The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-10-02
A Conspiracy Against Law, Justice and
Freedom


a Conspiracy Against Law, Justice and
Freedom
The Commissioner af Registration had
his office open yesterday ostensibly for the
issuance Of certificates, but in reality for
the purpose Of manufacturing voters
About one hundred and eighty men had
their certificates made out before hand, and
these went up and went through the mo-
tiOns in the presence Of Spariing and Car
ter, fellows who knew the men they vOueh-
ed for perhaps two weeks, having seen
them during that lime devour sundry plates
of soup, made from begged bones. No one
had the slightest chance of getting a GER
tifcate who was not known to be a Ring
man. Colored men were sent away without
their papers, although vouched for by men
Whose unionism, when compared with that
Of any member of the mendicant Ring, is as
the stars of Heaven to a heap of garbage.
These ringing cliquers have midnight com
mittees in the wards who make out lists of
those who ought to get papers. These lists
are sent in to the Registrars Office, and
when the door was opened yesterday morn
ing the AqjaaO had nothing to do but call
out the wards. The crowd rushed in and
the Limerick boy nodded his head, out came
the papers. The Limerick boy did not nod
his head and out came the applicant. Isn't
that nice? Carter reads list of twenty or
twenty-five names, the owners thereofstand
round in a semi-circle, aud hold up either
hand; it doesn't matter which, and the man
with the beard rumbles out something ike
the Hepsidam sermon, then hands out the
papers; the group patter down stairs; Spar
ling winks at the MajdW and the Majaa0
winks at Sparkling. soto Voco, twenty-five
votes for the Ring" And thus the little
game goes on while justice is outraged
Many men who were taken as vouchers last
year are rejected now, because being sus-
pected Of kicking against the iniquity of
the Ring beggars.
The above is from the Press Dc Times of
date just preceding the late municipal cleo
ton in Nashville. It is striking and
graphic picture of similar rascalities per-
petrated upon the people Of Giles county
last year by Capt B. j. Sheridan, Brown
lows Commissioner Of Registration here at
that time, and which the Press q Times
then approved, because the frauds and vii
lainies were perPetrated against the Conser-
vatives alone. aud not against faction of its
own infamous clan ofthieves aud bummers.
With few exceptions among them, per-
the present incumbant here, the ' hole pack
Of Registrars in this State are destitute OF
honor OF principle, aud we predict that Mr..
Houston will be removed just as soon as
BrOwnlow finds out that he is staggering to-
wards justice in the issuance of certificates
These officials are selected and appointed
with view to the preparation offraud an d
the defeat Of justice, even under the opera
'ion OF their own partisan enactmenls.-
This, the Press &c Times and every mem.
Der of the Radical party knows as well Al
We do, and yet they never complain only
when they happen to feel the weight Q
this engine of wrong and oppression inflict
cd, because they differ with the enginee
in the manner OF perpetraling the same vii
lainies upon deienseless and submissiv
people.
Again the same paper since the election
holds forth as follows: