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ABBEvlLLE C. H., s. c.,
1ANI'ARY 20 lXIl-

ABBErlLLE C. H., s. c.,
JANUARY 10, 1879.
l.. G.. NoRTNRor. Esq
Imitrd States district attorney GorS. c.:
SIR-I received your communication. ad.
dressed to me as L. S. Supervisor. There
must be some mistake. I am n Republican
and Alb. Titus, the County Chairman, mott.
fled me that ! was to have a commission as
United States Supervisor at the election in
Abhcvillc, but the commission never mn
and | was not n supervisor. don't know Il
Ly. was ut the polls ut Abhcvillc COur!
House on the day Of election and ! can testify
that there was no unlawful means. violence.
intimidation or fraud used to affect thcrcSuli
of the election In my know!eagc IN the poll
ing, counting or refusal to poll or count tn"
votes of those entitled to vote. and what ]
say Is. as far rs l know. the facts. You ask.
I'd II | have amy facts OF my own personal
knowledge. have no facts except that the
election was the q%uictcst election ! ever
did see. l voted myself and nobody tried to
stop Inc or ask me how | voted. When vOt-
cd there was only two or three people at the
polls. There WAS no need FOR any intimida-
ton, fraud or violence, because the Republic
can party in the County had no ticket In the
field, for the County officers, or for the Lcgis-
laturc, or for Congress. No tickets were put
the hands OF tie Republican voters by
The County Chairman. In fact he never had
any. .
You ask nc to give n brief statement Of
what particular fncis each witness can tcSti-
fy. have no witness 10 tcSlllN TO any mum.
idatiun or violence, for ] have heard no COIN
plant by any Republican In the County. that
he was not treated fair. All the Republicans
that voted the Democratic ticket, and n great
many never voted.
! would state that the Republican party
in this County was not organized for the
election. \ meeting was cnllcd = few days
before tho election and n very few delegates
attrnded-n0t more than sixteen. The
made up n ticket composed part Democrats
and part Republicans, and All the Democrats
declined the nomination. We had not much
wns sent 10 General SmallS at Beaufort, to
have four thousand tickets printed. The
Con vention WAS held on the 26tii October,
1873; and the order for tickets was sent = few
days later, and n dispatch came to the COun-
ty Chairman the Saturday before the election
informing him tibet the order was too late,
and they did not have time to print the
tick cts. We made no effort, after that, 10 get
IT was too late, and so 1t happened
that the election day came and we had no
tick cts for our party.
I have The communications which you
sent to me, and asked me 20 deliver them to
the Supervisors In the County. know OF no
commissioned Republican Supervisor, or
any one who acted us such.
! received your OnmunicatiOnS for W. NJ.
Holland, Z. II. Wceuns, Harvey Jones. b. r.
Strothcr, Cupid Middleton. II. a. Widsman.
J. L.. Adams, W. W, Fraser. Thomas Jones,
William Holloway. W. H. Nance. b. +. Dom
aldSon, and will deliver them.
have tried to give you all the facts, rs you
'"''' WI NJ. pnEssI.Y.