The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-01-05

anu was TnHue 10 CnHTge tnetn 10 pOUblcdi
hostility. The board only allowed two wit
nesses among the number accused to be
examined, and they exposed the Infamous
fraud on the spot. Others who hurried to
New Orleans to give testimony, wcrearres
ed on subsequent aflidavits made for this
creature, and were not permitted to give
testimony in contradiction. But the truth
could not be concealed, and IL soon became
known that the whole story was fabri-
Gated for partisan purpose, and that the
woman herself was Of the worst possible
character.
These facts were oil notorious in New
Orleans. and the committees of both sides
could not be ignorant that u vile decep-
ton had been practised which was the
work OF the scoundrels who used perjury,
forgery, and fraud as the tools OF their pro-
fession to bolster up KELIoGG's usurpation
and to count In HAYES for President. In
the face OF tho exposures. however. JoHN
SHERMAN, Chairman of GRANTS COM
mittee. who prepared their scandalous
report hurried to Washington and ms
soon rs the Senate was organized, forced
this subject before the country upon his
own &C pdrtc statement, and without Civ
ing chance Of fair hearing TO the other
side. Here Is his account of the PINKsToN
affair:
"ELIzA PENSIONS husband was killed In the
dead hour OF night bv Democratic band Of ma.
rIudcrs, and her child was taken from her
| arms and butchered There were the dc ID
| bodies. There WIS no controversy ABOUT that.
When that woman, herself having been wound
ed Ia several places, He'd after these demons had
lett her IA her humble nome, to white mau :
| house for protection, che fed to the home
OF the father OF one OF the men. who
ula'ors who did this act. and there sue
was told that II she Involved white men IN
| talked ABOUT 'nggers being thee and thus
they seek to impedch her testimony. given with
her wounds yet pleading, and her dead husband
enu chid buried like dogs, without inquest or
examination"
Every one Of these charges was shown to
be false before they were made in the Sem
ate, and JOHN SHERMAN repeated them
with full knowledge that they had been
exploded, partly by the ross-examination
of the woman herself, and conclusively by
testimony which the Returning Board,
counselled by SHERMAN's committee,
would not hear because 1t would utterly
crush out their fabricated case.
Both committees in Louisiana have now
thoroughly examined this story, as told
by the woman and by her next friend
JOHN SHERMAN. They have found ELIZA
PINKsroN TO be n murderess, "a wretch who
has destroyed her own children, and n
creature OF savage passions, who hardly
rises above the brutes OF the field, without
knowledge of truth and reckless in all her
ways and actions.
HENRY PINKsToN, the so-called usband.
was Democrat, % member OF colored
club, and was much regarded by the white
people OF the parish as an honest aud wor-
thy man. lie had quarrclled with negro
named Brooks, a Republican leader, who
threatened TO take his life, and doubtless
did murder him, AS all the circumstantial
testimony points in that direction White
ana black witnesses on the spot, and with
out regard 10 party, have established be-
yond all dispute that the statements OF
ELIZA PINKsroN are wickedly false in
every material respect, and that they must
have been manufactured by Others, who
hoped by this story Of cruelty to influence
pubic feeling at the North and thus to dI-
vert attention from the iniquities OF the
Returning Board.
Even Mr. HOWE, Chairman Of the Senate
committee, who has not boen to the scene
OF the alleged crime, but has taken much
testimony relating to It in New Orleans
has finally been constrained to give up the
case of ELIZA as "a political witness, aud TO
abandon JOHN SHERMAN TO the tender
mercy of public opinion. lie is reported
rs follows;
after the witnesses had been heard, all pret-
y much to the same effect, Senator HOWE, the
Re ubiican Chairman Of the committee, rose
aud suggested to senator SALISBURY that II
was needless to ex mine any more witnesses IN
the PINKSTON case that IL was entirely AZ IA
rent that nothing ELIZA PINKsroN had said or
might say was to be believed that her state
ments could accuse no man, aud that IL was
needless 10 examine any more witnesses To
snow her Dad character and utter unreliabllity."
This case was gotten up in order TO i'm
pose upon the country, by pretending to
show the methods of intimidation and
violence" which the Democrats had prao-
tised in Louisiana, and thus justify WELLS
and his associates in throwing out thirteen
thousand votes. 1t is now exploded and
annlhilated by the admission of the Re-
publican committee. But what Is TO be
thought OF the rascals who invented this
tale for partisan use, or of john SHERMAN,
their accomplish, who outraged his posi-
ton in the Senate 10 give il currency, with
the hope Of helping HAYES, through an
atrocious calumny against his opponents ?
ELIZA PINKsToN is only an illustration,
in one form, of the conspiracy TO capture
the Presidency by fraud. 1t is no worse
and probably not rs bad rs other agencies
that have been employed with the same
design. 1t has the advantage of Standing
out clearly, to be seen Of all men, as bold
and Infamous attempt to deceive the pub
lie by u monstrous fabrication.
The Suppressed Vote.
A good deal of nonsense Is talked and
written about the Suppressed vote" in