Freedmens Bureau Speech of Hon Thomas D Eliot of Massachusetts in the Hous
Freedmens Bureau Speech of Hon Thomas D Eliot of Massachusetts in the Hous
Thomas Dawes Eliot
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The evidence of colored persons is not taken in court. I am powerless to accomplish anything without sol- diers. ' " Peter Branford, a returned colored soldier, in Mercer county, was shot by James Poore, a white man, without cause or provocation. "Judge Samuel A. Spencer, of Green county, writes : ' A great manyi, olored men are beaten, their lives threatened, and tliey refused the privilege of returning home because they have been in the Army. I cannot accept the agency on account of the actio...n of the Kentucky Legislature. ' " B. P. Ashcraft, of Meade county, writes : ' Rich- ard, William, Jesse, and John Shacklett and Martin Taylor, returned rebel soldiers, have on different oc- casions attacked negroes with fire-arms, and say they intend no d— d niggers shall live on this side the Ohio. ' ' The civil authorities are powerless. ' "R. AV. Thing, of Warren county, writes: 'An old negro was killed by gun-shot while attempting to run from a white boy eighteen years of age, to escape a whi|>ping.
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