Year: 1868

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


CONSTITUTION.


The object of this Association shall be to
maintain he Constitution OF the United States,
and of the State of Mississippi, and all laws
passed In pursuance thereof.


United and vigorous efforts 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 iii violation of the State and Federal Con-
sttutions, and that the Constitutional Con-
ventionS elected under them and the Consti-
tutions they may adopt are illegal and 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
spirlt of the Federal and State Constitutions.


Special attention will be given to the protec-
ton and security of freedmen in their Constl-
tutional rights of person and property, and to
their INSTRUCTION in all matters porttaining to
the public interest.


BYLAWS.


1st The officers of this Association shall
consist of President and five Vice PIeslden S
one to be selected from each Police Distri I
in the county, Secretary and Treasurer,
and such other officers and committeeman as
the Association shall from time to time
appoint.


End. The regular meetings of the AssociG-
tion shall be monthly, on the--day of each
month, and at such other times and occasions
as the public interest requires and this Ass0-
citation may appoint.


3D.. There shall be committee of five or
more appointed by the President of the Associ-
alton, resident in each Police District of the
county of whom the Vice President for each
District shall be chairman; and it shall be the
duty of these committees to assemble on the
call of the Chairman, to concert and execute
all appropriate measures for the success OF
the party and the protection OF the pubic 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 Ct
the same; to procure signatures TO TINS consul
tuition and bylaws to make and report 10
the county Association a list OF all the cltlzens
of said District who belong to this Association,
and also separate list if those who do not ;
and to this end, said District committees may
appoint subcommittee with such powers as
may be deemed eXpedIent.


h. 1t shall be the further duty OF these
committees. and each member of this Associ-
ation to explain the objects of the Assocla-
tion to the people, to induce them to become
active members of the same; and to establish
entire unanimlty of political sentiment ana



same at the ballot box on all proper occasions


9th. The ballat box must be preserved from
all frauds on the elective franchise; ana TO TINS
end. committees shall 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 lllegal
voters or persons suspected of attempting to
vote Illegally, and to see that all legal voters
have a fair opportunity to exercise the elective
franchise : aud for this purpose said commit
tees shall appoint one or more Secretaries, Thoof @
ali persons voting at each precinct IN the
county, and report the same to the et county N
he discoyered the same shall be publicly eX-
posed Aa.oo;o+;o, os,ra.
80 an+ unon the time-honored maxim that
Eternal vigilance is the price Of Liberty 9,a
and hereby pledge themse YES TO tne p people ..
and to one another, to promote the interest o.
the party by all honorable means.


18th, Additional Bylaws and kesoiallons ur.o,,
NAV be passed from time to time as emergen'
eies may require.