Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-12
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BY THE GOVERNOR.
A Proclamation.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE, HDQRs Army AND
NAVY OF Tenn, BUREAU OF CLOTH
NC. WHISKY, PILLS \ OTHER
SUPPLIES. NASHVILLE, TENN, Au-
gust Q, 1863.
To the People Of this Commonwealth
Tho, the wealth is not SO common as at
an earlier period-but to go on)-
WHEREAS, 1t has been reported by
MANY credible persons (whichincredi-
| bic statement is legally attested by
various, sundry and divers hero
| eIvphics appended TO written docu-
ments, each OF which purpOrts to be
"the last dying confession" etc.,
from the (smaD body of "loil" peo-
Die of Tennessee, that in the recent
election, held on the 9Th day of Au-
gust, of the present year, wherein
candidates for Governor, Senators,
Members of the House of Representa-
tives and other officers, were voted
| for, the grossest and most palpable
frauds Except the School Fund BUSH
ness, and frightfully outrageous in
timidation was resOrted to and prac-
ticed upon the "lOyal" denizens OF
our State aforesaid, at the said cleo
ton; and
That a cowardly and despicable
Cat the same time very" hYelyl
| combination of disturbing and
obnoxious men, known, and more
particularly designated as Con
| servatives," did cOnspire, and
cOnspiring, did act, with the hatedand
much-tO-be-dreaded Ku-Klux, Rebels
and GuerriIlas, and other dislOyal
and other contentious persons, and
| did. by a system offOrce, fraud and in
timidation, prevent the railways,
! steamboats,, balloons and other public
eOnveyances from transporting the ex-
ceedingly loyal voters from n poll to
another throughout the State, thereby
preventing the said our loyal citizens
| from spending the said fifth day of
August, A. D. 1869, in a manner profit
able to the interests of the Republican
marty and TO those of the State-that
is to say, they, the said altogether
lovely and loyal, were not granted an
| opportunity to vote at every precinct
that could otherwise have been
reached; and that this action by the
aforesaid designing and crafty dis
lOvalists further prevented voters from
other States, whose territory adjoins
| and is near that of our said State of
Tennessee, from exercising the in
alienable right of every freeman
(read freedman) of voting as
often as he pleased, without regard
to citizenship or other qualification;
and,
That as part and parcel of this ne
fariOus scheme and conspiracy, this
said party or combination called Con-
| servatives did bride and possess them
selves of the bodies and souls Of Reg
istrars of various of u counties, to
the sad interference of the plans and
Vaccinations of the only loyal ele-
ment of the State; and more particu-
larry,
That one John P. BOughner, Reg
istrar of our county of Shelby, did,
with full knowledge and appreciation
of the Nervousness of the crime, refuse
to issue certificates TO black Republic
cans, who applied for the same on the
said fifth day of August, A. ID. 1869,
in the forenoon, and within two
hours after the arrival in Ten
nessee of the said applicants,
from the States Of Mississippi and Ar
kansas; and that
Further, Four hundred and fifty of
the lOyalest kind of our citizens were
murdered in cold iceberg cut TO go in
here) blood because their hair curled
the wrong way, or in a contrary di-
rection to that considered q Ia mode,
or right and proper by the said Con-
servatives. All in our said city of
Memphis and county Of Shelby.
And,
That through such villainy the
State was given over TO the bloody
hands of the rebelliOus miscreants
named; especially in our said city of
Memphis, where four thousand more
votes were cast for the candidates sup
ported by the aforesaid C~Onserva-
tives than could be logged into the
boxes for the RAIDS. All Of which the
said Boughner certified to owe his
official seal as Registrar. Now, there
fore,
Be il kaolea, That I, c. c. D. Wen
ter, Governor of the State of Tennes-
see, Commander-in-Ch of the Army
and Lord High Admiral Of the AaYy,
do hereby issue this my proclamation,
and declare that said election, held on
afOFestated fifth day of August, A. ID.
1859, Is null, void and of no effect, as
far as pertains to said county Of
Shelby; and further.
l do hereby degrade and dismiss
from his Office as Registrar the SAID
j. p. BOughner, or so much Of him as
may satisfy the bowls now being given
vent to by the /" true patriots 18th
erwise more particularly referred to as
the Radical party-and recommend
that he hencefOrth be held ia con
tempt and despise.
Done this ninth day of August, A. d.
1863, al Nashville, and atteSted by
the great seal of the State.
By the Governors
c. G. q, WENTER.
O.. [. r. JINKs, Private Secretary,
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