PART II-Page 13-The first Potter Letter

declaring the Election should be thrown

into the House-That the House is the sole

judge of Presidential Elections, can act

alone on its own information, and is Su-

preme-Tilden as Commander-in-Chief.

PART III-Page 15-The Electoral Commis-

sion Act-Votes proving it a Democratic

Measure-The Electoral Count-the vote as

announced-Subsequent Revolutionary pro-

ceedings of the House before th Adjourn-

ment of the Forty-fourth Congress-Field's

Quo Warranto bill and vote on it.

PART IV-Page 17-Report of House Com-

mittee affirming the right of the House to

go behind returns, and its Authority over

the Count-Vote on Burchard's Amendment

to it.

PART V-Page 17-Morrison's letter on Til-

den's "pluck"-Tilden thought he had

"packed" the Electoral Commission-Hen-

dricks urges the House to declare Tilden

duly elected-Votes by which the House

makes that Revolutionary Declaration-

Subsequent Democratic Protests declaring

Hayes "a usurper"-Tilden officially noti-

fied of his Election-Did he take the Oath ?-

Revolutionary Talk-Hewitt's enforced

Resignation and singular Apology-Judge

Black's threat.

PART VI-Page 20-The Manhattan Club

Reception-Orders which the Democratic

House did its best to Enforce-Treasonable

Utterances of Tilden, Dorsheimer, Dudley

Field and others-One Thousand Distin-

guished Democrats from twelve different

States applaud the Treason!

PART VII-Page 23-Maryland selected to

make the First Movement in the Plot-The

Montgomery Blair Quo Warranto Resolu-

tion.

PART VIII-Page 23-The Potter Iniquity

founded upon the Maryland Initiative-

Randall's ruling on Question of Privilege-

The Revolutionary intent admitted-The

votes in full.

Investigation and Declaring that the House

has no Revolutionary Purpose-Withdrawn

Under Democratic Pressure after a Vote

Which Showed no Quorum--Ben Wilson's

Resolution to Extend the Investigation if

the Democratic Committee Believes in it-

Wilson's Admission as to " Intent" of the

Potter Inquiry-National Democratic Com-

mittee Approves the Potter Movement and

Refuses to Disavow the Treasonable Intent

-An Influential Democrat admits the In-

tent if they can only Make a Case.

PART XII-Page 29-Potter's open Letter to
the Reverend "Blank "His Fatal Admis-
sions Touching the Motives at the Bottom
of the Inquiry-The Revolutionary Intent
Laid Bare by his own Words-No Jesuitism
can cover it.

PART XIII-Page 31-Alex. H. Stephens' Sec-
ond Letter to Potter-Successfully Defends
the Hale Amendment, and Shows up the
Potter Movement in its True Colors-"Most
Unwise, Most Unfortunate, and Most Mis-
chievous"-"A Contemptible Farce or a
Horrible Tragedy "-Potter's Jesuitical Whis-
perings as "Delusive and Guileful" as those
of "The Great Arch-fiend."

PART XIV-Page 31-The Burchard Resolu-
tion-The Democrats "Forced against their
Will" to declare an Opinion on Hayes'
Title They are taken by Surprise, are
Panic-Stricken and Routed-A Graphic De-
scription of the Scene-The Vote by which
a Revolutionary House, Driven by Sudden
Fear, Condemns its Own Treasonable Pur-
poses.

PART XV-Page 33-The next Democratic
Move-Throwing Sawdust in People's Eyes
-Vote on House Judiciary Committee Re-
port and Resolution a mere piece of Clap-
Trap.

PART XVI-Page 33-The work of the Potter
Committee-Impeachment of Hayes and
Wheeler Talked of-How it was to be Done
-Hayes Out and Tilden in, or Hayes Out
and Thurman in-Democratic Authorities
for it.

lution-The Democratic Caucus Refuse to

Declare that "it is not Intended to Disturb

Hayes"-Republican Caucus Warning the

People that the Potter Movement is Řevo-

lutionary-Republican National Congress-

ional Committee's Address to the People

Declaring that the Potter Plot is to Suborn

Witnesses, Declare Hayes an Usurper, and

put Him out.

PART X-Page 26-Alexander H. Stevens'

Letter of Warning to Potter-The Tilden-

Potter Ruffians Hoot him Down in the

House-Interview with Stephens-"Snug,

the Joiner"-"The People want Peace and

Quiet."

PART XI-Page 27-Carter Harrison's "Ques-

tion of Privilege"-Resolution Extending

was Abandoned-Rebuke from the North-

New Tactics-Forcing the Extra Session-

Political Riders-The New Revolution-

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Starving Out," instead of Shooting

Down," the Government-Extra Session--

Threats of Senators Beck and Thurman and

Representatives Hurd, Muldrow, Singleton,

Tucker, Kitchin, O'Connor, Chalmers, Mc-

Mahon, Sparks, Tucker, and Blackburn-

"He who Dallies is a Dastard, He who

Doubts is Damned!"

PART XVIII-Page 37-Beaten at all Points,

(see chapters containing Vetoes) the Demo-

cratic Leaders fall back on the Fraud Issue

-The Game" Played out"-The Bitter End

to which they seek to Drive the North-

Rule or Ruin-Supremacy of the South or

Civil War-The Answer from the North.

CHAPTER IV.

Special Session of 1879-The Vetoes and

Votes.

PART I-Page 38-The President's Call for

an Extra Session-Why it was Necessary to

Issue it.

PART II-Page 38-Veto of the Army Appro-

priation Bill-Military Interference at Elec-

tions-Supervisors and Marshals Prohibited

from Preserving the Purity of Congressional

Elections-Votes in House and Senate on

the Bill.

PART III-Page 42-Veto of the Bill to Pro-

hibit Military Interference at Elections-

Votes in House and Senate-Brief History

of the Act which this Bill Proposed to Re-

peal-It was a Democratic Measure De-

signed to Support the Rebel Brigadiers in

the Field-It reacts, and hence the fight

against it.

PART IV-Page 45-Veto of the Legislative,

Executive and Judicial Appropriation Bill

-Repeal or Modification of the Law touch-

ing Supervisors and Marshals at Congress-

ional Elections, and Jurors in U. S. Courts

-Votes in House and Senate.

PART V-Page 48-Veto of the Judicial Ex-

penses Appropriation Bill-U. S. Marshal

and Deputies at Congressional Elections-

Votes in House and Senate.

PART VI-Page 49-Veto of the U. S. Mar-

shals' Appropriation Bill-Votes in House

and Senate.

PART VII-Page 51-Message of the Presi-

dent to Congress, urging the Necessity of

Immediate Appropriations for U. S. Marshals

and their Deputies-The Democratic Con-

gress Contemptuously Declines to do it-

Senator Windom's Bill Making Appropria-

tions to pay Marshals and Deputies defiantly

amended, and then Postponed Indefinitely.

CHAPTER V.

Regular Session (2d) 1879-80—U. S. Mar-

shals and their deputies-Vetoes and

Votes.

PART I-Page 51-The First Deficiency Bill

-General and Special Deputy Marshals-

Political riders-Veto and Votes in both

Houses.

PART II-Page 53-Special Bill regulating

pay, etc., of Deputy Marshals-Veto and

Votes.

PART III - Page 55-Payment of Marshals and

Deputies for 1880-Latest action in both

Houses-Propositions and votes.

CHAPTER VI.

A History of Democratic Election Frauds

from 1844 to 1880.

PART I-Page 56-"Counting in" Peculiarly
a Democratic Invention and Peculiarly a
Democratic Practice-Counting in of Polk
in 1844-Of Buchanan in 1857-The Attempt
to Count Tilden in in 1876-The Earlier
Frauds compared with the Later.

PART II-Page 59-Popular Votes vs. Electo-

ral Votes-Popular and Electoral Votes of

Harrison and Van Buren, Polk and Clay,

Harrison and Cass-Tilden's Pretended

"Popular Majority-Votes in the Free,
Border and Slave States-Real Voting
Strength of Gulf States shows a Republican
Majority of 183,335 in 1870, and large In-
crease since-South Carolina, Mississippi,
and Louisiana essentially Republican now.

PART III-Page 61-The Florida Case-

Bloody Violence failing, fraud and Judicial

Usurpation--A brief History of certain

Fraudulent Proceedings by which Tilden

strove to Capture that one needed Electoral

Vote-Facts, Figures and Incidents.

PART IV--Page 64-The_Louisiana case-

Population and Votes-Ku-Klux Crimes of

1868-Tilden Rifle Clubs of 1876--The Ter-

rible Outrages and Murders in the Seven-

teen Parishes--Sheridan's Statement--The

State Returning Board--Its duties-How

and why it acted-Infamy of the Tilden

Democracy.

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PART VII-Page 70-The shameful story of

the Cipher Dispatches and the Tilden

Bar'l "-Bribery and attempted Bribery

to secure Presidential Electors in Florida,

South Carolina and Oregon.

PART VIII-Page 71--The Maine Larceny---
Brief History of the Garcelon Iniquity-
How the attempted Outrage came to grief.

PART IX-Page 73-The Wallace Investiga-

tion--Infamous New York Election Frauds-

John I. Davenport's startling Revelations on

the Witness Stand--For twelve years Tam-

many Hall has voted Thousands of Men who

never lived!-Repeaters' Frauds-The Su-

preme Court turned into a bogus Natural-

ization Mill--Testimony of a Democratic

Tammany Judge on cross-examination--A

Pitiable Spectacle-Bushel baskets full of

Fraudulent Naturalization Papers - The

Property Destroyed by Both Armies Must

be Paid For-Rebel Soldiers or their Heirs

Must be Paid in Bonds or Public Lands

for Lost Time, Limbs and Lives."

PART III-Page 101-A "Specimen Brick"

of Southern Claims-Its Bogus Character

and Wonderful Growth.

PARTIV-Page 102-$400,000,000 More-Com-

pensation Demanded for Emancipated

Slaves.

PART V-Page 102-A Brief Review of some

of the Rebel Claims-Direct Tax-Cotton

Tax-Special Relief-Destruction of Pro-

perty Compensation for Slaves--Rebel Male

Contractors, etc.-They Already Reach the

Enormous Aggregate of Three Thousand

Millions of Dollars-Where will it End?

PART VI-Page 103-Claim of the College of

William and Mary"-One of the Entering

Wedges-Claim of the Episcopal Seminary
in Virginia—The Election of Garfield and a
Republican House the Only Safeguard.

PART VII-Page 104-Fraudulent Claims of

Southern Mail Contractors-How the Demo-

crats Strove to Steal $1,000,000-How the

House Republicans Stopped the Steal-A

Specimen of Southern "Morality"-The

Vote that "Scotched" the Fraudulent

Claims.

PART VIII- Page 106-Subsequent Assault

on the Senate. by the Southern Mail Con-

tractors-But they are Finally Discomfited

-Propositions and Votes.

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PART IX-Page 106-Conger's Proposed Con-

stitutional Amendment Prohibiting Pay-

ment of Rebel Claims-Vote Thereon-The

Democratic Party under Southern Domina-
tion would Pay them, as the Record Shows.

PART X-Page 107--Tilden's Pretended Aver-

sion to Rebel Claims-His Duplicity-He

would not Pay Disloyal" Claims, but

holds that "we are all Loyal Now "-Ex-

Confederate Cabell's Ingenious Report

Proving that Pardoned or Amnestied Rebels
were "Always Loyal "These Claims all
Ready for Action if Hancock gets in.

PART XI-Page 108-Two Specimen Copies

of Bills which if Enacted into Law will Cost

the Government $2,410,326,000!

CHAPTER IX.

"The Solid South and Internal Revenue."

PART I-Page 111-"Solid Southern" Whis-

key Steal of 1880-Democratic "Reform'

Legislation-The Carlisle Bill-Withdrawal

of Whiskey from Stores and Bonded Ware-

houses-Tax Collectable on Quantity With-

drawn!-The Government Defrauded of
Millions of Dollars Annually!-How the
Thing was Done The "Stamp "Steal of
$350,000 a Year-The "Back-Interest" Steal
of $150,000 a Year-Garfield in Vain shows
Up its Iniquity-The "Leakage" Steal of

$1,750,000 a Year-Passed in the Face of
Official Statements-The Democrats Vote
Solidly for the Steal, Republicans against
it-Northern Distillers Opposed it, Southern
Distillers Wanted it- -Class as Well as
Sectional Legislation-Garfield Again-Un-
fair Operation of the Law as Between North
and South - How it Facilitates Frauds-The
Law Thus Amended by a Democratic Con-
gress was Passed by a Republican Congress
to Stop Frauds of a Democratic Administra-
tion With Hancock to Administer it as
Amended, Fraud by Official Collusion
Would Run Riot.

PART II-Page 113-Moonshiners in the

"Solid South"-Open Defiance of Federal

Law-Guerilla Warfare-3,874 Moonshine

Stills Destroyed by Government Officials in

the Last Four Years-7,078, Moonshiners

Arrested-The Money Cost of Suppressing

Southern_Moonshining-Innumerable Out-

rages Every Form of Outrage" Resorted

to - Official List of Bloody Murders of U. S.
Officers by the Outlaws--Only One Murder-
ous Moonshiner has been Convicted!-
Moonshining Almost Stopped, when Han-
cock's Nomination and Democratic Encour-
agement Starts it again!"Solid Southern❞
Sympathy with the Moonshiners.

CHAPTER X.

Democratic Hatred of Union Soldiers.

PART I-Page 115-Democratic Rule of Ap-

pointments to Office-"Civil Service Re-

form" in the House of Representatives-

Crippled Union Soldiers Kicked out, and

Rebel Soldiers exalted-Propositions and

Votes in the House on the Subject-Solid

Democratic Votes against the Union Soldier.

PART II-Page 116-Democratic Civil Ser-

vice Reform in the Senate-An old Demo-

cratic Standing Rule as to Appointments

abrogated to satisfy later Democratic Greed

for "Spoils"-Union Soldiers kicked out

and Confederate Soldiers appointed - Prop-

ositions and Votes in the Senate on the Sub-
ject
The Democrats solid against the

Union Soldier.

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PART III-Page 118-The Washington Me-

tropolitan Police — Heretofore none but

Union Soldiers and Sailors in it- Now it

can be filled with Confederates-Solid Dem-

ocratic against the Union Soldier.

PART IV-Page 118-List of 76 Union Sol-
diers removed from, and 88 Confederate
Soldiers appointed to, positions in the
Capitol of this "Union" by the canting
Confederate-ridden Democrats.

CHAPTER XI.

Bounties and Pensions.

PART I-Page 119-The Bounty Question-

How the Democrats Obstruct Payment-

Coffroth's Canting Resolution-Secretary

Sherman's Reply-The Responsibility fas-

tened on the Democratic Congress-Even

Adjusted Claims for which a Republican

Administration asks Immediate Payment,

Stricken out by the Confederates-An ex-

Rebel Soldier Applies for Bounty!

PART II-Page 122-Pensions-Confederate

Democratic Opposition to the Arrears of

Pensions Bill-The Legacy of Confederate

Hate for the Union Soldier proved up by

Democratic witnesses-Representative Beltz-

hoover's Letters; "With the present Demo-

cratic House Pension Bills do not have

much Favor' "The Rebel General at the

Head of the Pension Committee in the

Senate is still more Averse to Allowing such

Bills to Pass"-Representative Ryon's Let-

ter; "The present House is Adverse to

Allowing Claims for Services rendered in

Support of the United States During the

late War."

PART III-Page 123-Democratic Love for

the Rebel Soldier-Attempted Legislation

in his behalf, so as to let him into the U. S.

Army-West Point Treason to be Rewarded

by Army Reappointments-Bill to let Con-

federate Soldiers get Pensions-These are

some of the war measures to be "stricken

from our Statute Book" -Thousands of

Applications of Confederate Soldiers for

Pensions as well as Bounty, made out and

Awaiting Hancock's Election-Fac simile

of a specimen Application now on file in

the Pension Office.

CHAPTER XII.

-

Recent Outrages in the "Solid South."

PART I-Page 125-Political Assassination in

the South-Ghastly Record of 20,000 Crimes

-How the South was partly solidified.

PART II Page 125-More Solidification

Assassination and Intimidation in 1878-

Recent Louisiana Bulldozing-All Leading

Republicans in Pt. Coupee Parish whipped

or run off-One Man taken out of bed and

killed because he would not vote a Demo-

cratic Ballot?-Five Men hung to scare other

negroes so that they might carry the elec-

tion-Six Men hung in Concordia Parish-

Wholesale Murder in Tensas Parish-500

Ku Klux raiding-50 to 80 Negroes killed-

The Caledonia Massacre-20 Negroes killed,

none wounded-No Whites killed-United

States witnesses murdered-Effect on the

Vote.

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PART III-Page 126-This Year's "Solidifying

of the South"- Outrages in 1880-Intimi-

dation in Alabama-Even White Opposition

to Democracy not Tolerated-Greenback

Speakers Mobbed and Subjected to Vio-

lence-Republican Meetings broken up-

Cursing a little 7 year old Boy!-Horrible

Ku-Kluxing in Georgia-Masked Men Bar-

barously Whip Joe Thompson and his

Family at Midnight A Mother Brutally

Murdered in Bed-Two Babes Baptized

with her Blood-Her Young Brother Slain

-A Mississippi Riot, etc.

CHAPTER XIII.

Peonage and Black Laws.

PART I-Page 128-Legislation of 1865-6-
Slavery succeeded by Peonage-Black
Laws The Slave Code re-enacted-Con-
gress obliged to set aside all State Laws op-
pressing Freedmen-Specimen Laws.

PART II-Page 129-Legislation after con-

ciliation-Getting back to the Slave Code-

Five years in Prison for Stealing a Sucking
Pig-Two years' Hard Labor for a few Roast-
ing Ears!

PART III-Page 130-The Contract System-

Criminals worked for years in legalized Slave

Gangs-Colored Men the only Victims-

Profits of the system-The Cost of Costs-
Lawyers' Fees worked in-Three years for
carrying a Pistol--Wages a quarter of a
cent a day-Working under Shot-Guns-
The System general in the South.

PART IV-Page 131-Sweeping

Lien Laws-A Colored Man's Crop cannot

be sold or used without permission-The

Landlord can take all-Outrageous exac-

tions-The resulting Peonage worse than

Slavery-The System breeds bad Men.

CHAPTER XIV.

The Labor question.

Landlord

PART I-Page 132-Democratic efforts to De-

grade and Brutalize Labor-The Republican

Party the True Labor Party.

PART II-Page 133-Attitude of the South

on the Labor Question-Calhoun's "Higher

Law"-Pickens Declares that "The White

Mechanic and Laborer must become Slaves."

PART III-Page 133-The Irrepressible con-

flict between Northern Mudsills" and

Southern "Aristocrats "-Democracy de-

clares War against the White Mechanic and

Laborer.

PART IV-Page 134-Southern Press Utter-

ances-Free Society a Failure "Slavery

essential, whether White or Black"-Con-

tempt of "Small farmers and greasy me-

chanics."

PART V-Page 134-Democratic Denuncia-

tion of Free White Mechanics as essentially

slaves-The Negro superior to the White

Mechanic "morally, socially and physical-

ly ""Liberty for the few, Slavery for the

masses.