Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1884 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

R. W. Glass (colored) testified before the Sherman committee, on the second day of its sittings at Washington, that on the 3d of November, at Danville, Va., he heard a pistol fired, and rushed to the scene, where he found some seventy-five negroes and twentyfive white men. The white men and policemen were telling the negroes to leave, which they declined to do. Then the white men drew pistols and fired. Said he heard some whites say: “Kill every damned nigger we can see.’’ Heard Henry Barkesdale make a speech in which he said: “We intend to carry this election by fair means or foul.” Heard him say it was to be carried “by de point ob de gun.” At the time of the riot saw white men riding up with guns; taw white men running home after their guns; saw no colored men armed. George A. Lee (white) saw several pistols in the hands of the colored people. Believed the first volley was fired into the crowd of negroes, but after the latter began to run a great many shots were fired in the air; saw some eight or ten pistols among the negroes pointed at Taylor and himself, the negroes demanding that they come out and show their faces. Charles G. Freeman (white) described his efforts to disperse the crowd of negroes before the riot They (the blacks) replied that they had been mistreated, and were going to have their rights before they Ibft. Witness saw many negroes with pistols. John Stone (white) testified that the negroes generally did not vote on election day, saying they were not going to be slaughtered. At a meeting of prominent Republicans in New York, headed by Senator Miller, it was concluded that it would .be next to impossible to give Arthur a solid delegation for the nomination, and a messenger was dispatched to Washington to carry the news to him. Miller, it is claimed, is Inclined to down Arthur in the hope to get second place on the ticket. Gen. Will Cumback, of Indiana, in an interview with a Chicago Tribune reporter, expressed it as his opinion that neither Arthur nor Logan would receive the Republican nomination. Arthur would find his strongest opposition In his own State, and Logan is not at all popular in the East.