The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-25
and H. O. Dibble gave us this instruction in

Q.-Now state what was the manner In which
you proceeded In taking them.
ASWell, some man would bring In the wit
ness and say he wanted to get out Of him certain
very few Instances did we put down the Ian
guage. Of the Witnesses; We corrected IT, We
made 1t az strong ag possible; When witness
In that they kpetD OF this thing. [ found very few
Of the witnesses who. did know anything of
ting Statesmen At The Custom Hogsa.' ' in he
rooms where the afTidavits were being pre-
nared. / have seen Hale, stouRhton and Garfield.
do not know that have seen Mr.. Sherman
there. They manifested their interest i'm our
proceedings by keeping. the run of the afrlda-
Wits and seeing that copies. were made of them.
have heard Garfield ask for Hff1davits and
have seen him examine them and take notes Of
them. Generally three or four witnesses were
sworn together. Mr.. Woolfley would ask DO you
know the contents # this, are, you willing to
swear 10 itP and that would be all the swearing.
They had signed their, affldavIts before they
went to him. never heard him read any Of
the afflda7lts.
1 meyer read them, Witnesses we're not in
formed that they had pee. been recorded as knowing
lisved SThere is one afidavit-that of l.. Vrisin-
sky; 1t Is in that pile. Ha declined to make It,
so sol knowledge T. L, Weber Induced him to
sign It. He rea 1t over to Vrisinsky but omitted
that part making positive statements. There
were good many persons who we're not In
| clined TO make atfidavits. but we assured them
that that would be the last of the affidavit; that
| 1t would die out and no inquiry would be
made.
| | made a great many more afffdavlts than
these / have selected. ! took some from Graut,
st. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Livingston, Iberia
and East Baton Rouge. Mr. W. G. Laine
brought Ia witnesses, for Fast Baton Rouge.
| ingstpn u. l.. Weber aud jerks we're prominent
| In bringing. in the F'lieianas. Prior to the
| with the belief that we would have the hardest
| Eight we ever had to carry the State The gen
eral talk among the Republicans after the cleo
| statesmen were coming to this State. was that
GRANT WOULD SUSTAIN
our government.
TO Mr. Blackburn-It was fact known to me
counted as cast the Democrats would have
majority. and it was the understanding that
these atidayts were being male to enable the
TO Offset this majority and give the State to the
10 Mr.. GoxMr. Harris attorney for the Re-
publcans, told me they meant to take that
| course. think Hugh Campbell also told me-
In the Yrisinsky affidavit put down what Mr.,
| Weber said and very little of what the witness
said. The tickets furnished by Allan were
printed by Mr.. Marchand The ticket put out
publican or Times office. the Times office, |
think. Mr. Acklen, the. Democratic candidate,
had got copies Of the ticket and had them Goun;,
| terfeited. and that ls the reason Mr. MaEohand
was called on to print them.
| ". A. STRONG.
Secretary Of State, recalled.
| TO Mr. Blackhurn-l was present when Judge
| Whitaker and Mr. Douglas testified this morn
| ing. have In my possession the papers used
| In comparison. They are official documents
nled In the Auditors office. | obtained them
Quite discussion here arose as to whether or
not The papers could or should be Withdrawn
| from the custody of the Auditor. and 1t was de-
| cided to request him to intrust the papers TO
the chairman. Il receipt being given for them.
| wEs1IY JACKSON.
colored sworn:
Bayou Sara parish of West Feiiclana. was
| Republican. belonged to
THE SAGE HILL CLUB.
| It was composed of colored men entirely. We
had about twenty or I, nbd members Ie E we
They said the object of the club was to kill off
white men. When, heard that wanted to get
what they would do to me if left, and went
| on with them. Gilbert Garter was at the head Of
club 70 XII ace Certain party W Of white folks Thew
did not tell me the names Of the parties. Gilbert
Garter told me that If did not follow them they
Gilbert Garter was killed the very week after
this. a good many OF the men belonging to
Rbt o g oS I'm s we neope hs
It | got out. went to St. James and l have
been there ever since; ! voted In vt; James.
right to my gate. and asked If did not want to
Join a club asked him what club, and he said,
lust club we boys are getting up t. ltold , hin
want to bother about it. Carter said. That's
just like you boys: you won't do anything to
| help each other" | left him and Isaac Vessel
and another man and went into the house. The
| next nightth y came after me again and went
| with them. It was at the second meeting that
| was told of the objects of the club. Gilbert
Garter said the white people were fixing to bull
doze the colored men and we ought to go In and
do some bulldo5ing ourselves. Inever told any
body about the club. White people were riding
in the parish, but they never molested me or
anybody in our neighb0rhood.
40 Mr. f9n k9w S WhH
considerable stealing of seed cotton. They
| broke that up.
| JUDGE JOHN H. KENNARD
TO MIR. Blackburn am a resident of New
| Orleans: am u lawyer by occupation: j have
a plantation in West Felioiana; know that
the organization in the parish WIS most
complete and that the BEST white people OF the
parish took more interest in the campaign than
ever before, and they made great efforts to So
| made several speeches In the parish The
coored men attended these meetings in large
VoPpoed from he Republican party
AS far as l have any knowledge, the policy Of
the Democratic party was to avoid any grounds
for the charge of intimidation. The patrofng
of the parish as far as know. antedated the or
ganization of clubs. and did not continue dur
ing the camp ign. Its organization originated
in the wholesale stealing of seed cotton. When
this was put stop to the organization dis
banded.
hotel that he had filed his returns without a
protest: that he was being piled with argu-
ments at the Custom House to make him file
one, but ne had refused. He told old me the same
To Mr.. Cox-My impression was that the Re-
publicans were organized in the parish. know
that quite q number OF the cOored men on my
place voted the Republican ticket.
The. committee adjourned until 10 o'clock this
morning.
THE CETY HAIL.