Year: 1876

"Do it, damn quick" said: "Gentlemen,
1 have not done anything. please have
mercy. o, Lord, gentlemen, don't Kill
me-" They kept on firing at me, ana one
shot struck me in the back. cried: STEM
tlomen. am gone-hsve mercy on me"


One of the men spoke up, saying, Don't
you hear him say have mercyY" And, III
You shoot at him again l will blow your
damn brains ont" They then stopped
Of Mr.. Perkins, where they had all the
people they had taken as prisoners. saw
y large crowd of armed men there; they
stood us up in q line and placed guard
over US. While in this position called the
gentleman who had acted as friend to me,
and told him I was suffering from the
wound. showed him the wound, and he
told me to 60 to the pond and wash myself;
and then got away. had to move about
fifteen miles from that place for fear of be-
ing killed.


There was NO armed organization of
colOred people in the parish.


Two days after got away woman came
to myself and Others and told Us to get IN
the woods-the men we're coming again.
just as we got in the woods, saw the road
full Of armed men on horses. thought
they were United States troops. Coming
from tho gins was also q large crowd. l
recognized Ouly one Of them l saw in the
first lot. His name is McMurray, horse
trader. He is the one that showed me
friendship.


Cross examined-I do not know what
this outrage was done for. l made no
charge against them because l was afraid.


Isaac Carr sworn-Ssys he was taken
prisoner and maltreated by the same party.


CHIvALRoUs woMANwHIPPERs.


Lucy Washington sworn-Says l reside
in West FesiclanA, on the Star Hill planta-
ton. While engaged in the cotton field
three or tOnr men came to me and asked
for the men that worked there. l told them
that they were not there. when one of the
men struck me with his gun. They then
asked me if knew who struck me. l re.
Piled that l did not l don't know why


Cross-examined (by Senator Goode, Dem.
ocrat) )-Ssys witness made no complaint
to the officers of the law; do not remember
the date; this wac i've miles from the court
house; do not know of any reason for the
assault.


MAKING ANOTHER CONVERT.


Henry Temple sworn-Says reside in
the parish of West Felicians; have lived
there for the last ten years. About twelve
O'Clock at night, in February last, while
talking with Bob and Sheppard Williams, q
large body of men approached. | ran into
the woods to get away. and while running
was fred upon several times. They rode to
Jim Lees house and said: open the door,
God damn you" Lees wife was afraid to
open the door, but did SO, however, and
they asked her for witness. She told them
l did not live there. They then went to my
house and told my wife to open the door.
NV wife told them was not in They said
it was q damned lie, and to open the door
or they would.


She did so; they went in, and che told
them had run out; they said: 'Bv God.
you must tell him to leave in three days; il
he don't, when we come back We will gO
for him." they then went toward the quar-.
ters after man named Dick Mills, and
went to fathers house; l returned home
next night and told my wife was going
away; know nothing OF any armed body
Of colored men in the parish.


And 80 the sad story runs on ad IN
.fnitmna. Does this not make it plain as the
sun at noontide that the systematic out
RACES ON the Republican population of the
Felicianas and East Baton Rouge consti
tute political programme modelled on the
mississippi plan" and in fact inaugursted
partly by raiders from the bordering coun
ties Of that Statei Ouachita and More
house parishes threaten to pursue similal
policy of violence and terrorism; and BY
such means do the Democracy hope K
seize the offices of the State, and are in
fatuated enough to believe Tilden gov
ernment will be elevated to power in th'
nation, and will protect them in their po
itical piracy.