The daily gazette., 1878-07-05

ration with Anderson was such as TO pi We
him an equitable right to some of The
benefits that were supposed to be en-
braced i'm 1t.
have never heard it intimated until
she gave her testimonythat Mrs .Jenkswas
IN way connecte with The author, hip of
the letter j have not or has any mem
:'er OF my family, sought to use this let
ter as the means OF obtaining office. /
saw the members of the MacVeagh com
mission in New Orleans, and was inform
ed that money had been used to secure
the abandonment of the Packard Legisla-
lure by certain members thereof. i could
tell something of tue amounts paid in
certain cases, but couldn't say who dis
bursed the money or who supplied it
had two conversations with Gen. Hawley
relative to the recogn tion of the Packard
government by the administration, and
lie SAID that the President coulI not and
would not recognize it. He conveyed the
Impression to my mind distinctly that the
recognition OF Nichols and the abandu H.
ment of Packard was a forcgone conclu-
sion, ana that this question had been de-
terlnlned. by the administration before
the commission left Washington.
J The witness was subject To lengthy
ss-examinatiou, during which he
ldent liied the following letter as having
been written by himself, though he said
the statements therein were not in ac-
cordance with facts; that they were for
political effect:
STATE SENATE, NEW ORLEANs.LA.
March "A, 1877.
j. II. ITeber Esq:
! DEAR COUSIN: Your favor of 18th
! inst. was received only to-day. In answ-
er thereto L am sorry to say that though
L had heard my brather. ID. A. Weber,
casually speak of a cousin living in St.
Louis, he never gave me any definite I'M
derstanding concerning him. Tins is the
only reasonl give you for not writing
to you sooner. The Times you refer to
has not yet reached Inc. | should GER
tainly be pleased TO have the opportunity
, TO reply to enormous statements made
concerning the unprovoked and dastardly
murder of ID. a. L have mailed to your
address to-day copy of the New Orleans
Kepubllcan, containing a correct and un-
contradiced atement of the brutal out
rage. also forward to your address, in
writing and III a separate envelope, the
same statement, which you can use for
publication i'll any paper. l vouch for the
correctness of the same. | intended before
this to have written another statement
giving more particulars concerning the af
fair but have not really had the time to
do so. The assassins Of ID. A. are at
large as yet and officiating in the capacity
OF Nichols officers in the parish he lived
in (West Feliciaua,) and with terror i'm
printed on their faces whisper to each
other who will be next. We desire no
new election in Louisiana. We desired
and demand the recognition of the legal
and lawful Packard government from
which Hayes derived his title to the Of
flee of chief magistrate of this nation.
We demand it not only as Just act which
all are entitled, 20 but all desire and de-
mand it that We may have government
founded upon law, wherein all men,with-
out regard to nationality or color, may
enjoy the same rights of citizenship with
out fear or favor.
Under govofnment at tnis time in
this State administered by Nichols aud
his bands Of assdsslns, and founded upou
blood, there is not and will never be any
security for life and property. ID. A.
leaves wife aud tur, e little babies, the
oldest only three years OF aye. This
alone would have been enough to have
spared his lie had hot the Drutes been
hrsty for the blood OF innocent and
deieDseless Republicans. had advised
him to stay away from the parish until
our difficulties were adjusted, but he
prefer 20 rem Iin home in The bosom
vi his fanny, whom lie cherished. His
unfortunate late seems TO have been ap-
pretended, as you VIII notice in his let
Ter, wliLten 10 Seua or Mcmillan, OF
Minnesota, three days before he was
murdered and published i'll the New
Orleans Republican that l sent you.
Our condition i'll tue North cannot be
Understood, or | am sure the American
people would no. tolerate the state Of
affairs which actually exists. One
by one our white and colored Repuoli>
cas- are murdered here in daylight, aud
always by parties unknown. We have
endured more Than our sla"e of wrong
and uutrag and, unless the government
comes 10 our rescue, we must either
suffer the fate OF ID. A. or leave lie State.
Tns is threat made against us puU!Icly
anu without fear. ID. AS wife and
uaoles have moved from St. +. Vile TO
Donaldsonvi, l have also been obIig-
ed, tor secutity's sake, to move to LIE
SAME place. We have abandoned our
property, and left it at the mercy of the
brutes. If Packard is Governor, and l
have no doubt Of ii, he Will i'll due time
have the assassi, OF my brother arrested
ana punished. If \ icholls becomes Cover
nor, aud any attempt on our part TO arrest
aud convlcv the murderers is made, we
viii beyond any doubt, suffer dea b. L have
Wnlten this Ill haste. In my next
will give you more details concerning u.
IS death. with best wishes, am
y Jurs, E l.. WEBER.