The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-11-23

In the halls Of Congress and before the great
tribunal OF the people. The Democracy
claim a majority in each parish. In East
Felieiana they claim a unanimous vote.
ouACHITA.
Whites. Colored.
Registration In 1874 under
Democratic auspices. -. go 2,3ll
Registration IN iS'''''"'M etusrv. Ke,, 1;sIp
Vote for Governor in 1872. 7s 1870
Vote for Treasurer in ls74... 7G 1851
MoREHoUsE.
Whites. Colered.
Registration in 1872 under
Democratic auspices...... 09i 1889
Registration in iS'i''''''' McE E : uo,i l,ssl
Vote for Governor in 1872 -. 68 '655
Vote for Treasurer in 1s74.... G4 l,Oi7
EAST FELICIAsA.
Whites. Colored.
Registration Of 1872, taken
under Democratic aus
Registration of '74'.'....';yi cE :S ro,, l,S,l
Vote for Governor in 1872. as
returned by Democratic Re.
turning Board........,.,.. 63 1000
Moncure. Dubuclet.
Vote for Treasurer in ls7i... si7 less
A year ago, John Gair, the leading col
ored Republican Of this last parish, was Ia
ken away from a Sherif's posse which had
arrested him on u t%rumped-up charge OF
poisoning a man still living, and was foully
murdered, his body being called full Of
hullets.' lie lies buried on the road side
where he fell. His sister, Babe Mathews
(for colored women are active ltepublicans),
was hanged in the courthouse yard for par
ticipation In the alleged crime. The Sher-
i'll and other parish officers were suisse
quently driven out Of the parish by armed
bodies OF the White League, aided by bands
from Mississippi. Since which time u score
OF cOlored men have been murdered, and
hundreds Of others whipped, until every
vestige Of Republican organization was
stamped out, and the colOred people re-
duccd to n state OF terrorized subserviency
for which even their former condition OF
slavery affords no parallel.
The few white Republicans left in the
parish attempted to put a ticket in the field
this year, but were waited upon by promi-
nent Democrats and informed that no Re-
publican ticket would be permitted. The
Supervisor Of Registration, whose fairness
and integrity is Endorsed by the entire DEM
ocratic press, was run of, and an election
was held in violation Of all the forms OF
law. At that election so far is heard from ,
not one Republican vote was permitted to
be cast.
WEST rELIcIANA.
White. ColoreI.
Registration for ls7e, under
Democratic auspices...... 5l 2,0.i
McEncry. Kellogg.
Vote { rGovernor, ls72. as re.
turnel by Democrat C Re
Moncnrc. Dubucict.
Vote for Treasurer, 1874 -. oil l,3jS
simultaneously with the successful inaug.
uration OF the Mississippi plan" in It's
sister par ish, id a reign OF terror visit
death aud dcsolation upon the heaTthstones
Of Republicans in West Feliciana. Under
the preteXt that negroes were stealing cot.
ton from the fields and selling 1t to the coun.
try storekeepers, a dozen OF stores, where
colOred people c~ongregated and exchanged
their political views, were burned, and IN
some instances their owners hung. Bodies
of White League Cavalry, calling them
selves Regulators, having thus scattered oil
destroyed their leadership, visited the col.
ored people in their cabins, and hesitated
not at murder, with the most fiendish nc.
cessories, in order to strike a lasting ter.
ror to this entire population a Of Republican rra y,
Victims of these bloody raids. with the
names Of perpetrators, have already APP
peared in our columns.
EAST BATON ROUGE.
Registration under Demo.
cratic auspices in ls72.... Las l,5Ss
Registration in lsh'..."i s,S, s,s..
Vote for Governor in 1872, as
returned by the Demo.
cratic Returning Board: i,64i 1,l6'
Vote for Treasurer in ls7i.. 1855 .,At
After the Mississippi victory in 1875, the
parish of East Baton Rouge promptly put in
its claims for the championship as the best
''nigger killing community, and right wei
the "bulldoZers, - as they call themselves,
strove for e-eminence. A leading Con
servatiNe OF the parish, three months ago
and new martyrs to Republicanism have
| sinpp hpnn added IN tho nnrl-astimafn6
the number Of slain colorcd men aud women
at over 100, while no estimate was ventured
as TO the number who bad been half stran-
gled by hanging or brutally whipped
with rawbides. Prominent and wealthy
planters have testified under oath to the in
nocence OF the victims; to the crimiDality OF
their white prosecutors, to their efforts Ia
enlist the aid of the more respectable whites
for suppressing the hOrrid cruelties, and To
their failure because Of the underlying po-
liticai motives. On the day the Democrat
ic convention assembled it was openly
boosted that ''the last remaining carpet
bagrer had been run out OF the parish''-
this last representative of Northern civil.
cation being Major Hustled, a gallant soldier
and cultivated gentleman, against whose
good name no breath Of suspicion had
blown, and whom the Democrats them.
selves had supported for Parish Judge be.
fore the hope Of a solid South seemed "a
them a realizable fact. The Hon. W. g.
Lane, Republican Representative, had hui
a few days before been assailed in his hote
bedroom by an armed band, but successful.
ly repealed his wOuld-be assassins, killing
one and wounding others. On the killed
man no inquest was held, the Cor
oner being warned hat the attemp
to make a process verbal would cost him hi
life. A few weeks anterior five negroei
were hanged to their own gate-posts, and
although they were subsequently buriet
under official supervision, the public hai
yet TO learn that he dared to disobey thu
bulldoZer mandate TO make no record of tn,
fearful tragedy. And these are but speci
mems OF the crimes which p%unctuate tn,
political history Of this parish for the pas
year,
With this hastily prepared but easily yer
flied history Of the Democratic plot for con
quering q victory in Louisiana, we leave tn,
subject for the present.