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.

1732 CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Answer. Both. Some are taught by white and some by colored.
Question. What progress do the colored children seem to make in their studies?
Answuer. They learn to spell and read very readily.
Question. They are also taught to write, where they are of sufficient age?
Answer. Yes, sir. The colored schools in this town and at Gainesville are further
advanced than any in the county. There are colored teachers in this town, and they
are advanced pretty well, and are teaching arithmetic and geography.
Question. Did you know this Robert Fullerlove you examined?
Answer. I never saw him before.
Question. How do you know him to be the same person. that was examined by the
committee as a witness?
Answcr. He gave that name; that is all I know about it.
Question. What sized person was he?
Answer. He stood something over six feet, I think.
Question. You speak of seeing some marks or bruises upon his hand or hands. What
was the character of those bruises?
Answer. I think it was on the little finger of one or the other hand.
Question. An abrasion of the skin?
Answier. Yes, sir.
Question. WaVs that recent?
Answer. No, sir; it was just like the other-like it was two or three days old. It
had scabbed over.
Question. When did you examine him?
Ainswer. Yesterday, after dinner-before this time, I think.
Question. What account did he give you of the attack made upon him?
Answer.' He said he was attacked by two men. He gave their names, but I didn't
pay any attention to that. I never heard them before. He said one presented his
gun right at him, and struck at him over his head; and he says they took him down
in the road and stripped him and whipped him.
Question. Did he say they stripped himn of anything but his pants?
Answer. Yes, sir; he said they raised up his shirt and took his pants down right in
the road.
Question. If he had been whipped with a stirrup-leather, would it leave the marks,
necessarily, upon his skin?
Answzcer. Yes, sir.
Question. It would depend, of course, entirely upon the force with which the blows
were administered, whether the marks would be visible, would it not?
1Answter'. Well, sir, with a stirrup-leather, a lick makes a very distinct mark. It don't
take much of a lick to make a mark. I have seen persons whipped with a stirrupleather, and with a leather strap.
By Mr. RICE:
Question. Did you tell him you saw no signs of his being whipped?
Ansiver. No; I don't know that I did. We asked him a few questions; but I didn't
tell him that, that I know of. He seemed to be very sore, and pretended -he couldn't
get his coat off, and we helped him pull it off; but I saw no evidences. He was bright
enough on his shoulders for the least mark to have made a show of itself. On the
white person it is red, on the negro it is not so red, and it makes a difference in the
color of the skin.
By the CHAIRMAN:
Question. How or by what instrument did these bruises or marks or abrasures of the
skin, that you saw upon his person, seem to have been made?
Aniswler. I don't know; I can't say how they had been made. There was a difference, though, in the size of the mark on the head and that on the finger. That on the
finger was something like a pin-scratch. It was just a little mark, not much larger
than a pin-scratch.'By Mr. BLAIR:
Question. You say he pretended to be very sore when he took his coat off. How did
he put it on?
Answer. He put it on with a good deal of ease.
Question. He didn't seem sore then?
Answier. No, sir; he was then talking; he put it on easily. We were then talking.
There were two young men in there asking questions, who wanted to know the names,
but I paid but little attention to the names. They were in Choctaw County, and I
didn't know mucl about them.
Question. Did he say Charley Brown was one of them?
Answer. I can't say, sir, what names he gave.