New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-02

the armed bodies of white men in tho par
ish, and do not know of any individual, of
my own knowledge, who belongs to such
an organization. am Republican and
deputy United States marshal for the dis
trict in which live. knew Judge Davis
before his election to the bench; never
knew him as a practicing attorney. knew
of Conservatives who suffered at the hands
| of unknown parties. sm president of the
school board and parish treasurer.
JEALOUSY AND POLITICS RUIN A LIBERAL.
Joseph o. Blouin sworn-Says l reside
in the city Of Baton Rouge for the past two
years. l have three plantations. In the
month of December, 1875. on the Bartell
place, which is one Of my places some per-
sons unknown to me fired and burned
down new log cabin which was used Tor q
dwelling. This information was given to
me by one of my employees; one of my
hands told me that it was burned by q body
ct men. some masked and others not, about
fifteen or twenty. He saw the persons who
burned the house; there is no store on either
Of my places. offered by advertisement
IN the newspapers q reward of $500 for the
apprehension and conviction of the party
or parties who fired nv hDuse. A short
time after this advertisement appeared l
received a communication dated "WoOds,"
written in disguised hand. and signed
Regulator, Mystic" 1t informed me that
l had q colored man on my tom Bynum"
place by the name of Gilbert Houston. This
man Gilbert Houston they said must send
of, otherwise they would burn my gin, and
If said Houston was not OFT my place i'm
mediately they would cross the creek and
burn all my houses. and kill all my stock
that they could find. l addressed letters
answering some Of the men whom l thought
had mir uIn
that could not put him off because he had
q lease for two years, which had not ex-
pired, and l was subject to damages If l
attempted to put him of.
l, however, advised him to leave. Gil
bert Houston left on my advice aud Went
to live in Baton Rouge, and is now occupy
ing one of my houses. These men risited
all my places and notified all my, colorea
hands to leaue They visited my places at
different times during the month Of JAN
usry. All my hands left. have no COL
ored people on my places at all. con-
slider that have lost by the action of these
men between $4,000 and SIS, 600. WAS
selling my land before this at from SIS to
$50 per acre, but now don't believe that
could get 81 per acre. The colored people
who desire to own their own lands will not
these men in driving them off. The names
of the persons were told me, by the hands,
that notified them to leave my place. Some
of them were owners of property and con-
sidered heretofore respectable in the COM
munity. My opinion is that they are op-
posed to colored people otrning or leasing
land, and from a combination of jealousy
and politics.
No seed cotton was bought on my places.
The colored people that we're driven of my
place had been working tor me for three
years, and were good men, and they had
been recommended by my neighbOrs who
had first employed them, and they we're
honest l had no cause to complain OF
them. One OF the men ordered to leave was
about seventy years of age, and was an up
right and honest man particularly, and had
lived in the neighborhood for forty years.
I beliere that the best citizens of the parish,
if they rere to take 1t IN, hand. could stop
his numbering and killing and dririrlg of Of
hands. l am Conservative-never voted
the Republican ticket. l voted the Liberal
Republican ticket for Greeley in 1872. l was
formerly an old line Wing. l call myself
Ca onservatiye.
Crossexsmined, says-Some of my hands
recognized four or five of the parties en-
gagged in the proceedings of the so-called
Regulators; have not made any charge or
attempted to have them arrested; during
the troubles l endeavored to induce my
neighbors to join me to put stop TO
these proceedings; as they were conducted
by mob, We should organize another
party to oppose them; my friends said that
would be but one mob fighting another
that it was better to apply to the courts for
relief.
Previous to the burning of gins and stores
in the parish, the planters generally lost
very heavily by the stealing of their seed
cotton and stock. l think that have lost
some four or five bales in that way. On
one occasion caught man stealing one
of my hogs, and he acknowledged that he
had stolen many before. l had him ar
rested, and he was bonded out the same
was sentenced to thirty days in the parish
jail. The Regulators, or the persons SO
styling themselves, have made no discrimi-
nation in their attacks upon Conservatives
and Republicans. In my opinion persons
engaged in the later troubles are not the
persons who we're engaged in the burning
Of gins and stores. The Regulators are
mostly composed of irresponsible persons.
do not think was troubled on account of
politics; think jealousy had more to do
with it than anything else. do not know
OF any particular occasion upon which
Judge Davis has done wrong, but have
heard OF many complaints.
Is any other deduction possible than that
politics is the impelling motive for all these
sad facts narrated above. The murders,
the whippings, the midnight visits, the
breaking up of homes and driving out as
wanderers their hard work ING, honest oc-
cupants, have but one a. 10 and purpose, and
no just, fair-mindeG. man will dare deny
that to be the SETTLED determination of the
Confederate Democracy to repossess them
serves Cl the government, regardless of law
ana the guaranteed rights of American
citizens. The Democratic mouthpieces will
doubtless shout coarse and vehement de-
nial. and their parasites and weak imitators
may obediently follow, but the facts stand
forth damnipg and convicting by their con-
clusiveness. And such will be the verdict
of the country.
In the next chapter we shall more clearly
define the way in which the Democrats are
availing themselves of the fruits of their
crimes.
TO BE CONTINUED.
South Pass.
Everything seems to be coleur de rose
with the jetty operators at present, to Judge
by the communications in two of our con-
temporaries yesterday morning, bearing
the initials rasnactivalv of Max f. Schmidt