The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-01
stayed In the back yard until nearly night,
when jumped the fence, to go home.

stayed In the back yard until nearly night,
when jumped the fence, to go nome. :,
From the store went to my house, but did
not stay there; went to neighbours and
stayed all night. While / was away body
OF gentlemen came to my house.
Mr.. Cunningham sent for and he came. |
asked him what was the matter. He said that
he would do all that he could In the matter
for me, and that he had already made him
self obnoxious to the people for assisting
those under arrest.
/ was kept under arrest until about IL
o'clock. / asked for three days to fix up my
business, when they demanded me to leave the
parish. / offered to give my word or any,
pledge that they wanted. ! sent for seVeral
OF my friends to intercede for me.
About u o'clock Mr.. Cunningham came
into the room where / was guarded ana
| the parish. We were all at the lower end
OF the courthouse when we were Ialking.
Mr. Cunningham said that ne had never
killed anybody, but If l returned to the parish
he would kill me himself.
I was to go out a certain route ana go to
| WestIey Sheppard and there get q horse. |
went until / struck the bayou and then back
| of the convent; then | crossed the Old river
| and laid all day Tuesday In ditch. While
| lying there saw armed men passing by.
| thing to eat, and he would not give me any
thing. because of his fear. / gradually made
my way out of the parish.
| One Of the guards over me was Frank Reg
| giO and gentleman there named SprOule
| and w. w. Brazeale.
Cross-examined by Judge Egan. In 1870
was elected to the Legislature. In II, IA and
'76 | was reelected. | have told all | re-
member Of the conversation with Mr.. Gun
ningham. / was placed under guard for my
own protection. / went to Rapides parish,
and then in the early part Of November / re-
turned, and have been in NatchitOches ever
since. l got down to this city last night
only.
had conversation with Mr.. Genius; he
was great Greenback man, and when we
met we always had talk. He wanted me to
join the Greenback party, and l said that IL L
could see that the Greenback party was a
poor mans friend / would join the party. He
told me that the Democratic party had swal-
lowed up the Greenback party and had adopt
ed greenback plank. He asked me to adj
wise the negroes to join the Democratic party.
told him that could not go to those whom
had told to vote the Republican ticket to
now vote the Democratic ticket.
| never told Mr.. Genius that il the Demo
Gratis did not cease to hold night meetings
there would be somebody knocked in the
head.
/ was present at a meeting in the town Of
Natchitoches on the fourteenth of September
There was meeting of the executive COM
mittee Of the Republican party In Mr.. Breda's
store. The report In the indicator came out
and said that l had said the whites would
have to stop night hawking or somebody
would get hurt. This is false.
p. BREDA.
live in Nachitoches parish and have since
the war. | was at the Republican meeting in
that parish in September, 1878. We had, my
brother and myself, started to go home. We
had not gone 200 yards when we came to a
body OF armed men.
y Il
and was told that 1t was none Of my ID
business. | circled around the town and got
home The men In the armed gang were w.
w. Brazeale W. o. Brazeale, Jules Morey,
Emile PrudhOmme. Dick Fleming and Daniel
Hymes.
When we got home we went hunting on q
neighboring plantation. My brother and my
self went to The quarantine station to learn
what was gong on In town, and learned that
Blunt was captured. We heard party com
asked for my house and then they started for
it. We followed. They seemed to be salts
fed when they found out where 1t was.
The message was brought to US that we
must leave the parish or surrender by Mr..
Draugnet. He said that we must leave the
parish.
Mr.. Draugnet is my mothers brother. /
voted with the Republican party In the last
three elections. / would have voted for J..
Madison Wells at the last election for Con-
gress: I.was coroner for two terms in the
parish.
Cross -examined by Mr.. Luxembourg was
present at a meeting held In my brothers
Office September a. There were about TWEEN
ty-four there. l remember Blunt, II. l..
Riggs, Lewis and others were there whose
names | cannot recall
It was agreed that there should be a meet
ing; that the twenty-firSt would be good
day for 1t. 1t had been published before that
the Democratic convention was going to
ff,ntt
the same day. 1t was discussed, and 1t was
concluded that as we were to meet at q differ
ent place, 1t would be prudent.
1t was thought that the twenty-frst, being
Saturday, would be a good day, for people
could get away from working their crops.
| was at the meeting OF the twenty-first at
the quarantine station. The station was to
prevent ingress and egre5s to and from the
town. 1t was here we held our meeting.
There were $50 or 1870 present at the meeting
l had pistol at the meeting. [ cannot say
whether my brother was armed at that meet
ing or not. saw no arms on any person there
| live a little over mile and a half from the
station. The quarantine station is nearly
three-quarterS OF a mile from the court
house. The crowd my brother and myself
met In the road did not follow US.
Mr. Draugnet came to me on Sunday morn
ming, the twenty-second, and said that he had
something very important to confer with us,
and he said that we must leave the parish.
| heard a rumor, a long time after it took
place, that there had been firing on the
quarantine guards.
/ heard of no intended attack on the town
by the negroes after Blunt's captare. | do
not think there was any intention to make an
attack.
r. A. BLUNT.
| know James Genius, and had converse
ton in his store with him on the campaign
Of 1873. ! used to go into his store, and he
would say that II ! would attend to my
church and mind my business / could live
in the parish. told him that was sold out
of the Radical party. Mr.. Genius said that
ought to go into the Greenback party. He
said had to go into the Greenback party or
the Democratic. | told him l was no Demo
crat. He told me that ! could remain in the
parish if | would Join the Greenback party.
He told me that the negroes would be extinct,
and | had better withdraw and leave politics.
/ can almost feel the balls the people up there
had for me-
Examined by Mr.. Beckwlth do not know
that the rate Of taxation was run up to 10 per
cent Of the value Of the property OF the par
ish of Natchitoches. The Natchtoches YIN
dictator published that the taxes amounted to