New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-05

men hung were Republicans, as it was |
fashionable among them; it hae been going |
out of fashion more and more till the pres |
emit time; heretofore colored men have /
promised me to vote the Democratic ticket |
and begged off before election, as they |
would lose caste among people of their own |
color: heard of the disappearance of Paul |
johnson, cOlOred, from the Kearney place;
there was nothing done about it; think the /
officers do not care; think it makes capital |
for them; do not think the officers kill the /
people themselves; do not say that the Re- |
publicans kill their leading men to make /
capital; think many oOlored men are killed /
for stealing; do not think Ned Foster was /
killed for that; do not think the 29S gentle
men do it; they do not do such |
things; they have q Sign of recognition: /
decline to cay what it lie; there is great |
dissatisfaction with the general and local |
governments; mean by the general gov
my tax is about $500; have about 400 acres |
OF land and building; my State tax is /
fourteen mile; think efforts have been /
made by the good citizens to prevent law
le5sness; can not name particular in /
stance; have heard that the colOred minis
ter, Ned Foster, was an old man; never |
saw him that know of; do not think it was |
my business to inquire into the hanging OF |
those men; Mr.. Hes, Justice of the peace; |
was present in Port Hudson; the hanging |
is said to have been done by white men;
there was considerable excitement and |
fright among the coOred people after |
the Mount Pleasant affair; do not know |
how long it took them to get |
over it; heard that most of the |
fences were fixed on the place four or five |
days afterward; told David Jones, United |
States marshal, would have him arrested |
it he did not stop providing the polls, not |
because he was distributing Republican |
-. l. 4. -
about him, making speech; he was gesti- |
culating; did not hear what he said.
To Senator McMillau-Can not cay how
many men were around Jones at the time;
II. G. Young, j. 7. Young, r. T. Young, s.
q. Mills, NJ. Il. Carpenter, j. W. Smith, H.
B. Vaughn, John Murgan, B Morgan, A.
j. Rannelson, j. R. Williams, w. S. Slaugh-
ter, j. 81. Slaughter. B. Chance, M. Chance,
C. Wolf. Joseph Wolf, H. P. Ricketts,,
s. NJ. Hooper, E. l.. WOodside, w. b.
London, are all l can think of who be-
lOnged to my oOnolaVe of 1913; think
we had meeting of the oonclave on the
Monday or Tuesday after the Mount Pleas
ant affair; was not present when prisoner
was taken by the detachment which Ac
cOmpsnied Mr.. LeSage; was not present
when some men desired to kill prisoner.
To Senator MoDonald-The meeting Of
| my 298 conclave had nothing to do with
| the Mount Pleasant affair; there is nothing
in the society which would debsr any one
from joining, so far as it would affect their
religious or political actions; there was
resolution in the book captured which
provided that Colored men should be
/ waited on three times and requested to
| Join the club; if they refused they were
| then to be shot; there was great complaint
of stock killing and cotton stealing; no Re
publican colored men have been disturbed
| since the election on account of their votes.
1 2ona rWadlniOh,-rrhinIY tho X n;ohfa
| of the White Camelia was rival organ
ization among the white people; there is
but one degree in 29S; think it does not ex-
tend outside of East Baton Rouge and the
Felicisnas; at my poll the Republicans, at
the last election, had about $50 msjOrity;
this year the Democrats had eighty, five ma
jority; have heard that there are 298s in
New Orleans, but have not passed the sign
| of recognition with any one; we had some
bulldozing; George Brown, Republican,
was the principal bull6Ozer in my neigh
bOrhoOd; he used to take out cOlOred men
and whip them for stealing and staying
with other mems wives; don't know
any others with him; heard that Brown
took q colOred man out and whipped
him for stealing a pig on Mrs. Grltfith's
| place; both men are Republicans; the wife
| of a colored man named Dick Smith was
waylaid by colored man and her throat
cut and her person violated; when he was
I arEe5ISu No was D6dl0u GOu6lubEhDiy
and load of fine shot fired into him; ne
was afterward taken from the constable,
Charles Turnbull, killed and, his body
thrown into the river; DR.. De Lee told me
this for one; the cannon on the Mount
Pleasant place, which the negroes fred,
was about foot long; do not know any
thing about the killing of Archie Stewart.
To Senator McMillan-It was black men
who took the prisoner from Constable
Charles Turnbull; think there were more
black men in my neighbOrhOOd in the Regu-
latOrs than white men; think there were
more white men in other parts of the par
ish; the Regulators were formed to prevent
stealing.
To Senator Wadleigh-Enow Bob Nc
Clellan; he is reputed to be the leader o.
the band whO burned the country stores; hi
| is Democrat; he is O member of the 2S9
at least he was elected; do not know
whether he took the degree or not; he i
now living 10 East Eelicians; he is not the
man who took the 298 up there; WOodsid'
took it.
To Senator McDonsld--One colored maj
shot another in cold blood, at a ball
| through the widow; tried to assist the OIL
GERS in brir ging the men to justice; he go
, \ away through the negligence of the officers
! To Senator WSdleigh-Both men wer
: Republicans.
. Senator Hadleigh pressed the witness {
so much interest in the ease where both th
/ | parties were Republicans, and should nc
} | inquire into other oases of murder in hi
/ | Vicinitv where the murderers were suppose
r TO be Democrats.
' The witness stated that the one case We
f more his business that the other, but di
' not explain why it was go.
a Senator Wadleigh further desired
Y know why, if the Republicans were pursuiu
I the policy of killing members of their ow
o party for political effect, the case which e:
q cited the interest of the witness might nj
A | have been an instance of that policy
The witness could not say that the r
: publieans had pursued that policy in al
= | particular instance, but he thought tht
o might do so.
It Major Basoom was put on the stand f
r the purpose of testifying TO the books taxi
t from the Union Rights Step Club, but n
n having the documents, he did not testify.
8 John N. Conrad, sworn, testified to d
n peaceful character of the campaign in Ea
D. Baton Rouge, which he learned during
% visit to that parish; attended the Repu
b lioan meeting at which the "Texas Giro
a lar" was read; did not see any interferen
M with the meeting; formed a Democrat
D, club; forty or fifty cOlored men belonged
er it; do not know that all but two of the
% voted the Republican ticket; there we
IT five or six original oolored Democrats
or the club.
is The committee adjourned till T;30 P. NJ
or EVENING SESSION.
ID J. w. Dupre, sworn-Was one of I
lg Democratic candidates to the LegislatU
Mt from East Baton ROugei am physics
II; took an active part in the canvass; color
as men joined the Democratic party in lal
is- numbers; attended Democratic meeting
ny different parts of the parish, which were