Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-01-02
C0IOred aud White Witness es
Examined-TestimOny Gen.
orally Favorable to the
Conservative Party.
The White Leaguers-W hat They
Did and Did Not DO-DubiOuS
Statements by Swift
Witnesses.
Effect Of the League on Voters
Base Charges Against Con.
servative and Democratic
Employers.

Greene, of Lincoln parish, testified thai
he was waited on by Conservatives who
! requested that the meeting Oi negroes
they were holding at night, be discOn'
tinued; we did so; was afterward wait.
ed on by party of men who requested
him to make some changes in the par
ish officers; | thought the best thing
was to resign. Mr.. Greene then went
on to say that he was intimidated; he
enumerated the members of his family
holding office in the parish, some half
dozen.
Judge Trimble ives the next witness
examined. He testified that the elec'
ton was perfectly quiet in his section
including five parishes; knew Of no in
timidation, except that produced by the
United States cavalry raiding through
the country and the case of Mr. Greene,
which he spoke of. In answer to the
question why the presence of troops
caused the white people to leave the
parish? Judge Trimble stated that they
were anxious 10 vote at the election and
after that they came forward and offered
| to surrender themselves, but were not
| arrested; the officers exhibited long lists
of names of those they said were to be
arrested, including many prominent
persons deputy maTshals had warrants
| for arrest iG blank he testified to the
cutting Of the telegraph wire and the
aI Iaignment before him of the officer
who had committed the act.
General Emory was called, and testi
| fed: Have been commander here for
three years; | was here before and dur
ing the election; all my troops were
! brought here before the election. After
| Io A;rYNooifiNXN ,,f fn1
| troops as they existed on election day,
General Emory states that they were so
placed by order of superior military au-
| thority, based on a requisition from At
torney General Williams, in the city
| was directed to arrange my men 50 as
| to preserve the peace: there was no dis
turbances; could not say my troops were
used on election day, not having war
rants; have no knowledge Of the White
League; my impression is that quiet
was kept on election day only by pres
ence of the troops; there were several re-
views before the election; they were not
made to effect public sentiment.
Ca tain Snow testified: was in Ra-
pides parish the day of election; know
IF no intimidation, except what
[ was told by Mr.. KelsO.
SJal6 lCStIIlSu I4aS he
knew of no intimidation except threats
of non-employm some of the col
ored men were told if they did not turn
in their registration papers TO the Demo
cratic committee they would be dis
charged; that form of intimidation did
not enable them to carry the district;
kinks about two hundred voted the
Democratic ticket; has talked with
.hr ~ IF ha fyun hnndrnTf
since the election; about five hundred
whites voted the Republican ticket; a
white man could not vote the Republi-
can ticket without being called niger
and anything else but a respectable gen
tIeman; the general construction of the
election law in his district was that any
one who got rid OF his registration pa
pers could get a duplicatei that was the
custom with them.
Cross, question Applicant hsd to
swear that the original was lost.
There is no secret organization OF col
ored people; has better opportunity for
knowing than any other cOlOred man
knows of no cause of intimidation eX-
cept the threat to discharge; some of the
whites went with their servants to the
polls and saw that they voted the Con- |
SHTSdilNb llCh6Is bllC CDlOiCh ICOblG !
feared assassination by the White |
League; he had such fears himself, and |
did not go out as much as he would; |
who had threatened to discharge any
one who voted the Republican ticket;
Mr.. Charles Hodges, candidate for |
mayor Of Kennerville, said in a speech |
that if the eOlOred people in his employ |
tho FnnEoTUatiUn tick OF /
thew could, after the election, seek en-
pIoyment elsewhere; the effect Of the
fourteenth of September was that the
colored people felt unsafe, and deferred
them from registering from fear OF be-
ing assaulted; don't think there were
IN many-not more than fifty or siXty-in
the Carroliton district who did not reg
ister: don't know Of any one being at
tackled on his way to register by reasons
of the White League; assured the peO
pie of his district that they would be
protected if they would come out and
vote; a few days before the election
was somewhat restored, and
several cOlored men who had not regis
tered asked him if they could not vote
On their old papers, they having failed
to register; he told them they could not
vote on old papers; think there were
about fifty or sixty in this fix
DR.. J. B. Sullivan, of Rspides, testified
hat he spent the summer in the parish
If Rspides; saw no evidence Of intimi-
1atiOn whatever; the cOlOred people on
lis plantation and those adjoining came
10 him and told him that for several
reasons, among others the misapplica-
ion of shool funds, they, the negroes,
would this election vote the Cnnserva-
i've ticket; heard no efforts at intimida-
ion, except what was told him by Gov
erDor Wells; is an Old-line Wing; never
voted the Democratic ticket in his life;
continued to vote for Henry Clay as long
IS he was on top OF ground; was UuiOn
nan during the war; was arrested by the
and thrown into prison
With three hundred negroes and Jay
1aWkers, covered with vermin of the
most disgusting nature; his nephew, who
lad all his life been a Democrat before
he war, was candidate during the lat
election on the Republican ticket, but
vas not elected; had never made any
effort to influence the cOlored men ou
lis place to vote for Conservatives; did
lot know of his neighbors taking any !
.uch steps; the cOloTed people became
with the r publican party
because Of bad local government and the
allure of the freedmen's savings banks !
the country; it was under
;toOd among them that all their SayiuUs