The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-03-27
without being afraid of my life, and heard
Kansas was good place. have q wife.
| wouldn't 20 back South again.

rent year, IOr tDe ldsl three OF ICuf yeaIf
| have rented no more than eight acres; l
didn't scarcely make living at all, the
price of cotton being 20 low and the rent 30
high. We paid the person we rented the
land of 81 bale for ginning the cotton;
we had been paying So dollars pr bale for
ginning, bat they had recently reduced il
TO 81. To the acre Of ground there was
from SIS 20 to Sl6 expense; We we're getting
not more than 50 to S3l or So bale for
the cotton. A good cotton yesr would
yield
A BALE TO THE ACRE,
bit lately il got SO We couldn't raise bale
to the acre. The reason / left the South
vas could make nothing; If l had staid
there | would have starved; and | was
afraid of my LIE; | have never seen any
shooting, but have seen men who have
come right from there; the shooting was
mostly done in Franklin ard Morehouse
Parishes, La, adjoining the Parish OF Mad
isou; have talked with these men who
have run away from these parishes; one OF
the mems names was Erin Jackson; We
could never vote az we wanted; If We voted
the Republican ticket the Democrats would
get up in mob and kill us of; at the last
Presidential election after the voting was
done at Rsyia, a little station about thirty
tive or forty miles from Delta, in More
house Parish, twenty five or thirty men
burst in the door, ard took the ballots, ard
wonld have killed the colored men-H. y.
Jackson, Nathan Brooks and II. 7. Palmer,
who had charge OF the ba'lo: bo1es-if
they could have caught them; but they ran
of; they got the pistols away from them.
MY AIM Is To GO To KANSAS,
If can ge, away and get there. / have
got a little money! guess enough to psy
my way. ] want to go to Topeka. have
a wife and two children with me. / heard
people IN The South Fay We could make a
good living in X .nsaa The land owners
didn't want us to leave the South, and did
all they could TO prevent u; they would
take the bedding and anything they could
get hold OF, and Say they held them for
rent wss never able to buy anything 10
eat, fer | never had any money.
JAMES BROWN.
james Brown made the following
statement: Ny age is thirty year,; have
been living in Madison Parish, La, since
1873; have been farming on shares the first
year and aiterward leased forty acres, and
paid ninety pounds lint cotton per acre.
paid 50 per bale for ginning and ty ing to
the man / rented from. / made poor
living, and had to paw S25 to $50 barrel
for pork. We raised our own corn, but il
we ran short had to pay for it from IS
cents to 81 when we bought; never could
make any money.
LEFT THE SOUTH
because didn't have the privilege OF vot
Ing ss | desired; because We would go to
the polls and they would tell us if We voted
he Republican ,ket we would not 20
back on their places Mr.. Bradley the
agent Of the place | rented, told me in
June, ISIS: Brown, by Cd if you go
10 the polls ! want you to cast the right
ticket" ] ssked him what ticket he want
ID me TO vote, ard SAYS he, Jim, we are
going to carry this thing orr own way;
you sd niggers have had things your
own way long enough, ard We white folks
are going to have it our own way or kill
ont all you id Republican niger"
and told me was one of the leading men.
WE WERE ALWAYS SCARED
to speak Of our rights; we would speak for
them, aud, il we didn't get them, We didn't
dare try and get them; if We went to Law
with them they would beat US in spite OF
all we could do. We got pspe,s down
South stating the Government had fur
nished land for us in Kansas and was Civ
ipg free transportation from s.. Louis, ard
charging 81 each from Nick-burg to St.
Louis; and that some railroads in Kansas
would furnish us land and allow four pay
ments and the Government would allow
FIVE payments-that Is, four and five years
10 pay for it. / would never go South
sgain. | have wife, three orphan chill
dren..a mother-in-law snd her five or sig
children with me. / bave no money.
GEO. ROGERS
said: Ny sge is thirty years. I lived in
Madison Parish, L., since 1875, farming. |
| rented fifteen 10 twenty acres, and paid |
ninety pound of lint cotton to the acre,
equal TO shout SO. | raised about $50 |
rounds TO the acre, and didn't make any,
thing at sll Have a wife and three chill |
dren with me, and had scarcely enough to |
feed them. If l mad the white folks would |
get it. | left the South because l was afraid |
If the white folks shooting or killing me. i |
have seen white people going around at
night in Franklin Parish, in disguise, kill |
ing the colored people and robbing them.
LADY IN FRANKLIN,
who had son about eighteen years old |
had him murdered. went by the house
next morning, and saw the son; he was
dead and sh all to pieces. He was q
smart boy and read all the papers, and the
white people there won't allow
that. His mother said abou,
twenty-five or thirty people came
in that night, and they made after
him, and she hallooed; she told them he
Was the only son she had, and asked them
not TO kill him. They psid 10 attention TO
her, but shot him right down. They were
disguised in Ku-klux form. When they
first shot him he fell and was not killed,
they went of little ways, and his mother
commenced TO talk to him, when he said
"Dou't talk so much; they will hear you,
ard come back and Kill me" They hesrd
the talking ard came back, and finding the
door locked, burst it in, and this time they
stot him and shot him to pieces and made
sure OF it. / want to 60 to Kansas. !
could hardly get the living of dog in the
South.
CURTIS POLLARD
sEore: Ny age is 60 years; have lived
in Madison Parish, La, for fifteen Year;
my occupation was farming. / have served
two yesrs in the Senate and legislature.
My object in leaving the South was on ac-
count Of threats of my life; was accused
of teaching the people to emigrate to Kan
sas; John Bradford, a seed broker living in
Delta, told ME if that could be proven TO be
the fac, on March IL, 1879, that my neck
would be broken; he told me On the streets
before a large crowd;
Ds. HAMILTON
inside threats when was getting ready TO
90 aboard the boat, in the presence of the /
CAPTAIN; DR.. Gibbs, of Delta, advised me
to leave or would surely be killed. About
the middle of February. 1879, two men
came TO my house from Richland Parish;
one was cut very bad, they were cut TO
pieces pretty bad; they said the bull-dozsrs
had got hold of them for wanting to 20 10
Kansas, and had pretty nearly killed them.
| asked them how many men were there,
and they said twelve.
I'D. DANIELS
gays: l am forty-fve years old,
a blacksmith, and from Warren county,
Miss; | have wife and five children; l
left the South because l couldn't make a
living there, and couldn't vote as wanted
to; because the planters, on whose land We
were, made Us vote as they wanted or We
would have to leave; We couldn't hold our
club meetings on account Of the white
people coming in on Ia; when in Vicksburg
.hey came in on our club and killed WASH
ington Davenport and son; it was in the
night; they
SHOT HIM AND THEN pCRNED HIN.
Andrews and Green were the men who did
II. rhev live in Niclehu and were not