Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-16
FLORIDA.
ADDRESS BY THE DEMOCRATS.

ppREss By THE DEMOCRATS.
LIVE OAK, FLA, Dec. 6.-The demo-
Gratis issued the following address To-
day to Hon. Samuel j. Randall, VI
ington, ID. c.:
To the House of Representatives..
The undersigned, who came hlther TO
be present at a fair count OF the votes Dy
the people of Florida, have had the
grief to be witnesses OF the counting out
Of the Tilden electors chosen, and the
counting in of the Hayes electors reJec..
ted, at the polls. We have witnessed
the progress and the contamination OF q
deliberate and preconcerted scheme OF
fraud. This scheme, first contrived tor
execution ut the ballot boxes through
out the state. having there fallen snort
of success, was then continued n pro-
NOTED, by several county eanvassins
boards. and was yesterday supplement
ted and finished by the radical majority
of the state board OF canvassers at TAI
lahassee. 1t is manifest 10 every intel
ligent observer here:
Fir5t-That upon the face OF Inc
returns the Tilden electors had q major
ity of all the votes cast.
Second-The Tllden electors had this
majority over and above the radical
count after 1t had been swollen by many
hundred illegal votes through local
frauds and false returns.
Third-That the majority declared fol
the Hayes electors is a fictitious, false
and fraudulent majority, which the two
| radical state canvassers manufactured oy
throwing out whole democratic precincts
and counties in open disregard OF facts
and with fragrant violation of law. They
did not even keep to the shrewder patti
blazed out for them by their legal nd
| yisers from the north. All along thell
devious track the marks Of premedita
ton, the footprints of a shameless pur
pose are unconcealed.
The democratic electors RECEIVING
their certificates OF the true result from
the Encouragement, a member OF tn
board of canVassers' met to-day and cas-
their votes for Tilden and Hendricks
The radical electors. fortified with tn
false certificates of Gov. Stearns, mot to
day and cast their votes for Hayes an
Wheeler. 1t is for the congress to judg'
and determine whether this assault upol
the rights and liberties of freemen, thu
Tar prosecuted under the cover of tn
arms and the authority of the fedora
administration, shall be crowned at tn
capital with success. Familiar with tn
history of carpet-bag corruption an.
misgovernment, we yet needed q visi
to Florida to convince US Of the dlstres
that rules. 1t has subverted her socia
order; it has plunged her people to tn
point of Impeachment; it has abohsh
ed the usual contentious of political par
ties, and arrested the progress of he
two races in self-government. In truth
the late struggle at the polls was nc
between democrats and republicans,
was between a hapless race misgulde
by q few knavish advsnturers, and eve
convicted felons who call themselve
republicans. and a gentle. long-sufferlr
people whose patience has permitte
their oppressors to live. The republica
:. party, rs we know it at the north, hs
t no existence IN Florida, unless indee
it shall confess a fellowship with thos
abusing her livery by seeking prof
? through.their crimes.
Geo. W. Biddle, Pa, Leverett Sailor
stall, Mass, John r. Reed, Penn, Get
! W. Guthrie, Pa, Perry H. Smith. Ills
{ Jos. E. Brown, Ca, David W. Sellers
Pa. Malcomb Hay, Pa, Sam G. Thoml
son, Pa p. NJ. B. Youhg.Ga. G.. Gibson
:. Mo-, Manton Marble, N. Y.