Year: 1869

lie meetings were called at various places through
out said State by the persons 80 combined and con
spring, at which it was among other things pub
licly resolved, as follows:


lst That no elector in this State opposing tht
election of said candidate supported BY said con
spiracy should be employed by persons belonging
to said combination and conspiracy, or should bs
retained in the services of said conspirstors.
I'd. That no such elector should be retained in
the employment or be permitted to reside on the
lands of said conspirators.


3d. That all electors supporting said last named
candidates should receive support and protection
as citizens and neighbors from said conspirators in
their lives and property


It was publicly announced that unless the peo
pie of color in said State should support said last
named candidates, that they would be driven with
violence from said State and prohibited from re-
naming or living within the same


That in pursuance of the interest and object oi
said conspiracy, the public newspapers of said
State were almost without exception Influenced
and required to give publicity to such determine.
tions and objects, and by other public and secret
means, including the persecution of all opposing
the acts of said oonspirators, the majority Of the
people of said district were compelled to conform
to and comply with the plans and purposes Of said
conspiracy.


That for the further pursuit Of the aforesaid
purposes and interest of said eonspirators, armed
bodies of men were formed in different parts Of
this State, especially in the Third and Fourth
Congressional Districts, who patrolled said dis,
tricts by day and by night for many weeks prior to
said election giving out with threats and acts Of
personal violence, chat persons opposing the elec-
ton Of said last named candidates would be killed
or driven out Of the country that many persons
were actually killed for said causes by said armed
bodies and the people of said Third and Fourth
Congressional Districts were inimidated and over
awed to such an extent that large numbers were
prevented from voting for the candidates running
in opposition to the candidates supported by said
eonspirators, and that in consequence Of such un-
lawful acts and influences at least seven thousand
electors of said Fourth Congressional District were
prevented from depositing their votes for me as
member of Congress of the United States from
said District, which votes, if deposited, would
have given me majority Of the votes cast for such
last named Office.


2Sth That at each and all of the different cleo
ton precincts in each Of the counties heretofore
mentioned in said district all and every Of the
fraudulent and illegal votes cast were cast for you,
and counted for you, and that shall demand o
comparison of all the ballots with the names and
numbers of the voters on the registration and poll
books, and comparison of said books Of the
different election precincts heretofore mentioned in
said Congressional District


29th That it would be impossible for me with
safety to myself to 60 into some parts Of said dis
trict for the purpose of taking testimony on this
contest, and that there are many important wit
nesses residing in different parts of said district,
whose testimony cannot obtain, as said persons
would not dare give testimony from fear Of person
al violence or dismissal from employment.


And further that I was the only legal candidate
for the Office of member of Congress to the Forty
First Congress of the United States of America
from said Fourth Congressional District for the
suffrage of the electors Of said district on said day
of election, 1.-THE Sd day of November, 1867 and
that am entitled to the seat in said Congress
from said district by virtue Of having received a
majority of the legal votes in said district


[Signed.


ALEXANDER s. WALLACE