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.

1542 CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Question. Was lie odious on account of his political opinions?
A nswecr. I think he was.
Question. People up there do not like radical office-holders, anyhow, do they?,An.wer. Not much.
Question. They were very apt to pick up anything they could find against theml?!1nswCer. I do not know that they would,
Question. Do you not think it was very insulting to talk in that way to a man who
was sitting on the stand, not giving any ofense to the crowd?
Answer. Yes, sir; it would have been to me; I would have thought it was insulting
if he had been clear bf the charges.
Question. Do you think it was becoming, if he was guilty, to throw them up to himL
in that public manner, in the crowd?
Answer. I would not have done it myself.
Question. Of course, you do not know whether he is guilty of these charges or not?
Answer. I do not.
Question. You never had a radical office-holder against whom something was not
allege(d?
Answer. I think Judge O'Connor got along very well.
0.uestions. Is he not a democrat?,msw'cr. No, sir.
(Question. A radical?
Ansi'er. I think so. Ile has got along finely.
Q(estion. Is he a radical now?!
Answ'er. I think so.
Q0ecstion. Does he vote the radical ticket?,nswer. I think h h has never voted anything.
IQuestions. Was he not appointed by Governor Lindsay?
A.nswer. No, sir"; elected by the radical party.
By Mr. BUCKLEY:
Question. Did he not, afterwards, come out in a card and signify his intention to
vote the democratic ticket, in 1868?
Answer. He has said he was a democrat, but nobody ever believec him; he never
showed it by his acts.
Questiol. Did he vote for Grant and Colfax?
AInsw8er. I think so.
Question. Did he not make democratic speeches that fall?
Answser. I never heard of it.
Question. Did he not come out in a card and say he was born a democrat, and every
Irishman was a democrat?
A nswer. I understood he said every Irishman was born a democrat. I never heard
of his voting that ticket. lie has made a. very good judge.
By the CHAIRMAN:
Qutesticn. Do not the democrats up there understand that he is with them?
Ans'cer. No, sir; I do not know that they do. I am not a democrat; I am an old-line
whig, and I simply vote with them. I prefer them to the radical party, though.
By MIr. BUCKLEY:
Qtesationl. A choice of evils?
AiInswcr. Yes, sir.
By the CHAITMAN:
tQustion. You have told wvhat was said to Mr. Drake by members of the crowd'
please state what was said to Jones, loud enough for you to hear, by persons in thl
crowd.
Ans,'cr. I tIlink, after I asked him this question, I heard him say, "Fellow-citizens,'7
and sotme iellow said. "F elow -hell," or something to that amount. I think that wagl
what he said.
Questiojn. Did yon llear any one call him a liar, or damned liar?
Answc;. I thii I did hear some one say, "That is a damned lie."
Qutestion. DDid -you hear it more than once?
Alswerl. I do not kuow that I did.
Question. Did you hear him called a damned scalawag?
As'e,c. I do not lIkow; they were abusing him greatly there-him and Drake, between them. I know tiey did not call himn a gentleman. They were talking pretty
rough a good while.
Question. The-re w'a conals'idcrable insult?
Ans'wer'. Yes, sir.
Que;^i-an. If v-ol!! 1c v1ery difticult for a speaker to collect his thoughts?