.
First Lieutenant Thirty ninth United States !
Infantry. A. A. l. G.
Brevet NJ ior T. B. Hutcbns, A. A. A. G., Bureau
r., +. and A. L., New Orleans Louisiana"
After speaking of sixty-one murders per {
between October 23 and November I
!. 1863, he Gays: I
"In conclusion, desire to represent that
pom entering on duty in this bureau as ,
citing assistant inspector general, on the
oh tQnu IN nf "a last i'm l 4
ossible that crimes so bloody and revolving
ould or would be perpetrated with SO much 7
npupity and wantOnness by any people in :
civilized country as those which have been '
rOught to my attention, and which have q
! many cases investigated. At first / +
bought the general reports and published a
ccounts of the carnival of crime in this e
lain, clear and indisputable facts which ! I
ave been developed, and the cumulative
violence which has been and can be brought | n
,rward at any time, carries the con viction \
any honest and candid man that lawless- n
ess anarchy and crime predominant in q
le State Of Louisiana. subjecting the loyal
nd peaceable citizens Of this State to a
sign of terror which they can not avert, q
nd from which they can not escape through 81
ny efforts of their own.
,edient servant, j. M. LEE, 81
First Lieutenant lThirty.Dinth Infantry, -
Acting Assistant Inspector General. -
'reyet Major T. Hutchine Assistant Adjutant -
General Bureau Refugees, Freedmen ana Aban- u
dOned Lands, New Orleans Louisiana" ts
Now, sir, what was the effect upon the
ection OF 1868 of such violence, and what al
ere the violences that preceded the last tt
ection and what was the effect of them! Ju
THE day of election in 1868 was as peace fu
lie and quiet an election day as ever &C. / ca
H. Il u. al