Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1875 — Continued Outrages. [ARTICLE]

Continued Outrages.

Washington, Jan. 18. The following dispatch has been re-, ceived here: Nbw Orleans, Jan. 16. To Hon. W. W. Belknap, Secretary of War: A report has Just been received from Maj. Merrill, at Shreveport, which is too long for, telegraphic transmission, but will be sent by mail. The following is an epitome, almost in Mai. Merrill’s own words: Threats made before the election to drive from the community all that voted the Radical ticket are being carried out. Combinations among the whites we forming and recruiting by every form of pressure, by which all negroes who voted the Radical ticket are to be refused work on leases. All whites not belonging to toe combination are to be ostracized. Already more than 500 families, including at least 2,000 people of all ages and sexes, are wanderers, without means to gd elsewhere, powerless to find other. homes' Where they are. and on the verge of starvation in midwinter. Theft and other crimes may result, and it is feared that the fitter feeling naturally resulting from a sense Of injustice received may run into one of revenge. These homeless people will naturally drift together, and toe white people are not slow, qs toe past has shown, to set afloat inflammatory rumors of intentions of organized violence on the part of the negro; and where the revolver aud mob-law are common resort in such cases, as they usually have bepn here, disorders, more or less extensive, are sure to result If some preventive is not found for such a state of things. P. H.Bheridan. Lieut.-General.