Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-08
THE WEBER AND ANDERSON LET
TER.
HOW THEY GOT IT AND WHAT IT
CONTAINED.
ITS PRESENT WHEREABOUTS, ETC.

IT'S PRESENT WHEREABOUTS, ETC. 6
The following extract which we take =
from the published interview between
las. E. Anderson and reporter of the
N. Y. Herald. will prove of interest in
this community as shedding light upon
the celebrated letter which was SAID TO
have been held by D. A. Weber at the
time of his death, and which created such
intense excitement in the National Cap
itol last winter, when flaunted in the face
of John Sherman by Mrs. Thos. RI. jerks:
"The protest to the vote of East Fell
ciana IS dated November 10; that OF
West Feliciana, November Ia, believe
Mr.. Sherman reached New Orleans aboat
the sixteenth of the month. Things
were then in q very critical condition.
D. A. Weber, who was supervisor OF cleo
tions in West Feliciana, had signed his |
protest, but had not. From what
heard at tho time 1 felt sure that u. A.
was acting in the line of duty by putting
! his name to the protest. because III one
part of the parish, down in the river re-
gion, there was n small body OF disorder
liz roughs, who interfcred with the ne
| rroes from pure cussedness. There was
not much politics about it. d. A. was
not very firm in the faith, however. lie
had his doubts whether the protest
should be made to cover so much, aud
made up my mind that I did not propose
to testify officially to intimidation when
there was no sign Of it on election day.
The thing had all been set up beforehand,
but had no right to swear that any vo-
ters were interfered with unless knew
of actual cases Of violence on election
day. There were none.> The election
was as peaceful as any in the country
, So refused to s:gn. 1t was very few
, days after this, as the dates show, when
3 Sherman arrived in New Orleans. ID. A.
8 Weber and were both weak, and 1t was
vital ttat our parishes should DO thrown
: out. told you months ago OF tho way
}, nv signature was obtained to = blank
sheet of paper and how that was after
wa. d filed without my knowledge with
u most sweeping protest, accompanied
by forged jurat. That was fraud an'
l had made up my mind to denounce II
Just then the visiting statesmen came ol
T. the field. Weber ana I both needed
III backbone. There is no use in telling
great long story now, but wo were writ
IL ten to by Secretary Sherman. We want
b. ed written guarantees that we should
r cared for if we allowed this crookednes
r to go unrebuked, so that the Returnln
is Board and tho Republican party coul'
9u profit by the wrong"
a did the Secretary write to each q
at you!
ny mo: the letter was written to us join
is ly. 1t did not come through the mail.
ng was directed to d. A. Weber and jaime
OH L. Anderson. The stories about their u
&c, ing two letters are false. 1t was trar.
as mitted to us through a third party
ed sHow did the letter reads
sWell, it was one of those shrcW
nd things which nobody but shrewd po
he tician would devise. He simply said til
in. we should be literally cared for If '
md stood firm
lat Aud YOU think you can prove that
to was fully aware of all these facts a
me meant his letter to be guarantee til
'ho YOU should be provided for if you consel
ty. ed to shut your eyes and hold yo
OF tongue
of sThat is exactly what we expect to (
ner- Suppose that Lawrence test;ies that
ON. informed Sherman of the way THU
y stood in the Feliciana parishes, and 81
ave nose that Pitkin testiies that Shcrn
lslp understood the situation exactly, :
z to suppose Whitney testities more fully tt
This he did before the Morrison commit
mes that one day at the st. Charles Hot
here displayed an envelope which contal
nent the Sherman letter and said: i've
ence enough here to burst the whole th
en- Then where will Sherman bog
roko what ever became of that letter z
need Il rave it to d. A. Weber, and d
'her- know exactly what ho did with it.
ingle remember he was murdered at St. Fral
nant Vile very shortly afterwards. There
liter always been peculiar mystery han
An about this murder. 1 have heard
as the Democrats claim to have a pl
lpted graphic copy of that letter, but l
his state whether it is true or not. You
If the remember when We called on Mrs. J
nrned last winter that she intimated that
Or ev- or;oinal letter was safe and sound
that nlaee where it could DO easily rea
acted That may be true, but the great IL
hold tance of the Investigation, 80 far as
ion of man is concerned, will consist in pro
erved, not that such a letter was written
been not that it contained such and
Marks, words, but that he knew when
moro dresseu it to us that we were being
cation. ed to submit to forgeries.'
sober --s-s
,rman rEPs "Whether we havo n stable