The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-05-24


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taken by the Hmpt ach-
meat COlAAmttGee.
Dr. j. sHf d. Bowman sworn Live in
Vieksburg; on the Goth of December, as
xas leaFi g IN ieksbnrg for Jackson met
Col. PaxtoiR and he requested me (he san
he represented other parties) To- visit Gov
ernor Ames. and tell him ahat the people
of Vicksburg aud OF Warren county
WOULD SUBMIT
To Crosb; being sheriff il lie would give
satisfactory bond. / wrote Governor Ames
a note requesting an interview and went to
see him; told him the people of Warren
county objected to Crosby being sheriff
sfmply because lie did not give a sun
Gent bond. To tina, Governor Ames replied
that 1.-THE people OF Warren county wantto
a diff culty.
81 AN PLACID
on the subject" He said there was no real
SON why they should not take Crosby "a
sheriff, except his color that was the ohIy
reason in his opinion. told Governor
AInes that had beer foreman OF the Grand
Jury and that Crosby was guilty Of ms
demeanor. as our District Attorney SAID
that he had taken the certificates OF indeOt-
edness of the Grand Jury an used them
for his own private purposes, and that now
he was discovered; but still we were willing
to let him act as sheriff If he would give
IL good bond. ! had good deal OF con
versatiou with Governor Amos about The
indictments in our court against Cardoz ,.
Davenport and Dorsey. Gall county oficers)
| had been foreman of the Grand jury
which found the Indictments showed
the Governor where lie coull get all the
documentary evidence showing their Suilt.
He
STILL MAINTAINED
that it was our prejud ice against the men
which induced the finding of those indict-
inents The Governor telegraphed or wrote
to the New York Herald over his own sig
nature that | had said To him that the
Grand Jury was forced by the taX-pa' ers
league TO tiud those indictments, which
WAS FALSE,
and Immediately contradicted it over my
own signature. The Governor repeated to
me very often that lie was 'YlIcsd,' and Ii
we wanted difficulty he was ''pIacid." lie
said that it was nothing buC Crosby being
Il negro that produced this trouble in War
rem county az inst his acting as sheriff
The Governor made the impression on my
mind that lIe was he II for
FIGHT
az Vicksburg, and I said so to Judge sim
rail- not ilflcen minutes afterward.
The Governor did not propose during that
conversation to see that Crosby male a good
bond. On the contrary he said that we
ought to ;tllbw him to act as sheriff on the
bond lie had given, which was''a straw
bond aud l SO represented it to the
Gvernor. The securities were utterly
worthless. | represented to the Governor
tn. excited state O! toe!ins in Nicks5urg;
TUE pANGER
of an i'm pending conflict, aud warned him
against it ana he replied that he was
'uiaoid' | told him that the cause of the
excitement was the thefts among the county
officers which had been discovered by J. G.
Axelson and Judge Arthur. both members
of the r 'pubIicln party. Governor Ames
STATED REPEATEDLY
that If the people of Vic ksburg wanted Il
difficulty lie was PLACID" and ready or
willing to meet it. lie did not express any
desire to prevent it. lie said nothing that
was coBciliatory, though I went in that
spirit and he 50 unders TODD it. The object Of
my interview was To prevent his taking any
steps to force dIlll ,ulty. The district uttor
ney to whom have referred was Luke /. a,
Il memb n of the Republican party. When
stlted to the Governor that the offices OF
Chanoery aud Circuit clerks had been eX-
aminel he said
no ONE HAD RIGHT
to examine them. | then said to Linn that
they were examined BY q committee COM
posed of two Republicans, Judge Arthur
ard O. Axelsol, vino were acting under ap-
pointment from the b )ard of Supervisors Of
Warren county. The conversation ! had
with the Governor was Oh the 9th o. De-
| oember, lSf4 the day before the riot at
Vicks5arg. We advised with the district
attorney as TO th1 character OF the misdc
mranor b. Crosby, and he thought it was
best not to inlict him, as we eNpectad to find
o her developm ents Of fraud and crime in
his Oliee--Iadge Arthur and Mr.. AXelson
not yet having time to investigate it. This
is the reason We did not indct Crosby
The bond of Crosby was not worth one
tenth of what it was given for. .
There was
NOT THE SLIGHTEST
pressure brought to bear on the Grand
Jury to influence them to ndict Crosby
C9rdozp, Dorsey and the clerks. There was
n)t disse nting voice in the Grand Jury
that founG the indictments against these
men, aud there We're ten cOlored men on tile
Grand Jury aud seven white men. The
Governor said he understood the situI.o
and he had taken his stand and was going
to maintain it. ...f ..r.
The Voice OIL the People Spoken
r.- by the Press.