Daily globe., 1878-07-01

served and now accessible to all in the records
of Congress.
The Pirates ksply.
WASHINGTON, June 29.-Secretary Sherman
has addressed to Mr.. Potter reply to the draft
of the letter prepared by Mr.. Morrison in
swer to the request of the secretary to subpoena
one hundred witnesses. Secretary Sherman
says the resolution under which your CON-
mittee is acting accuses me of inducing certain
election officers of Louisiana to falsely and
fraudulently repress and protest the election
of Novemb Der, 1876, in East Feliciana and part
of West Feliciana, as not free and fair. As to
the allegation that said election was free and
fair" and the protest to the contrary false and
fraudulent, ask that the witnesses which
and and examined Examined at % such time and place
as you may order. The secretary refers to
their former testimony to show there were
crimes proved of whipping, threats, raids by
armed Democrats, killing, burning houses,
shooting. intimidation, hanging, driving from
violence at the polls, property taken away,
etc., etc.
The secretary adds the following statement
of what he says the records of Congress author
ize him to state as the combined result of the
testimony will be of his witnesses named:
First. The prevalence in the parishes above
named, as there was in those adjoining before
and at the time of said election, and especially
at the time and places of registration OF voters,
prepatory to said election, of thoroughly or
ganized and executed system of intimidation OF
Republican voters by Democrats. This intimi-
dation forcibly and by means of daily and night
lyraids, by armed bodies of men. upon persons
and property of Republicans, included in these
acts of violence, killing, wounding and whiI-
ping of Republicans, breaking into and burn
ing houses and stores, and other outrages, by
means of which such state of terror was
tod fhoco aHs mir
ing praishes, that leading Republicans
in these localities were forced to leave their
homes, and prevented from organizing for the
campaign, and the rank and file of the party
utterly disheartened, a large majority of them
forced against their wish either to desist from
this intimidation vas carried to such an extent
that large Republican majorities which had ap-
peared at every election after the close of the
war and prior to the election Of 1876, was there
by suddenly converted into large Democratic
majority, SO that in of the precincts in
one of the parishes, to wit, East Fehciana, not
a single Republican vote was polled.
Second-I expect by this testimony to show
that witnesses of both parties concede the
presence of this violence and intimidation,
though the Democrats say it was not political
in its origin.
Third expect by this testimony to show,
in the establishment of my claims, that it was
political, directed by the Democrats against
Republicans as such, and that this organized
violence was SO trained as to precede and cove r
the time of registration and precede the cleo
tions and that it ceased after the election, and
were almost always active leaders of the Repub-
licans, and never OF the Democrats.
FOURTH expect by this testimony to show,
and will show, as am authorized to state by
the records of Congress, among others, the fol-
lowing list of enormities committed In the
H., H. IL f@r ,le
above stated, namely, East Feliciana, killed
5; wounded, 8; hung, 2; whipped, "a; shot at,
4; expelled from office and driven from home,
s; by threats of violence. 5; burnt out, q;
threats to individual persons. II. In West
Feliciana, killed. Is; wounded, l; hung, 8;
etc., and driven from home, II; by threats of
violence, 4; threats of individuals, Is; burnt
! out, l3.
| make this application to the committee. at
this time, because wish to i've the committee
opportunity to take action thereon before it
| shall send part of its members to Louisiana, If
| that should be done. In case of a decision to
| send such committee to Louisiana and that
the committee shall deem it improper to bring
| all the witnesses named to this city, then ask
that this application shall be treated and acted
on by the committee aud by the sub-com mmittee
| witnesses named subp9naed and examined
wherever the committee or subcommittee
| shall decide it best to have them appear.
| Deeming it due to the committee and myself
to file this application without the delay that
would be involved in an attempt to find out
whether any, and which of the witnesses may
be dead or out of reach for process of the
House. l decided now to file it, and to say that
as soon notified my application will be
| granted, my counsel here and in Louisiana
will, before the subpnnas are issued, strike
from the list the names of any persons whose
attendance it shall be found impracticable to
! procure.
Secretary Sherman, in giving the above let
ter for publication, says he refused to give to
the press his offer of testimony, made June
| 9th, until the committee should
act upon it. After long delay
without notice to him, paper is published
| this morning purporting to be the proposed
reply of the committee to his formal request
in which he is denied the right to prove the
| very gist of the whole matter, whether not
| there free and fair election in West and
East Feiciana, and the subcommittee is now
in Louisiana acting upon this construction
The pretense that he (the secretary cannot
prove there was not free and fair election be
cause he denies the writing of the imputed
letter is frivolous to the last degree. Whether
| he wrote the letter not the real thing thai
committee wants to know, he says, is whether
there was actual fraud and violence in these
two parishes to justify the returning board il
|
inquiry. If not, and if the action in Lorisian;
was unequal and improper then it may become
proper to ascertain who participated in it
The affair has Secome q ludicrous burlesqu
and travesty on Justice and fairness.
The Military Headquarters Removal.
The order directing the removal of the de
partmental military headquarters from st
Paul to Fort Smelling, like the laws of th
Medes and Perslans, "cannot be altered Al
the efforts for postponement of the remova
have proved unavailing, and the work o
transporting the safes, records an,
Office furniture to the fort was com
menced last evening, continuing unit
far into the night and occupying man
men and teams. The removal was not by an
means completed last night, but all the ponder
Gus part cleared away, the lighter portion
being left for Monday, and by sun down te
morrow, the place that has known the head
,, quarters long will be entirely vacatec
OF course, it is acknowledge
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