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.

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it is South." Said I: "Do you get all the comforts in this hotel that you wish? If
not, I am a republican. None of your democratic friends have extended the hospitality of their homes to you; I open my home to you. Come to my house, and you
shall be carried there." He thanked me very cordially, and said he received every
attention he needed.
Question. Did you understand he had been visited a second time by the Ku-Klux?
Answer. Yes, sir; that is the reason he had to leave here.
Question. The committee have heard of but one visit; that was in the absence of
Major Glover, at the time he was taken out in the night-time and whipped by a body
of disguised men. You may give the particulars of the second visit which he received
from the Ku-Klux, as you learned them from him.
Answer. He told me the colored men gave him the information that they had heard
they would be there, and I understood from the sheriff of this county that they were
going there. Ile left before they got there, and he told me if he had been there he
would have been killed. He came here anld hired himself to Mr. Adler, a democrat, for
clerk-a democrat, recollect-and the democrats went and told Mr. Adler: "If you
take that man in here, it will injure your trade; you will meet with some disaster, and
you had better not have him to keep your books." Adler did not hire him, and le hlis
brother democrat go back home.
Question. Was that after the Ku-Klux's visit, and after he lived at Mr. Glovers?
Answer. Yes, sir. I have never met a nicer young man than Mr. Neibling-an educated, nice young man, democrat as he is. I felt sorry for the man. I can tell you
something about his whipping that is very mysterious to me: that they have found a
hal, and have it in their possession now, if they have not given it away, that belonged
to that crowd, with an indistinct name on it; and have a (log, said too be a remarlable
dog-the prettiest dog that ever was seen-came with that crowd there; and no effort
has ever been made, as I know of, to identify that hat and get the dog back to his
master.
Question. Did not Major Glover make earnest effort to ascertain who were guilty of
this rude visit to his house in his absence?
Answcer. I believe he did load up his pistols and guns, and went to Linden and cursed
around, and charged a little about it, but it blew over. This man Glover nws looked
upon a long while as a republican. A notion got out among his friends and relations
that he was, and he wrote a card-I haven't it in my scrap-book, unluckily-denying
that he was ever tinctured with radicalism; and he came very near getting the nomination for commissioner in our republican convention that assembled here not many
days since.
Question. Did he seek that nomination?
Aniswer. I don't know, sir. His name was presented, and thirty-two other demtocrats' names were presented before our convention for nomination.
Question. If there was any other case of outrage you can call to mind in either this
or the adjoining counties, go on with the list.
Ansicer. Well, sir, I know of a man named Robert Reid, close to Belmont, in Sumter
County; he is here in town now. He was shot, sir, but I presume you can as well get
the particulars of that when you visit that county. He is a member of the State executive committee.
Question. A colored man?
Ansier. Yes, sir. Since I have thought about my speech at Belmont, some friend of
mine propounded certain interrogatories to the democratic press; they tried to
attribute that riot to my speaking incendiary speeches. I would like for those questions to be read here.
Question. Was there a riot at Belmont on the occasion of your speaking there?
Answer. Yes, sir; a man insulted me there and we had-I wish this not taken down;
I can tell you the particulars of it, and you can decide whether to have it published or
not. He walked up in front of me, and said, " Yes, damn you, we know you killed a
man; you killed him for having connection with his wife." Says I," Sir, the jury,
composed of white people, have tried me and acquitted me of that crime/" and his and
my fight was brouglt on from that.
By Mr. BUCKLtY:
Question. What occurred after that?
Answer. After which?
Question. Was that during your speaking at Belmont?
Answver. That was after I had stopped speaking, sir.
By the CHAIRMAN:
Question. Was that the day Robert Reid was shot?
Answer. No, sir; he was shot after that.
Question. For what offense was he shot?
Answer. I cannot state that to you, sir.