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the day of Election they would be killed; and Carter stated that they were shouting out at the Box, that no damned Republican should vote there. They further stated that the party that campped near by over night, and the next day hung about the Polls, numbered about a hundred.

Also on the 4th, Allen Bell, freedman, was sent by his father, John Bell, to report that at Moseleys Bone he was forced by threats made against his life, by strangers from Edgefield to vote the Democratic ticket. Allen himself voted, in the early part of the day, at Bradley's, but as it is now generally reported there that all who voted the Republican ticket at that place are to be killed, he has left to save his life. It was also reported that some, at least, of the parties coming from Edgefield registered & voted at Moseley's

Likewise on 4th inst, Henry Patterson colored complained that no Republicans were allowed to vote at Bordeaux Polls. He stated that one hundred and fifty, including himself, went together to that place, and his Uncle went up to vote, when he was first offered a drink of whiskey, which he refused; that he was there given a Democratic ticket, and on his refusing to take it he was thrown out of the door of the house on which the polls were opened, and