The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-09


citement In the parish after the Fairfax affair
There are two rifle clubs In the parish. hav
never seen them marching through the coun
try except at election time.
The committee took recess Of an hour.
At 8 o'clock the committee
!, REAssEMBLED
and Ruth was recalled for cross-examination
To Senator Cameron know colored maj
named jackson who was formerly a Republi
can. Jackson was compelled to sign the rol
OF q Democratic club while under guard Q
Two men, who released him as soon as his
name was placed on the roll. There were
number OF other cOlored men who were forced
to sign at the same time. Certificates OF pro
lection were issued to them ALL The certifi
cate read that SO and so had joined the Day
light Club and Moonlight Meeting. The
| white people came to me when the armed col
ored men were near New Town for protection
CROSS EXAMINED.
To Mr.. Garland-I never issued any war.
| rants during the trouble. The fact Is that the
white people did not recognize me as magiS-
trate until the colored men came to town, and
then they came to me for protection. There
the colored men; yet the white people In the
town were afraid of them. There were at
| least twenty-five white men In the town.
WASHINGTON MELLUMs (coLoREDl
told a lengthy story about political differ
ence between himself and other colored men
| In Tensas parish, In which he lived, and re-
peated the story told by several preceding
witnesses about the proposition OF compro-
mise and combination made by The Republic
can convention of the parish, and rejected by
the Democratic convention.
Witness saw no violence, as ne was fright
ened by the report that he was to be killed
for raising an armed mob OF colored men (;
that he went into concealment In the roof OF
Doc Weatherby's house and In Mr.. Douglass
house. Afterwards got over his scare and
AxlL 49,. ia a.
man that the white people owned the State,
and that he (the white mani held witness life
In his hands, and advised witness not to make
speech at the proposed meeting at Wealth
erby's, as, II he tried 1t, he would get Killed.
Testified at length to excitement and fright
among the blacks after the Fairfax affair.
D. O. SMITH (CoLoRED).
Live In Tensas parish. Supported the Bland
ticket. Witness then repeated the old narra-
tive Of proceedings attendant on the holding
Of the Republican convention and Bland and
Douglas meetings, and also repeated all the
rumors and reports about the killing Of ne
groes. He improved on the modes OF death
shooting, hanging and braining,) and said
that Mr.. Nugadellvalle, Of Concordia parish
told him that party OF men had taken Com
modore Sewell out into the lake In a skiff, and
after compelling him to preach his own fu-
and thrown him overheard, and he was
drowned. After the Fairfax trouble, witness
said he met Fairfax, with about five hundred
colored men, coming to the convention.
ROBERT J. WALKER (CoLoREDl.
Resident Of Tensas parish, and supported
the Bland ticket Witness, after he had told
all he knew about the political movement In
the parish, was shown paper containing
card from him advising the colored people to
support the DemOcratic-C Conservative ticket
1.-THE one In opposition to the Bland ticket,
and he was asked to explain the circumstances
dor rr,t.fn nh anv1
some relation OF matters and circumstances
and of no interest to the committee or any one
else, he said that he had written 1t because he
had heard that his place had been visited by
Mr.. Buckner and Others who said that they
understood he was leading the opposition to
their ticket. and he was afraid that his
fate would be that of Fairfax.
At the same time he had grown lukewarm to-
wards the Bland ticket, because the name of
Fairfax, for Congress, had been taken off and
the name OF Gen. Young substituted. He had
always lived on friendly terms with the white
people and did not desire difficulty.
VIM. ANDERSON,
(colored), was sworn and kept the committee
in good humor for fifteen minutes by mar
ration which had no connection whatever with
the subject under investigation. He was al
lowed to go on for some time to enable him,
as he said, ito get the point" which was that
he had seen armed men In the parish.
Nothing new or of interest In regard to affairs
In the parish (Tensas) was elected
The committee adjourned until o'clock
this morning.