The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-03-22

Than 10 say that the resolutions have not
oeen properly understood by the public,
ana have been misrepresented. II you
VIII permit me. will refer 10 them, so
that NY understanding OF the purport OF
your question may be clear. win you
permit me, sirg
No, sir. You have stated you decline
I TO answer"
decline to answer without an expla-
nation OF the reas ns that influence my re-
ply: The resolutions are In these words"
lWhness read the Copial-county resolu-
t'ons.l al regard these resolutions sim
/ ply as reply 70 the threats that had been
naue by Matthews himself, and the clan
zens.''
Then you mean to say that you do not
approve OF them."
II mean TO say that they have been mis-
/ represented, and my understanding"
MY question was not whether the pub
nc had been properly informed. but
whether you approved Of the resolutions"
Wen, my answer has been given"
senator Frye asked the witness il he
knew OF any threats made by Mr.. Nat
thews. and he said he did not, but he had
heard OF them from others.
Mr.. Frye: ''Iou have no right, rs wit
ness, to make that answer, and you
know it,"
Witness: "Well, sir, when you say YOU
Gid not know il or YOU did know If, then
ii Is not the manner IN which gentlemen
address each other"
Mr.. Hoar: "Did you not know when
You are asked as 10 a fact, whether you
know II or not, that you are not entitled to
tell what YOU have heard others sayi"
Witness: Bur you asked my opinions.
When ] am called upon to testify to
facts"
Mr.. Hoar: "You have no right 20 put in
hearsav testimony when YOU are asked Is
TO your knowledge Of the facts. You say
you are familiar with the political history
OF Mississippi. There is one resolution 10
the effect that Copiah shakes hands with
Yazoo.
do you know what that means9'
"Well, no, sir; will not undertake to
interpret that
You had no knowledge OF the facts ,"
Il had nothing 70 do with getting up the
resolutions"
do YOU remember anV public fact in
The history OF YazOo which might help in
terpret that resOlutiony"
II will not answer that question. !
will not undertake TO interpret that resolu-
ton"
Witness, in the further course ~ the col
loquy, said the people Of Yazoo county
were l&w-abidinC people. He knew OF
nothing in the history OF either Yazoo or
Copiah which would compare with the
Tewksbury horror.
Mr.. Hoar That you know all about"
Witness: II have seen il stated OFF,
cially."
You are acquainted with Tewksbury
and not well acquainted with YaZeo."
Pretty well acquainted with both. and
do not know anything so much to the dis
credit OF Yazoo as 10 Tewksbury."
Senator Hoar expressed the hope that an
unofficial investigation Of the affairs OF
Yazoo would show them to be as false as
those respecting Tewksbury.
After some further colloquy Senator
Hoar said: ''You have said that the peO-
people, and that al the last election they
did no discTedit 10 their history in that
respect. l call your attention to the pub
lie meeting largely attended the day after
the election. at which The people, Con
graduating themselves upon the result,
passed resolutions saying: 'COpiah county
shakes hands with IaZoo,' and l ask you
il you can tell us what that means"
Witness: Il cannot. sir. ! cannot in
terpret it. Ii seems 10 me that it is wholly
Irrelevant. and | viii not undertake TO
interpret it. / decline TO interpret the
resolution"
Senator Hoa-: THAT is all, sir"