The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-01-20

therein.
5. That in nearly all TIE counties ofthe
State, threats, Intimidation and unjust in
fuence were used to deter, and which did
deter large numbers of good citizens and
legal voters from exercising their rights
at such election.
s6. That persons not eligible or qualified
to hold any office under the Constitution
aud laws of said State and United States,
did act and preside as judges of election
in many counties of said State.
Z. That the illegal votes so cast were Of
such great numbers as to be in excess of
the majority by which said election was
determined in a majority of the counties,
so hat by said illegal votes the persons
and character of the majority of members
ofthe General Assembly were determined,
and that such votes were knowingly, will
fully and purposely so cast, received and
counted for the purpose of e%lecting mem
bers of said Assembly, so as to control
the right OF the government of the United
States to a legal expression of the will Of
the people of the State through a proper
aEd duly chosen representation of the
ISrStc in the Senate of the United States,
which right has been ~purposely infriuged
and set at nought by said Illegal and un-
just election, as before set forth.
And your memorialIsts further repre-
sent that it became, aud was the duty of
said General Assembly, among other
things, to elect a Senator to represent the
State of Tennessee in the Senate of the
United States, and that said General AS
sembly has proceeded to elect, and has
elected a citizen to represent said State
in the Senate of the United States for the
next Senatorial term, whose election was
made and determined by the votes of
members of the Assembly so unlawfulIy
and unconStitutionally chosen as aforesaid.
And your memorialists further repre-
sent hat the majority of said General AS
sembly of said State, so illegally and un-
justly elected, have repealed, and are
threatening to set aside the law passed
for the protection of the law-abiding citi-
zens of the State in their property and
civil rights.
And your memorialists further repre-
sent the said General Assembly, so eleot-
ed, have passed and are now engaged in
passing and threatening to pass other laws
in open violation of the laws and Consti-
tuition of said State, which said constitu-
ton was accepted and adopted by Con-
gress and its safeguards for the liberty
and rights Of the people of Tennessee,
ratified and confirmed by the people as q
part Of the condition of the reception of
the State Of Tennessee into the Union
and representation in Congress, after her
rebellion against the Government of the
United States aud attempted secession
from the Union.
And your mcmorialists further repre-
sent that a majority of said Legislature,
50 elected, have ordered an election for
delegates to a Convention to alter, change
and abrogate said Constitution under
which said State was permitted by Con-
gress to be restored to the Union which
She had violated, and to the wrights which
she had ~lost-which said election it is
provided in the act ordering the same,
shall be held and determined and the
votes thereon shall be received in viola
tionofthe Constitution new protecting the
citizens Of Tennessee in their civil and
political rights.
And your memorialists further respect.
fully call attention to the duty Of the
United States to guarantee to every State
in this Union a republican form Of govern
ment and protect each of them against do
nestle violence.
And your memorialists further repre-
sent that in the manner before mentioned
the rights of the good citizens of Tennes
see have heen violated and overthrow
and are being set aside by the violen
proceedings of the mob, (under the form
of election, but in violation of the Consti
t%ution) which now has possession of tn,
Government of the State,
And your memorialists further repre-
sent that the foundation and essence O
republican government, is a just, lega
and prOppor conduct of election in whic
each citizen, according to previously as
certained laws, may exercise his rights a
an ~elector in the choice of those WHO shal
frame and execute the laws under whic,
he lives, and that by the unjust proceed
ings before set forth, and because of tn
abrogation and setting aside all the law
regulating elections in said State, at sal
I election, the citizens of Tennessee hav
I been and are deprived Of the benefit Of
government republican in form and fac
and recognized by Congress.
Wherefore your memorialists pray tha
4 the facts above stated being found to b
I true, upon investigation, Congress will d
: such acts and pass such laws as will affor
9 relief to the people of Tennessee in tn
premises. And as in duty bound will eve
, pray
HoRAAE MAYNARD,
t SAMUEL M. ARNELL,
: w. j. SMITH,
W. +. PRossER,
w. B. STOKES,
5 TruIs VuTNAN