Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-03

heard it intimated until she gave
her testimony that Mrs. jerks in
any way connected with the authorship OF the
letter. have not nor has any of my family
sought to use this letter as means of obtain
ingoffice. 1 saw the members of the McYeagh
commission in New Orleans, and was informed
that money had been used to secure the aban-
donment of the Packard legislature by certain
members thereof. could tell something of
the amounts paid in certain cases. but could
not say who disbursed the money or who sup
piled it. / had two converse
tains with General Hawley relative to
the Packard government and he said that the
President could not and would not recognize
it. He conveyed the impression to my mind
distinctly that the recognition of Nichols and
the abandonment of Packard was tforegone
conclusion and that this question had been de-
termined by the administration before the
commission left Washington.
A letter was here shown Weber which ne
identified as having been written by himself
He said: Gentlemen of the committee, OBJ
ject to consideration of this letter
or its publication any part
of the record. If it is published 1T Will
place me in a very false position with the peo-
pie down there, and l ask the committee to
refuse to allow it to be read for that reason.
The statement have made in there is not in
accordance with the facts. would like to say
word or two more about this matter; that at
the time ! wrote this letter, what wrote was
given to me as the facts, but since then have
ascertained that was misinformed, and there
fore misstated the case at the time.
The chairman and other members of the
committee, after looking at the communica-
ton, decided it was proper it should be read
and Mr.. Cox read it to the committee 1t is as
follows:
estate SENATE, New ORLEANS. La, March "a
1877.-J. H. Weber, ESQ.,: Dear Cousin Your
rrfkl l.
In answer thereto am sorry to say that though
I had heard my brother, d. A. Webber, casually
speak of a cousin living in St. Louis he never
gave me any definite understanding concerning
him. This is the only reason l can give you
for not writing to you sooner. The Times you
refer to have not yet reached me. [ should
certainly be pleased to have the opportunity to
reply toany erroneous statement made concern
ing the unprovoked and dastardly murder
murder of D. A. I have mailed to
your address to-day copy of the
New Orleans Republican, containing a
correct and uncontradicted statement Of the
brutal outrage. also forward to your address
! ment which you can use for publication in any
paper I vouch for the correctness of the
same. / intended before this to have written
| another statement giving more particulars con-
! corning the affair, but have not really had
time. The assassins of D. A. are at large as
Y,
officers, in the parish. He lived in West Fell
ciana and the Republicans, with terror i'm
printed on their faces whisper to each
other, who will be the next. We
desire no election in Louisiana
/ We desire and demand recognition OF
the legal and lawful Packard government
| from which Mr.. Hayes derived his title to the
office of chief magistrate of this nation. We
demand it as a just right to which we are en-
| titled, and we desire and demand it that WI
may have government founded upon law anc
order, wherein all men, without regard to ma
of civilization without fear or favor Under s
government at this time in this State admins
tered by Nichols and his bands of assassins
| and founded on blood, there is not and neve
will be any security for life and property.
d. A. leaves wife and three little babies
the oldest only three years of age. This alon
| would have been enough to have spared his lif
had not the brutes been thirsty for the bloot
of innocent and defenceless Republicans.
had advised him to stay away from the parish
until our difficulties were finally adjusted, blu
he preferred to remain at home in the bosom 0
his family. whom he cherished and adored
His unfortunate fate seems to have been ap
pretended, as you will notice in his letter t
Senator McMillen of Mimi, three days befor
he was murdered, and published in the Ne,
Orleans Rep,tblican-I send you our situation
The North cannot understand. | am sure tn
people would not tolerate the state Q
affairs which actually exists here. Ono by On
our white and colored Republicans murder
ed here by parties unknown. We have endul
ed more than our share of wrong and outrag
and unless the general government comes
. our rescue we must either suffer the fate of l
A. or leave the State. This is threat mad
against us publicly and without fear. D. A..
to Donaldsonville. l have also been oblige
. for security's sake to move to the same plac
We have abandoned all our property and left
at the mercy of the brutes. If Packard is Go
ernor, and have no doubt of it, he will,
due time have the assassins of my brother a
, rested and punished. If Nichols become
Governor, and an attempt on our part to a
! rest and convict the murderers is made, we wi
beyond doubt suffer death.
l have written this in haste. In my next
will give you more details concerning D. A.
, death. With best regards am yours,
Il. l.. WEBER.
, During the reading of the letter Mr.. Cox e
: amined the witness with regard to vario
+ statements contained therein, and witness
piled that all the statements made were vouch
for by him at the time. from information
a had received, and he then believed them to
. true, but had since learned he had been misi
formed. He now pronounced the statemer
4 contained therein to be false. He subsequent
a | stated that these statements were made for I
r. litical effect; that he supposed the person
whom the letter was addressed was going
', have it published, and it would create palt
y feeling in the North in favor of the Packa
- government
ii Witness was questioned closely in relati
"a to each clause of his letter and made the san
Il response to all the statements therein &C
Ia tanned, pronouncing them all false and writ
h for political effect. Witness said he wrote
a similar letter to Gov. Kellogg and that t
~ writing Of such letters was the stock in ira
If of the Packard people to get up a feeling in
gard to outrages in the South, in order to
n the administration to sustain them as agail
,e the Nichols government.
a. Mr.. Cox stated to the committee that the
ter in question, written by witness, had be
&c handed to him by Nathan Cole, member
7 Congress from st. Louis.
40 Witness read the statement giving details
40 his brother DEATH in which he said the m
ID der was not done by political enemies but
n personal ones.
IT, Witness continued: / saw Secretary Sh
Mt man write in the New Orleans custom ho,
"a once or twice, and have seen his autograph
,d an album. Weber here desired to read a WI
at ten statement upon this point, which
NJ said he had prepared four five days ago,
$. ticipating this subject would be tnqui
,r- into by the commission. He
IT, not allowed to read it, however, and went
ed to say: l remember seeing Mr.. Sherman w
al in the custom house, either on the 18th or
,r. of November. Garfield, Hale, Stought
Sherman and others were sitting in differ
ed groups by the table in the collectors room