The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-24
+ s KENosHA, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, AUGUST a. 1876

81 That at certain voting places or
the day of election, armed men assem-
bled. sometimes net organized and IN
other cases organized; that they controli
ed the election intimi6ated RepublicaA
voters, ami deprived them of the oppor-
tunity to vote the Republican ticket
26 That the single fact that lie life
Of the Chairman Of the Repub!lcan
State Committee was saved by the IN
tervcntioD, 10y telegralh:c dispatch, OF
the Chairman Of the Democratic State
mmit1ee. illustrates the gravity OF
these revolutionary proceedings.
30. That in certain piaces where in
timldaLion and fraud did Tot secure a
Democratic victory traud was resorted
To in conducting the election and coant
| ing the votes.
| 80. That toe civil authnritlcS EaVe
| been unable 10 prevent the oufrages
thas enumerated, or to punish the often
| Qeis. tact which is also equally true OF
| the United States Courts in Mississippi.
81. That the present Democratic as
tendency in Mississippi is due solely to
the outFages thus cnuM rated.
! SO. Thai it there had been free cleo
ton there would have been eighty Repub
! licans to thirty. five ID mOcrats IL the
/ House anG twenty-five Republicans to
fifteen Democrats in theS9nate; therefore,
that the present State Legs laturc aud
State government Of Mississippi are not
! lawful bodies, and their acts are not en-
titled to recognition oy the political de-
partments If the government "i the
United States, although the President
may in his discretion recog nlz9 II as a
government de .facto for the pre- ervatlon
Of public peace.
33. THAT it follows that Governor
Ames is still Of right the lawful Govern
or Of Missi, sinpl.
"a Thai. fually, the state Of M s,isSip-
pl Is at present under the coutrul Oh an
organized body of aimed men who are
bound together by common purpose to
deprive the negro of the free exercise OF
the rig BIT Of suffrage, and to re-establish
andmsintain the supremacy OF the white
line Democracy in violation alike Of the
! Constitution ottheir own State. and ofthe
IConstltution IF the united States.
SIS That armed men from Louisiana
aud Aiabam1 were Drought oger TO Mis-
slssippi by The Lamar DEM cracy, and
helped 10 swell Their majority.
4 SO. That when deceht DtmHcrats were
iadgts oi elections the White Liners COM
Ipelled Them to resign before The vo'in2
Ibegan
81 That in one county every Repubii-
can official was run cut ofthe County, and
all of them have since been kept out, not
being allowed even TO sell their Fea'
estate, and no one. even White Line
i Democrats. being allowed to buy IT,
The report concludes As follows:
The power of the National Govern
lhent will be invoked, and ho lor and
duty will alike require its exercise The
nation cannot witness vii indifference
i the dlminlop 81 lawlessuesS and anarchy
Eiu State, with their incident evils and
acknowledge OF the vita}'ie consrqH"ces
1t owes "a duty to be cltlZeUs 81 the
1 United States residing IN Mississippi
this duty it must perform. 1t has guar.
anted to tie State of NJ lssis>ippi a Re
publican form OF government, and The
Iguarantee must be made good. The
measures necessary and poss DE IN an
|aXlgency are three:
t l. LeWs may be passed by Congres:
fer the protection ofthe rightsof ci'lz1ns
in the respective States.
9. States in anarchy, or wherein the
! affairs are controlled ny bodies OF armed
men, should be denied representation IN
Congress.
3. The constitutional guarantee OF re.
publican form Of government to every
Stat. will ~ ouiro the limited StattS ii
! these disord ers Increase or even continue.
and all milder measures shall! Grove ms
| efectual, to reconstruct the South upon
"a Repub lican basis
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