New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-09
THE HOWE OoaiaIl1TEK.


eevensesnth Day.
The Senate COMMITTEES. Senator Howe
chairman, met at quarter to one o'clock
yesterday afternoon, with ell the members
present.
The committee resumed the investigation
Of East Felciana. The first witness called
was j. w. Harrall.
To Senator HOwe--Reside in East Felici
ana, near Clinton; am ffty-two years old;
was born and raised where now live; am
farmer; own about 1900 acree of land; run
my mothers two place., one of $40 acres
aud the other of 1900; also run my brothers.
place, as administrator, of 100 ecree; en-
ploy about fifty hRnds; did NOT vote at the
last election; have voted tho Democratic
ticket ever since the surrender, until this
election; voted in the Democratic primary
election; 1t was an election confined
to the white people before the general
election; we never had such an election be-
fore; for reasons changed my political opin-
ions before the election; was commissioner
OF elections; there were no Republican
tickets at the polls; my men were threat.
ened If they voted the Republican ticket
they could not remain in the country; they
stated that they would not vote at all; they
were visited and compelled to vote the
Democratic ticket; some of them had
omitted to register because they did not
want tn vote the Democratic ticket; these
were brought mp and required to swear
that they had been unable to register and
deposited Observation-Disclosures in cigar box;
this was called "the bulldozer box" there
were no Republican votes cast at my poll;
in 1874 there was q large Republican
majority at that poll; there was q
good deal of whipping, shooting and killing
of colored people in the parish; nearly
every night during the summer and fall
there were parties whipped; have seen
some of the parties who exhibited their
| wounds; know the names of some colOred
people who were whipped; Bob Keller, e.
| lie Green kand Jim Langstcn. on Mr.. Pipes
place; Aaron Carey, on Mrs. Sill mans
| place; q man named Aaron, on Mr.. YOung'e
1 place: q man named Zske Glover; q woman
on my plaza, and many others whose names
l do not know; many Of my men laid out at
night; WAS even obliged to stay away
from home myself; a party came to me on
my plantation; said / had Niger wife;
called me odd niger" said they would
give me hell anyway; told them that if they
touched me they did it at their peril;
they afterward went to q woman on
my place and whipped her numerically;
flayed the skin all off from her; the names
Of the parties whom knew in this crowd
we're Rufus Bredon, William Mspes, Stan
hope Gene, Augustus Csne and Frank
Wood; there were several others whom
did not know; went into Clinton with the
| lutdnlAUu vi mhAihk M aAhu6NAh1 was H07
vised not to do so, as it would not be safe;
it becoming FnmOred that hs made an
affidavit, the bulldOzerG came again to my
place after me; / ran away; afterward sat
isfied them that l did not intend to make
an affidavit; one told me that the days OF
negro supremacy we're about over; the wO.
man and her father and mother we're COM
pelled to leave; was a Democrat till about
that time.
To Senator Saulsbury-Would have been
sfraid of loeing his life to have voted the
Republican ticket; no Republican meetings
were held in the ward; the men who had
not been registered were the ones who voted
in the cigar box; they were white and col
Ored; the box was in an adjoining room Il
the polls.
Witness after long crOss-examinatiOn
eaid the woman who was whipped aud
driven eff his place was alleged to- havt
been living improperly With him. 1t wal
after the woman had been whipped that HI
slept away from home. In his opinion
, there were not many but who were q
! guilty as himself of oOhabiting with col
0red women, and he felt pretty guilty.
James Law, c0lored--Live in sckson
East Felieiana; was born and raised in the
: parish; did not vote at the last election
was the Republican candidate Tor the Leg
islature in 1874, and was defeated; wa
elected to th9 Legislature on that ticket II
1872; was afraid to vote the Republican
ticket at the last election, and left the par
ish ten days before the election through
! fear; went back about the tenth of M
l vember; had been threatened before left
was told if attempted to pnt Republics
: ticket IN the field would be killed; my stOr
was saturated with coal oil and set on fir
, on the night of the sixteenth of October
/! Frank Chilly, Democrat, said my havinI
, been president Of q Republican meeting tn
,, day before was the cause of il; the cOlore!
: people of the parish knew it to be unsafe .
vote the Republican ticket at the last cleo
9 ton; one named Nelson, living near Jack
8 sen, was whipped; Joe Gayden. oOlOred
who in 1875 was forced TO resign, had
hide in a hole under the floor to avoid
whipping; he jOlne0 the Democrats aud wa
not mOlested; had heard of others; it wa
Q the general belief among colored peOpl
a that their only safety lay in joining th
Democrats Witness then testified as to th
!. killing of Gair and others as heretofore ma
!" rated by other witnesses.
The committee then adjourned till te
| o'clock this morning.