The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-12-28
The Florida Fraud.
The following address was issued
from, Elo-iSa On tba etb

nc AolloWAuS dONlGSS Was lSSuel
from Florida on the 9th:
To the Hon. Samuel ]. Randall,
Washington, House of Representa-
tives: The undersigned, who came
hither to be present at n fair count
of the votes cast by the people of
Florida, have had the grief to be
witnesses OF the counting in OF
Hayes Electors, who were rejected
at the polls. We have witnessed
the progress and the consumma-
tioa of a deliberate preconcerted
scheme of fraud. This scheme was
first cOntrived for execution at the
baIlot-boxes throughout the State.
Having there fallen short of sue
cess, it was then continued and
promoted by several county can
vassing boards, and was yesterday
supplemented and finished hy the
Radical majority of the State Board
of Canvassers at Tallahassee. II
is manifest to every intelligent man
here, first, that upon the face of the
returns the Tilden Electors had a
majority Of all the votes cast; sec
ond the Iilden Electors had this ma
jority over and above the Radical
count, afJer it had been swollen by
many hundred ILLEGAL votes through
local frauds and false returns; third,
that the majority declared for the
Hayes Electors is a fictitious, false
and fraudulent majority, which the
two Radical State Canvassers man.
ufactured by throwing out whole
Democratic precincts and counties,
in open disregard of facts and with
fragrant violation of the law. They
did not even keep to the shewder
path blazed out for them by theil
legal advisers from the North. AL
along their debrious track the
marks of generalization, the foot
prints of a shameless purpose are
unconeealed. The Democratic
Electors, receiving their certificates
Of the true result from the Attorney.
General, a member of the Board oi
Canvassers, met to-day and cast
their votes for Tilden and Hen.
bricks. The Radical electors, forti
fed with the false certificates o.
Gov. Stearns, met to-day and cast
their votes for Hayes and Wheeler
It is for Congress to judge and de
termine whether this assault upor
the rights and liberties of freemen
thus far prosecuted under cover OF
the arms and the authority of the
Federal Administration, shall be
crowned at the Capitol with success
Familiar with the history of carpet.
bag corruption and mismana9ement
we yet needed a visit to Florida tc
convince us of the distress thai
their rule has caused. 1t has sub
verted her social order; it ha!
plunged her people to the point o
impOverishment; it has abolished
the usual contests of political par
ties and arrested the progress o
her two races in self-government
In truth, the late struggle at tn
polls was not between Democrat
and Republicans. It was betweel
q hapless race misguided by a fe7
J EAALflcA ia NGl41uA NAcf anu CfNn GOAA
victed feions, who call themselve.
Republicans, and a gentle, Ion!
suffering people, whose patienc'
has permitted their oppressors Il
live. The Republican party, as WI
well know at the North, has no ex
istence in Florida, Unless, indeed, i
shall confess a fellowship with thos,
abusing her, and living by seeking
profit through their crime. Geo
w. Biddle, Pennsylvania; Josepl
E. Brown, Georgia; Leverett Salten
stall, Massachusetts; David w. Sci
lers, Pennsylvania; Malcom Hay
Pennsylvania; Jas. r. Read, Penn
sylvania; Samuel E. Thompson
Pennsylvania; Geo. w. Guthrie
Pennsylvania; NJ. B. Young, Geor
gia; Perry II. Smith, Illinois; c
Gibson, Missouri; Manton Marble
New York.
I