The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-04
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WASHINGTON. Dec. so.-The following are a
Tow I'll the moro important documents to be
submitted to the Senate by the President. rs
frauds and ontrsges committed In Louisiana
during the recent political campaign, tho same
having boen called for by resolution Of the
Under date Of October 49, II. +. Mcdonnell. o
deputy mareha reports 10 Mershal Wharton,
Che Attorney General that no investigated the
facts Of the mnssnefe ut Waterproof. In. md
found that after The Demoorats hn ~ h , ,heif
thoritiee. forbade tho Republicans from hold
Ing one. The negroes gathered Tor consnlta-
leader, himself u colored man, md he Repub-
llcan candidate for Congress. The Democrats
e sat III se wsbs militia 81 a pa
under Capt, Peck. and advanced upon Faitfax's
house for the purpose OF ascertaining what the
rom ihe Which Eea cpt
avenge h's death his company charged the
Marshal Mcconnell says he. could not ascer-
tain the oxact number killed. Dsmocratlc re- 9,
ports place T. at siy md the hepub,ican men, q
man killed during tho entire campaign. After
this affair ct Fairfas's house. parties p armed
the conntIea IN Mississippi seross The river con-
tinued to ride about the parish, for the ostensi.
biz purpose q preventing negro n
Sopn nf'Y ana SYI wac told that large numbers
~ md iotsesd the Democratic party as measure
THE ouTnAaEs IN WEST FEIrC1ANA PARISH;
Under the date Of koyembsr a. Deputy Mar
shall Bancroft reports to the Marshal OF Low
isiana regarding the intimidation In West
Feliciana parish. He writes:
Il find That. the men who have boon corre-
spending with you In regard to these eases
dare not do anything that will implicate them.
selves In. any prosecutions. Not ons OF them
would endangar their lives, aud when It comes
TO getting the negroes to testify that II entirely
@ q as ey res MU
aThe whipping Of Brockhart and Goats was
Of Brockha q short time before being hung
and whipped. be was etopped on the road BY
not stop his electioneering he would DO attended
to. and was advised to announce In tho paper
that he would not have anything mo r e d9
he was told 70 go home and have nothing more
10 Do with politics;
Charles Davis that II he was supporting the
Barron thepublicnn) ticket. he would have to
After this conversation took place Goats
says: They cnme to my house and asked for
me. Ny vile Informed the h, parties that was
and Whipped ped o her. Mrs Goats
The following day. Goats wa, Informed By Davis
and others that IL he would drop politics he
a bis syaa d no qas % be w
Davis promised to notify the people to that
All the negroes who have had any trouble
have been warned by the planters who employ |
them thai II they told anything they would be
the nesroes are afraid to be seen talking TO u
stranger. II he ID white man. I believe the
esgs 70 T hs II chose sonS
They are the pen who did the same kind OF
idation was ca rled on ON election day by lot |
OF armed men. who compelled negroes to vote |
pesy Sa u ais and NJ baron
clerk of the parish, were present and Witnessed
the proceedings; The following Il z list Of the
hanging negro voters; there follows Il long list |
OF nampsJ white nan. a pre- acher. who WINS
and he aiiieiwSrd told Gov Nichols. ]. barter
knows NIL the men who were engaged In tiiis, |
but is afraid tot testify for fear OF being killed"
sons who informed him they were afraid to |
vote. having been intimidated. He concludes |
THE negroes In Yves, Teloiana parish are in
dread OF the white people The black man has |
no voice. and Is entirely controlled By bis en-
The following ptlful letter was received BY
Attorney General Devens few days after cleo
tion, from q colored man living near shreve-
Dear Sir-Permit me to state the condition OF
the campaign like unto u 70 ring lion. and /
succeeded In getting the coiored people out to
fore. and on the day OF election the Democrats
hadltnree Hot boxes at every poll In the parish,
one for the Congressman. one Tor the Sta Q and
parish ticket, aud one Tor the ward; and we
hhd our ticket whole and numbers Of W. voted
our tickets whole, II put our tickets whole
In the ward box, they were not counted. Ii we
but them whole into any box. they were not
counted Some OF our people tore their tick
ets apart. AID put eaeh part part In me right box.
doing this they told colored men that they could
not ind their lanes on the j, registry iists.
were driven from he polls with clubs and guns.
In Campo Bello ward the White Leaguers have
colo ed women we're killed. In DeSoto the COL
ored people could not either register nr VOC.
In Bossier nartsh, the c,olored people were
driven from the polls by about 100 armed white
men, and one man. one woman and one child
were killed. and voters were driven away by
thousands. In. Bossier white men would not
let the ballot boxes b. opened. and drove
the deputy sheriff back 70 Bethune with the box.
and the same was pra tced II Wsb t parish
with the Democrats, and some OF the Democrats
tell me 1t will be SO as long as colored people
Just that long the white men of the South are
going to kill us; and from what see 1t seems
our lives. and many are scared to stay in their
houses at night, and some OF them have left the
State, and my lie is threatened SO that may
not be expected to live many days. trust God
that the United States will give us some tori
tory to ourselves and let us leave these slave
holders to work their own land, for they are
killing our race every day and night.
EXCUSE me for speaking SO plainly. for
necessaries have driven NE to 1t and speak
tor the race. The white Republicans are not
allowed any more showing than the poor col
ored people. and we pray God that the Northern
people will take this into consideration and do
something for our race.
Your obedient Sc. want.
posely omitted to prevent his assassination.l
The, follow. NJ Is q report of Deputy Marshal
Shearman lated ON the sixteenth of November
last, and addressed 10 United States Marshal
Wharton, of Louisiana:
Sir In OBJ adience to your Instructions. LETT
the c,ty of New Orleans La, on October %,
1877, arriving at Delta, via vicksburg, on the
twenty ffth instant called on Nh. Dinkgraye
an references to the business in hand. He told
me could accomplish nothing az the whole