The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1876-12-14

spsnosr p5cksoa. : black maH. istea
cut q h.s cabin snd shot
Faion LoEvooi > eel5fed Bfpatli
can. $ 30 Sic awn yar3 be1 &C BE-
family
BeuJamia James, 2 colofr3 constable.
ssot. terribly wouade3 and leh ior
dead. while carrying ballot box a.
the polling place.
William Clarrct. black mas aBd
Republican shot. a. be was told fot
being "a Radical 90 count uiggcr
EdEAfi Richards. a black man.
banged aad let i5r dead. because be-
would uoi promise 10 vote she Demo.
cratic ticket
Seward Heckter, a eoloted RopabH-
can. hanged tai be was nearly dead
nos 10 dangerous condition.
Randall Degrow, whipped Tor attend.
log Republican meeting; not expect
ca to lise.
The testimony 90 the Republican
side is not eou6uei 10 negroes. very
many whites testiNing to these occur.
rauces We give the sworn statement
Of one Of them. Mr. J w. Harrcll, an
extensive planter and one Of the best
known gentlemen in Louisiana 10.
dAy:
Il Am planter in the Parish Of East
Felicisna, aud employ fifty eolorci
mon; | have oiten been uotiSed that ]
must attend the Democratic meetings
and vote the Democratic ticket or |
must leave the parish; many Of my
hands and those Of my neighbors have
been cruelty whipped aud others
/ driven away from their work. because
+ they refused 10 attend the Democratic
meetings aud to vote the Democratic
/ ticket; my hands were taken from their
work and compelled to vote the Dem.
Iocratic ticket; many Of them saw de.
post Democratic ballots aud they told
me il uas not from choice, but because
they had been told that unless they
did SO they mustleave the country, the
+ Democrats would appoint night FOR d
meeting, and then ride through the
country aud notify all the colored men
and many white men that they must
attend my hands would come TO me
aud ask my protection, saying they
did not wish TO attend their meetings
or to vote their ticket. told them on
these occasions that ] was unable to
protect them. This was tho case with
many Of my neighbors. also white
planters, but the armed mob we're too
strong for us, aud to live in peace and
quiet was compelled to endure what.
ever they saw fit TO do For the pur-
pose OF intimidating me, the bull.dozers
took one OF the women in my house out
aud whipped her nearly to death
They broke into my house, took the
woman and stripped her and beat her
terribly | armed myself and would
have resisted, but band of forty or
more surrounded me and threatened il
had any Of them exposed or arrested,
they would hang me / being only
one against so many, dared not resist
or | would have been killed They
termed me -- Radical scallawag
aud said / loved the niger better than
the white man or | would not he a
Republican was born and raised on
the place where ! now live, and owned
many Of the hands / now employ,
These acts Of violence were perpetrat.
ed upon all. or nearly all, the white
Republican planters in my parish, as
, we'll as upon our colored hands, and il
was by this system Of intimidation that
the Democrats carried my parish
Upon free and fair election my parish
would have been Republican by al
least 200, there being upward of three
, thousand voters of whom, without any
/ intimidation, more than twenty one
hundred are Republican, and less thar
nine hundred are Democratic"