The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-02-19
Iron Our Regular oOrrespOnden'.l

cabell Delighted with violcts Ontburst.
IRON Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, February 1S.-The Dan
vile investigation was resumed to-day,
and I was sorry TO see that Governor
Vance was suffering from a sore throat.
senator's sherman and Lapham were both
on hand, and so was Captain John Wise.
Nelse Lawson and his partner, Davis
Llewellyn. were the only witnesses exam
,ned at the morning session. and they
fatty coutradicted nearly every witness
who has so far testified. While it had
been shown that they instigated the riot,
they declared that they were as innocent
as lambs Of doing anything to provoke
Noel or any other white man. They were
small. black negroes, and were so
lacking in intelligence chat they had
IN be led by Messrs. Sherman and
Iapham in making replies TO ques-
lions. when those who have attended
the investigation saw them, and learned
that they were fair representatives OF the
negroes who participated in the affair, they
understood what Lea and Others meant
when they declared that they did not know
many Of the negroes who confronted the
whites after the fight between Noel and
lawson. They did not know them be-
cause they represented not the best. but
,be worst, colored element o. Danville and
vicinity. The feeling was that Mr.. Sher-
man will have 10 get better-looking and
les stupiG witnesses than these TO make
anythlng for himself or party out OF the
Investigation. Thus closed the morning
session.
The committee reassembled, aud the
feature OF the entire investigation was the
TESTIMONY OF VIOLET KEELING.
She was small, brown-skinned woman.
soit ol voice and monotonous and rapid
in her delivery. She testified in her eX-
animation in chief beautifully for the
nrosecution, and told how the unoflend-
ING. unsrmed negroes were driven Ike
black sheep before the murderous whites,
who fred into them as they ran pell-mell
away. Mr.. Sherman gently assisted her
every now and then, and looked rs well sa-
usfed as Shylock did when he thought an
other Daniel had come to judgment. Cap
tain John Wise in the mean while cast his
ewes 10 the ceiling, as IL to take with
out interruption every word she uttered.
Governor Vance evinced no surprise
and said nothing to indicate that he wasn't
one Of the prosecutors. Colonei CaDel
also remained quiet. Her examination in
chief beng over. however, Governor
Vance, in the most polite way, asked II
anv of the negroes in her neighborhood
were Democrats. This raised her ire at
once, and without knowing the effect OF
ber testimony, she declared that she
wouldn't let a Democratic negro enter
her house, and that If her husband were
10 vote the Democratic ticket she would
quit Aim and go to her mother, if she had
one. but being motherless she would de-
sert him and earn her own living. She
brought out in vivid colors the whole
story Of the prescription and intolerance
which is practiced by the negroes, and
especially the women. against every
colored man who dares to vote the
Democratic ticket. Southern men pre-
sent knew 1t before, and knew that
the prescription not only extends to
the cOlored Democratic voter, but to his
children. They know. too, that he does
not always get off with being peacefully
prescribed for voting the Democratic
ticket, but that he often endangers his lie
by so doing. The prosecution could not
change the current Of Violets denuncla-
ton OF Democrats, and she did as much In
her cross-examination to demonstrate the
prescription practiced against colored DEM
ocrats by colored Radicals at the South
as score OF witnesses could have done
had they been summoned by Governor
Vance. She did not believe, however, that
white men who go with the negroes do
Nv. haln rod IN fIan FoR 81
of the innocent, lamb-like negroes OF Dan
vile, who have nothing. Mr.. Sherman
thinks, against white people or colOred
Democrats, and who neither fred gun oil
meant harm on the Sd OF November.
The Proceedings In Detail.
tBy Associated Press.l
WASHINGTON, February 1S.-The investi-
CATION OF the Danyille election riot was re-
sumed this morning by Sherman's sub
committee OF the Senate Committee on
Privileges and Elections. MIR. sherman
submitted map OF Danville prepared by
Congressman Wise, with an index to the
various localities Of interest in connection
with the investigation.
Mr.. Vance objected to the nomenclature,
"The place where the whites formed
etc. The evidence, he said, did not indi'
cate that there was any line formed.
Mr.. Sherman said the nomenclature was
not material. The map itself was the only
essential matter.
HEM Lawson (colored), the man whose
quarrel with Charles ID. Noel preceded the
riot, was the first witness. He is small
man, weighing probably fifty pounds less
and standing about six inches shorter than
bis assaiant. Noel. He said he met Noe
for the first time on the Sd OF November
Witness was getting out Of the way OF some
ladies and ran against Noel. Witness said
Excuse me, sir" Noel replied, You
id niger, what you mean by running
against me 2" Davis Lewellin, one OF wit
ness's companions, said, go on.' Noe
and Lewellin came to blows, and Level
lin knocked Noel In the gutter twice
Next saw Noel in a buggy the same day
Noelkept looking back, and witness saiC
to Lewellin: .EBetter look out for him
He may attack YOU" A few minutes later
Noel, having left his buggy, approached
witness and struck him twice with pail
OF knucks," witnesses head being turned
away at the moment. Witness had two
companions; Noel had several companions
Lea, one OF koeps companions, had 9
cooked pistol In his hand as he came VI
and thrust il in witnesses face and threaten
ed TO blow witness's head of. After thu
preliminary quarrel witness escaped
through a store. He had been In Boston
ever since the riot, being afraid to live il
Danville.
Witness, IN reply to Senator Sherman
described the quarrel, its anteeedents, ant
results In detail. He asserted that he sale
nothing TO Noel, and that be bad never in
suited or spoken TO w. r. TAYLOR, as al
legged By both Noel and Taylor when the,
were under examination, without addinl
anything OF importance to the sum OF in
formation previously developed.