Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-08-23
North Carolina.

| North Carolina.
ROW MR.. GREELEY's FRIENDS BEHAVED
AT THE POLLS.
On Saturday, the 10th inst, the re-
publicans of Caswell county, North
Carolina, held meeting in an old log
hut ON the edge of the woods outside of
Yanceyville. Between forty and fifty
white persons were present. George
Williamson, white man, tried to raise
a disturbance in the town, and by the
false rumors he spread made many of
the negroes afraid to attend. Thomas
j. Foster, representative elect, was in
the chair. A resident of Leesburg re-
ported that William Long would not let
his hands leave work on the day of cleo
ton. The threats he used prevented
fifteen from going to the polls. From
Milton Township it was reported that
John Lea also had intimidated his work
men, causing loss of ten republican
votes.
About noon Sheriff Grifiths arrested
! John Mitchell, colored, on the ground
that he was resident of Virginia. Ev-
idence was produced that he was legal
voter in Milton, but the sheriff tied him
with rope in front of the hotel and
swore at him, and so frightened the ne
groes in the streets that most of them
went home without voting. Soon after
the same official arrested another negro
on the affidavit of Marlborough, his for
mer owner. that he was under twenty
one. His mother, who was in Yam
ceyyille yesterday, says that he is in his
twenty-fourth year. Both these men
were lodged in Jail, but the former has
since been liberated on giving 500 bail.
At Yanceyville, William Leith, color
ed, reported that the white judges of
election insisted on the colored voters
putting their ballots in the boxes them
selves, instead of giving them in the in
spectors TO deposit and when he was di-
recting them how to do it, james Will
Hanson threatened to put him in the
penitentiary. Ballots deposited in the
wrong box are not counted. George w.
Bowe stated to the meeting that he knew
seven residents of Yanceyville who were
not allowed to vote.
There was rumor from Leesburg
that thirty men omitted to vote. They
were driven from the polls because they
had been working in Virginia, a few
miles off, but positive information could
not be obtained on that point.
In Dan River Township over forty re-
publicans were driven from the polls by
the removal of a boat from one bank of
the river to the other, and there securing
and locking it up. Not one of them
could get across. The vote of every
colored man in Yanceyville was chal-
lenged.
The correspondent of the New York
Times, from whose letter the above is
taken, writes further:
No definite action was taken by the
meeting. After it adjourned | went to
the house of colored resident of Yam
ceyville for further information. He
was afraid to admit me, and l was in
terviewing him from the sidewalk, when
man on horseback, no had been wait
ing in turn of the road, came and
Joined US. He looked over my note
book, interrupted the conversation, and
repeatedly asked the negro to go away
with him. A reign of terror seems to
have been inagaurated in Caswell.
Mr.. Foster, chairman of the meeting,
is white man, and large land owner
in that part of the State of which he is
a native. He told me that, fearing an at
tack on his residence, he has often been
compelled to sleep out in the woods.
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