New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-07
WHOLE NUMBER 3OOe.


publioans iu that portion of the State, say
ing that armed men were going through the
parishes, during the night and day, visiting
the houses of the colOred people, threaten
ing, shooting, and even killing them if they
did not join the DemOcrAtic elubs;
for themselves if these reports were
correct, by sending one of their members
into these parishes to organize the party; l
was selected by the committee to go on
that mission; the day i left this city
private telegram was received by the COM
mittee, informing them of the assassination
of DR.. ninkgrave, and that in Monroe
armed cavalry were organized which had
the effect of terrifying the colored people;
after the killing of DIR. Drinkgrave, who
was the Republican leader in that parish,
l was informed that he had been told that
If he did not stop organizing Republican
clubs in that parish he would be
killed; he was assassinated in the
streets of Monroe, in broad day
light, by a man with dark whiskers,
whom no Democrat knows or wants to
know, and it never will be found out who
the man was; does not know, but think that
it was to the interest Of the Democratic
party to have DIR. Dinkgrave assassinated,
and thinks it was planned and carried out
by them; General Nichols and the other
candidates on the State ticket held public
meeting at the courthouse square in Mon
roe while was there; Mr.. Ogden, the can
didate for Attorney General, was the first
speaker; he delivered q spirited oration;
General Nichols also made speech; Mr.
John McEoery made a speech which
thought was the most violent it has ever
been my province to hear; he commenced
his speech by giving the audience q
biographical sketch of himself during
the past four years, and telling them
that the Democratic party must carry
the election at all hazards. He then spoke
of Mr.. Packard as follows: Ladies and
gentlemen, did you ever see the thief
Packard, who villi6ed our honest cs ndidate,
General Nichols, by offering to canvass the
State with him 7 He has the most horrible
countenance you ever saw; he is q thief
and a scoundrel, the embodiment of all the
combined corruption and rascality in this
State. just think of~such a thief CANVASS
ing the State in the company of our noble
candidate for Governor" He further added,
II would kill him if had the power, and
it is lucky for him and probably for me that
l have no such power. But he ought to be
killed, and If some one could put q bullet
into him tat the same time pointing
with his right hand to his temPle) it would
be blessing TO this Stste;" he also spoke
in a terrible manner against the carpet
baggers and scallawags, saying that in his
OplDlOu Ll6J OuRnU 10 DO Rlll6u OF OuG
of the State, and if it were not for the gen.
ersl government under which we live it
would soon be done; he here asked the
audience, How long do You think that the
cOwsrdly BcOundrels would remain in the
State after receiving their notice to leavel
they would not remain long enough for the
ink on the notice to dry, as they would
know what to expect if they did not obey"
called on leading Republicans in that par.
aak k,IA . NhnN ak kon 10.
gerous undertaking to call Republican
meeting in Ouachita, as the last meeting
and barbecue had been broken up by an
armed company of cavalry, and the white
and cOlOred Republicans were driven to the
woods; found it utterly impossible to or
ganize the party in that parish; heard of
the killing of Monroe Edwards, a cOloTed Re
publican living at Oak Ridge, in the parish
of Ouachlta; was also informed that George
Hamlet, the sheriff, and other Republicans
OF Monroe, had to leave the town for the
safety of their lives; IN Madison parish the
supervisor of registration was repeatedly
threatened that if he did not stop register
ing negroes he would be killed; think that
the PinkstOn killing was done for political
purposes; was Democrat until 1868; was a
member of the De OcratiC Legislature in
1866 and 1867; do not know Mr.. Pat Creagh,
but think that he is good and honest man.
ment of the difficulty between Mr.. Limet,
of the New Orleans Bee, and himself, ia an
swer to Mr.. jerks, who wished to know
Theodore Lipshutz called-Have lived in
this city for eleven years; am a Repub-
lican-Radieal Republican; was an aboli-
ZIONIST before the war; am an inspector in
the CustOmhouse; know Ward, of Coltax,
who testified before this committee; read
his testimony; told Judge Dibble it was not
true; was subpenaed, and came to refute
his testimony; Ward left this city and went
US he told me afterward, to Virginia, his
| former home, to see if he could not get
something to do, as he was tired of living
in Louisiana; heard that he left so as
not to be present to testify against
certain members of the Legislature whom
he had indicted for corruption and bribery
in Office; also heard that he had received 8
stipulated amount of money not to be pres
ent; do not know who paid the money; af
| ter he returned to this city met him on Ca
nal street and asked him where he had been
when he told me that he had been to Vir
ginia and there was nothing for him to d.
there, and he concluded TO come back Il
Louisiana; he was in Georgia during tn
election and voted there's told him, "Yol
| did not reside in that State, what did yol
vote there fort" He replied, 81 wanted t
see if they would allow me to vote" and b
voted the Democratic ticket, as he woul
not be allowed to vote the Republica
ticket; he, think, came back to this Stat
better Republican than when he left
Joseph E Williams, cOlored, called-Rt
side in the third ward; helped organize tn
Third Ward ColOred Democratic Club Il
gether with Joseph Craig; there were nc
fifteen bona fide members on the roll; ther
never were more than eight or ten member
in the club; have always been a Conserve
tive; was the first cOlOred Democratic or
tor in this State in 1868; never voted for
Republican President until / voted fC
Hayes and Wheeler at the last election
was foreman of gang for several month
under Major Burke, after his election q
Administrator of Improvements in lS7
the killing of colored men terrifes the co
ored people; turned to be a Republican o
account of the way was treated by th
Democratic party.
Perry King, colOred, called-Attende
every meeting of the cOlored Democrat
club Of the third ward; never more tina
five or six cOlOred men were present-nC
enough to organize club; was not men
Der OF the club; went there at the solicit
, ton of my friend Williams: was first viz
president of the Packard Guards of Il
third ward, which had l60 members; d
not like the speeches of Brown and Met
who spoke at the meetings of this olu
seven or eight women and some forty Oh
dren generally were present at the met
ings of Craig's club; Craig told WilliaI
he wanted to be president, 80 as to get no
of the end of the rope to pull plenty
! | sugar, meaning money, and if WilliaI
/, would let him be elected president
. would divide the sugar.
George English, cOlored-Am driver of
o cotton wagon for q Mr.. Quinn; worked