Sunbury American

The Committee in Louisiana.—It is to be sincerely hoped that the Committee of Congress, now in New Orleans to investigate the political affairs in that State, will be able to arrive at the facts. The Republicans and Democrats in New Orleans to the Committee statements which they promise to support by evidence. The Republicans promise to show that there has been not only continued intimidation of Republican voters throughout the State and a great number of political assassinations, but that the White League has been engaged in this work; that the colored people have been proscribed, driven from the public schools, and discharged for political reasons from places where they were employed. Whether these witnesses will appear for the purpose in large numbers is exceedingly doubtful, for the testimony will be published, and every man who tells the truth concerning these ruffians and their conduct will be marked as the victim of fresh persecution. On the other hand the Democrats claim that they can show that the election was a fair one, that they carried the State and that the frauds of the Returning Board alone deprived them of their rights.