Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-08-19
Poaceable Methods Down South

The writer Of the following letter
was born ana raised in Lancaster;
served in the war against the rebels
and for ten years carried enc Of
their bullets ia bis Gosh. He has
beon resident Of Alabama for
nearly fifteen years. The letter was
a private letter addressed to Col.
CLARK
Montgomery, AlabaQa, Aug 10, 1850.
DEAR COLONEL:
We Republicans down mere in this
beautiful sunny south are very much
concerned about the result of the ap>
preaching Presidential election and
feel that the work OF the last twenty
years will be lost should the Demo
Gratis succeed.
As we are among the enemy and
the press in the hands OF the same,
and the elections a grand farce, the
outlook, or at least the surroundings
arc dark and blue aud our only hope
is in the free North.
The population Of this county
Montgomery is largely colored and
ahc Republican majority is about
three thousand. At the state and
county election on the ID inst. the
colored men voted almost solid for
the Republican ticket, yet the Demo.
Gratis who had control of the election
machinery returned q majority for
their candidates of 1900 aud over.
The Democrats try to make it ap.
pear that the oolored people are de.
sorting the Republican party in large
numbers and joining their party, but
there is not a word of truth in the
claim and the story is manufactured
for the sole purpose of committing
fraud the more easily. They have
been claiming and Boosting Of a col
ored Hancock club here n this city
numbering 600 when in fact there
are not to exceed twenty members,
and one Of the persons who deserted
the club says they number exactly
sixteen, or did before be left.
This state is to-day on free cleo
ton .fair count Republican by ten
thousand votes, but at the late farce
the Democrats counted In their can
didstes by something like sixty
thousand and there is no estimating
whit Hancoek's majority viii BE un~
less we can have some protection
from fraud.
The former mode of balldozjng
aud killing Republicans has at the
present time almost ceased in this
state aud the more peaeeable way OF
counting cut has been adopted
However on the % inst. the Govern.
or doomed it necessary TO send
company of militia by special train
to McGee's Switch, ten miles from
this place, in order t. convert a ma.
jority Of coo co. red Republican
votes into majority Of $50 for the
Democrats.
i suppose you havo seen an &C.
count O. this affair in the New York
1r55uGs and other northern papers,
all Of which Is true,
The Democrats here claim that
Wisconsin Will give a majority for
Hancock in November. OF course |
/ do not believe anything OF the kind
bat thought I would write You and
inquire as TO the general outlook
from northern stand point.
/ From what / see in The northern
7 papels it appears to me that the
union soldiers intend TO vote the
/ way they fought and that The Repub.
acan prospects are tlatteriug. You
may rest assured the South will be
solid, made so By the rebel soldiers
not only voting the way they fought
but by iraudu.ently counting the
votes Of the people whom the union
soldier fought to free.
Yours truly,
JNo. w, RAINEs.