The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-01-22
The LoyaI Plot.


The memorial of Radical Congressman
praying Congress to destroy the State Cows
ernment of Tennessee has been published
1t Is signed by Horace Maynard Samuel
NJ. Arnell, w. J. Smith, W. Z. Prosser, w.
b. Stokes, Lewis Tilman, and e. r. Butler
The memorial declares that the August
election was carried by fraud; that men
ineligible were allowed to vote; that youths
under twenty-one years of age voted that
false and fraudulent votes were counted; and
8 that the illegal votes so cast were of such
great numbers as to be in excess of the
majority by which said election was de
termined in a majority of the counties, so
that by said Illegal votes the persons and
character Of the majority of members of
the General Assembly were determined
This last specification, which is the seventh,
contains the gravamen of the bill of indict-
ment against this State Fortunately we
are not without the proof to show that this
charge is utterly groundless
The Nashville Union and american has
procured from the Office of the Secretary Of
State a transcript of the returns cf the
number of votes registered by the registrars
of seventy counties In the State under the
BrownlOw regime, the registrars of the re
naming fourteen counties having made no
return. These returns embrace all the
voters registered up to March l 1869, and
compare with the vote for Governor in
August last as follows.
Total Registered, Il7449
" vote for Gov. 1858
This shows that only 81, 167 more persons
voted in these seventy counties than We're
registered by the BrownlOw registrars pre-
vious to March /, 1869. 1t is admitted even
by Radicals, that the Supreme Court by its
decision at Brownsville restored the right
OF hal to of !
citizens not included in these registration
returns, but who had been deprived of theiy
right to vote by the Legislature repeating
the first franchise law, and the arbitrary
action of Governor Brownlow in setting
aside the registration of whole counties,
so that In the seventy counties composing
the above table, there were over 10000
legal voters according to the BrownlOw reg
istrars and the Radical Supreme Court
of the State. Every man at all acquainted
with the people of the seventy counties we
have included IN our comparative table,
knows that they contained largely over 90
QUO citizens who were entitled to vote under
Il fair and justconstruction Of the franchise
law, but were denied registration upon one
pretext or another, the real reason, however,
being that they would not vote the Radical
! ticket. 1t was for this refusal to register
men clearly entitled to vote under the cen
/ SGltuIlOn ana law, OF the State, that Gov
Senter removed so large number of rege
isTars. This statement of facts, figures
/ copied from the official records in the Sec
retary Of States office, completely disproves
the assertion of Mr. Horace Maynard and
his co -memorialsts, that the August election
was carried by fraud and illegal votes That
having been disposed Of, the whole memo
rial falls to the ground as piece of malig-
nifty Matched up by a set Of men who feel
| that their tenure Of Office will soon close If
they cannot get Congress to repeat the
Georgia outrage upon Tennessee.
There is one point in regard to fraudu-
lent registration to which we desire to di-
rect attention in this connection. In 'loyal
East Tennessee we find that the registrars
appointed by Gov Brownlow had registered
IN all but two counties in that division of
the State 40,86I citizens up to March l,
1869, legal voters, and that at the August
/ election there were n, 2,705 cast for Senter
and Stokes for Governor, just ,844 more
than had been registered by the Brownlow
registrars. The following table giving the
number registered by Baownlow registrars,
to whose loyalty and honesty Mr.. Horace
| Maynard and his CO memoriaiists make no
objection, and the vote actually cast in
August after the registrars appointed by
Gov. Senter had done their work will show
how the registration law was administered
by Radicals in Radical counties
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