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Of what he says the records of Congress author
ize him to state a. the combined result of the

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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 furcibly and BY means of daily and night
lyraids, by armed bodies of men, upon persons
and property Of Republicans, included in these
acts of tiolence. killing, wounding and whir-
ping of Republicans, bEeakinB into and burn
ing houses and stores, and other outrages, BY
means Of which such . state Of terror was
ing pr.ishes, that Heading Republicans
in these l.oalities were forced to leave their
homes, and prevented from organizing for the
campaign, and the rank and file Of the party
utterly diaheartened, . large majority Of them
forced against their wish either TO desist from
this intimidation VA. carried 70 such an extent
that large Republican mstoritics which had ap-
Peared At every election sitter the close of the
war and prior to the election Of 1876. was there
by suddenly converted into , large Democratic
majority, 10 that in some Of the precincts in
one of the parishes, to wit, East Feliciana, not
single Republican vote was polled.
6eoond-1 expect by this testimony to show
that witnesses of both parties concede the
presence of this violence and naturalization,
though the Democrats say it was not political
in it, origin.
Third expect by this testimony to show.
in the establishment of my claims, that it was
Republicans rs such. snd that this organized
violence was 70 trained q to prscede and cover
the time of registration and precede the cleo
ti0ns, and that it ceased after the election, and
that the victims of violence and intimidation
were almost always active leaders of the Repub-
1ic0nR and nf thu
Fourth expect by this testimony to show,
and will show, Is I 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 Felicians, killed,
S; wounded. %; hung, 2; whipped, "a; shot at,
8; by threats Of violence, 5; burnt out, q;
threats to individual persons. II. In West
Feliciana, killed, as; wounded, L; hung, 8;
whipped, z; shot at, Z; expelled from Office,
ETC., and driven from home. IL; by threats of
violence, 4; threats of Individuals, Is; burnt
out, 10.
l make this application to the committee. at
this time, because wish to give 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 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 subcommittee
sent to Louisiana as an application to have the
witnesses named subppnaed and examined
wherever the committee sub-comni ttee
shall decide it best to have them appear.
Deemins 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
n fIo
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 subpDnas are issued, strike
from the list the names of any persons whose
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
th;a notice to him, paper is published
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 free and fair election in West and
East Feliciana, and the subcommittee is now
in Louisiana acting upon this construction.
The pretense that he 1.-THE secretary cannot
prove there was not free and fair election be-
cause ne Oenle6 the Wr1Cng OF tne 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 burlesque
and travesty on justice and fairness.