The Portland daily press., 1876-12-08
[From the Toledo Blade.l
Nasty in Louisiana.
MIR. Nasty Investigates as 10 Intimidation
and Fraud at the Polls-Why the Line
Was Not Drawn OH CoIor-Mr. Nasby's
Report.
CoNFEDRIT x ROADS,

w ASl 10 LIE OIAIE Wv AENIUCh1,
Nov. %, 1876.
wuzn't invited by the President, nor yet by
the National Dimekratic Committy, but yet L
felt it my dooty to go TO Looisianer to inves-
t!gate the matter of frods ther, pertikerlerly
ez got ded-hed tikkit down, and in the eggs
citement expected to hev ruther good pickins
among the Reformers gatherd ther.
Wot | went fur wuz this: The Northern
papers hev sed so much about the intimidashen
Nv niggers, the refoozle Nv the Dmocrisy NV
the South to let niggers vote, Nv killen niggers,
and Nv the outrage Nv drawin the color line SO
close, that felt it my dooty to go to the spot.
and determine for myself the trooth or falsity
Nv them statements.
To settle CRATE trooth ther aint nothn like
practikle demonstrashen. The day got into
East Felishiana Parish, Looisiane-, 1 went
into the biggest bar-room, KNOWN that II find
the most Dimokrats ther and 1 santered up to
to bar, determined to risk my life to see wether
the Dimocrisy killed niggers merely becoz they
wuz higgers.
"'Ror fer Hayesp' L yelled.
"Klll the emissaryr shoutid q dozin NV
EN- droin ther revolvers.
Fortunately an old man come in and regardn
me moment, stopped EN-.
skill thet man for a ablishHist!' sed the old
man Indignantly "Pretty judge nv human
his nosep'
And he rebooked the young men. and asked
me to take suthin; and ez he kept on askin, he
wuz soon entirely satisfied Nv the soundness Nv
my Dlmocrisy.
That nose Nv mine hez often injoored my
credit-this time it saved my life.
The seckshun wuz conjenyel to investga-
shen and cOmmenst rite there.
Kernal Gaskin sed ther he'd bin no intimida-
shen that he knowed Nv He'd organized the
Dimocrisy, and he'd armed em. Ther wuz 5000
more niggers than whites in the parish and
the niggers he'd bin in the habit Nv votin the
Radkel tikkit, but they didn't this time. He
he'd argoOd with en-. He he'd shot two or three
Niger preachers wich wuz msleadin the
poor darkies, and wuz a urgin Nv EN- to stand
firm agin their material protectors, and he he'd
assisted in burnin two or three niger skool-
houses, for when niger kin reed they are
piZen.
But, Kunnel, the niggers Good hev votid eff
they he'd wantid to, coodent they?'
"Certinly-them cz votid the Dimekrati c
tickit The others wood hev had some trouble.
We notified sich ez were irreclaimable that to
save row. and that there mite be peaceable
eleckshun to the end nv hevin quiet expresh-
uu Nv the will Nv the people, that sich ez per-
posed to vote the Radikel tikkit he'd better stay
away. A few headstrong men come in, in the
mornn, and offered their votes, but before they
answered the questions that wuz put to EN-,
they imprudently got involved in conflix with
us and wuz killed. Their fate got spred abroad,
which akkounts for the yoonanimity Nv our re-
turns
"Wat wuz the beginnin, generally, Nv the
rumpusses?'
'Ngger impotence, cir alluz. Them ez got
away with their lives tole them ez wuz coming
that they he'd bin shot at and scb and that
they wood be killed eff they came TO vote, aud
they professed that they he'd bin intimidated
and stayed away. That's all ther is Nv that
story of ntimidashenw
''But, Kunnel, what want to git at is this:
Did 700 dror the line on color? Did 700 rekest
these people to stay away from the polls becoz,
and solely becoz they wuz niggers?'
''Not at all, sir. give 700 my word ez troo
Southern gentleman wich seeled his devosben
to Southern Rites with his blood, tibet eff a white
man he'd come to them polls with a Radikel
tickk;t, 1 wood hev shot him jest the same ez
did the niggers, They wuz warned to keep
away, not becoz they wuz niggers, but becoz
they wuz Radikels. Whoever sez we drored
the color line lies. 1t IL only another sample
nv the iDjustis the North does us-we kin never
be understood up there"
[ interviewed morn dozen Nv the leedn
citizens Nv the parish, and the result wuz in
every case like this. There had been no in
timidashen-the niggers wuz ez free to vote ez
enybody. Nv cosrss the proud Looisianian
wuzn't goin to hev no Radikel ballots cast in
these parishes, ef he Good prevent it, but who-
ever sez the line wuz drawd on color lies.
cite one instance to show how little found
ashen ther is fer the assershun that it wuz colot
| that they object to. A man from Ohio he'd a
| plantashen near which he bought four yeers
| man wich he brot with him-all white. Kurnel
Gaskin rode over to his place with some White
Leagers and notified him that he must stop his
efforts to kerry the parish for Hayes. which the
man, mutterin suthin incenjeary about his bein
an Amerikin citizen and this bein free coun.
try, refoosed to acceed to. That mite his house
wuz burned, and his place perty effektually
bustid, and he wuz given twelve hours to gi
| out. Understand, this wuz white man-no
a Niger! He wuz not histed out for his color
| it wuz for his cussid politics.
hope this plain statement will set this idle
lie at rest, but don't suppose it will. The Rad
| ikel organs will keep on howlin about Sutherr
oppreshen Nv the niger jest the same. E
| they think it is color, let one NV them editors
from Illinoy go down ther and go to spoutiI
| ablishenism, and see how long his color viii
pertekt him. They are strictly imparshel-
| the most imparshelst men [ ever saw. Tbey'et
ez soon shoot white Radikle as nigger Radi
kle.
he'd a good time down there. but am gla(
| to get back to the Corners. After all, Their
amt no place like home. The gilded bars o
| the South is all very fine, but know Bascom s
PETROLEUM " NALBY, Reformer.