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Show Col. Morrow Before the Committee Com-mittee New Orleans, 2S. Colonel Henry A. Morrow testified that he had, after much inspection iu various parts of the state, found no hostility to the federal government. The people do not regard the negro as entitled to the position he holds. He cited a case where a jury of black msn, not one of whom could write his name, sat on a case involving $1SO,000. As a rule the people only objected that the negro was given rights to which his education educa-tion did not. Antitlfl him. Colonel Morrow was examined at great length. He gave it as the result of his investigation, investi-gation, that the people of Louisiana would submit quietly to a fairand impartial im-partial election without the presence of United States troops, and would abide by the result. He stated that he was in politics a Grant man, and a friend ot the president. |