New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-13
NEW ORLEANS SUNDAY, AUGUST la 1875.


know Of any white person being killed by
this crowd Of men.
The Repuhlicsns would not dare to hold
any meetings in the parish-it w0asd be
death to them If they did! Colored people
are dissatis6eo; they have NO protection,
and are talking about leaving the parish
Some have already left the parish; l saw
several families leave; some went down the
coast not moro than week ago.
! know Of several stores being burned.
and have talked with the people who were
burned ont. Some are white and some col
0red. When the Regulators come to town
they always hitch their horses on the out
side of yard, to Q fence, and make their
headquarters as the office Of Messrs. Wick
twenty fourth, in the town of Bayou Sara,
Richard Harber and lot of white men beat
tho colored people with their pistols; some
were beaten badly; the clothes of the COL
ored men were all covered with blood from
the beating they got. saw Q c0lOred man
knocked down in the store of Mr.. McFisher,
by young Barrow, with four-pornd weights,
and nothing was done about it. This col
0red mans name is Zach Brown. know
the Regulators did 60 to all Of the stores in
town on the twenty fourth of December,
1875, and drove the colored people on. Of
town, not letting them buy anything, shoot
ing and beating them. Some to save their
lives had to take refuge in the peoples
houses. left Bayou Sara on Saturday. l
am one of the administrators Of the Insane
Asylum at Jackson, Louisiana. The Regu-
lat0rs visit the towns Of st. Francisville and
Bayou Sara every week, and very often
every day, during the last two months, on
horseback, and armed with large.sized navy
pistols buckled around their waists outside
of their coats. never bought any seed
cotton.
CRUEL OUTRAGE TO WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
W. T. Kruse, sworn-Says reside on the
Haywood plantation, the property Of Charles
E. Percy; sm engineer on the place. On
or about the fourth Of January last four or
five armed men, disguised with masks, came
to my house in the night, about one or two
O'Clock, knocked ct my door and demanded
of me to let them in. refused. They
broke open my store and came in, and At
tempted to get away through door lead
men caught me and struck me over the
head with their pistols, stunning me. Fwas
insensible for some time. They set fire to
my corn crib. saw it burning % stepped
ont of my door. When / attempted to re-
turn to my store to save my books and
papers, they would not let mo. They put
ont the lights which had burning in my
room and set my storehouse on IRE and de-
stroyed everything except trunk and bed
sheets, which we're near the door.
Myeelf and family, my brother-in-law and
family, and motheT-in-law and seven chill
dren from nine months to fourteen years of
age, live together. They hid themselves in
the garden while the store was burning
and stayed there all night. My mOther-in-
law, about eighty years Of age, was hid
away with the children and baref0Oted. At
ter the store was burned they shot and
killed one Of my dogs and wounded an.
other. These men gave no reason for COM
mitting this outrage. ! have never given
them any occasion to do this and expose
my family to the cold night air. l was told
by friends that if remained over ten days
after the store was burned would be hung
to the first tree. My wife has, from fright
and loss of property, been subjected to re-
peated spsems. Before the fire she had no
such sickness.
We are hard working, industrious peo-
pie, and are not afraid of work. l am now
$1,000 was due me on my books; they being
burned I have nothing to show for the &C.
counts. am satisfied that could not 60
back to collect my money. The burning of
the store left me and my family destitute.
l did not think that had an enemy in the
parish. I am . citizen and taxpayer.
have not voted since voted for General
Grant the first term.
Cross.examined by Senators Goode and
Steven-I have NO idea why / was treated
80; I have bought seed cotton, but had
stopped buying it.
MRS. Kruse, the wife of w. T. Kruse,
cOrrObOrates the testimony of her husband,
and signs with him the afidavit.l
"THEsE SHOES FIT MY WIFE,"
Dennis Dorsey sworn-Says reside in
the parish of West Felicisna, about i've
miles from Bayou Sara, on the place known
a. Starr Hill. was born and resided there
all my life. About the month Of October,
1875, heard the alarm Of fire at Juba
about 800 yards from my house. I went to
the fire. Seeing there was . crowd of men
masked, l hid in the woods close by. Could
see them plainly. They had their faces
covered with something-it might have
been black false faces. Could hear them
talking and laughing; each of them had .
cigar smoking. They took two boxes and
divided them among themselves, and
helped themselves to what they wanted.
wife," and put them in his pocket. Shoes
were found on the road after they left. The
store was burned.
About week afterward this same crowd
came back to Starr Hill, headed by Colonel
j. w. Smith, of East Feliciana, who said:
1.-The Regulators have burned the stores,
and you niggers are burning the ginhouses
for Spite" He also said: 1--WE own this
country, and are damned tired Of q Repub-
lican government, and are going to kill out
niggers SO we can carry the elections this
wear. We are going to elect our President
and other officers" He said that "Mr.
Kellogg thinks he can carry the State for
Grant and himself, but We will show him he
can't"
They found white man, Teutsch, with
Juba Glasper; they attempted to hang them,
by putting rope around their necks while
on horseback. The rope was too long. Or
they would have been hung, their feet
touching the ground as the horse was taken
from under them. One of the Regulators
then stepped up and took the rope from
their necks. l saw these men we'll; they
had no masks. know the names of some
of them; most Of them live in East Felici-
ana and some in our parish. They were
all armed with sixteen-sho0ters or large
pistols, and on horses. Before they left they
rode ont in the field where the colored pe0
pie were picking cotton, and began shoot.
ing at them and running them OF. Some of
the colored people came back in two days
and some have not come back yet: don't lon
Regulators then left for Bayou Sara. Every
Saturday, and sometimes oftener, they have
come back. One time they beat up col
ored man named Garret Hailes and almost
killed him. This happened on the twenty
fourth of December, 1875, and they would
have whipped more it they could have
Cross-examined-Says Juba Glasper was
accused Of burning ginhouses by the Regu-
lat0rs.
TO BE CONTINUED
Religious Notice.
Rev. DR.. Thompson, formerly pastor Of the