New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-10
Massey In FEI.ICIANA.
He Investigates ~ e Intinldation and
Frauds 1t the Polls-The Line net
Drawa % COlOf,

He Investigates ~ e Int1nidation N.
Frauds 1t the Polls-The Line No
Drawa - Celer.
CoSpzDRIr K ROADS. ]
Wich - in tho State Nv Kentucky.
November Is, 1876.
Iwuzu't invited BY the President. nor vel
by the National Dimekratic Committy, but
yet I felt it my dOoty to 60 to Looisianer, t.
investigate the matter of frods Their, per
tikerlerly ez got q ded.hed tikkit down
and in the eggscitement expected to hev
ruther good pickias among the reformere
gathered there.
Wat l went for wuz this: The Northern
papers hev sed 80 much about the intimida
shen Nv niggers. the refoozle nv the Dimoc.
risy nv the South to let niggers vote, nv
kiln niggere, and Nv the outrage NV DRAWN
the color line so close, that / felt it my
d0oty to 60 to the spot. and determine, for
myself, the trooth or fslsity NV them state.
ments.
To settle CRATE trooth, Their amt nothin
like practikle demonstrashen. The day
got into East Felishiana parish. Louisiana,
l went into the biggest bar room, KNOWN
that I'd find the most DimOkrats Their, and
l santered up to the bar, determined to risk
my life to see whether the Dimokrats
killed niggers merely becoz they wuz mig
gers.
"'Ror for Hsyes!" yelled.
"Kill the id emisssryw SHOUTED dozen
nv en-. drOrin Their revolvers.
Fortunately an old man come in, and re-.
gardin me moment, stopped EN-.
Kill that man for ablshnist" sed the
old man Indignantly. pretty judge nv
human nacher 700 are. You are very
young. Look at his nose!"
And he rebooked the young men, and
asked me to take suthin; and ez he kept on
os ha W n hn n.
mis- Nv my Democracy.
That nose nv mine heZ often iDj00red my
credit-this time it saved my life.
The seckshun wuz cOnjenyel to investiga-
shen, and commenst rite there.
Kernal Gsskin sed Their he'd bee n no in
timidashen that he knowed Of; he'd organ
lied the Dimocrisy. and had armed en-.
Their wuz 5000 more niggers than whites in
the parish. and the niggers he'd bin in the
habit nv votin the Rsdikel tikket, but they
didn't this time. He he'd argoOd with EN-.
He he'd shot two or three niger preachers
wlch wuz 9 misleading the poor darkies,
and wuz urgin nv en- to stand firm agiu
their material protectors, and he he'd ASSISTED
in burnin two or three niger ekoolh0uses,
for when niger kin reed they are p,zen
"But, Kunnel, tne niggers Good hev votid
eff they he'd wantid to, cOodent they"
"Certinly-them ez votid the Dimekratic
trouble. We notified SIGH ez were ire
claimable that to save q row, and that there
might be peaceable eleckshun to the end
nv hevin q quiet expreshun nv the will Nv
the people, that sich ez perposed to vote
the Radikle tikkit he'd better stay away.
A few headstrong men come in, in the
mornin, and offered their votes, but before
they ans v ered the questions that wuz put
to en-, they imprudently got involved in
conti'x with us, and wuz killed. Their fate
got spred abroad, witch akkOunts for the
yOOnanimity NV our returns"
swat wuz the beginnin, generally, nv
the rumpussesW
'Nigger impotence, sir, alluz. Them ez
got away with Their lives tole them ez wuz
comm that they he'd bin shot at and SIGH,
and that they wood be killed eff they came
to vote, and they protested that they he'd
been inundated, and stayed away. That's
all Their is of that story of intimidashen"
But. Kunnel, what want to get at is
you rekest these people to stay away from
the polls becoz, and solely becoz, they wuz
niggersp
trOO Southern gentleman witch seeled his
to Southern rites with his blood,
tibet eff q white man hed come to them polls
with Rsdikel tickit, wood hev shot him
jest the same ez did the niggers. They
wuz warned to keep away, not b-coz
they wuz niggers, but becoz they WIZ Rad
ikels. Whoever sez We drored the color line
lies. II is only another sample nv the in.
justis the North does US; We kin never be
understood up there"
interviewed morn dozen nv the leedin
citizens nv the parish, aud the result wus
in every case like this. There he'd been no
niggers were ez free ~
vote ez anybody. Nv coarse the proud Loo
sisnian wusn't u goil to hev NO Radical
ballots cast in these parishes. 81 he cuod
prevent il, but whoever sez the line wuz
drawd on color, lies.
l cita one instance to show how little
fOundashen Their is fer the assershun that it
wuz color that they object to. man from
Ohio bed a plantash,n near here web he
bought four yeers ago. He uuz y RAdikel,
and so wuz bis hired men wich 10 brot
with him-all white. kunnel Gaskin rode
over to his place, with some White
Leaguers, and notified him that he must
op HE efforts to kerry the parish for
Hayes, wich the man, mutterin euthin in
sen jary about his bein a Amerikin citizen,
and this b-in free cOunG Try, refoozed to
accede 10. That mite his house wuz nurued,
and his place perty eff-cto ,aliy u-tid, and
he wnz gwen twelve hou s to git out. Ia
1erstand, this wuz a white mau-nut a
niger. He wuz not histed out for his
wUz for his cussid poltiks.
hope this plain statement will set this
il at resl, but don't suppose it will. TIE
RAJ ikle organs will keep ON hOwlin about
suthern oppreshun Ov the nigger jest the
,ame Fit they think IL is q ,lOr LEFT one nv