New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-18

budb 81 pOli NO, constable and laetlC6 OF
the peace were elected for that ward and
the people from other wards had no right
10 vote there; suppose the colOred men
asked Ex-Governor Wicklitfe to write on
their registration papers "Voted all right;'
he stood where he could see what ticket
they did vote; would not have written on
their registration papers what Governor
Wicklitfe wrote if they had as xed me.
To Senator Wadleigh-GOvernor Wick
lltte was at or near the window nearly all
day; think he was there to see who voted
the Democratic ticket.
l.. ID. LeWis, colored, swOrn-TO Senator
Wadleigh-Have taught school in West Fe-
licians parish; the bulldozers threatened to
break up the schools; my associate teacher,
Thomas Talton, was afraid To go on with
the school; another teacher named Wat
son, about four miles from me, was also
compelled to break up his school; stopped
my school; l was afterward attacked on
the streets of Bayou Sara by man named
Grouse and Willie Irwin; they fred at me
and / fred back a crowd followed me about
800 yards, shouting xiii the id niger
school teacher" they fred about thirty-tive
or forty shots, but did not hit me; was
brought before a Justice of the peace
named Ring or Ringgold-one of the men
who was following me-and fined for dis
turbing the peace.
To Senator McDonald-Was once arrested
on charge of assault and battery; the case
was nolle prosecuted; paid Governor Wick
life and his partner, Mr.. Fisher, $40 as
counsel fees in the case.
John ID. Dinkgrave, swOrn-To Senator
Wadleigh-Am cousin of DIR. b. II. Dink-
grave, who WAS murdered during the last
summer in Onachita parish; was deputy
United States marshal at Monroe; on the
day Eliza PinkstOn came to Monroe; she
showed me knife which she said was
found on the ground in front of her house
after Henry PinkstOn was killed; that knife
is now in my possession, at my Office in
Monroe; it ls large eight-bladed knife,
with one blade broken, and a white pearl
handle; should think it worth s. or 81; not
such one as a colOred man would be likely
60 own there was on the knife and blades
a substance which / took to be blood; it
was thicker on the broken blade than else
where.
Lewis Evans colored, sworn-To Sena-
tor Wadleigh-Testitied to circumstances N
connection with the excitement attending
the killing of Aaronstein, near the Missis-
sippi line, and the fact that he and other
c0lored men were obliged to leave there in
May last.
D. A. Weber, swoIn-TO Senator Nc Mil
lan-Reside in West Feliciana parish; am a
Republican; am tax collector of the parish:
| was supervisor of registration at the last
house while was absent and had con-
versatiOn with my wife; he said that he
| had been delegated to inform my brother,
| Senator E. L. Weber, and myself, to leave
the parish by the twenty-sixth of January
on penalty of being killed. that they had
| nothing against me personally, but that
| they were not pleased with my course
| politically; when | did not leave he said to
my wife that be was very much surprised
| that did not heed his advice; know of a
| plot to assassinate Senator E. l.. Weber;
| two Democrats told him they had been Of
| fered $500 to waylay and kill him: decline
| to give the names of the parties because
| they would be in danger of their lives;
know OF the killing OF several colOred men
| for what was believed among Republicans
| to be political reasons; they we're
Jack Russell, fifth ward; Ephraim
Armstrong, twelfth ward, and Gilbert
| Carter and Isaac Mitchell, third ward IN an
colored men came to me and cOmpl aimed OF
being whipped because they had attended
Republican meetings and refused to join
Democratic climbs; on the twenty eighth OF
last August Duncan Stewart and John
| Barrow, white Democrats, told me that
Senator E. L. Weber, Joseph w. Arm.
stead George Swaze nor any other lead.
| ing Republican should be permitted TO can.
vsss the parish; believe the 29S Society, q
secret pollJical organization in the interest
| of the DemOcra TIC party; personal friend
| of myself, who belonged to the order, stated
| TO me that at the first meeting of the order
| the assassination OF Senator E l.. Weber
and myself was discussed aud agreed upon
| in consequence l took additional precau
| lions in the way of armiDg; oolOred people
| were so terrOrized that they dare
not in many instances remain in theiI
| houses at night; many came to my office
and told me that they would not dare vote
| the Republican ticket unless they were
| given protection; some Of them cried; many
came to me after the election and said they
had voted the Democratic ticket because
they had no protection; it is my belief, and
that Of leading Republicans, that the story
in regard to Gilbert Carter having organized
| a cOlored club to kill the whites was putuL
job, in order to justify the killing of a few
| negroes; l investigated the matter myself
by bringing the colOred men who were said
to belong 10 the club to my Office; was sat
| isfed that there lac not a shadow of trutt
to the charge; the e lOred people after thai
were afraid 70 OLE 1ize any more RepUb
| lican clubs, for t. - that they would bC
treated in the sam way.
To Senator McD ald-Have heard tina
there was an investigation by Major BAs
com, United States army, into the killing o
Gilbert Carter; believe that was anothe,
| plot in which Major Bascom was tool
know that on the night Carter was killed
| one of Major BascOm's officers rode out
with the bulldozers think Major Bas
com sympathized with them; armed whit
men were allowed to take colored mai
from within the military lines and Will
him; know of bulldOzers sleeping on tn
gallery of the military quarters; as super
visor of registration did not make the pro
test to the returns in my parish; did no
tell Judge Kennard and Mr.. Powell tina
the election was a fair one, fire.
from intimidation, but did seek t.
convey to those gentlemen the idea tina
was not going to make a protest; in
structed Mr.. Harris, my attorney, to tele
graph me when the West Feliciana cas-
would come up, so that l could get ava.
from the parish; decline to say who tn
man was who told me that the 29S sOciet,
had determined IL assassinate Senate
Weber and myself; | will not toy with tn
life of any man; | urged the appointment
of Colonel Frank Powers, the organizer 0
the Regulators, for the simple purpose o
thereby stopping the bulldOzing; Colone
Powers told Governor Kellogg and mysel
that he could and would stop it; he neve
was Republican; the sheriff and reeorde
of East Felieiana parish were appointe'
for similar re asons.
John II. Kennard, sworD-TO Senate
McDonald-Reside in New Orleans; am
native of Maryland; am extensively &C
qualnted in the parish of West Fehcians
am Democratic-C Conservative; made tw
speeches in the parish in the last campaign
e0nversed with the eolored men on m
plantation in regard to politics.; most q
them voted the Republican ticket; Their
were thirty-fve or forty Of them on tn
plantation; visited the parish once in abou
ten days: think the canvass was free anC
peaeeable; have slight acquaintance witt
ID. A. Weber; his version OF the oonyersl
ton we had in the st. Charles Hotel is sut
stsntially correct; he certainly did say h