The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-11-22

that We are sorry TO learn has been practisee
in Georgia, and we hope tie authors of i
viii be brought to justice. The Van Burer
lpafty owe il TO themselves, to aid in ferret
ting out this matter, and we hope theywil
not be backward in doing so; for to sustain
or attempt to screen such conduct, will mo-
only inIuFe them as party, but will, also
detract from them as honorable men.
AMERIcus, Oct, Ilth. 1880.
Dear Sir have to inform you that in
all this section Of Georgia, the basest frauds
have been practised by the Van Buren, men
TO carry the elections.--In this county they
were detected, through the. violence of oul
friends, and defeated in their object. On
the morning ofthe election, the polls were
opened at Pond Lawn, ian election pre-
cinct,) before it was light enough for the
clerks to see how to keep the list Of voters
names and the candles were actually reuuif-
led for that purpose. Our friends being We
ry active, were there before manyvotes had
been taken. But they were not permitted
to look into the ballot box-it being closed
and the lid nailed down. 1t IS supposed that
fifty or sixty tickets were nailed up in the
box before the polls we opened. This was
not suspected at the time, until the subse-
Equent conduct of the superinten0ants excl-
ted suspicion. But we were determined to
! watch their proceedings, and detect their
rascaiity if we could Their plan.w to
| slip or destroy as many State Rights votes,
as they had put in Van Buren, votes before
the polls were open, during the day, and
/ thus make the number Of votes polled cor
respond with the number Of voters names
recorded upon the list This they could
VERY easily have done, if not vigilantly
watched; but about seven O'Clock, they
found this plan could not succeed in conse-
quence ofour Vigilence, and ii became ne
ccssary 10 adopt new arrangements. At this
time sixty -fourvotes were taken, and nnm-
bered as is usual. The managers of the
election and the clerks all being Union Van
Burenites, land one of the clerks had served
a tour in the penitentiary for steaIing,) then
adjourned, to consult upon some other mode |
for if they did not do something, detection
was certain, as the number Of votes would
not correspond with the lists They there
fore adjourned, as have stated, for the pur-
pose of consulting and converting a new
modus operandi. While they were adjourn
ed, the clerks were permitted to keep, and
they did carry about ia their hands where |
yer they went, the lis5 of voters names |
which had been previously kept by them.-
In the space of an hour and half, they met I
again q proceeded to continue the election. /
About this time our suspicious became high-l
ly excited, from the fact that the clerks re-
fused to number the voters names upon
the list as theywere written; nor could all
of our circumstances prevail upon the ma
nagers to have it done at all during the ba- +
lance Of The day; and it Is doubted whether
It has been done at all, but if done it has
been since they were all counted out. By
pursuing this.plan, they thought that they
could forge names upon the list, so as to
make the number there correspond with the
votes counted out Of the box. They were
in hopes too, no doubt, that small discre-
pency in this matter would pass unnoticed; Is
but we were determined to be on the alert,
md active. and they could not accomplish
heir nefarious purposes during our stay /
with them, so they determined to intimidate
ind drive us from the ground. To this. end
hey brought number of double -barrelled
guns into the room where the election was
held, and also some few rifles, and threats
md menaces were Fesorted to, but IA this !
90 they failed. They had two more adj /
during the day, for the space of !
N hour or an hour and half each time, to
levise ways aud means TO get out Of the t
lifiieulty in which, BY their corruption, they
lad placed themselves. They refused re-
eated requests made BY us to permit any
ne of our friends to preside with them in
be election; and they refused to let Us fns- 4
ect that list of voters' names kept by the o
Jerks All of these were very suspicious '
circumstances, but the worst was to come. {
hey never commenced counting out the
otes tell after six O'Clock, p nj. Ec
Being determined to ferrit out the fraud i.
hitch BY this time we we're convinced was "a
ractisad upon.us, We set one or two Of ouElse
lends to keeping a tally Of the votes eoun- Y
id out-Which amounted to two hundred d
nd sixty-two precisely, Wealso septwatch b
pen the ballot box, SO no votes could be- Fl
ipped. Al circumstance which they had b
1t calculated or thought Of until too late, y
ought the whole matter to light SO plain 81
at they had not the hardihood to deny the 4
sud when charged upon them. 4Ie hole il
Aperture, ID which the tickets were Il
rust into the box, was 4 small Silt near the q
idle Of the lid. about large enough 70 adj q
t silver dollar edgeWise, very much re- Il
milling the hole or Aperture in amiser's III
-opg box. The printed tickets % be PIT iAi
rough this hole into the box had TO be Iol. Ia
d smali and sqneekod In Thus all the Z
.keis which were put into this box through cs
IS hole would show foF themselves. But Ia
and behold about tiilY 81 sixty tickets, a
len The was ripped Of, aud they we're q
united, csme from the box unsoiled end
ia pied, as fiust from the press. This
ing noticed ae e0nls fenlafS made u