Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21

SHTLBr Couxrr REGISTRATION Nut
LrIrD.-The following Proclamation
has been issued; - -. a.. N.
STATE on TrEsKsssE. ExRourfyr DErAnfyr' !
| NAsnvIIIx, January 10, 1867.
WHEREAS, By the act of the General
Assembly, passed on the Sth day. OF
March, 1867, II was declared that when
l'it shall appear 70 the satisfaction OF the
Governor that frauds and irregularities
have INTERVIEWED In the registration OF
voters in any county o. this State, the
Governor shall make known such fact
and set aside said registration by procla-
nation !" and eLW .'LHiI "A
WHRREAs, 1t has been made TO APP
pear TO the satisfaction Of the Governor
that frauds and irregularities have inter
vened in the registration OF voters in the
county Of Shelby;
Now, therefore, |, VIM. G. Brownlow,
Governor Of the State of Tennessee, BY
virtue Of the power conferred and in dis
charge of the duties imposed upon me by
said act, do hereby set aside and declare
null and void all registration Of voters
heretofore had in said county OF Shelby.
In testimony whereof, / have hereunto
subscribed my name, and caused the
great seal Of tho State TO be affixed, at
- the Executive Department,
LIS. in Nashville, this 18th day oil
49, January, 1868.
By the Governor:
w. G. BRowSLow.
A. j. FLETCHER, Sec'y OF State.
The.registration Law, was framed tosub-
serve the interests of such scoundrels as
thewar has spawned into power in Ten
nessee. The administration Of the law in
Shelby county has always been con6ded
to men who hate Conservatives as the
devil hates holy water, and have done
everything in their power to prevent that
class from registering. Every turn OF
the franchise crank has thrust Conserva-
tives from the polls; and prior to the last
elestion everything was understood as
working to charm. But election day
came and went, and the man whom the
respectable men of his own. party de-
nounced as thief was beaten for Mayor.
Therefore ait has been made to appear
to the satisfaction of the Governor that
frauds and irregularities have interviewed
in the registration of voters in Shelby
county" which registration, by sweep
of his pen, is annulled.
Failing to elect thief Mayor is an
irregularity Tennessee Radicalism
will not brook. Failing to elect thief
Mayor is fraud" on the broad princi.
pie of robbery and Wholesale scoundrel-
ism upon which Tennessee Radicalism
is founded. aMH H
This renders inevitable new regis
tration, which must be completed before
the first Saturday in March. The Rad
ical intent of this new registration is
fraud. Radicals-black and white-will
be ground through the mill with lightning
speed, while Conservatives will be regis
tered as slowly as possible. The point is to
force Radical numerical superiority at the
polls. Brownlow does not annul the
registration because he deems it fraudu-
lent; but that hordes of hungry Radical
place-seekers may be foisted into office
in defiance of the wishes of the people.
The State was originally RECONSTRUCTED
by scoundrelism; Brownlow was twice
elected by scoundrelism, his hegis'
lature exists by force of scoundrelism
the franchise and registration laws were
conceived in the direct interests OF
scoundrelsm; and Brownlow's latest
procla nation is but chip off the old
block.