The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-04
rHE 1Nvnsr1eAr1ors.
Compiled from Associated Press Reports, unless
Otherwise Designated.l

7 LOUISIANA.
The Senate subcommittee, consist
ing of Messrs. Wadleigh, Mcmillan and Nc,
Donald, met on the 9th, and took up the
Parish of East Baton Rouge. Six witnesses
testified as to outrages by SO called Bull
dosers" or Regulators" in that parish, by
which colored Republicans were intimidated
and preventedsfrom voting, or compelled TO
vote the Democratic ticket Detailed ac-
! counts were given of the killing of Vim
R. Payne (colored), his wife stating
that, in June last, her husband, who
was prominent Republican, made speech
on Saturday,, aud was killed on the follow
ing tuesday morning by body of white
m n, who came and broke down the door,
tied moose around her husbands neck, and
mounting their horses, galloped Off, drag
ging him on the ground and taunting him.
Before the main committee, Sam ID. McEnerv
testified further to the effect that one of the
first efforts of the Democrats was 10
break down the color-line, by assuring
the negroes that their general condition
would be improved by their joining the
whites in an attempt to secure good gov
ernment; in order to do this, the assistance
of leading colored men in various wards
was first enlisted, and arguments and reason
were used to induce the colored meu to join
by both colored and white speakers, and
numbers of colored citizens voluntarily
siding with the Democrats at the late cleo
ton.
Several witnesses were examined be-
fore the House Committee, on the 27th, their
evidence being mainly to the effect that the
negroes in many cases acted with the Demo-
Gratis voluntarily, and were prosecuted by
| coored Republicans for SO doing. James
| icDlOredl a statement rsla n
| the testimony of N. II. Wilson, on the 26uh;
| said he never told Wilson nor any one else
| that the Republicans would be counted in.
whether elected or not; said the statement
of Wilson was false.
b. A. Shelby, of Ouachita, was ex-
amined by the Senate Committee, on the
2Sth, and gave substantially the same testi
mony as that of Sam McEnery; he denied
the statement that colored men were fore ed
to ioiu the Democratic Club, and contra
| dicted the evidence of Eliza Pinkston as Il
James and Van Logan being In the party
| who assaulted and killed her husband, a.
| they were at his house that night Three
| colored men testified that they were Demo
| Gratis, and that the election was peaceful
and quiet George Brook, of the Thirteenth
Uuited States Infantry, stated that in Eas
| Baton Rouge and East Feliciaua there seemed
| to be. last spring, a combination among tht
| Democrats to terrorize the cOlored people
and he gave several instances of negroe.
having been wounded and beaten, and sait
| threats were used to induce colored mel
to join the Democrats and vote th'
same ticket. Before the Wadleigh Sub
/ Committee, Andrew Harrison (colored)
! Of East Baton Rouge, testified tina
while the negroes of the parish were Repuh
AIicans from choice, many, including himsei
| had been forced to vote the Democrats
ticket through threats and fear; he gave tW'
| instances where colored men had been hun!
! up and nearly killed for refusing to join tn
1 Democrats. Several other witnesses wer
examined, who swore to intimidation AM
| outrage. Three Witnesses testified as t
the generally peaceful character of tn
| canvass in Ouachita, and the efforts OF tn
! Democrats to have quiet and peaceabl
election
Some half dozen colored witnesse
of Orleans Parish were examined before tn
House Committee on the 2oth, and testifie
4 to being assaulted, beaten, or intimidate
S;sby their own race for having voted the Dem
tScratic ticket. William w. Washburn, 9
Norehouse Parish, said he knew o
| but one case of violence there; th
/ day of election otherwise was peaceable
4 he had been elected to the Legisla
| ture, and counted out by the Rcturnin
| Board. Tho Blackburn Sub -Committe
examined six witnesses in reference t
PIaauemines Parish, all of whom testifle
| as to irregularities on. the part Of the on
GERS OF election at Poll 8, and fraud in reg
istra ion as well as intimidation OF colore
/ Democrats by colored Republicans.
The Senate Committee devoted th
entire day, on the 29th ult., to hearing re
butting ties stimony in reference to Eliza Pink
| ston's testimony. Some ten or twelve wi,