Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-11

who presented himself. After the first
registry the lists were revised, and as many !
names stricken off az Il was thought neces4
sary TO secure q Radical success in the
State, or for individual Radical candidates.
There were three registers On every board
all of whom subsequently acted as judges
at the election, and all Of them, who de-
sired to become so, were candidates for OF
fee. The election judges Travelled about
the country taking the votes, and were oc-
cupied seven days in the business. No
man could vote whose ballot the judges
thought proper to reject. Our Informant
states IL 10 be- known to- himself, and
to be notorious fact, that where the
succesa Of the Radical candidates was
doubtful, through other frauds the charac-
ter mentioned, negroes were imported from
another jurisdiction in sufficient numbers
to supply the deficiency. While the negro
vote was thus doubled in many cases, The
total number of white votes disfranchised
10 the State were tens of thousands. Ia
eleciing themselves or other Radical cam
didaies to Office, The Registers were anena-
bic to no authority that would reSognize
the fact Of fraud. In brief, the work Of
carrying the election, gregardless of the
will of the voters, was deemed by the regis
tiers part Of their official duty, and a
proof Of loyalty to Congress and the mili-
| tary authorities present, and any other
| course would have subjected the registry
officers TO suspicion and prescription. In
| the division Of the officers, candidates were
elected to the Legislature who never saw
| the counlies whence they we're chosen, ex-
| cept as members of the registry board who
will never return TO the counties they re-
present, land who do not know white man
among their constituents. As for the ne
| groes, the mass of them took 20 actual
/ part in the elections but to deposit the votes
furnished them by their white Radical
| leaders -
sour informant is graduate of Geneva
College, gentleman of recognized probity
and intelligence, and was always Repub.
lican until driven from the party by sheer
disgust al the mockery be was compelled
TO witness as one of its agents in the recon
strnction scheme. His name will be fur
nished to any one who is curious on that
point He tells US that he was offered the
position of State Senator, and that he
would have divided the spoils with Others,
who seem to relish the proceedings, and do
not hesitate to paTtake OF the fruits OF the
mockery and fraud bat he preferred to live
and die an honest man to the acceptance of
honors and emoiuments WHICH be can bat
regard as the price Of absolute crime
against God and man. He naturally won
ders at the stupidity Of those Northern
Republicans who seem to believe that these
proceedings have any other object than the
government of the South, and the nation
also, by a regularly organized system of
fraud and force. If it is the int Mt Of
Northern Republicans to assist in degrad-
ing republican institutions and obliterating
popular rights, their ambition ought to he
satisfied but otherwise they are Wofnlly
blind to passing events, and the democrat
izatiOn Of the institutions under which
they live"
In confederation OF this statement a
gentleman of high character living near
Little Rock, Ark, Informed the Memphis
appeal the other day, that a negro boy
whom be hires, about seDenteea years OF
age, told him that he voted sisteea times,
on the day whea the vote upon the Con-
| stitutiOn was taken. @ - -