New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-02
Justification of the Grant. Chamber
lain Letter, and of Antoine's
Reply to Patton.
The Democratic Official Organ
Answered and q List of Dem
ccratic Victims Fur
nished.
The Political Aims of Regulators
and BulldOzers.
Shall Republicans Cry to the Nation for
Protection in Vain Z?


cial organ Of the Louisiana Democratic
State Committee:
"Negroes are hung, shot and mutilated by
the White Leaguers in Feliciana for no
reasons whatever" is what leading Dem
ocrat told the Terrebonne Republican.
Strange, that with all their slaughtering We
can get no names. Perhaps we may claim,
like Beecher of Tilton, for . bill of par.
ticulars. With so many negroes killed, it
ought to be easy enough to give name or
two of the murdered ones occasionally, in
stead of designating them a. certain un-
known negroes"
Con, then, this Inst of recently shot,
hanged, beaten and otherwise maltrested,
at your leisure. If you want additional
nance, look through the files of the REPUB.
LIcAN, as these are only partial array of
the poor victims in two parishes-West
Felicisns and East Baton Rouge. And even
in this small section of Louisiana many and
many . murder has been committed which
never yet has come to light:
John Gair, ''shot full of bullets"
Babe Mathews, hung to death.
Lizzie Richards, hung to death.
Isidore Heron, bulldozed and whipped.
Lewis Brown, half hanged to death and
whipped.
John Russell, shot to death in his own
house.
Elizabeth Russell, made to behold the
murder of her husband.
William jackson, bucked and whipped.
Frank Dunn, roped and whipped.
- Robertson, stabbed in neck and left
hanging dead to tree.
Ebenezer Schuyler, shot in the back while
prisoner.
Juba Glasper, hanged, but cut down.
E. NJ. Gerald, burned out at midnight.
Richard Walter, burned out and shot at.
j. Page, driven from the parish.
John Bryant, driven from the parish.
Julius Green, driven from the parish.
Levin Carter, shot at and robbed.
Ephraim Armstrong, murdered at Gaspars
Branch.
w. T. Kruse, beaten senseless with pis-
tolls.
His wife and babies burned out of home
at midnight.
Louis Morgan, shot at.
Woman name not yet sscertainedl, hung
on Thursday week, but cut down and life
saved.
Reason Davis, assaulted and stripped.
Thomas Rice, beaten with rifle.
Garrett Hailes, badly beaten.
Isaac Carr, assaulted and threatened with
death.
Lucy Washington, beaten with gun.
Henry Temple, shot, but escaped in the
woods.
Latin Williams, bulldozed and whipped.
johnson Stewart, shot by bulldozers.
Colored man, shot by young Manscur.
Henry Martin, hung to his gate-post at
Mount Pleasant.
Burgess, taken from Jail at night by
bulldozers, and never heard Of after ward
Levin Foster, hanged and shot to death.
Wilson Rhodes, hung at Mount Pleasant.
William Lewis, hung at Mount Pleasant.
This list must answer for the present, as
We have not time to 60 more carefully over
the record, but We sole mnly assert that this
array of horrors falls far below the unre-
corded crimes of these two parishes alone.
WHY THEY WERE COMMITTED.
That the purpose in view was to overawe,
intimidste and drive from power the Re-
publican party is not left to speculation.
The Democrats knew that their moral SUD.
port and recognition of the legal authorities
would result in the prompt punishment and
suppression of every sort of crime; but this
was studiously withheld. On the con-
trary, the officers of the law we're oh.
structed, ignored or DETAINED systematically
and at every opportunity, while the rutfiar
class were encouraged in their misdeeds.
Nothing but the offices, wrested from the
rightful Republican possessors, would
answer Democratic demands.
EXTRACT FROM DENNIS DORsEY's AFFIDAVIT
About q week afterward this same crowd
came to Star Hill plantation West Fell
ciana), headed by Colonel J W. Smith, Of
East Feliciana, who said "The Regulators
burning the ginhOuses for spite."
He also said: 1--WE own this country and
are damned tired Of q Republican govern
ment, and are going to kill out niggers so
We can carry the elections this year. We
are going to elect our President and other
officers" He said that, "Mr. Kellogg
thinks he can carry the State for Grant and
himself, but We will show him he can't"
HERE SPEAKS ONE WHO KNOWS.
0. II. Foreman, sworn-Says l reside in
the city of Baten Rouge; am q deputy mar.
shall. I have lived in that parish for the
last forty two years; travel in the country.
l have heard of large body of armed men
riding around. saw the body of a negro
woman who had been hung, charged with
attempting to poison the family of A. B.
Booth, who is my neighbor. None of the
persons said to have been poisoned died.
She was committed to jail BY the magls-
trate; before reaching there she was taken
away from the officers by body of men
and hung to q tree.
have ridden over the parish great deal
and never heard OF any armed organization
OF cOlOred men. The c0lored people are in
dustrious and quiet. l am planter in that
parish. I have no idea what could have
caused the disturbances in that parish. A
and are still leaving, and if these troubles
continue all that can leave will do so. In
my opinion the action against the Repub-
lican officials is political in its character. 1t
is my opinion that the Democrats want the
offices, and even if they had obtained this
end, do not believe the 0utrages commit
ted upon the colored people would cease,
from the fact that believe it would be con-
tinued to intimidate and terr0rize them,
so as TO prevent Memf rom voting at all u,aless
they U0ted the Democratic ticket
l am acquainted with Judge Davis four
or five years; he always stood very high as
an official and has been looked upon in the
community as an intelligent and educated
man. 1t has been reported in the parish
that great number of hangings and beat
ings of cOlOred persons have occurred Col
ored people are prevented from hunting
game in the woods, but the white people
are permitted to do 80. As Q general thing
oolored people there own one or two hogs.
The body Of armed white men that heard
uf are considered respectable men and live
in the parish.
Cross-examined, ssys-I have not seen