New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-30
TEE BULLDOZ8R8 OF LIVINGSTON
A DeDoeratie VVleDeo0 J0D00che6.
NEW ORLEANs. December g, 1876.

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NEW ORLEANS, December g, 1876.
EDITOR REPusLaoAN:
On tho twenty.sixth dsy Of this month
Mr.. william 6. Davis and Mr.. Levi Spiller,
of the parish Of Livingston, testified before
the House Congressional Committee.
desire to review that testimony - pub
lished in the New Orleans Times, and to
prove by their own testimony that it is I'M
worthy of belief. Mr.. Davis eays that he is
clerk of the court, and further says that he
never heard of any armed organizations
In the parish of Livingston. would like
to ask Mr.. Davis if he hes not heard of an
armed organization taking out negro man
At the plantation of NJ. James Tarner, Q
resident of Livingston parish, and hanging
himf And if he has not beard and did not
know of q BODY of MAJ ked men going to
Louis Watson's and shooting to death .
negro boy residing ON Mr. Wetson,s place!
If he had not heard and did not know
of 8 body of masked men going to Mr..
Richard T. Christmas place and taking
out Q German named William Anderson,
tying him up and giving him . terrible
whipping, and near about the same time
taking out . man named William Edge
and treating him in the same mannerf--if
he had not heard or did not know of
body of armed men taking out man
Kelly, and giving him severe whipping
and ordering him to leave the .pariahf-and
IL it Was not notorious fact that this same
bodv of men ordered Peter Kelly and .
NJ. Moselev to leave the parish by the fret
day Of January, or be subject to like PEN
altiesi
AZ these facts are publicly known to
every one in the parish of Livingston, it
must be admitted that Mr.. Davis stated
falsely that there was NO armed organize
ton OF intimidation prscticsd in the parish
of Livip gston, and a. Mr.. Spiller, whose
testimony ID not Published for reasons bsst
known to tho committee, corroborated these
statements, tho people must como to the
aame conclusion e. to his evidence, that II
| il likewise false.
Mr.. Davis says that he il clerk Of the
court. I would like to ask Mr.. J. B. Set
toou and Mr.. James H. Bailey. both resi
dents of the parish of Livingston, how be
| obtained his commission as CLERK OF the
| of the court, when he said that White wat
| a notorious COW and hog thief and was con
stsntly indicted by the gran jury, he knew
| il WAS false; he never was indicted bu
once, and stood his trial and wss acquitted
| Old man White always bore the reputation
| of being an honest man, until it was known
| that he was . Republican.
Mr.. Davis being clerk of the court knows
moreover. that many cases OF assault ant
battery upon colored men have been flet
in bis Office and gone before the grand jury
and no bills being found against the per
petrators, two particular cases of colcre'
men being Hiram Givens and Jake Collins
the latter being SO badly hurt that witbil
my own knowledge the physician's bill TO
attendance amounted to $!O. Ihese case
vent before the grand jury, and wer
ignored. Isresl Rodgers, oolered Republi
can, being on the jury will prove the sam
il denied BY Mr.. Davis, he being the onl,
man on the jury that was in favor OF lind
ing true bill.
In conclusion will say that can prov
ali the statements which we're contained |
THAT Mr., Davis calls the Customh0use aft
dsvits. Very respectfully,
j. NJ. DAVIDSON.