Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-11-16
Astounding Developments
About the MiSSiS-
Sippi Election!
The Plot to Garry it by Fraud
Revealed!
Gen. AmeS Goes out of the
State TO Appoint Managers
OF Election of NOtOri-
OuSly Corrupt and
irresponsible
CharacteP.M!

/ W rum NtlC D.AllozAu tuC QlAutu1
Commander of Mississippi, of deep-laid
plot to carry the election by stupendous
system of yillainy and fraud. 1t consists
of the Importation as registrars and man
ayers of election from the city of Memphis
and elsewhere of white men and negroes
who are Aotoriously corrupt and irTespon.
sible, and are fit only as performers of the
infamous parts assigned them. Then
characters and antecedenis leave no doubt
of premeditated purpose TO stuff and
otherwise TO corrupt the ballot boxes. Al
the present writing we have been able to
obtain the appointments in but three coun-
ties. Doubtless they are fair specimens
of many others AS fast as we can OBJ
tain the facts we viii spread them be-
fore the public In the history of the
whole reconstruction business, the ap-
pOintment of civilians from one State 20
manage the election in another, is without
parallel, as it is without authority of law
And when the act itself is coupled with
the selection of despicably corrupt and no.
tOriOusly incompetent and utterly ire
spOnsible persons, the act swells into the
proportions of an outrageous crime against
people whose lives, liberty and property
are staked on the result God of Justice,
can it be, in this enlightened age of re-
publican government 1t has been our
fate to witness many atrociOus Outrages
| uron popular rights-many crying wrongs
| against people grievously borne down
and oppressed, but the enormity of this
threatened outrage exceeds them all. Let
the facts speak for themselves, and plead
trumpet-tongned to the authorities having
this Mississippi election in charge &c inter
| pose ere It's too late, and to the people
| themselves to be warned in time.
Pamela COUNTY.
Among the appointments are the fol-
lowing:
]. f. Williams reides in Memphis,
Tenn. Convicted IN the Chancery Court
of bribery, as Commissioner of Registra-
ton in the last election of Judges, etc.
DR.. w. H. White resides in Memphis.
An INSCRIPTIONS member of the Board of
County Commissioners of Shelby county,
recently abolished in consequence of its
corruption.
L. Carter, yagrant negro, residing in
Memphis, and brother of the strolling
Radical orator, imported for electioneer-
ing purposes in Mississippi.
Frank Stieber resides in Memphis. BY
occupation bar -keepeT.
J. Y. Hodges, negro, now in Little
Rock, is said to live in Memphis.
Moses johnson, another Memphis ne
gro. Occupation to us unknown.
DE SOTO COUNTY.
c. r. Riggs resides in the 18th Civil
District, Shelby county, Tenn. Radical
operator, without other qualification than
for the vile business for which he has
been employed.
J. q. CrOckham resides in Memphis
living in adultery with negro woman;
no occupation.
S. J. Bell resides in Shelby county;
Radical partisan of the Riggs stripe.
TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY.
J. E. Carpenter, recently imported from
Memphis to fill county office; and now
put on Registration Board. Bad charac-
ter recently ventilated in the AUdLdHche
J. Z. Banning, Deputy Constable in
Memphis who is fit accomplice of Viii
liams, White, Carter and other characters
above described
We will add that it is whispered that
one L. d. Vincent is an active operator
and prOcurer in this programme of fraud
and that in order to engineer the scheme
he is to make an early visit to the central
portion of the State, where doubtless he
will hold a conference with Alcon, Pow
ers and other ringleaders of the ultra
Radical faction. Vincent is now under
Indictment in the courts of Memphis for
bribery and corruption.
Verify, Mississippi, in passing through
the mill of reconstruction, is to be OPP
pressed and bedeviled with the concentra- .
ted wrath of the villains who have been
driven from other States. 1t seems that
despOtism in Mississippi, in winding up its
disgraceful career, is determined to build
monument to its own infamy. Ames,
the petty tyrant who has for the last
twelve months had his heel upon the
necks of the people, is a candidate for
United States Senator I'M mississippi, andto
accomplish his villainous purposes it will
be seen from the above exposure that he
has imported from Memphis the thieves
who have, for three years, been reveliDg
in the luxury of stolen wealth. As Radi-
calism wanes, and despotism expires, the
plunderers grow desperate The peo-
| Pile of Memphis viii learn, with
| profound regret, that the adventures
who have so long pillaged them are to be
emptied upon their sister State, where q
new fight istO be made for the shreds and
scraps that are left. We have fallen upon
strange times, when the Military COM
mander of department, the Governor of
a great State, candidate for United States
Senator, imports negroes, perjurers, adult
terers, bribed Aldermen and notorious
| villains for the purpose of doing his dirty
work. Alcorn is no doubt party TO this
monstrous swindle-this atrocious outrage
upon the people of Mississippi. After
such villainy no honest man can vote for
AlcOn and the unprincipled ticket. If
| the people of Mississippi are not lost to
self respect, and to those feelings of in
dignatiOn which rascality inspires, they
will arise in their majesty and over
Whelm the vile knaYes who have inn
ported IN their midst gang of carpet
baggers-bribed, purchased with dishon-
est gold to rob the people of their rights.
A people that cannot be moved to action
to the support of Dent and to a bitter
| Hatfeu OF AlcOFu anu AIneS ny sdcu par
pable injustice, are unworthy of the
triumphs which their friends have aehiev-
ed in Tennessee and Virginia. This
exposure of Ames' corruption win, we
feel sure, quicken the hot blood that
flows in the veins of Mississippians and
consolidate the Conservatives into an inn
pregnable phalanx, who will at the ballot
box proclaim in voice of thunder that a
military satrap cannot secure his election
to the United States Senate by the impor
tation of villains charged with bribery,
corruption and adultery.