Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-20
THE LOUISIANA OUTRAGES.

THE LOUISIANA OUTRAGES.
The Senate committee, of which Tell
.r is chairman, spent last week at New
Orleans in receiving testimony in regard
to the election outrages in that State,
and has already gathered evidence
enough to prove the worst that has been
charged against the White League Dem
cratic leaders. j. E. Breda, a proml-
nent Republican of Natchitoches, testi.
fed that he took little part in the last
because he was forced to flee
from his home Sept. %. He addressed
a Republican meeting Sept. 81, and the
next morning a body of armed Democrats
led by an ex-mayor, surrounded his
house and demanded his surrender. He
escaped by back way with brother
to the woods. He said there were l,79O
white and 1000 colored voters in his
parish, and more whites voted the Dem
ocratic ticket, but the official Democratic
majority as returned was 1900.
DR.. A. P. Breda, brother of the
above witness, corroborated him as to
being obliged to flee from home to save
his life.
Fleming Branch, colored man of
Tensas parish, testified that it was re-
ported that 80 negroes were killed in
that parish during the campaign; that
he was acquainted with many who were
murdered that on the 18th of October
tackled by the White Leaguers, who shot
one negro named Senator dead, wound
ed another named Kennedy and himself,
while the others escaped to the woods.
Viola Wallace and Rebecca Ross, both
colored, testified to seeing the BULLDOG
ers, led by Democratic sheriff, shoot
and cut the throat of Republican
named Bechel.
William D. Rollins, Democrat who
was an Independent candidate at the
last election, testified as follows:
Was candidate on the Independent
ticket at the last election; resides in the
northern part of the parish saw body
of fifteen armed men at the polls or
election day under Handboro, a deputy
sheriff; thinks intimidation frightened
the negroes so much that they stayed
away from the polls, and that if the ne
groes had voted they would have hat
1000 majority; said that at the clos
of the election he demanded count o
the votes at poll number one, but it wa
; refused, and band of armed men tool
the box to st. Joseph.
J. R. Lascey, one of the posse of tn
Democratic sheriff sent to disperse
gathering of negroes at Waterproof
stated that his force consisted of abou
forty armed men, that fired one wolfe
into the negroes, woundlng several, bu
= not, so far as he knew, killing any
e Vernon, Moore, Monroe, Brown an
P John Blackman, colored men. state
I three negroes were killed in riot
IL Caledonia, on election day. and Fran
e Watson and Lafayette Harp that the
s were driven from their homes by arme
IT Democrats, some time before the ele
i ton.
& The committee will continue its i
+ designations, and doubtless continue
u pile up the most damning testlmor
10 againt the Southern Democrats, but,
we said at the beginning, all this wol
70 will be fruitless as far as practical rel
III edies are concerned.
m We know enough of this busine
ne now. The iniquities at which the
e. vestigation is aimed are well establish
III as any facts in the history of the pa
In year, and any attempt to bring the
e. out in stronger light is as much was
Id of time as it would be to try and collie
oo evidence of Satan's impiety.-Manch
Vs. ter Mirror.