Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1874 — An Unreliable Witness. [ARTICLE]

An Unreliable Witness.

Liberal Kepublican and Demopr&tic journals are publishing with a great flourish a letter written by W. H. Chambers, Master of the State Grange of Alabama, to O. H. Kelly, Secretary of the National Grange, denying that there are any serious act s of lawlessness in that State, and alleging that the whites of Alabama are as law-abiding as those of New York. These opposition journals also take pains to say Chambers is not a politician, and therefore his testimony ought to-be conclusive! The plain f aets are, that Chambers was an original, active, unqualified secessionist; was a delegate in the Democratic State Convention of Alabama in July last; was subsequently a candidate for Congress in the Democratic Convention in the Third Congressional District and came within three votes of a nomination; and is the apologist and defender of such Ku-Klux assassins as Renfro, who is now on trial in Mobile. This is the kind of witness whom the opposition press of the North are indorsing as unprejudiced and reliable. — lnter- Ocean.