The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-08-24

The committee appointed by the U. s.
Senate to investigate the murders and
outrages in Mississippi have made re-
port. We have only room for the fol-
lowing part of the synopsis of the report
H. That the negro laborers were in
many cases compelled to vote for their
Democratic employers; that there was
general disposition, by threats of dis
/ charging them and refusing them sub
sistence, so to compel them, and that in
some counties the contracts made with
the laborers declared that they should
lose their share of the crops if they did
not vote to suit their employer.
Is. That the Democratic clubs organ
lied in every part of the State were sup
piled with the best arms that could be
procured in the country; that they
everywhere publicly expressed their pur-
pose to carry the election at all hazards;
that in many cases they procured one
or more pieces of artillery, with which
they traversed the country for weeks be-
/ fore the election, intimidating the ne
groes, menacing them, and firing into
their houses by night.
10 That the intimidation was so ge..-
eral that in a large number of counties,
/ previous to the election, it was impossi-
BILE to hold Republican meetings; that
in many strong Republican counties, Re
/ publican meetings were broken up, and
/ thereby all attempts to canvass these DIS
/ tricts were abandoned.
20. That the early riots at Clinton and
/ Vicksburg were the results Of special
purpose on the part Of the Democratic
/ leaders to break up the meetings of the
/ Republicans, to destroy the leaders, and
/ to inaugurate policy of terror, not only
/ in these counties, but throughout the
\ State, which would deter the blacks
from attending meetings. and especially
deter them from the free exercise of the
right to vote on the day of election. The
results thus sought for, were, in large
degree, attained.
81 That the number of negroes assas-
sinated after the Clinton riot could not
have been less than from thirty to fifty.
These were followed by the cowardly
murders of Mr.. Haffa and Senator Cald-
well.
%. That these outrages were chiefly
confined to the Republican counties,
when it was necessary to oyerawe the
Republican majority by unlawful means,
but that in two or three Republican
counties, as Wilkinson and Issaquenna,
there were no military Democratic or
CARNATIONS. and, therefore, comparative
peace; but that in these two counties,
since the election, great outrages, at
tended with violence and murder, have
been perpetrated, and evidently with the
purpose Of securing a Democratic victory
in those districts in November next.
%. That in lssaquenna County one
Col. Bull, an officer in the Confederate
army during the war, and at this time
officiating as clergyman, took command
of body of armed and mounted men, on
t the morning of Sunday, the 9Th Of De
. cember, and traversed the country below
. Rolling Fork during the day, and tha
night the men Of his command took from
their homes at least seven unoffendin,
negroes and shot them in cold blood
. Within the next two days five other lead
ing negroes were summoned to Rolling
, Fork during the day, and there compel
. led to sign a statement by which the
= became responsible for the good conduc
Of all their negroes, with the exception
J. of certain men named, who. in fact, b
c that stipulation, were made outlaws, an
l. as a consequence fled from their home
e and their families, and abandoned the