New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-05
SENATOR WHITES DENIAL.

Senator White, of Orleans, has COM
planned: in communication to the eve
| ming Times, that he was misquoted in
that journal in his remarks on the election
bill. The following is copy of the note
of the Senator and the reply of the jour
nal:
New ORLEANS, February 4, 1876.
Editor New Orleans Times:
SIR observe in your summary OF the
Senate proceedings on yesterday am cred
tied with having said that the passage OF
the Senate election bill would cause 10000
coiored men to be killed. No such state
correction made through your columns. |
am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
EDWARD d. WHITE.
We find the following language at
rributed to Mr.. White in the REPUBLICANS
report, which we believe was taken by a
stenographer:
For if this bill becomes law the result,
believe, will bs the destruction OF the lives
Of ten thousand colored people,"
IL is substantially the same as that given
in the Times We, however, cheertul]y
give the denial of Mr.. White without being
able to say whether he, IN the heat OF de-
bate was more earnest than he supposed,
or whether the reporters misunderstood
what he said.
Whatever may be the facts Of the case,
we are glad to learn that Senator White
now repudiates the sentiment imputed to
him by two of the reporters of the city
press. We sincerely hope he did not
make use Of such extraordinary language.
Yet in justice to the Times reporter as
well as our own, We must inform the SEN
ator that they were not the only persons
who misunderstood him. Several Sena-
tors and number of the members Of the
lobby said yesterday that they thought he
had been accurately reported until they
heard his denial in the Senate. They
were all glad to know, however, that all
hands, reporters and listeners, were mis-
taken, and that the Senator had not said
what they all thought he had-auditors,
reporters and ALL until the delusion was
happily dlssipated by his denial. One
gentleman remarked that Mr.. White
did not say that "ten thou
sand negroes would be murdered before
election day." but that thousands and
thousands would be thus disposed of.
Now, this is a modification of at least six
thousands. according to minimum es-
innate. Two thousand would be chou
sand" and two more would be the ''and
thousands" thus showing that the re-
porters in adopting ten thousand as the
fated number had considerably overshot
the mark. We are not by any means GER
tain that the Senator said anthing about
any number Of the negroes which his
party purposes killing in case the Senate
does not pass an election bill to suit the
appetites Of the Democrats, as Mr. Demas
puts the case, because none of the state
ments on the subject yesterday were
made under oath. But whether
he did or not, the Hon. Mr.. Ray yester-
day not only believed he had said some
thing to that effect, but desired to have
from one so knowing in the programme
of assassination the names of those
marked for the distinction Of martyrdom,
and at the suggestion Of Hon. E. Booth,
asked that the dates might also be given
when they were to die, respectively, SO
that they might all be properly prepared
for death. Since Mr.. Whites denial that
be made any such statement, Of course
there is no poin. in the demand OF Mr..
RAJ