Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-09-13

dred colored men at the Baptist church
who intended to vote, III lntosh turned
round to Mr.. Carlisle and said !:
..By that won't do" and then
called on the company to fall in to &c
up aud run them of. They started in
the direction Of the church. | heard d
gun FIRE, and saw two oil three hundred
colored men run of from the church.
Ambrose Henderson swore that he
"adviseG the colored people to meet at
the church so that there might be no
trouble. j. X. M'lntosh, with two or
three other men, came up to the church
an6 told me that | would be held re-
sponsible for the conduct of the eolored
people on that day-that j could con-
irol them. I told him that this was
quite a responsibility for one man to
assume, but l would assume it, as saw
no disposition on the part Of any color
ed man to do anything wrong. All
they wanted was chance to vote as
they desired"
Notwithstanding this assurance not
witbstanding that there was no dis
turbance on the part Of any Republican
voter, white or black notwithstanding
the fact tha. the negroes were unarmed
and the whites organized and IN mill
tary companies, the negroes we're driven
off because their votes would have
elected the Republican candidate for
Congress.
Jack. or jackson Adams, met the
armed company as it was going down to
the church to drive away the Republl-
can voters. A shot was fired at hun.
The ball passed through his hat. Did
be run Hear him:
1" i was fired al by some one in the
ranks. The ball passed through my
hat. There was large company
of them. They went up to the church
/ | saw the coloIe ed men running. There
we're between two and three hundred
men at the church who had not voted
/ | lodged around aud went and voted
while these armed men were going up
to the church."
George W. White swore that he was
u candidate for the Legislature. lie is
a colored man.
.sOue week before the election | was
going to Bluff Springs TO speak. On
the road | met DIR. j. Ii. Green. lie
stopped me and tried hard to prevail on
me to come off aud support Gen. Tuck
er for the Legislature. / told him
would not do so. lie told me that |
would be responsible for the blood that
would be shed on the day of the cleo
tion. He asked me If | thought, after
they had gone to so much expense, that
they intended to allow US to carry the
election He stated to me that they
did not intend that any eOlored man
should have an Office; that 1t would
make no difference whether he was
elected or not He said the Demo
Gratis had determined to carry the elec-
tion at all hazards not only in ChicAa-
saw county but throughout the State.
DR.. Green finally asked me il | was
going to Okolona on the day of the
election. told him was. He ad-
vised me not to go, and said that if
did 60 | would be shot down that they
would think no more of shooting me
than if / was hog. He then asked me
how many guns | thought they had at
Okolona. | told bim that | thought
perhaps 800. He said they had gone
to great expense to provide guns, and
that they fully determined to carry the
election that 40 colored man ought to
have an Office, and they did not intend
that be should. DR.. Green told me that
he would not shoot me himself. but that
there were plenty of Democrats that
would DO it !; that be was not Demo-
crat, but an old line Whig."
The witness did 90 to the election, but
the intimidation there kept him from
the polls.
No true bills ,rere found6y the Grono
Jury on oil this erideHee.