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.

1796 CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Answer. No, sir; he was found somewhere hanging on a tree. I don't know exactly
the place where he was killed at, but I know somewhere near by. It was about
Springfield; somewhere between Springfield and Union.
Question. By whom was he killed?
Answer. I do not know who he was killed by; I couldn't say.
Question. Who was he said to have been killed by?,Answer. I have heard they were disguised men he was killed by. That is about as
much as I could say.
Question. Did anybody profess to have seen them do it?
Answer. Not that I know. I can't tell you a thing about that part, because I was
not there. It is a right smart piece, and I don't know as I ever heard anybody say
that they saw anybody with him, even; that is, no further than his own family. Of
course, they knew what sort of men took him out. That is the report of them. His
wife I saw several times since then.
Question. You say old man Littleton Hood was whipped with a pistol-belt?
Answer. Yes, sir; with the buckle-end of it-a long leather strap, with a buckle on
the end of it. That is what he told me. He lived in sight of my house. His wife
came to my house that night. I was not at home.
Question. One of the men that whipped him took off his mask?
Answer. Yes, sir; from what he said he throwed it over, and took off his pistol-belt
and beat him, and after he whipped him a long time, he throwed this thing back from
his face and asked him if he knew him.
Question. Ile said he did not know him?
lAnswer. cle told him he didn't know him.
Question. Who was this man talking with you when you were going around building
screws; who told you they would give you no work unless you voted the democratic
ticket?
Answer. Old Squire Jolly.
Question. Where does he live?
Answer. He lives at Mount Hebron-up there on the road from Gainesville to Clinton.
Question. What did he say about it?
Answver. I can't exactly tell. He has talked with me a great deal about things and
affairs; how and what and all. I know he told me a man of my standing, going about
working, and voting as I did, could not expect work; they wouldn't give it to me unless
I changed my position. Well, we talked a great deal. I can't recollect how the subject came all along, all together.
Question. What (lid you tell him?
Answer. I never told him but a very few words. I told him at that time that I had
been badly represented; that people had said a great deal more about me than I was.
He told me he didn't believe all, because people had told him I was a leader, and that
was the ground he was working at me; carrying out my politics, voting and leading
off others; that I would become unpopular, and had become very unpopular, and
would not get any work under these circumstances; that people would not give it to
me.
Question. What was the name of the man who told the colored man he should leave
his place?
Answer. That was Nathan Carpenter.
Question. What was the colored man's name?
Answer. Randall Walker.
Question. What negro was it that told you he was afraid to appear as a witness?
Answer. There's old man Henry.
Question. Henry what?
Answer. Henry Dew-the fellow that was shot.
Question. Did he say that he knew any of the people that shot him?
4Anlswer. He told me he did. He said there was a man standing there, and he knew
him as well as any man he ever saw.
Question. But was afraid to say who he was?
Answer. Yes, sir; he wouldn't tell me who.
Question. Who was it told you he was afraid to vote?
Answer. There was one man-Washington Brown and Wiley Brown.
Question. They did not vote, did they?
Answer. Washington didn't vote.
Question. The other did?
Answer. I don't know whether he did or not. I have never heard him say. I can't
say for certain whether he did vote or not.
Question. You voted, did you not?
Answer. Yes, sir; I told you so.
Question. You published a card in the newspaper?
Answer. I drawed up one, and I gave it to a white man. I don't know whether he
published it or kept it. He said he was going to do it.