one_ was cast for General
Grant. Similar scenes were enacted throughout the State, varying in
extent and atrocity according to the magnitude of the Republican
majority to be overcome.

The total summing up of murders, maimings, and whippings which took
place for political reasons in the months of September, October, and
November, 1868, as shown by official sources, is over one thousand.
The net political results achieved thereby may be succinctly stated as
follows: The official registration for that year in twenty-eight
parishes contained 47,923 names of Republican voters, but at the
presidential election held a few weeks after the occurrence of these
events but 5,360 Republican votes were cast, making the net Democratic
gain from said transactions 42,563.

In nine of these parishes where the reign of terror was most
prevalent, out of 11,604 registered Republican votes only nineteen
were cast for General Grant. In seven of said parishes there were
7,253 registered Republican votes, but not one was cast at the ensuing
election for the Republican ticket.

In the years succeeding 1868, when some restraint was imposed upon
political lawlessness and a comparatively peaceful election was held,
these same Republican parishes cast from 33,000 to 37,000 Republican
votes, thus demonstrating the purpose and the effects of the reign of
murder in 1868.

In 1876 the spirit of violence and persecution which, in parts of the
State, had been partially restrained for a time, broke forth again
with renewed fury. It was deemed necessary to carry that State for
Tilden and Hendricks, and the policy which had proved so successful in
1868 was again invoked, and with like results. On the day of general
election in 1876 there were in the State of Louisiana 92,996
registered white voters, and 115,310 Colored, making a Republican
majority of the latter of 22,314. The number of white Republicans was
far in excess of the number of Colored Democrats. It was, therefore,
well known that if a fair election should be held the State would go
Republican by from twenty-five to forty thousand majority. The policy
adopted this time was to select a few of the largest Republican
parishes and by terrorism and violence not only obliterate their
Republican majorities, but also intimidate the Negroes in the other
parishes. The sworn testimony found in our public documents and
records at Washington shows that the same system of assassinations,
whippings, burni