New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-20

! ths vsrious sete a ktlSa6Sess saASutrage
done n puisdsncs and fofthersncS thereof
i tere committed BY white meu-Democrats.
\ Ninth-That the methed and purpose
i thereof was to violently and through fear
eCd terror suppress, drive away and pre-
4 vent from voting. or coerce to vote the
4 Dsoqpepelssiokets sneA sngpba ef 4epak,
Mcan voteeS 81 would se6ute On appaEsnt
Democratic majority in the State.
I Tenth-That preconcerted system and
j conspiracy to these ends 10 shown
/. By the secret Patton letter, known -
j the confidential circular" eigned and il
sued BY the chairman Of the State Demo.
cratic Central Committee.
2. BY the selection Of the parishes to be
carried by bu!ldozing, to Wit: Those Of
Relicana, Ouichits. AoEeh0use, 8ioAland,
Grant. Livingston, Frankln, Sabine. Cald-
we'll, Lafayette, Claiborne, DeSoto, Jack
/ son and Natichitoches.
/ Of these the following, to..vit: East
Baton Rouge, East Felicians. West Felici-
ana, Ouachita and Morehouse are parishes
| bordering upon the States of Mississippi
end Arkansas.
In these parishes there 10 . Republican
vote of II 1894. and Republican majority
| of 1870, to Q Democrats vote of 1924. In
| the remaining eleven of these parishes, to
! wit: Richland, Grant, Livingston, Frank
| lin, Sabine, C.ldwell, Lafayette. Claiborne,
| De Soto, jackson, and Natchitcches ,, there
| was less brutal and more covert, but not
! less effective system Cf intimidation, by
| which q proportion of the Republican vote
Was suppressed, ~ faciently. large to com
.pensate for the Democratic vote which
| would be lost in the bulld0zed parishes by
the operation of the law in nullifying the
| election in said parishes.
8. By the sudden and Simultaneous out
breaks Of violence and murder in these
parishes t6fore and near tie eleotion.s :
4 By the anomalous and unusual CON
duct Of the white cOmmunities, among
whom these 0utrAgea OCCURRED, - contrast.
ed With that Rhich ohtsins among other
civilized communities where similar acts
occur. In this:
/ They were eenniyed Ct and eeaoealed.
They were secretly encouraged.
There were NO attempts to discover or
punish the criminsls.
There has been no condemnation Of these
aste ~ aAs psoss. BY public nseasgsd d. by'
White citizens who have ventursd to de-
nounce these outrAges have been nenaced
With prescription and persecution, and
thus silenced.
Tho Democratic managers have pretend
81 that these outrs2es were not perpe-
tinted, or where they have been compelled
to acknoWledge the fact they have falsely.
attxibuted them to the neglect or ine@6i6a-
81 of tho local officers, although we'll know
ing that these local officials were rendered
powerless by the same terrorism which rem
dered these outrage9 possible.
tE!eventh-That under our law there ere
no returns Of election, and can be none, ex.
cept those made by the Returning Officers,
and that neither the commissioners Of cleo
tion nor supervisors Of FegisteatioDs re-
turning officers, nor have either of them
authority to make and declare returns.
Twelfth-Thst the effect of these ont
RACES and lawleaeness in fntimidating the
colored people was not confined to the linn
its of the parishes in which they were per-
pStrated, but that this effsct spread to great
distances in the surrounding and neighbor-
ing parishes. -ESrU. LET &c. Eg..g
Thirteenth That in the parish Of East
I Felicisns the horrible murder OF John Gair,
arms Of the House of Representatives, who
was arrested at night in the town of Baton
Rouge, forty miles from his home, by .
sheriff's posse, upon q charge wrung by
force and torture from a poor and defense
| lees co!ored woman of completely in the kill
ing OF . man who was not killed, but is
row alive and veil, and who We
on his way to stand his trial BY an armed
company of regulators or bulldozers, under
the command Of one Captain Norwood, and
| tied to . tree by the roadsfde BY these reg
| ulators, and shot to death, was . crime
committed by Democratic for reasons grow
| lug ont Of political animositiee, and to
| achieve political ends, and that the ssme
| Was ono Of tho most horrible and dastardly
! aAts of crime ever committed in . civilized
| COUNTRY, and that to this day all investiga-
| ton into and inquiry after the perpetrators
rot this crime hasbeen contieuasty system.
sslCally discouraged and prevented By tho
| wbite conmunity Of East Fencahs. -.
HbQYteenth-That In the pazigh OF
| Ouaahits tho assaseinati0n OF DR.. b. III:
DiakUave va political crime committed
/ for Pelitical reasops, anA r. Demeeeete
ead vae ,oonnived et and ~ iDyeetieat6o1
int r Stidod and froWne4 1eW1u hy 4Dens,
| OF tesicl BY the Democrafs 0f that Pe.bh.
Fffteenth-That in t. pasdh ot Red,
i River th4 bratal and deliberate attempt 70
| sible qSilstton Of his pesoo. w ceemtt;
] tea W SHRED assassin, With the coIhivSace-
I Of Democrats. With the eeetet hovledge Of
&he white ccmmunity whore he Mvod, from
| political animeajties and Tor political endA
Finally, We oommepd to the attention OF
| your committee the significant parallel BE.
| tween the condition OF affairs IN 1858 and
| in 1876, and the similar effect upon tho sub
| seuuent elections, only remarkiDg that there
! are feV sDomoCretsuUW soshArdy - - aonys
Ethe outrages Of 1868. which have passed into
| hietory, and those few vhQ nay deny only
discredit their own veracity.
Respectfully submitted on behalf Of the
counsel for the Republican party.
| HUGH !. CAMPBELL, Chairman.
The following is the Democratic state
| ment, not yet filed:
| To tho Honorab!e Sub Committee Of the Senate
Oommittee on Privileges and hiections
The undersigned, % counsel Tor Jonn
| McEnery, n 3. e. Wickliffe L. St. Martin, T.
| p. Poche, A. DeBlanc, w. A. Seay, X. u.
Cobb and X. A. Cross, duly chosen at the
late election a. presidential electors, beg
leave to submit to your honorable body the
following statement:
/. That they received at the election
held in this State Tuesday, November z,
1876 majority Of the Legal gal ystss s over Ns+ thsi:
more particularly shown BY the annexed
eThibst made part hereof, marked 4.
l. q That the election, 90 far - the Demo
| cratic Conservative party Wogd 10ncerned,
4 va fair and peaceable and full, and that
| aid candidates and said party used every
| exertion end endeavor to secure. D free and
f9ll vote. and quiet election: ...
g, Ttat - tho Qther hand eteiK iKyppo4e4f.
and the leaders Of the Republican party Of
this State had, for some time previous to
4 the election. determined and e0nspired to
carry the State BY fraud and unfair means,
| snd with th6t end in vieW did perform
u among others the following acts:
"A. They did dAppointa1 e1reS11ssSs % reg.
= fstration none but Republicans and few but
Republicsus as, clsrks of registration, 70
fusing reiterated AdeuASnds By the Demo
cratic. Conservative party for representa-
ton, thps limiting and restricting .oppoy
. tanities Of detecting and preventing fraud
II S. That they Gid in most instances send