Year: 1868

This Association. shall be composed of the
citizens of the county of--, who
shall subscribe to and abide by the following
Constitution and Bylaws:


CONSTITUTION.


The object of this Association shall be to
maintain he Constitution o, the United States
AMI of the state of Mississippi, and all laws
passed In pursuance Thereof.


United and vigorous eff rts will be made to
disseminate correct views of Constitutional
Liberty to oppose all Illegal legislation
whether State or Federal; to expose and con-
denim all corrupt political combinations endan-
gering the public welfare: and to maintain
the Constitutional rights of the people in all
respects.


Believing that the series of measures known
as the Reconstruction acts of Congress are gross
ly in violation of the State and Federal Con-
>titutiOns, and that the Constitutional Con-
VentiOnS elected under them and the CUnSti-
tutiOnS they may adopt are illegal aud void,
we shall oppose the same by all legal and
honorable means, and labor for the restoration
of The Union according to the terms and
-pirIt of the Federal AMI State Constitutions.


Special attention will be given to the protec-
tiOn and security of freedmen in their Con~ti-
tutiOnal tights of person and property, and TO
their instruction in all matters pertaining to
the public interest.


BYLAWS.


1st The officers of this Association shall



one to be selected from each Police Distri t
in the couHty-a Secretary and Il easurer,
and such other officers and committeeman a,
the Association shall from time to time
appoint.


End. The regular meetings of the AssOcia-
tiOn shall be menthlN, on the-day of each
month, and at such other times and occasions
the public interest requires and this AssO-
citation may appoint.


Sd. There shall be a committee of five or
more appointed by the President OF the AssOci-
alton, resilient in each Police District of the
county of whom the Vice President for each
District shall be chairman and 1t shall be the
duty of these committees TO assemble on the
call of the Chairman, to concert aud execute
all appropriate measures Tor the success OF
the party and the protection of the public IN
terest; to confer freely with all the people OF
their Districts in regard TO the objects of this
Association, as set forth in the Constitution f.
the same; to procure sisnatures to this Consti-
tuition aud Bylaws !; to make and report to
the county Association a list OF all the citizens
of said D >trict who belong to this Association,
and, also a separate list if those who do not !;
and to this end, said District committees may
appoint subcommittee with such powers as
may be deemed eXpedlent-


h. 1t shall be the further duty of these
committees, and each member of this ASsocl-
alton, to explain the objects of the Associa-
tion to the people, TO induce them to become
active members of the same; and to establish
entire unanimlty of political sentiment and
pubic po icy, and to give legal expression to
same at the ballot box on all proper occasions.


9th. The ballat box must De preserved from
all frauds on the elective franchise and to this
end committees sh,u be appointed by the
President of the County Association, with the
advice OF the District committees, with power,
and whose duty it shall be to attend the polls OF
election in each precinct on the day OF election,
and superintend the same to challenge illegal
voters or persons suspected of attempting to
vote Illegally, and to see that all legal voters
have far opportunity to exercise the elective
franchise and for tbis purpose said commit
tees shall appoint one or more secretaries, whose
duty it shall be to take and preserve list OF
alI persons voting at each precinct in the
county. and report the same to the County
Association; and if any fraudulent votes shan
he discovered, the same shall be publicly eX-
posed. ....i.., eo.,.o1


9th. The members of this Association agree
to act upon the time-honored maxim that
.IEternal vigilance is the price OF Liberty,
and hereby pledge themse YES to the people,
and to one another, to promote the interest OF
the marty bv all honorable means.


5th. Additional Bylaws and Resolutions
may be passed from time to time as emergen-
cies may require.