Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-08-17
NORTH CAROLINA.
DEMOCRATIC FRA UDS.
HOW THEY TRIED TO CARRY THE ELEC-
TION.

TION.
I Since the official election returns in Nor
Carolina show that the Republicans be
carried the State by some 1900 majosy
, the Democratic papers are setting up ,'eg
ular howl of outrageous frauds comhted
by the Republicans. This is dopior the
purpose of deceiveng their reads and to
cover up many outrages commied by the!i
friends. When the first desatches were
sent announcing Democrsic victory, all
was lovely, no frauds wey admitted and
the election was carried,n peaceably and
quiet said these Demoratic papers. But
what change has chne over them since
the final result is ag,nst them. Ali fraud
and corruption. 4he following will show
how the Democrts did conduct the election
in the State:
DNv1LLE, Va, August II.
A meetir1 of Caswell county, North
Carolina, republicans, was held last evan.
ing in al old log hut on the edge.Sf The
woods outside of Yanceyville. [Between
forty End fifty persons were SSfesent Geo.
Williamson, a white man tried TO raise a
disturbance in the town, and hy the false
runors he mads many of the negroes afraid
10 attend. Thomas j. Faster, Representa-
tine ~, was III the chair. A resident of
Ag reported that William Long
aid not let his hands leave work on the
day of election. The threats he used pre-
vented fifteen from going to the polls. From
Milton township it was reported that John
Lea also intimated his workmen, causing a
loso of ten Republican votes.
About noon, Sheriff Grifiiths arrested
IoNn Io m Mitchell (coloredl on the ground that
was Produced pr itIS that 1f he Virginia. Evidence
Milton, but the Sheriff tied him with il rois,
in front of the hotel and swore at him, and
so frightened the negroes 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
former owner, that he was under twenty
one years of age. His mother, who was in
1anceyville yesterday, says he is in his
twenty-fourth year. Both these men were
lodged in Jail. but the former has been lib.
Grated on giving 500 bail.
At Ganceyville, William Ueith, colOred,
reported that the white judge of election in.
sisted on the colored voters putting theil
ballots in the boxes themselves, instead OF
giving them to the inspectors to deposit
and when he was directing them how to do
it, James Williamson threatened to put
him in the Penitentiary. Ballots deposited
in the wrong box are not counted. Geo.
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 10 vote. They were
driven from the polls because they had
been working in Virginia, a few miles Off
but positive information could not be OBJ.
tanned on that point.
In Dan River township over forty Re.
publicans were kept from the polls by the
removal of II 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
\ Ianceyville was challenged
No definite action was taken by the meet
ing. After it adjourned l went TO the
house of Il colored resident of YanceyvillC
for further information. He was afraid tC
admit me, and l was interviewing him
from lhe slucwalh, wIieII a IIuI nuisU'
back, who had been waiting in turn o
the road, came ana joined us. lie looked
over my note book. interrupted the couver
sation, and repeatedly asked the negro tc
go away with him.
A reign of terror seems to have been in
augerated in Caswell.
Mr.. Forster, chairman of the meeting, il
n white man, and large land il
that part Of the State of which he is ma.
tive. He told me that, fearing an attack
on his residence, he had often been compel
ed to sleep in the woods.