St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-01-10

tneyy were driven from the polls with
cluok and guns. In the Campobello
ward the White Leaguers have killed
ana iun off two hundred cOlored neo-
pie, and three colOred women were
killed: In DesOta the colored -people
Gouio not either register or vote. Tn
borsio Parish the colored people were
urlVen from the polls by about one
hundred armed white men. and one
man, one woman and one child were
hiled. In Booster white men would
1oC let the ballot boxes be opened and
urove the deputy sheriff back to Behune
WIN lt. The same was practiced in
webster Parish. This was a concocted
piah all over this district by the Demo-
craets. Some of the Democrats tell me
IL VIII be so as long as coIored people
Iool with politics and try to vote in the
south. just that long the white men
OF the South are going to kill ms. and
from what l see it seems so. Tbev
nave threatened about a hnndred Of
our ilVes and many are too scared to
stay in their houses at night. and some
"i 'hem have left the State, and nv life
Is threatened so that [ NAV NOT he ov0
pected to 1.-Two many- aIa.rs 80 ~ =,
that the United States will give us soiRee sohiRRe
tertiary to ourselves and let us leave
these shareholders to work their own
land, for they are killing our race every
day and night"
The next paper in the series is the
report of Deputy Marshal Shearman to
Marshal Wharton, dated November I6.
Mr.. Shearman was sent by the Marshal
in October to inquire into the COM
nj in of tpn in thn x.inin,t,. Il
Monroe City and to take measures to
put an end to them. He reports that
it was too late ut that time to do any
thing, even if he had the power. Two
cOlOred mechanics, named Hill and
Bell, were murdered early in October
simply because they insisted in advo-
eating Republicanism. In the city re-
ferred to the Deputy Marshal was
scarcely able to get lodging. He had a
letter to report to Judge Ludeling, late
Chief Justice of the State and Republi-
can candidate for Congress. He was
conducted secretly to the residence of
Ludeling in the night, where he found
him guarded by Il few friends, who had
been brought together by the common
danger and who dared not venture
abroad for fear of assassination.
Judge Ludeling directed the Deputy
to leave Monroe at once, as his presence
as United States officer would increase
the danger of all. Shearman was fol-
lowed by two men all the while he re-
manned in the parish, but he succeeded
III learning the names of the leaders in
the organized opposition to the Federal
laws, which he gives. One of them is
brother of Governor McEnery. OF
these men and their atrocities. the
Deputy Marshal says:
''These are the men who caused the
killing, as | have been informed. of
Daniel Hill, who, being shot in October
called in physician, who, upon ex-
tracing sixteen buck shot from his
body, told him and others that he
would live, went to his house mt night
and killed him in bed, wounded as he
was, and then took his partner in bust
ness, Herman Bell, and killed him.
They are the men who caused. as am
informed, the four men incarccrated in
the jail to be taken therefrom and hang
ed. was informed by person (whose
name | can give if ace, s,Flry) r,-h" ,.:;>
acquainted with two of the victims
Beatty and Brown, and who saw them
the morning of the hanging after death.
and who said that. oakum chloroformed
was stuck into their MOUTHS