above to be a true and correct copy of the official re-
turns of the last four elections held in this county, as
appears from the official records on file in that office.
(Signed)
"CHARLES W. BUCKLEY,
"Judge of the Probate Court"

Frauds in other counties-Wilcox county
-Some “specimen bricks” of how the
Democrats secured a majority of 2,000 in
this county.

vote for all the candidates on it according to the returns.

HOPEWELL BEAT-McDuffie has the names of 136 persons who voted for him, and yet the returns give only 80 votes for McDuffie, but 98 for Coffey. Net fraud in this beat, 56 votes.

BROOK'S BEAT-The returns give Coffey 236 votes, while there were not 25 Democratic votes in the whole

beat, and Coffey did not get, colored votes and all, over 50 votes. Net fraud in this beat, 185 votes.

PRAIRIE HILL BEAT-There are but four white men living here, and one of them voted for McDuffie; the returns give Coffey 89, and McDuffie only 77 votes. McDuffie has the names of 186 men who voted there for him. Net fraud in this beat, 86 votes.

"The features presented by the election in other counties of the State are pretty much the same as those occurring in Montgomery, with here and there some peculiarity of fraud, which renders it worthy of mention separately. Before the election of the leading Republicans of Wilcox county, fearing that they could not get a fair count in the eastern end of the county, concluded to advise the Republicans in several precincts not to vote, and then the Democratic steal would be made more palpable. Republicans posted themselves near the polls and took down the name of every colored man who voted. At Snow Hill seven colored men voted. The Democrats gave themselves in their official return at this precinct 599 votes. But accord-gave Coffey 23. Net fraud in this beat, 20 votes. ing to the census returns of last June, there are only 132 whites living in the precinct over twenty-one years of age. Add to the white the seven colored votes, and we have a total of 139 votes polled at this precinct, 460 less than the official return. At Allenton precinct two colored men voted. The Democrats gave themselves 347 votes. The last census shows but 62 whites in the precinct over twenty-one years of age. Total, 64 votes, 283 less than the official return. It was the same at Pine Apple. In Bonham's precinct the returns gave the Republicans 22 votes and the Democrats 476, making a total vote of 498, or 142 more males twenty-one years of age than reside in the precinct, according to the census. By such frauds as these, this strong Republican county, for the first time since the war, is made to return a Democratic majority of over 2,000."

LETOHATCHIR BEAT-One hundred and eighty-seven men voted for McDuffie; the returns give Coffey 212. votes, McDuffie 80. Net fraud in this beat, 107 votes.

STEEP CREEK BEAT-McDuffie's voters registered 190 names, all of whom cast their ballots for him; but the returns show 146 votes for Coffey, and only 96 for McDuffie. Net fraud in this beat, 91 votes. PINTALE BEAT-McDuffie had 316 votes, while they

Sample frauds in Lowndes county - How its Republican majority of 3,000 is changed into a pretended Democratic majority of 2,000!-Official figures-Net fraud in each of 13 voting "beats."

"Lowndes county, which has a legitimate Republican majority of 3,000, and which has always cast its vote for the Republicans, was this time stolen from them by a Democratic majority of 2,000. At all the polls list of Republican voters were kept by intelligent men, each voter giving his name as he passed up to vote, and an examination of those lists shows that the Republicans never voted more solidly. We give herewith some official figures, as instances of the shameless frauds committed in that county:

Coffey, Democrat, 3,506; McDuffie, Republican, 1,800;
Owen, Independent, 503.

BENTON BEAT returned 125 votes for Coffey, 70 for
McDuffie.
McDuffie has obtained the names of 166
men who voted for him there. Net fraud in Benton
Beat, 95 votes.

CHURCH HILL BEAT returned Coffey 190 votes, McDuffie 13. McDuffie has the names of 177 men who voted for him. Net fraud in this beat, 164 votes.

COLLERINE BEAT returned Coffey 251 votes, McDuffie 24. McDuffie got here 230 votes, and the Republicans of the beat stand ready to swear to it. Net fraud in this beat, 206 votes.

GRIDIRONVILLE-McDuffie's voters registered their names publicly, giving 442 votes. The returns gave him 102; the remainder to Coffey. Net fraud, 340 votes in this precinct. At this beat there were white men who voted for McDuffie and not for the balance of the ticket, and yet the Republican ticket got the same

LOWNDESBORO' BEAT-McDuffie got 440 votes; the returns give him 244 votes, and Coffey 272 votes. Net At previous elections the fraud in this beat, 196 votes. Democrats did not get over 75 votes at this box, and a less number of colored votes were polled for them there at this time than ever before.

ST. CLAIR-McDuffie received 176 votes, but the reNet turns gave him only 46 votes, and Coffey 166. fraud in this beat, 131 votes.

WHITEHALL PRECINCT-McDuffie has the names of 276 persons who voted for him; still the returns give him only 71 votes, but 220 for Coffey. Net fraud in this beat, 255 votes.

In that county, which is entirely devoted to planting, the blacks outnumber the whites enormously.

Green county-The Sheriff's office broken into-A Republican majority of 2,000 changed to a Democratic majority of 27! In Green County the Republican candidate for Probate Judge was elected by over 2,000 majority; but, besides the same frauds committed as enumerated above, the office of the Sheriff was broken into, and a box with 420 Republican majority stolen, and then the Democratic candidate was declared elected by 27 majority.

Republican majorities

deliberately destroyed everywhere-Nullification of the Constitutional amendments.

It would be possible to give a detailed account of frauds which occurred throughout the State at this election which would occupy the entire space of a daily newspaper, but it would be a mere repetition of what has already been given. It is sufficient to say that in all cases where it was possible the Republican majorities have been deliberately counted for the Democracy, or they have been nullified and destroyed by the action of the very men who were appointed to receive, record, and preserve them.

To-day Alabama is Republican by 20,000 majority, if the votes which are put in the ballot-boxes were honestly counted. The foregoing facts, which are vouched for as true by men who were on the ground in each case-in some cases vouched for by affidavits-when considered in connection with the provisions of the election law, and with the action of the officers under that law, establish beyond all doubt the purpose of the entire Democratic party, of Alabama at least, to ignore, disregard, and nullify the late constitutional amendments by disfranchising the entire colored population of the State.

CHAPTER VII.

History of Democratic Administrative "Looting."

"We pledge ourselves anew to the constitutional doctrines and traditions of the Democratic party, as illustrated by the teachings and example of a long line of Democratic statesmen and patriots." **_Declaration 1, National Democratic Platform, 1880.—"Public money*** for public purposes solely.****-Declaration 12, Ibid.

PART I

“Retrenchment, Economy and Reform” of the Pecksniffian Democracy-From 1828.

augurated President of the United States. Proclaiming the maxim that "to the victors belong the spoils," Jackson let slip the "Furies of the Guillotine" in a wholesale proscription of the old and tried officials of former Administrations. John Q. Adams, in the preceding four years, had made but twelve changes-all for cause. In the preceding 40 years, all his predecessors together had made only 132 changes-of these Jefferson had removed sixty-two; but Jackson, in the genuine spirit of a Democratic reformer, in one year removed, it was estimated, 1,500 officials-in one year nearly 12 times as many as by all his predecessors from the beginning of the Government. The officers removed were experienced, capable, and trusty. The character of those who filled their places-"Slamm, Bang & Co."-is attested by the "reform" which followed.

PART III.

Democratic "Reform "-Its Indian and Public Land GrabsSecretary Cass Pockets Illegally $68,000 as Extra AllowancesSpeculations of the Highest Officials under Jackson in Public Lands-Fourth Auditor Amos Kendall's $50,000 Fee.

"Retrenchment, Economy, and Reform," as a slogan, were early patented by the Pecksniffian Democracy. In 1828, in the House of Representatives, the partisans of Andrew Jackson, the founder of modern Democracy, raised the cry of “extravagance and fraud" against the existing National administration-that of the younger Adams. After a protracted and acrimonious debate, an investigation was ordered by the House, but Mr. Hamilton, its chairman, in his report to the committee utterly fails to convict the younger Adams or his administration of either extravagance or corruption, or even to raise a presumption of either; and in history that administration stands unsurpassed by any which preceded it, or has followed it, for practical statesmanship of the highest order, for incorruptible integrity, for its success in the management of the affairs of the nation, and for exalted patriotism. Nevertheless, the Democracy clamored against it, as they now clamor against the Republicans. They denounced it for extravagance and fraud. They fabricated the infamous " bargain and corruption" libel against Adams and the chivalrous Henry Clay, charging as they now charge against Mr. Hayes and the Republicans, and with about equal truth, that the Democracy, by Adams and Clay in the House of 1824-25, A rage for speculation in the public lands had been cheated out of the Presidency distinguished the period. General Lewis charges which their authors subsequently Cass, Secretary of War, who pocketed illeconfessed were not "only false" in them-gally, as extra allowances, the sum of $68,000, selves, but were "impossible to be true,' united with Martin Van Buren, Secretary of but which they clamorously urged in every State, Benjamin F. Butler, of N. Y., Attorney vile form and literally lied Adams down. General, and others, in a land Credit Mobilier Thus it was that the Democracy originally for speculation in public lands-for speculasucceeded to power and place-by lying and tion in sales by the Government of which hypocrisy. they were members. Amos Kendall, the Fourth Auditor, and subsequently Postmaster General, in like manner united with a Boston land company, for a fee of $50,000, for the wholesale robbery of certain Indians in Mississippi of their lands-all swindling enterprises in contemptuous violation of the law, R. 194, second session Twenty-fourth Congress.) of which they were the administrators. (H.

PART II.

Inauguration of Andrew Jackson, the Founder of Modern Democracy-“To the Victors belong the Spoils." The fraudulent character of this Democratic On March 4, 1829, Andrew Jackson, pledged Land Credit Mobilier, these "Joint Stock. to retrenchment, economy and reform, was in- | Companies" for speculation in public lands,

is described by the Globe, Jackson's organ, in | but pleads that to them his "appeals " were its issue of August 2, 1836. Its article is a "founded solely on the justice of the claim virtuous but characteristic attempt to cast the odium of these speculations upon the opponents of Democracy. It says:

"These [joint stock] companies will presently accumulate large amount of specie, as they have heretofore done of paper-will, by their agents, attend the land offices and public sales-will drive off the actual settlers from competition, by telling them that if they attempt to buy their places, for instance, at $5 per acre, the real value, they will bid them up to 6, or 8, or $10; but that if they permit it to pass into the hands of the company (by not bidding) at the Government price of $1.25, they will allow them to have the selected spot at $4.50. By the control thus obtained by combinations among speculators, all competition at the sales of public lands is prevented, and actual occupants, to save their homes from the grasp of capital, against which they cannot contend, are content to give the field to the speculators-to permit them to buy their places at the Government price, in consideration of reserving the privilege of obtaining them at second hand at some advance, but at a price less than they would be compelled to give under a competition with the long purses at auction."

In such a Credit Mobilier, in such a joint stock company united Jackson's Secretary of War (Cass) and State (Van Buren), and his Attorney General, B. F. Butler.

PART IV.

The infamous “Galphin Swindle" -Jackson's Secretary of State, John Forsyth of Ga., the author, attorney and lobbyist of the "Swindle"-A Southern claim through which the nation was robbed of over $200,000.

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the hardship of the condition of the claimants." Hence, lobbied in 1835 by Forsyth, Jackson's Secretary of State, approved by General Cass, his Secretary of War, and justified in 1837 by the Democratic majority of the Wise committee, engineered through Congress in 1849, by another distinguished Democratic reformer, Mr. Burt, of South Carolina, and the principal paid by James K. Polk, the question of interest was only reserved and its liquidation by Polk only defeated for want of time. Interest was subsequently paid by Secretary of War Crawford, of Georgia, and the nation swindled out of over $200,000! Secretary Crawford, a noble son of the South, pocketed as his attorney's fees one-half of the whole swindle!

PART V.

The General Post Office under Adams self-sustaining and contributing $1,103,063 to the revenues of the nation-Under Jackson bankrupt amid the foulest corruption and fraud.

Senators Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, and John In 1834, after a hard battle (from 1830), M. Clayton, of Delaware, forced an inquiry by the Senate Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads into the condition of the Post "insolvent," a helpless prey to maladminisOffice Department. It found the Department tration, corruption, robbery, and fraud. In the preceding administration, under John Q. Adams, the Department had been not only self-sustaining, but had contributed annually $1,103,063 to the revenues of the nation. But now, in a few brief years, under Democratic reform, it was bankrupt, a burden upon the Treasury. (S. R. 422, first session Twentythird Congress.) Mr. Felix Grundy, of Tennessee, the Democratic chairman of the committee, was opposed to the investigation. Postmaster Barry refused to recognize its authority. He declared that he was responsible, not to the Senate, but to the President, and through him to the people. He refused to furnish the committee the information it requested, and it was forced to prosecute its labors under the greatest difficulties, among mutilated records and fabricated accounts in the greatest confusion. But even under such disadvantages it developed a condition of affairs utterly without a parallel in all our previous history.

In 1834, John Forsyth, of Georgia, succeeded Lewis McLane, of Delaware, as Secretary of State, in Jackson's Cabinet. In 1850 the payment of the notorious "Galphin swindle " scandalized the nation. By the Democracy it was denounced as "infamous' -as without a precedent -as "a clear and unmitigated swindle !" Their memories were bad. 1837, before the Wise committee, John Ross, the Cherokee chief, testified that in 1835, in the Cherokee treaty of that year, an article covering the "Galphin was inserted directly through the influence of "Mr Forsyth, Secretary of State;" that it was urged, in the negotiations of the treaty, that Mr. Forsyth had great influence with the President; that "Mr. Forsyth could and would influence the President to grant a sum sufficient to cover the Galphin additional to the sum stipulated in the treaty if the Cherokees would sanction a treaty upon such terms.' The article was consequently inserted. Mr. Forsyth admitted that he advised" its inser-"Extra allowances” alone exhaust the tion, as also his personal interest in the payment of both principal and interest. He had applied to both Secretaries of War, Eaton and Cass; as Secretary of State had certified the papers from the Department of State to the Secretary of War. General Cass had told him that the claim was just; and when the treaty was pending before the Senate had

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whole postal revenues of States-"Oppressive monopolies" in postal contracts— Contractors share their plunder in wines and cash with the Postmaster General and his chief clerk, and lend their credit to this department.

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hundreds of thousands annually, frequently blanks, twine," etc. So the Hills, of the New given without an increase of duty or service, Hampshire Patriot, the Shadrach Penns, of without the authority of law, and in many the Louisville Public Advertiser, the Albany Arcases where there was an increase of service, gus, New York Courier and Enquirer, the Wash"unreasonable, extravagant, and out of all ington Globe, the national organ, etc. proportion with such increase." These extra prices paid to F. P. Blair, of the Globe, were allowances actually exhausted the whole postal reve- enormous." Of the $22,957.08 of "incinues of States, and were granted practically as dental expenses during the Presidential pensions to party favorites. This favoritism election of 1832, $13,673.31 were paid to the took a hundred shapes. Certain contractors editors of newspapers. Of that Blair rewere compelled to surrender their contracts ceived $8,386.50! During the election for the benefit of others. Contracts were he received from this secret fund alone granted on bids different from advertisement, about $116 daily for every day his paper and others were altered or changed in mate- was issued. The details are disgusting. Malrial respect after they had been accepted. administration, corruption, and fraud run riot. Proposals for carrying the mail were withheld The aggregate excess of expenditures in four from advertisement. The contracts, as in the years, as compared with the preceding four case of the route from Chicago to Green Bay, years, under Adams, was, '$3,336,859 !" The actually given to clerks in the Department amount of funds actually "sunk" by the Deunder other men's names, and the compensa-partment since 1829 was $1,032,933; and the tion on bids raised without an increase of ser- aggregate of its "indebtedness" April 11, 1834, vice. Mail lines were authorized, "at a heavy was $1,123,600!" to avoid immediate exposure expense," to run more than once daily with- by the collapse of his Department, the Postout benefit to the public, and steamboat lines master General was forced, besides his loans were established by private contract, without from contractors, to unlawfully contract loans, authority of law, at an enormous expense. bearing interest, from the banks. There was Oppressive monopolies were actually establish- no evading the judgment. (S. R. 42, first sesed by the Department for the benefit of pri- sion Twenty-third Congress.) At the next sesvate parties. An instance is given in which sion the report of the Democratic Committee an agreement, drawn by an officer of the of the House was even more damaging than Government and adopted at his pressing in- the Senate's. Hence, under the unanimous stance, with the sanction of the Postmaster verdict of the Senate, Postmaster General General, was entered into between two com- Barry was compelled to resign-to accept propanies of mail contractors to put down all op-motion to the mission to Spain, with its lucrative outposition lines of coaches-all competition of fits and infits. passengers on their respective mail routes. The contractors, in turn, divided by handsome loans never repaid-generously relieved the Postmaster General of his debts, and enabled the chief clerk to speculate largely in real estate in Washington. They also furnished the table of both with the most choice wines! With shrewd business foresight the contractors lent their credit to the Department when threatened with collapse, and the Department responded by pledging its funds for the benefit of contractors.

“Incidental expenses" and "secret service fund"-Special service plums of the Department-Subsidizing the partisan press -Maladministration, corruption and fraud run riot-Unlawful loans bearing interest-Postmaster General Barry punished by promotion !

The "incidental expenses of the Department-not its ". contingent expenses," which were separate, distinct, and additional, but its "secret-service fund"-in a single year, (1829), increased to $56,471, " exceeding that of any former year," but in 1832, during the Presidential election, it suddenly swelled to $88,000! It was principally the newspaper fund. After deducting the support of traveling partisan emissaries, under the title of postal agents," it was the fund out of which the numerous party presses were permitted to richly share the plunder. So the Greenes, of the Boston Statesman, the elder Greene (Nathaniel) being postmaster at Boston, and certifying the accounts which were for " printed

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PART VI.

The old U. S. Bank-Jackson raids and destroys it—Transfers the Government Revenues to the Pet "State or bogus” BanksTheir explosion and the loss of millions to the Nation—Appalling consequences to Business and the People.

About this time the affairs of the old Bank of the United States and its branches began to the government revenues, and in consequence wane. By law the bank was the depository of was the treasury of the nation. In 1834, by a daring act of usurpation, President Jackson removed the deposits. He transferred them to certain "pet " State banks of the Democratic reformers, who claimed the revenues of the nation as the "spoils" of "THE PARTY!" The destruction of the bank and subsequent explosion of the "pet banks" involved the loss of millions, the destruction and ruin of thousands of the business men and the business of the country-of $500,000,000 of private capital-and the consequent suffering and want of tens of thousands of all ranks and classes throughout the Union. The Democratic reformers, nevertheless, applauded. They laughed at the misery and ruin they had caused, belittled their magnitude.