The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-03-11

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occurred here as we may of what Wa
done in Chickasaw county. one OF ia
counties i'm the senatorial district /
which / was candidate, and ia
county which / tried so hard in con
yentiOn TO keep from being attachc
to my county, believing, as | then did
and said, that ii would prove a dea'
| weight to carry, and would beat aut
! drag down both our county and tn
candidate for the Senate in the district
This it has done. If the election n
! Chickasaw is TO stand, and that vote
as given in there, is 10 be counted viii
! all the frauds that were practiced
| both before the election and at ia,
| polls. You ask me perhaps, what
| these frauds consisted in. You ought
| TO know them even better than /. You
have no doubt, seen the men most in
timately connected with and affected
by these frauds. / have not. mean
Jamison, the candidate for Lieutenant
Governor, and Railsback, the caudi-
dade for Congress for this, the second
district. These men were, both OF
them, in Chickasaw while the election
was being held, and they ought TO
know how that election was conduct
ed, and without knowing, but presum-
ing merely what is fairly to be pre-
Sumed. that they made known TO the
committee of five when they were in
jackson, fresh from the disgraceful
scenes of action had and done in
Chickasaw while the election was be-
ing held, all that had then TRANSFERRED;
and | must of course, also presume y
| do, that you, being one OF that COM
mittee, must be in posses ion of all. II
not more than all, that L have learned
-, IL ri. A d
here enumerate what l have been
credibly informed, and what | have
good reason TO believe. and do believe.
took place there 1t is as follows: at
Houston, the place whereat one OF the
two Circuit Courts for that county l.
held. and where all the records OF the
county are kept, except those pertain
lug 70 the Circuit Court holden az
Okolona. no man was allowed TO put
III solitary vote for any republican
candidate, eNcept one by a negro Who
went over 10 Ine ueul 'cts.S@ himself on
al their ticket but Jamison, al ,,,,.
allowed, in mercy, suppose, 20 pa,
gamison's name upon the democratic
ticket and vote il, in consideration of
the fact that he was living with Jami-
son at the time; all others were close
ly watched, and none others were
To 90 into the box for any re-
publican; that Railsback and Jamison
were both of them. at Oklahoma on the
day of election, having been, it is said
and believed, run of from Houston.
where they lin Okolona) remained in
the house all day without doing or at Z
TO do anything for the cause /
in which they were so prominently /
and there was but one l
white man there (Okolona,) who voted /
the republican ticket; for this there I
was doubtless a good reason, they be- 1
ing kept from the polls because of the /
known danger to their persons i'm go 4
ing on the streets or Yenturing to the \
polls. Pollard, one of the republican
for the representative I.
Of the Legislature, was in Okolona, /
and voted it is understood and believ- /
I'd, for the democrats. Tindall- the /
candidate for the Senate /
from that county, who was on the /
ticket with myself, left the county |
about week before the election, and /
lid not return to it until about week /
after it was over. In fact, it is well i
that neither OF them ever
Dnce attempted to assist in the smallest
legree in the canvass, from the time
hey received the nomination. Why
hey sought and obtained the nomina-
ion, you can tell as well / can. One
hing is certain, l never saw them
'rom the time on which they were
nominated until the election was over.
md have not seen Tindall yet, and
md only have barely seen Pollard
while our recent Circuit Court was IN
session, and then not to converse with
lim. Such efforts as were made by
he democracy, in regard to the poor
negro, at the polls in Okolona, as am
informed by letter from a credible
source now before me, were full of |
orce, vengeance, fraud deception.
Violence and corruption, and almost
and the result was that |
the box at Okolona was car
led. it was only by very email ma
ority, when it should and would have
)een very large, if fair means only had
Jeen used; and many of the negroes
we're compelled to run off from the |
place for safety. Many of them came
o Aberdeen as soon as they could get
way after the scenes of the day were
,yeT, and they became fully sensible |
If their danger. At Oak Grove and
Flat, two other precincts ia
he county of Chickasaw, not a re-
publican ticket was allowed to be vot-
"a. At Buena ' iSta. another precinct.
he negroes, after a few of them had
'oted, and it was seen that they were
roting the republican ticket. were
threatened and kept from the polls.
md told to 90 to Aberdeen and vote.
II different county.
At Okolona there had been a little
quad of soldiers sent TO keep order, a
t had been supposed, both before aud
on the day of election.
md to see that the polls were fairly
Ield for every man Registered voter
o vote as he chose to put in his ticket.
These very soldiers, the night before
he election. broke up meeting of
he republicans, and dispersed them
he soldiery having been made drunk
or the purpose, as il Is said; and the
etter above alluded to states that they
we're all against the negroes on the
lay of the election. In short. | have
10 hesitation in saying that from all
can gather, as we'll from the demo-
rats as from the republicans, there
lever was more unfair election held !
than was that in Chickas8w
'Ounty, in fraud, deception, force.
,ogus tickets and threats, all used al
he p lis.
Now, l am of the opinion that fthe
lection and the proceeding thereat be-
into in connection with the
minus of the local candidate, together
With what ought to have been the vote
IpOn reasonable calculations. no hon
st, unprejudiced man would, for a
contend that the vote Of that
ounty should be counted in the result
f the election. The same course was
damned, and to some extent carried
ut in this county, and it would have
PREVAILED here too if it had not been
net as it was met.
Respectfully, your friends. etc,
JAMES. l.. HERBERT,
j. b. WOODMANSEE.
y. B.-For Gods sake do sometl ing.
nd let me hear from you, for / am
cart and sOnl tired of this lnnn thi.