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. 1441
Answter. On one account, of keeping a negro girl.
Question. Was he objectionable on account of teaching a negro school?
Answer. No, sir; but because of acting so with his falily and this negro girl.
Question. Do the community generally set their faces against a white man who has
connection with colored women?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. Is it generally unpopular?
Answer. Yes, sir; especially a man who is married and has got a family. He went to
Selma with me once. and carried his family down, and left them with my train; they
got in at 9 o'clock in the morning and at 3 o'clock his family was still sitting in the
car, and nobody knew where he was, and I brought them out. to Demopolis, on the
road.
Question. How is it with young men here; are they disgraced in the community if
they have sexual intercourse with colored women?
Answer. When the courts find it out-the grand juries-they prosecute them.
Question. I am asking for public sentiment?
Answer. When any men do that, people are down on them when it is known.
Question. There has been a great deal of that intercourse in times past?
12Answer. Yes, sir; with young men?
Question. Is it still carried on extensively?
Anszier. I reckon it is. I do not know.
Question. Is it not generally known who associate with negroes in that way?
A.nswer. When it is found out they punish them for it.
Question. You say they are degraded in the estimation of the community when it is
known?
Ansu7er. Yes, sir.
Question. That is uniformly the case, is it?
Ansiver. Yes, sir.
Question. And much more so if they are married men?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. What proportion of the colored race, Mr. English, so far as your knowledge
and information extend, have a mixture of white blood?
_Answer. Well, I do not know; I never have noticed it.
Question. One-half?
Answer. No, sir; I do not reckon there is one-half of them; one-third of them, I
su)ppose —about one-third.
Question. And all men who associate in that way with negro women are frowned
upon just as Coleman was, are they?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. You do not know, of your own knowledge, that he kept a colored woman?
Answer. Only from what I have heard, sir.
Question. It is quite possible, then, that he may have been slandered?
Answer. I do not reckon the people would tell a barefaced lie, up here, for nothing.
DEMOPOLIS, ALABAMA, October 27,1871.
SAM. B. JACKSON sworn and examined.
The CHAIRMAN. This witness having been called by the minority, the examination
will be conducted by General Blair.
By Mr. BLAIR:
Question. State your name, place of residence, occupation, and position.
Answer. I sign my name Sam. B. Jackson, for the sake of distinction; there are several in the family named Samuel B. Jackson.
Question. What is your present profession?
Answer. I am practicing law at present; I was at one time judge of probate of the
county; I live in Linden, Marengo County, Alabama.
Question. State, if you please, whether you were present recently at an -inquest over
the dead body of a man by the name of Robin Westbrook, from Jefferson, in this
county.
Answer. I received a message, sir, from Jefferson, while at Linden, that the magistrate there was sick, and requiring my presence to attend for the purpose of holding
an inquest, and I did attend and held an inquest.
Question, Did you take testimony as to the cause of his death?
Answier. I did, sir.
Question. State what that testimony was, or, if you have the testimony itself, give it
to the committee; read it.
Answer. I have the testimony, sir, [producing a document.]
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