The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-07-30
ton 10 you gentlemen to witness the count resulted

s"N "'s 80 - - $500 e~"~~'"~N,
might we'll have been a. homo Tor all we saw OF the
count" Witness said he saw Eliza Pinkston brought
into n room by two men, ana her condition
tainly a horrible one; when she was brought in he
said he thought u was cruel TO bring her there;
room and found most of those whom she mad accused
there, and they said II they were allowed oppor
NJ Raw objected had thss. mems sorv
and they produced number OF gentlemen, some OF
whom know TO vouch Tor their innocence; be,
brutally used. but not by the persons she
charged
show generally did the republican visiting states
.srhe gentlemen had the Same opportunities OF 60
ing about os ] had; know most of them and saw
them often, and thoy were always at the Returning
Board when was there understand that Woollley
was the who prepared The afidavits Of intmida-
tion; II was understood that all the fed
eral officials were lending every facility to
vote sp was informed on the Tuesday before the
federal electors were TO cast their ballots that one
MIR Aschcr said no had heard Judge Levssee say
that The election was fraud aud that Il he could
have 500 900 no would give his vote TO Mr.. rilden;
told HIM that Mr. Tildcn could not accept his VOTE
because n the election was fraud his vote wes OF no
$50 far as your judsmen, went could Packard have
maintained himself after he was declared Governor II
the troops were withdrawn"
II don't believe he could and don't believe Mr.
iola me thew REGARDED the domination Of Packard as
odious and demoraIizing; have no idea that MT.
Packard could have retained more territory than tho
Custom House; my own judgment IS that the people
of Louisiana took greater interest in Their own local
affairs than in tho Hayes election; 1 have no doubt
they would have preferred military government
to the ru lie OF Packard"
10 Mr. Hiscock-I talked with all classes OF people,
and my opinion that the coIored men, though in
a numerical majority wcro not capable OF sustaining
the Packard government with the whole white popu-
lation opposed TO 1t.
tary organization in lavor Of Nichols ?'
~ don't think it was military there was sort
of skeleton organization, to which the white men
considered themselves moro or less attached, and
an emergency could be called together force think
rather than submit Packard they would resist enough
TO comrel tho interference the national government
and tue placing OF the State under military rue the
general expression was mat me national government
Should exercise It's process through sergeant; saw
IN Louisiana that the Kellogg and Packard governments
were utterly poworess TO the law and that the
crime OF murder went unpunishcd and that military
rue would be preferable 10 what tney had"
ssWnat was the extent oil the reign OF terror? ?"
NO ORGANIZED VIOLENCE.
ssThere were throughout tho State many murders
that wore done for political reasons and both parties
were impcated IN some instances wnere the coiorea
people organized they prosecuted many OF their
own race for voting the democratic ticket; their
preachers were all politicians and very intoerant
ones; murder went entirely unpunIshed."
'sDid you ind organized vioenccW
'sNo programmed violence, SO to speak"
sDid you lind IL much worse than 1t might be In .
Northern State under similar existing eircum-
.Tbs number Of democratic colored voters was
small and on them concentrated all the resent.
nent OF the republican colored voters, who could not
believe thsr race brethren Of different way Of think
deserving oil death."
"Do you believe there was any such thing as free
election IN Loussianaf"
"rhcrc was latense excitement on both sides. The
democrats wsre ANXIOUS TO preserve the peace, and
both equally sensitive"
tWas there not q state OF physC duress that rem
dered q free election IMPOSSIBLE"
'.No; of course neither now nor at any other time
do think Louisiana capable oil free and Int ell
ligent expression of us voice at the ballot Tho
greatest blessing to the negro since emancipation
mastering him out Of politics."
ssIn VIA of nj N IN q
Board would 1t not be impossible for them 10 have
dertaken tho Investigation OF the case OF Eliza Pnks-
ton and ready to adjourn before the time
by law Tor the meeting OF tho Electoral Collegc?"
81 think tney could have undertaken she Inves iga
they we're Industrious but IN view of the Importance
OF the they should have contrived to apart
time for exam nation"
"What did you lind 10 BIO the character Of the
Board?"
III found two men that GARD who proiesscd to
believe that the election Of Mr.. Tilden would havo
returned the coored people to slavery Casenave be-
ilcved it, ana from his standpoint he did RICH, aud
should have acted the same he aid II wero 10
hls place: | went TO Louisiana believing thut we
should nave trouble about the Presidential election,
asd called upon the mem6ers OF tho Board as ndi-
and Anderson had fui aud free intercourse and
took the liberty OF telling them all considered II
their duty 10 perform; endeavored to impress them
to DO what l considered right
sid you hear anything improper transpirs
between the 0tncr visit0rs-lho republicans and NOM
bers OF the BoardY"
"WciI no. was never present when the republican
visitors werc IN conference Win the m em bcrs til
Returning Board"
"Ip regard to seeing Mr.. Hale coming from the
compiling room, how do you know what business he
may have had In there ="
~ did not know; simply saw him come from the
room. and the Impression II left my mind that
the republican visitors were receiving more prive
than We werc."
10 MT. Potter-packard, on account OF his previous
IN Louisiana, had made himself odious to u
great many pubic men, and these men ieit they had
bean cheated, and that n government was to be i'm
posed on them which was not iarly elected; don't
government, bnt they were determined TO resist
Packard IRON all could gather, 1iidcn aud Nichols
wv: CSsenaye believed tho cheating of tho demo.
Gratis by the Returning Board was war measure and
great and sacred duty TO his race.
Alter somc more Questions which not par
ticuary important tue committee adjourned at the
call of the Chair to meet again August II in this city,
the meeting room not yet being designated.
PIxKsToy.
Mr. Potter handed over 10 the press the following
letter addressed 10 and received oy secretary soor
man IRON the Postmaster OF Canton, Mss, IN which
Eliza finkston represented as denying ever having
maze the affidavit published In the HERALD OF JuLe
effect that gave false testimony before Senate
Committee In New Orlcans-
rosr OFFICE. cAsros, Madison County, Miss,
Hon. Jons SHERMAN, Washington, d. q.
"'TS '" ANA her m * ss
affidavit recently published In the Nrw ronS BRAID.
whose place they live. requested them Canton
on ressnIng town they were taken TO the 'iee
IL a sh ps"ee and sss z
Iarhare commenced liking Eliza teliiug or
that the person who had nut Hayes White
House. and that the radical party should have paid
that tho democrats controlled
now; that tho bread aud meat she eating daily aud
land she WORKING belonged to the but
they her friends II she acted right. lie
then asked her many questions about the killing
OF her husband and child. and the woundiug
OF herself she told him that the democrats KILLED
band, and that her testimony before tho
in Orleans the truth. lilo also asked her IL she
told she and suffering frvui
her be fore the committee. TO which
she replied no. Mr. Zseharie also asked her
N she aad talked with yourself and Hon.
STANLEY Matthews before giving her Testimony.
She replied that she many areat men
the North, did not the names Of any
OF thc Mr. Zacharis also toid her that she would 10
Orleans testify Tor democrat, they would
while she lived.
FL that no na6 written down what she had told him
ana wished her to sign IL. which tho did. when the
Justice of the Peace t,ld her to hold up her hand
asFay the she hsd was the truth.
She replied thas IL read the afdav published
the NEW Yong HERALD. that she never such
statement to Mr. Z,charis: that she docs remember