The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-12-30
. ONE.sIpEp AND UNJUST

VNS'oAOGO AM -.
The Ottawa Republican, in view of the
damning disclosures the congressional COM
mittees are bringing to light in the south, is
beginning, with its brethren generally of the
"minor republican press" to whine that the
Investigation Is "one.sided and unjust.n
There are two sets of committees at the
south, it must be remembered-one set APP
pointed by the house and composed of ma
jority of democrats; and one appointed by
the senate, of which the republicans have the
majority. So if the house committees, in
their Investigations, favor the democratic
side, it must be borne in mind that by their
side sits u senate committee, ready to see that
the republican side has justice. To say,
then, that the investigation, in whole or in
part, Is one.sided, is to impeach the common
sense and sagacity of both sets of committees,
and made by republican, the complaint is
an accusation against the senate committee
of unta!thfulness.
But after all, in view of the nature
Of the facts being revealed, II is no
wonder that these little editors are getting
scared and set up the cry of unfairness.
While the testimony, as given in the daily
dispatches, Is endlessly voluminous, hasty
glance over it shows readily enough
the prominent points a few samples will
indicate their general character.
Thus it Is shown that in the parish of West
Feliciana, which the returning board threw
out for bu!ldozlng, the only bulldozi1g was
done by a creature named Frank Powers, a
negro radical tax collector who led band
OF regulators under the general order of one
Weber, a republican state senator. District
Judge Hughes, a conservative man who had
acted with the republicans as long as he
could stand 1t, testified generally as to the
operations Of these worthles-specitied half a
dozen OF murders they had committed and a
nameess list of outrages on whites and ne.
groes-all Of which, however, were reported
as outrages by white democrats against re.
publican negroes.
1t has been shown, both before the house
and senate committees, so conclusively as to
be undenlabe, that as long ago as last Au.
gust the Kellogg band Of thieves and ruffians
hau determined to carry the state for Pack.
ard and Hayes by the very means that were
afterwards made so effectual. One Col"
Lewis, a negro hanger. on about the state
house and aconfidant of Kellogg's, was proved
to have repeatedly stated before the election
that the democrats were "fooling their time
away" electioneering, as the republicans had
fixed things" to carry the state, no matter
how the people voted That Lewis knew
what he was talking about is proved by the
action of the returning board and the fulfill
ment of all his predictions.
Another important fact already established
is that of all the hundreds of cases of killing
that are reported to the north as democratic
Ourages against the negroes, ninety nine cas-
cs of each hundred, have no connection
with politics whatever, and in most cases are
mere rows among the negroes themselves.
And lastly to be mentioned here as to
bulldozing, the proof is overwhelming that
while there was undoubtedly good deal OF
it, in different parts OF the state, the victims
were in a large majority of cases democratic
negroes, whom the effort was to buli,dose
from voting the democratic ticket.