New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-03
THE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEES
THE HOWE COMMITTEE.
ThIrteenlh Day.


roe on the second OF September; four of our |
speeches were peaceable, and appesla were |
made to the negroes to vote the DtmD.
cratic ticket; sat on the platform near
John McEnery when he spoke; his speech
was a warm, aggressive polIticsl speech,
but eonciliatOry, and argued that violence
could only result in. harm to the Demo
cratic party, aud instead of cOuneeling as
eassina alton as testified to by Mr.. BourgeB,
he advised submission to anything rather
than collision; the general character of the
Democratic canvass was OF most moder-
ate and eOnciiatOry character, and almost
exclusively consisted of appeals to the ne
grOes; never before did the cOlored people
evinca such interest as at Baton Rouge;
over 1000 were present and enthusiastic,
and we're without intimidation; white Re-
pnblicans used opposite arguments.
The witness was crost examined at con-
siderable length in reference to the perse-
| cutiOn of colored Democrats by their own
| race. The principal point elioited was the
| opinion of Mr.. Jonas, that while there was
no intimidation by Democrats to force ne
| groes to vote with them, they were intiini-
dated by oolOred Republicans through
| social Ostracism, churches, etc., and had it
| been as safe to vote the Democratic ticket
| he believed two thirds of them would have
| voted the Democratic ticket.
X. H. Marketable in New Orleans; am
| lawyer; was one of the vice presidents of
| the Baton Rouge convention which Domi-
mated Nichols; its platform or line of
| policy was ado ed without dissent; would
1 furnish official copy and make it part of
| evidence; took active part 10 the canvass.
HE general testimony was to the same
| effect as that of jonas. He also said that
| while q large majority of d mOerats be-
lieved that for years they had been living
under q govern ment of usurpation which
did not honestly administer government or
punish criminals, and put in place incOm-
petent men, yet if the people had q proper
government he believed they we're as law
abiding as any in the world.
| DnrIng q lOrg oIoss-eXaminati0n witness
said, while he, and doubtless many others,
thought that the elective franchise should
have been given negroes gradually with
some qualifications, but now all thought
that the fact of their suffrage was irFevO
cable, though they had BET n taught that
their emancipation was owing to the Re
publican party, and that the success of the
Democrats would lead to loss Of suffrage
| and enslevement; did not think the people
of the South would deprive negroes of
the right TO vote, as he had learned that the
negroes were beginning to listen to them,
and would become an important political
| Il -ment.
Richard Darlington, cOlored-Ljve near
Monroe, in third ward; voted at Monroe in
late election. and Democratic ticket; had
| hitherto voted mixed ticket; took an active
part in the canvass; made four or five
sperc hes in different parishes to mixed
crowds, mostly cJlOred; both white and
black men spoke; had advised them to vote
the Democratic ticket, and give it trial,
in order that they might have schools and
better their condition; never saw any in
timldatiop; had heard reports that largo
number OF colored people desired change,
and did vote and work with the Democrats;
relations between races much more friendly
: than heretofore. Witness was inferno
) gated by Senator Howe at great length in
regard TO the school system.l His son ran
Toe Representative on the Republican
, ticket, but voted against hiT, because he
= ! told him he would not accept the nOmiDa
ton, as the Republicans would not have
given him the nomination it he could have
been elected; had heard of Eaton l. gwOod
a Ben James, George Shelton, Andrew Nc
LeOd and others, being shot; it produced
some excitement among the cOlOred people
/. but living isolated he knew little of wha
was going Oh; had bsen nominated tWiot
for the Legislature; once by each party
> but declined. He narrated, at considerable
length, his past political If, how he haC
. voted, etc Richmond Dunn and othe
a | promin snt cOlOred men, who were lane
owners, worked Tor and voted the Demo
Q cratic ticket; thought the killing of Pick
{ stOn and others operated against the Dem
l. Ocrats.
Charles Tidwell--Rsside in ward M.
poll No. l, Olachita parish took little par
i In politics; witness was former owner o
A Eliza Finch, alias Pinkston, and repeated
his testimony in regard to her char cter a
already published; Eliza said the morning
u Henry was killed, when she came to hi
q house that it was Radical negroes frou
g Baker and Pdcs's pfaces; atterward said sht
"a thought it was 0uacnIta Brooks aud hi
o gang; said she did not know any of them
q said her child was X He'd, and that she Ii :,
left il in the cradle; went TO the b .uss all
1 has Of nd 1AugE HsnA
d found Henry's body, and the child's after
q ward; the child was found in q lit lie pom
> of water; saw no marks of violence on il
d had Henry's body buried; three or fOu
d bullet holes in it, and no other marks O
# violence.
TO Senator Oglesby-Eliza was on m
: place; she had a bad character among me-
d groes, many of whom were afraid @
v her; she has a child at my hous
4 now about eight years old; Wouldn
believe Eliza on oath; didn't believ
q her when she said Henry was killed
think Eliza killed her child after her hui
band was killed; don't think she Wounds
herself; reported facts as given to corone
& on Monday or Wednesday following, q
IL McEnery's office in Monroe; coroner sal
y nothing about inquest; all the negroes o.
'e his place we're Democrats; PinkstOn an
r wife had been hired to pick cotton; didn
20 raise a crop; his son belonged to Capital
If Theobald's company; witness wanted
n Join but they wouldn't let him; only wante
a. young men; never saw the company Il
70 gather; con had mr. ech-lOsdinG gr'n whie
n witnts s. gave sixty live dollars Tor, bG
Of never carried it but once; that was aftC
10 DiDkgrave's murder; the evening atit
Or Pinkston was killed Eliza made a thin
81 statementaboat the killing; shs said it wa
0, fifteen or twenty man came there on horse
a and killed Henry, and thought she recoi
st nized DIR. Y0nng's voice, but didn't kno
d. any OF them; afterward told some negrof
Of that my son was in the Gro wd, bat he wa
r. in BastrOp.
a After a lengthy crOssexamination b
ir Senator OgIesby, the committee sdjournt
a. till 1880 Z. NJ.
', EVENING SESSION.
y. Colonel Robert Richardson. of Ouaehit
an occupied nearly the whole of the sessi0
a Mr. Richardson is a lawyer, aud gave mu(
ar the same testimony as Mr.. McEnery,
" large portion of 1t being devoted to u
IA schools. He was 10 some doubt IS TO VIII
ID constituted the board that appointed Il
n teachers. He, also, was not quie certa
AZ | rs to the offices of parish attorney and d.
a triet attorney pro tenn. But he was ct
ma tain, as Mr.. McEnery was, that the Dem
10 Gratis of the hill ward of Ouachits we
re very timid about entering into the ca
e. vass Of 1876 or fOrmi0g clubs. They hi
M given him as 3 reason that their neighbo
Of the parishes Of Lincoln, jackson al
"a Claiborne mad been arrested and put
"A irons by United States Marshal SCI
~ We and United States troops, 81
"a they feared that the same treatme
on would be given them These parties,