The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-10-08
M,uENRY,s nor1oE ro YEAMAN.


Hon. George H. Yeaman: -.t -' u - ...r
f. You are hereby notified that I will contest
/ your right to a seat in the House of Repre-
sentatives ofthe next Congress of the United
! States, as the Representa- tive from the Second
Congressional District of Kentucky, on the
7 following grounds: r--
That YOU did, on the 28th day of July,
/ 1863, have an interview with Colonel job n
w. Foster, Sixty-fifth Indiana Volunteers
/ (mounted) Infantry, in the town ofOwens-
boro, KY, and was an accomplice in an un-
/ lawful scheme by which thousands of legal
! and lawful voters were illegally defrauded Of
/ their election franchise, who would have
voted for me. f
+ That Colonel John w. Foster did. upon
! that day, cause to be issued HGeuerar Order
4 No. l2,' purporting to be from his Head
! quarters :" United States Forces, Henderson,
KY, prescribing IAN oath to be taken at the
\ election which order and oath bad no
| foundation in the Constitution or laws of
Kentucky; that said order was printed in
! Owe nsboro, and not in Henderson; and that
you instigsted the publication of said order
4 and oath with view Of fraudeutly and vio
lently preventing full and fair expression
of public oDi MON at the polls on the Sd day
! of August 1868. -
The said General Order No. IL" was is
sued before the State of Kentucky was de-
clared under martial law by the General
Commanding the Department of the Ohio;
| and that said Colonel John w. Foster had
/ no right, either civil or military, to issue
General Order No. 12." ... .s =
That Brigadier General ] James NJ. Shack
elford, commanding First Brigade, Second
| Division, Twentv-third Army Corps at Rus
sellville, Kentucky. did, on the Both of July,
| 1863, issue General Order No. 28' from his
! headquarters, similar to General Order No.
4 l2,' of Colonel Foster; and by which the
/ election, in several of the counties Of the
/ Second Congressional District, was controll-
/ ed; that he published said order before the
! State OF Kentucky was declared under mar
/ tial law by the General Commanding De-
partment of the Ohio; and that said General
| j. M Shackelford had no right, either civil
! or military, to issue General Order No. 26'
| That General Order No. 1907 from
eadquarters Department of the Ohio"
/ from the commanding General-A. B Burn
side-declariug martial law in Kentucky,
| and also declaring that it not his 'in-
tention to intefere with the proper express
/ sion of public opinion did supersede and
render null and void the General Order No.
! ~ OF Colonel Foster, and General Order
| No. 29,' of General Snackleford. in defiance
I of civil law, and in direct violation of the
! orders of their superior officer.
| That your election in the Second Congress
sional District was carried by fraud, intimi-
| dation, threats and violence, and by armed
! soldiers placed at the polls for the purpose
of intimidating and frightening the people
! from voting against you.
| By the application of test oaths ofloyalty
! unknown to any law, military civil, or di-
/ vine.
! By threatening to arrest men who were
| loyal and authorized voters for offering to
| cast th cir votes for me. --.s
By threats made at the polls by military
! officers to loyal voters. that "they," the
voters, would be arrested if they cast their
/ votes for me.
+. By eras;ng my name from the pollbooks
/ in Mclean County without authority from
! m and by order Of persons acting under tn
authority Of Colonel John w. Foster.
! By the unlawful seizure of the poll books
/ in Henderson County, by order of Colonel
! Foster, thus preventing the people from
/ voting for me. -.
By threat to seize and impress horses and
/ other property from persons, because of vot-
| ing for me-which threat was afterwards
carried into execution by Captain Cum
mings, Third Kentu2ky Volunteer Cavalry,
without shadow of right or authority.
By causing, or requiring, legal voters and
\ loyal citizeus who voted for me in certain
ceunties, to-wit: Daviess, Henderson. Hop
kins, Hancock Mclean, Muhlenburg, Chris
tian and Breckenridge, to take su oath un-
known to the law, and allowing voters to
cast their votes for you untrsmmeled and
uudisturbed.
r. By granting of furloughs unauthorized
to large numbers of soldiers from the
Eleventh Kentucky Volunteers, Twenty
sixth Kentucky Volunteers and Third Ken
lucky Cavalry, for the express purpose OF
voting against me; while sold iers who desired
to vote for me were refused furloughs.
By requiring every voter who desired to
i cast his vote against you to take an oath to
Support the policy of the present Federal
ADMINISTRATORS as at Curdsville, in Daviess
County, by applying different oaths at differ
ent voting precincts.
By establishing false. unreasonable and IL
legal test oaths aud standards Of loyalty.
By closing the polls before the time speci-
fed by law. in order to prevent legal voters
from voting for meas at Owensboro,
Daviess County, Kentucky. ..s, -
That said election was in violation OF the
Constitution of Kentucky, aud the statute
: laws made in pursuance thereof
I That it was in violation of the spirit ol
the proclsmat Of the Governor Of Ken
tucky, of July 26th, 1868. and in violation
) of General Order, No. 120, from Headquar-
ters Department of the Ohio.' ~
, That the reasons given by Geueral A. b
Burnside. comma snding Department of Ohio
Flor declaring the State of Kentucky under
L m martial-law. to-wft: That the State of Ken
tucky is invaded by a rebel force, with the