The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-12-14


ruffians know who he was. as he ran in
the darkness1 They did not care. Any
other black man sleeping there and run
ming out where they could see him would
have met the same fate.
Ii appears in the testimony Of the Cor
oner. Benjamin Morgan. that in Septem.
Der, after he had held eleven inquests ol
this sort in about q year, he received the
following notice:
"Mr. Ben. Morgan, Coroner:
you will please bear in mind that
your absence is required in the country.
and further inform you that IL you are
caught there any more your fate shall be
as those you come to hold your inquests
over.
Yours truly.
CAPTAIN OF REGULATORS"
Thus warned, Mr.. Morgan did not 20
into the country to hold further inquests.
From then until the day Of election
there were eight more murders, and not
even inquests held.
There we're large Democratic gains in
that parish.
We will now look over some testimony
/ from East Feliciana, where there were
but three Republican votes polled in the
whole parish The usual Republican
vote is about / 500. The number Of reg
istered black votes in 1874 was 1891.
white s55 The blacks outnumbered the
whites in that parish more than two to
one.
The following sworn statement Of Eze-
kiel Glover throws light on the cause.
and accounts for the immense Demo
cratic gains
State Of Louisiana Parish Of Orleans. ss
Ezekiel Clover am q resident voter
Of the Eighth Ward Of East Feliciana,
was born and raised in said parish, and
am now twenty six years of age. On the
Saturday night previous to the election
held on the 7th OF November, 1876. about
2 o'clock at night. awhile man came to
NV door and called me to come out
there, as he wanted to tell me something
/ went with him about twenty steps from
the door, when W.. +. Roberts, John
Norwood, VIM. East, Alex Dotay, VIM.
Brown, John Hodge, James McAdam
and Porter Rowley, all OF whom are
white Democrats. well known to me,
seized me and tied me. They asked me
how many damned Radical speeches /
had got to circulate from New Orleans,
and whether had not organized a Rad
ical club, and made Radical Republican
speeches. / denied all Of the above,
when they said / lied, and just such
damn Radical niggers as me had kept
the Democratic party out Of power. and
ruined the country. They asked me
how many times / had voted in my life.
and which ticket / had voted. told
them / had voted the Republican ticket
They said damn me, should not vote it
this time.
They then asked me whether would
take FIVE hundred lashes or be hung. |
told them preferred to take the whip
ping. There were five or six Of them cut
large beech switches. while the other
stripped my clothes of and tied me to a
tree. They then beat me until tainted
l. cannot tell how many lashes they gave
me. hut i think il must have been a
thousand. When they united me | fell
down. They said ] was possuming. and
began to beat me again. They then
asked me, when | came to, who were the
other Radical niggers who intended to
vote the Republican ticket, as they were
on the war path and intended TO whip
the Radicalism out Of all the Democratic
niggers in that neigbborhood. They
asked me 10 go with them. to point out
the colored Republicans, but as / was
not able to walk they left me lying where
they had whipped me.
They told me il did not come to the
polls on Tuesday and vote the Democrat
ic ticket, they would have a rope around
my neck the night after the election.
They said they bad stood Radical Niger
rule as long as they intended to.
Il crawled home that night. and the
next morning went to Clinton, and
stayed at the soldiers camp a week be-
fore / was able to 20 out then went
to Baton Rouge. and from there | came
down here. / did not vote at all. For
the last seven or eight months there
have been armed bodies Of Democrat
bull dozers riding through my part OF the
parish, and they have so scared the peo-
pie that they nearly all joined the Dem
ocratic clubs to save their lives. Don't
think there is more than two Democrat
ic colored men in the seven or eight
wards. and all those who voted the Dem
ocratic ticket did so through fear that
they would be treated as ] was There
are about FIVE or six hundred colored
voters in the 7th and Sth Wards, and not
more than $50 white Democrats. think
IL the colored men were moi in fear Of
their lives they would all vote the Re-
publican ticket, aud the Republicans
generally have $50 or 400 Republican
majority.
Il think all the colored men in my
part of the State are afraid of their lives.
and that is the only reason they voted
the Democratic ticket
EZEKIEL GLOVER.
Subscribed and sworn before me, No
"F. A. woOLFLEY,
Commissioner United Stated Circuit
Court. District Of Louisiana"
Here are other sworn statements from
that Parish:
state Of Louisiana. Parish Of Orleans, IS:
Il, George T. Norwood, being duly
sworn, on oath deposes and says. that he
is a registered voter Of the parish Of East
Feliciana.
And further, from information re-
ceived, he states that during the last six
months and before that time, il was no
torious that an organized system Of in
timidation has prevailed in the parish;
acts OF violence, disturbances. etc, have
been resorted to by armed bodies o: men
styling themselves Bull-dozers and Regu-
lators. which have tended to prevent.
and have prevented. Republicans from
voting and which have prevented a fair,
free, peaceable and full vote of all the
qualified electors of said parish. at the
recent election of November 7, 1876.
"Deponent says. that on the day pub
lie meeting Of the Democratic party was
held in Clinton, during the recent polit
ical campaign. he heard a white man
named John w. Robbins. threaten a col
ored man that he would find out the
name OF every negro who voted the Re-
publican ticket. and make him smell hell
after the election.
"Deponent says that since the election
he heard two negroes say that they had
voted the Democratic ticket last election
because they had been forced to do 20 by
az hitn men. and fnrther that NJ the nnlI