Report of the Joint select committee appointed to inquire into the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states, so far as regards the execution of laws, and the safety of the lives and property of the citizens of the United States and Testimony taken.

ALABAMA-SUB-COMMITTEE. 1515
Question. Did not this reference to the difficulty that had previously traken place at
Shiloh have a tendency to irritate very imuch?
Answcer. Yes, sir; I expect it did.
Qutestion. Do you not think that indicated a bad disposition on the part of thle men
who referred to it?
Arstzcr. I think the interruption could have been let alone; but, at thle samne t;ime, I
think if Mr. Jones lad never come out and said, " Let us light the thing cut,7 there
never would have been any more difficulty.
Question. Did you understtnd that that remark applied to one individual who had
been especially irritating?
Anster. 0, nlo, sir; there was more than one interrupting; there were several interruptilg him. I do not know for what purpose this thing was. I did not then apprehend any more danger than at this moment, until Mr. Jones made the remark, " We
will go down and fight it out." lie was then up stairs, and at tllt time, I think-I
would not be positive —lut I think, at that time, he got the pistol out of his umbrella,
on the table, and started down stairs, and wxhen lie got to the foot of the stairs he then
remarked, "If any one has anything acgainst ine, I aml ready to fight it out.7 lIe nmet
this man Morgan at the gate of the court-house yard, and then Mr. Jones had his pistol
elevated in this position, [illustrating.]
Question. When Mr. Jones made this remark at the stand, do yon not think hel made
it in reference to Morgan?
Alnslner. There were others interruptini him as much as Morgan; there was a man
named Smith interrupting hinl very mnch; but he,ary have done yso I do iot- know;
he said he would fight it out.
By the CHAIRMAN:
Question. Was that Doctor Smith?
Answer. Noo, sir; it is a man in the low-er part of the county; Doctor Smith lives in
Jefferson.
By Mr. BUCKLEY:
Questiorn. We have heard it said of Mr. Jones, several times, that he was in the habit
of making inflammlatory speeches; have you ever heard from him a speech of that
character?
Answcr. Well, I do not know; what would you call inflammatory? let us hear your
definition of iniflammatory.
Question. I should say that a speech which had for its object simply the carrying
out of one's own political views in a legitimate wSay-in such ways as are usually resorted to by political speakers-would not be inflammatory.
Answer. I think Mr. Jones's conduct-I may be wrong-I think the waty he is going
on in this county is bringing a great deal of unnecessary trouble on innocent people;
that is my opinion about it. My falmily, to-day, is away frolm ]home on that accounlt.
He gives me a great deal of credit in that paper, and I would not have him hurt, if I
could help it. But thei'e is something wrong. I have a good m any black people on
my plantation.
Question. Is there not something wrong on both sides?
Asirtver. I reckon there is; I reckon we are all wrong.
By the CHAIRIAN:
Question. When you anlnounced to the crowd that Doctor Jones had withdrawn from
the canvass, and would no longer be a candidate for sheriff, did it seeml to appease the
crowd?
Ansiver. That thing is incorrect; that statement Mr. Jones makes there is incorrect.
He says, as well as I recollect, in that letter, that I went and saw the crowd, and made
known his position. Judge Young is the man who went out; I did not; he preferred
for me to remain with him, and let Judge Young go out. Judge Young went and saw
Mr. Woolf, alnd told Alr. Wroolf what Mr. Jones had agreed upon doing. I did not know
what effect it had. Mr. Woolf soon came in with a paper, and handed it to Mr. Jones,
who read it. I did not know its contents, and Mr. Woolf said, " That is what I understood from Judge Young you wished me to do," and asked him if it was so; and Doctor
Jones remarked, " Yes, that is correct; give me a copy." I did not go out to the crowd
at all; I remained with him.
Question. Did you understand that that had the effect of appeasing the crowd, and
quieting the disturbance?
Answer. Not in the way Doctor Jones writes it there-that he was to quit being a
radical. I think he might be a radical as much as he pleased, if he renained here;
but to go down below excites the black people, takes them away from their labor, and
things of that sort.
Question. Did the mere fact of his withdrawing from the canvass, and consenting to
go home and make no more political addresses, have the effect of appeasing them?
Answer. I think so; I think that is it. At all events, when we went out, and he got