, 1876-12-29

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Tho coutrast between the testimony offer
now III. session in Now Orleans, is very
significant and suggestive one. Assuming
TINT both Committees aro honestly searching,
nlthongh from different standpontu, to dis
cover whether tho election in Louisiana vns
fair and free one, tic respective results Of
tho two Investigations are. to say the lenst.
very striking. On Wednesday tho Senate
Committee heard several witnesses. ALEX
AMBER G11nEnr testified as to open assaults
Of nrtncd bodies Of men calling themselves
''buildozers" upon meetings of colored Tie.
pnblicans of personal assaults md violence,
Of tho murder Of some Of his own acquaint-
ances WHO lsasl refused to ioiu Democratic
clubs, aud Of tho threats Of violence that Ind
been offered lin it lle appeared before the
Senate Committee. W11L1A,s WADE testitied
OF his personal knowledge that negroes
l,aa been hanged by the bulltlozers
for announcing that they should
voto tho Republican ticket, BENJAMIN
AfonaAH testified 10 some remarkable facts.
Tic is the Coroner Of East Daton Rouge antl
lnl held many in1uests upon the bodies Of
! mon murdered for their political principles.
| On tho 18th of May lie held au inquest upon
| tho bodies Of two peaceful, industrious COL
ored farmers, who wero found lAngng from
trecs with their bodies ridsled with bullets.
Immediately utter holding THU Inquest ie
WINS notified by the " Regulators" not II ho!d
uny moye. SOPHIA PAYNE told tic story Of
the murder of her husband by tie bul<ozera,
| -,nsro1 FIN 1,.r1tn1,aa %pt}c fft1 II
Il,cso statements are fuir samples OF them
nll, mud thus tho horrible story goes on, day
by dny, told by there poor men and women,
whose frien hayo been lnurtluretf by tho
T1LpEN regulators and bultlozora, not
QUO of whom las ever been brought
tn Justice. Tho testimony already
taken before tho scnats Committee il
continuous narrative OF torture, violence,
bloos1slsctl. terrorism, md intimidation, prac-
ticct! by Whitc-Linors, Eii!e.CluLs, and Ilu'
klu1 travelling un.ler Tho names OF '' regu-
lntors mud - bulllozers," for tue purpose
OF breaking up Republican meetings, pro.
venting thu colored people from voting the
Republican ticket, or compelling them, where
their toata could 10 appealed to, 10 voto thu
Democratic ticket, mud carrying tho StGto for
T1LprN. Contrast will this tic testimony
wl,icl, han iIcan tnkon hetore tho 1lousa
(Democratic) Committee. ThIA comulittc,
1,as summoned many more witnesses, hotl
wl,te mud blAck, tlsnn The Heuata Committee
, and they lnyo testified without being ullsls
intimidation or ill danger OF their prescu
. snftty, unlike tie witncssc. on tho othersfde
The Democraticprogran'ne Inns evidently bee1
not 10 attempt to sotl,te The testimony OF til
latter, but TO offset 1t with testimony as +
tho 1nauucr III which Democratic negroe
: have been bulllozeA nml intimlated, thu
: establishing the point that, 1t intimidation la
:. been practicet1 OH tha ono side, 1t lsas beel
:. y practiecd OIL tho other also, and "honorH al
, easy." Tho attempt, however, lsIs been 1
= latllo unl inpotcnt III to be simply ri.llc,
- lous. The testimony before tho Senato Cot,
- ,nitteo, considered ~ wholu. cnuuot bt
:, Inspire lie reatler with feelings OF ,ningle
- sympathy aud horror. The testimony b.
fore tho lIouse Committee, OIL tho otli'
!, l,anl. cannot ho read without mingled feo
- Jugs Of amusement mud tlurisiou. II III q re
- ord Of family rows autl ssluabbles, ne!glbo
=, hood iauglcs. ellin-m,asic," and t!slieuH:
" Ut thu inuocuous threats Of seolding, ga
= ruIoss wenches; OF black eyes aud blool
IL s.oses. md now and then cracked crow,
" :" Of household slaader aud street gossip;
-, bar.roosn brawls llil squahbles In the cotto
~ fel.1s. II represents Just about tlso saaa
= amount Of election m,lse tint occurs III WI
politics in tho North, which III one thinks
r. even critioiziug, m0cl, less a. worthy of ps
sr test. II tho contingency should ever hnpp