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some of them twice, and others three times on
the same subject and their testimony is pre-
| served and now accessible to all in the records
of Congress.
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WASHINGTON, june 29.-Secretary Sherman
has addressed to Mr. Potter reply to the draft
of the letter prepared by Mr.. Morrison in an
swer to the request of the secretary tosubpena
one hundred witnesses. Secretary Sherman
mittee is acting accuses me of inducing certain
election officers of Louisiana to falsely and
fraudulently repress and protest the election
of November, 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, l ask that the witnesses which
the secretary names be subpenaed
and 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
shooting, intimidation, hanging, driving from
home, expulsion from Office, shooting sheriff,
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, there was in those adjoining before
and ct the time of said election, and especially
at the time and places of registration Of voters,
preparatory to said election, of a thoroughly or
Republican voters by Democrats. This intimi-
dation f"rcibly 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
means of which such state Of terror was
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, large majority of them
forced against their wish either to desist from
voting or to vote the Democratic ticket; that
this intimidation was 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
majority, SO that in some of the precincts in
one of the parishes, to wit, East Feliciana, not
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 80 trained as to precede and cover
tions. and that it ceased after the election, and
that the victims of violence and intimidation
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
following parishes: Those for political ends
above stated, namely, East Feliciana, killed
8; wounded, 8; hung, 2; whipped "a; shot at,
4; expelled from office and driven from home,
8; by threats Of violence. 5; burnt out, q;
threats to individual persons, IL. In West
Feliciana, killed, Is; wounded, l.; hung, s.;
ETC., and driven from home. IL; by threats OF
violence, 4; threats Of individuals, Is; burnt
out, Is.
l make this application to the committee at
this time, because wish to give the committee
opportunity to take action thereon before ii
shall send part of it's members to Louisiana il
that should be done. In case of a decision to
send such committee to Louisiana, and tina,
the committee shall deem it improper to bring
all the witnesses named to this city, then ash
that this application shall be treated and actec
on by the committee aud by the Subcommittee.
witnesses named subpcenaed and examined
wherever the committee or subcommittee
shall decide it best to have them app ar.
Deeming it due to the comm >5tee Az myself
to hle this application without the delay that
would be involved in atteul d to find gu,
whether any, and which Of the witnesses ma,
be dead I'll out of reach for process of tn,
House. decided now to file it, and to say that
as soon as notified my application will be
granted, my counsel here and in Louisiana
will. before the subpcrnas are issued, strike
from the list the names of any persons whose
attendance it shall be found impracticable t.
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, u 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 or not
there was a free and fair election in West and
East Feliciana, 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 or not the real thing that
committee wants to know, he says is whether
there was actual fraud and violence in these
two parishes to justify the returning board in
what they did. If SO, that is the end of the
inquiry. If not, and if the action in Louisiana
was unequal and improper then it may become
proper to ascertain who participated in it.
The affair has become ludicrous burlesoue
and travesty on justice and fairness.
The Military Headquarters Removal.
The order directing the removal of the de-
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Paul to Fort Smelling, like the laws of the
Medes and Persians, cannot be altered All