Year: 1875


out OF fix. | never asked him what the object OF the
meeting l thought there was TO be speech, and
that is all / heard they had meeting that night or
evening outside OF Sandersvile, and appointed chair
man OF the county God only knows what II was for;
didn't know; wasn't within nine miles of the place.


REPoRTER-But tell me about the military companies
among the cOlored people


CoRDY-The boys wanted TO make up a company
and asked Mr. Gilmore the Mayor of Sandersyille
about the law and he told the law was the same for
ALL and after they got things in shape they wrote TO
Atlanta for permission TO Mr. Smith and got answer
and went to Atlanta and inquired for the leader of the
radical party there TO get notable go with
me, and Allen Moore, who keeps a hotel the
she'd talked with me and told me Morris had power
to do as he was doing; he was foolng people to get
money. / first sent him $11 25 He wrote back 1t
wasn't enough, and we made up "a more. didn't get
to see the Governor Allen Moore told he going
TO New York Congress somewhere else along there
and see if Morris had authority and if he hadn't he
intended TO have him arrested | back and found
Jacob Clark going for drums My advice TO him was
to knock drum or drill Till he got power from the Gov
ernor would kiss pack Of Bibles as high as the sky
] never knew Of that letter would work for man
for ten years to find out about that letter ererring
to the 'cl the wites' letter above given) Cordy
much excited on this point


REPORTER-Who do you think signed it?


CoRDY-l can't say who done IT. I've studied with
all my sense and can't say who done it. strife
between the white and colored citizens Of Washington
county, and for such that. Morris might
have done IT. looks that way if he runned off.


REPoRTRR-Did you colored men drilling
parading with red feather in their hats2


CoRDY-I saw men drilling at Waynesboro and some
OF them had red feathers in their hats; Of the
head men had.


REPoRTER-what do you think, Cordy of Grant9


CoRDY-I never has had much thought about him,
more than hearn he was President | never had much
TO do with politics Unless man can read and knows
about histories and such that it's little he know
about politics What little religion the Lord has given
me know haven't sense enough TO know much about
politics


REPoRrER-what do you think Of the Civil Rights
act; what is it?


CoRDY-Il tell you Quickly and then more slowly
don't know about it, l haven't to study about it.
think what little know it, it is dealing and
Ia Qach
or bothered more about 1t


REPoRTER-What do you think about votingG


CoRDY-I hardly votes way last time voted
was two three years ago; yes two years ago. cded
ldecded to stay away 1t done good never
done me no harm but never done me no good. Some
wanted me to vote one way anotber 1t was so at
the Cross Roads white gentlemen asked to vote this
way and that way 80 don't vote at all; 1t makes feel
ing.


REPoRTER-Cordy, what Is the cause of all this
trouble; why can't the white people and the colored
people get along peaceably and quietly together?


CoRDY-Because somebody some way or another has
brought it on. don't believe very earnestly a white
gentleman in this county can get up and say he has
heard colored person he was going to do wrong to
the people and never heard black person talk that
way. don't believe the coored people in Washington
county had any such thought don't think there
any ground tor the alarm.


REPoRrER-Eyer hear of the coored people getting
landsP


CoPDY-No more than irving land Heard many
one say that Want TO do that myself Qaughing).


REPoRTER-What is the condition of the colored
peopleH



high and they don't raise much meat and they raises
heap of cotton but cotton is low. They could make more
but for these little pcayune stores they get it coton)
half price out of the black The black about
gives it away, l think. The colored people has
equal showing sir; do well any place else-better
than elsewhere; they have liberal privilege


REPoRTER-Are the colored people interested in poll
tics2


CoRDY-About Election days moves about right sharp
don't hear half much used to- Politics is dying
out among the coored people in Washington county 1t
brings on feeling / never virtue in casting
ticket positively.


REPoRTER-What do you think of your tria9


CoRDY-Think nothing will be proven against me-
No guns or pistols were mentioned in my society.
gave myself up to Mr. Harrison | afraid I'd be
shot if didn't Twas afraid TO fall in with the John
son county men; they didn't know me, but would
have gone with any man in Washington county. / give
1t up to the of the Court. think l will have
JUS Uusticel


Here Cordy asked permission to smoke the stump Of
the cigar your correspondent had thrown away, and
both correspondent and the State Attorney said they
sorry they didn't have another cigar then in their
pockets TO give him; and the attorney SAID, I send
you one; want you TO be comfortable" Corey pulled
away contentedly at the stump and then the trooper
on guard marched him back within the lines.