The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-07-09
MISSISSIPPI
The Delights of Rebel Rule-ReIEu
of TerrorIsm-IIOW the Rebels
Carry Elections.

The DeIIshts OF Rebel Rule-ReIEn
fTerrorIsm-IIoW tho Rebels
Carry Elections.
The accounts of the recent election In
Mississippi which are now reaching us
from various parts of the State fully
lconfrm the worst representations
I which have been made astto, the means
by which the enemies of reconstruction
achieved their victory. 4
The chairman of the Republican State
Executive Committee writes to Mr..
Tullock, Secretary of the Congressional
Executive Committee, under date OF
June27, as follows: III
We have had one of the most exciting
and terrible contests ever known. The
results are yet uncertain. The rebels
are jubiIant, and claim large msjoEi-
ties. This county gives 5000 Republi-
can majority, All the river counties
give large majorities for US, but in in
Ierior counties, where the white men
predominant, or where even one-thlrd
are white, the negroes are either kept
away from the polls or forced to vote
the Democratic ticket. Fraud, deoep-
| ton, and all kinds of means were re-
sorted TO to get the cOlored vote. 1 do
not give up the Stale. No one can tell
the result at this time. You will see by
the enclosed letter from the Pilot what
is going on in the State. That fairly
represents about thirty counties. 1t is
sale 10 say that one-half the registers
were Copperheads. Gen. Mcdowell is
right. He WIS Kept away by Johnson
for purpose. What ruin that vile &C
quittal brings on us -n
The following is q portion of the let
ter referred TO above. 1t is from a
Commissioner of Election in Lafayette
county. The Post endorses the writer
as reliable:
OXFORD, Miss, June %, 1868.
Hon. John McRde, Secretary Committee
Of F'iUe, Jackson, Miss: aas.
S1R-You desired me to make returns
of the election in this county as soon
as completed.
We have had one days election, and
/ am already satisfied we cannot have
Justice. 1 have attended two polls, and
the rest of 1.-The commissioners have
been driven from their work.
Tho people are being deferred from
voting by the threats of the Ku-kluxI
and by being turned out of employ
ment. Many of them go with the hope
of voting, but when they get there
they are kept from the polls il they try
TO vote the Republican ticket. Some
say lyon shall not remain on my plan
tation:" some, al will turn your family
out 10 starve;" while doctors say, lyon
shall not have n dose OF my medicine;''
and threats of this kind are made by
the white men to COloTed men till they
get them too badly frightened to vote
Hs they waut. Really, 1t Is made Il
crime punishable in all these ways II
they vote :the Republican ticket. Sir
laL.. "a
} county but what is opposed 10 recon
structiOn, and some OF them are doing
all they can to defeat the constitution
When colored men come to the polls tC
vote they are accosted by white men
and when they see they cannot compel
the COlOred man TO vote their ticket
they nbuse him and drive him away
from The polls withoutVotlng at an.
1 shall keep at work till the election
Is over, ifthey do not kill me, but we
have not had a fair election here.
Major Powers has promised to send
me troops, but they have not come yet,
and will be too late to do apygood.
The colored people who have been
forced to vote the Democraticiticket are
greatly dissatisfied, and are troubling
me everywhere about il. Cannot the
committee of i've do something in the
matter. .H l-H t-f
The Jackson Pilot also editorially no.
tees the following attack on one OF the
Republican candidates:
General Jamison, the Republican
candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Is
in the city, and reports scandalous
treatment ut the hands of an organized
bnnl OF Democratic rutdRns on the
night of the 23d. About thirty armed
men appeared around his house, and
,Lyf af
tempts to enter, called him out. He,
of course, knew their object, and re-
manned in doors ready to defend him
self and family in case they were at
tackled. But the scoundrels knew too
well the lighting qualities of the Cen
erul, and made no further attempts to
enter. They remained about the house
an hour or more, making most hideous
noises and threats of murder and as
sAssiuation, when they went into the
back yard and took three carriages
from the carriage-house, one of which
they entirely destroyed, and considera-
bly, injured the other two. They next
tore down all thelencing around the gar
den and yards, turning in the stock to
destroy what they left undestroyed.
During all this time they fired of their
pistols, many OF which have left their
bullets in the sides of the Generals
dwelling, and acted like tiends gener-
ally. Alter all the carnage possible nHu
been done. the sheriff and his posse sue
ceeded in dispensing the ruffians. 5s
One of the active Republicans at
Jackson writes as follows, under date
OF June IS:
| We have two days more voting to do
here before the election is over. 1 am
free TO confess that IL our constitution is
ratified, the result will be beyond my
comprehension. OF all the villaiuies,
lying, threatening, promising and beg
Hing TINT was ever witnessed, have
seen enough to last mo for a lifetime.
The Democracy act more like demons
than men. The colored voters were
dragooned into voting against their
wills. Hundreds in the country
forego their vote rather than run the
risk of losing their share In the CROP
voting the Republican ticket being con-
sidered by the planters a justitiable
cause OF dismissal; threat made by
all of them. Threats of murder are
freely used against tho freedmen for
voting the Radical ticket. A couple of
men have just left my house on their
way to post headquarters to report the
murder, In cold blood, on Thursday
night, of Willis Pope, (colored.) by
rebels, for having voted the Republican
ticket the day before.
The Washington Chronicle prints
some extracts from private letter re-