 | Walter Lynwood Fleming - Reconstruction - 1907 - 546 pages
...John P. Hale, of New Hampshire. Such men were gradually driven over to the Democrats. [18"67-1868] THEIR election was the most ridiculous farce ever...than you did at the same time in your far-off home. . . In all the elections ever held in the United States, there has not been so much fraud committed... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - United States - 1914 - 476 pages
...from planters ? SOUTHERN GOVERNMENT UNDER RECONSTRUCTION ELECTION TO THE ALABAMA CONVENTION OF 1868 Their election was the most ridiculous farce ever...than you did at the same time in your far-off home. ... In all the elections ever held in the United States, there has not been so much fraud committed... | |
| |
Their election was the most ridiculous farce ever beheld. I wish you could have seen the poor, ignorant blacks giving in their " bits of paper," as they called their printed ballots, when they knew no more of the names on them, who they were, what they... 