Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1878 — HOW IS THIS FOR CONFESSION—HE THINKS MISCHIEF IS PLOTTING AND SLIPS AWAY. [ARTICLE]

HOW IS THIS FOR CONFESSION—HE THINKS MISCHIEF IS PLOTTING AND SLIPS AWAY.

“Putting this aud that together, I was pretty well convinced that there was rottenness in Louisiana, and that an effort was making to stifle all inquiry. I knew nothing so I could not speak, and when the commission determined not to go behind the returns there was no choice left but to indorse the regular returns as presented. I was not—to speak candidly—sorry, however, that an engagement made loug before and that could uot be delayed. prevented my presence at the vote on Louisiana. I had made my arrangements to be there, but, as you will remember, the vote was postponed for a day—from (Saturday to Mon day. This postponement threw me out of my calculations, and I was absent. lam frank to say that I tho’t then there was something uot exactly straight about that Louisiana business, but now I believejwhen thelwhole truth is known it will sink this Ad-ministration-President and all—to the lowest depths of infamy.”