Reconstruction in Georgia, economic, social, political, 1865-1872 . r debtor from his richcreditor; allows a liberal homestead for your families ; andmore than all, places you on a level with those who used toboast that for every slave they were entitled to three-fifths ofa vote in congressional representation. Ponder this well be-fore you vote. In the outcome of the election, the Republicans secur-ed the state ticket, electing Bullock by a majority of71 y 1, and ratifying the constitution by a majority of17, The election of the members of the legislaturewas so close that it was doubtful
Reconstruction in Georgia, economic, social, political, 1865-1872 . r debtor from his richcreditor; allows a liberal homestead for your families ; andmore than all, places you on a level with those who used toboast that for every slave they were entitled to three-fifths ofa vote in congressional representation. Ponder this well be-fore you vote. In the outcome of the election, the Republicans secur-ed the state ticket, electing Bullock by a majority of71 y 1, and ratifying the constitution by a majority of17, The election of the members of the legislaturewas so close that it was doubtful which party would con-trol. Bullock carried most of the counties where a ma-jority of the registered voters were negroes, and alsonine of the white counties in Northeast Georgia, threein the northwest and three on the southern border. It 1 In Br own Scrap Books. 2 Report of the Comptroller-General, 1869, Table A. 205] THE RECONSTRUCTION GOVERNMENT 205 is noteworthy that fifteen counties in which negro regis-tered voters outnumbered whites were carried by m m Republican-April andNovember 1868 Republican AprilDemocatic-November 1868 X Majority of registered voterscolored in 1867 1 These counties were Elbert, Spalding, Crawford, Upson, Houston,Chattahoochee, Stewart, Quitman, Clay, Randolph, Baker, Early, Sumter,Lowndes, Washington. 206 RECONSTRUCTION IN GEORGIA [2o6 It is difficult to determine whether the result camewith a moderate degree of fairness or not. In some ofthe black counties carried by the conservatives, Ku Kluxbands doubtless did much toward achieving the result byintimidating negroes to keep them away from the all the machinery of election in their hands theRepublicans had full opportunity to doctor the returnsto suit themselves. Charges of unfairness were made onboth sides. Savannah and Augusta papers stated thatdroves of negroes were brought over from South Caro-lina, and that negroes who appeared with a Democraticticket were set upon by radi
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