New-York tribune., 1878-11-14
THE OUTRAGES IN THE SOUTH.
r1rRTHER DETAILS RECEIVED.

oorononies of white men, seventy-hve negroes
we're killed in pursuance OF the pohcy OF
su4;,nidot;on. IL is now conceded that
.vrolve we're killed in one OF the
J;s,rrbances in Tensas Parish. In South
C"No1,no one solid Republican county,
,,bere the voting was peaceful, was carried by
,ho nemocrats by balOt-b0X stuffng The
President is reported to declare that pros
ecution of the offending Democrats is not IN
conflict with his past policy
CADDo PARISH CARRIED By VIOLENCE.
sEvENTY-FIvE NEGROES KILLED IN The PARISH
A PARTY OF PSI VOTERS COMPELLED TO WALK
THIRrY-FIvE MILES - FRAUIs AND INlIMIDA-
Ton.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRtBUNsi
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-At the late election
Caddo Parish in Louisiana was the scene of the mur-
der of about seventyhve negroes, ana OF eAtraoldi
nary frauds by the Democrats Armed companies
of Democrats patrolled the parish for several days
before the election shooting into the houses OF ne
groes, and attempting to intimidatc them trom Vot-
ing and on the day of election worse incidents look
place.
Albert Leonard, u. S. Dstrct-AttOrney Tor the
Northern District Of Louisiana, has arrived here to
confer with the Attorney-General as to the pest
practical means for bringing the offenders III TINS
parish to Justice. The story of Mr.. Leonard to the
Attorney General and the President is substantially
set forth in an interview held with him last even
ing. Mr.. Leonard related the following facts:
"If fair and peaeeable election had been pos
sible Louisiana would have gone Republican by
from 5000 to 900 majority, and three. possibly
four. Republican Congressman would have been
elected. NV own personal experience of the cleo
tiou was limited to CaddO Parish. That parish had
n registered vote of ,673 whites, aud nearly $500
blacks Probably about one-third of the whites !
at least 250-wOuld have voted the he |
publican ticket, and they had announced |
their intention to do so. In fair ana
peaceable election the Republicans would have |
carried the parish by from $3.50 to 1900 majority
The vote as returned gave the Democrats majority
pf $40. The Democrats openly took the election
by force and fraud. There were twelve voting
precincts in the parish. United States Supervisors
were appointed for all of them by United States
Judge Woods but. except at two precincts III
shreyeport. these supervisors were not allowed to
witness much less TO scrutnize the election They
were told that they were not wanted and OF my
personal knowledge. in some instances they were
forcibly removed from the vicinity of the ballot
boxes
"About week before the election two military
companies were organized in Shreveport and some
In the country. These companies appeared on the
streets with arms and traversed the country roads
lle night DeIOTc elcCtlOu dTulcu ulcH
country roads and fred into the houses OF negroes
IN MANY instances taking the negroes out and beat
ing them. -
Ten days before the election the Republicans had
much difficulty in holding their meeting at Spring |
Ridge twenty miles from Shreveport. There were |
only 175 white men registered in the place, yet
there was a large number OF white per-
sons there, the purpose OF whose Vlst
was not known. William Harper, colored
Id Han
and interrupted by the widest shoutsfrOm ali quar-
tiers. Cries of Kill him, kill him y Destroy the
seoundrel p End the Republican party hereP and
xii the leaders p were heard / expected that
they would kill Harper and then advance on me,
but IT happened that they made their first rush for
me-. considerable body of them surged through
the crowd, when entered into conference with
their leaders The Republican speakers remained
silent The persons making the attack were finally
induced to desst. At last the Republican speakers
left the place and as they did so cries were again
heard of Kill them, kill themp Some of the
Democrats had their weapons in their hands, ready
for immediate use.
"Trouble was prevented at O Republican meet
ing OF MorningspOrt by the fact that ferry
which was bringing across the lake large number
Of Democrats bent on disturbing the meeting struck
snag, and this kept the party from arriving.
This was the condition of affairs prior to the
election, At the election, except in two or three
instances where NEGROES who could neither read nor
write were appointed. all the election officers were
Democrats. The day before election the Returning
officers and United States Supervisors were sent to
every poll in tile parish. At each poll
ing place three boxes were provided, and
the negro voters were told that they would
have TO vote for Congressman in one box. for Rep
resentative and parish officers in another, and for
ward officers in the other. protested to the Com
missiouers against such violation Of the law, which
only requires one box to be furnished, and | nOti-
fed the negroes in attendance to deposit their entire
ticket in the box designated to receive the vote for
Sheriff, no matter what the Democratic election
officials might say. The negroes gathered at the diff
ferent boxes in large force demanding the chance to
vote The Commissioners claimed not to be able to
find their names at particular boxes where they ap-
piled, cursed them violently for coming to vote
where their names were not entered and fairly
dove them from the polls. finally that the
negroes were not TO be allowed TO vote, and ad-
vised them to 20 home.
"Serious trouble occurred at the polling place
called Willets Sehool-house. There registered
there 315 negroes and twenty-five whites The
polling box was placed hill near the Arkansas
line. When the river is high il il necessary to
travel fifty miles to reach this polling place from
different parts of the parish. But the water this
year was low and il was possible for the negroes to
arrive through the swamp, which IL ordinarily i'm
passable. The Republican candidate for Sheriff,
accompanied BY PSI of the 3l5 registered negroes,
went through the swamp to this poll They had
10 walk thirty-Gye miles and carry days provi-
sonS. They camped the night before the election
at the polling place. Daring the night some of the
armed white Democrats came and looked down