New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-09
TIE HOUSE INVESTIGATING CON-
MITTEE.

TWenty-Thtrd Day
The House committee assembled ehortly
alter eleven o'oelock yesterday morning
and began work, there being present MessIs
Morrison, jerks and Townsend.
George Washington. celored, called
Work in the Louisiana Oil Works; some MT
teen or sixteen cOlOred men visited my
house for the purpose of asssulting and
beating me for voting the Democratic
ticket; got out OF their way by leaving my
house, when / heard that they were after
me: have worked in the oil factory for hYe
YEAR: about tgenty-four colored men are
employed in the factory Mr.. Mcdonald, the
superintendent of the factory, never took
the registration papers from me or any OF
the cOOred workmen; never told u sOrgs
English that the registration papers of the
coiored workmen were taken away from
them and given back on election day on
| condition that they would vote the Demo-
crat ticket; votsd the Democratic ticket be-
cause thought it was the best ticket Tor
/ the interests of the people of this State.
John Mcdonald, called-Reside in the
| third ward in this city; was deputy marshal
/ at poll No. l in the third ward on eleetioa
| day; visited several times the colored Dem,
| ocratic club at the corner of N0tre Dame
/ and Tchoupitoulas streets, of which Mr..
| Joseph Craig was president; there never
were more than six c0iored men present;
do not know how many there were on ~
roll OF the club; at the last meeting
tended the Rev. Joseph Brown. wi
present, addressed the club, during ia
he called COl0del Loan 4 renegade, aud
| other such neunes; he slao made some very
disrespectful remarks about the Northern
ladies and gentlemen, saying that the Rs
pnbloaas were all thieves aud scoun.
! drels, and made other vile remarks
arose and told the speaker thai
he must stop talking In that man
ner about Northern people, the ladies II
particular, as | was a Northern man anc
would not allow any one b use insulting
language about the Northern ladies; wal
immediately surrounded by come thirty
IriAhmsu; they were Democrats, as slmosi
every Irishmen ia; they told me that
must shut up aud not interrupt; believe
this broke no the club; ex-senator P0in
dexter made a very gsntlemBnly speech a.
one OF the meetings Of this club; on cleo
tion day about seventy five white men, mar
ehaled by Mr.. Carey, marched MP the leves
to poll No. l; said they would cut the ear
of me; Johnny Brittoa, the great nigge
killer of the MissieAippi, told me; II vii
/ give $40, you Irish s-n Of BIB, If yoi
will coma over to the Morgan dep0b, and
! will take it away from you and then licl
! you;" they wanted some Eve OF six men {.
, get into the room to see the votes counted
after the polls closed; / would not let then
! 10, as i myaelf had been refused nd
J mission, and thsy conld not 20 h
Big Dutch Jake and Stokse, both rive
men, were the ones who wanted 70 Eet ID
} when kept them ont they did not us
4 any force. INT eougregated and romaina
. oni1ids ali night. usinr the nest iasaItiH
and ntaslrN lsnTnsae coward tito white aa
coIoVea Hecnht iEnut, an re4QHrrIAlc e
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