Since then you can't get any man to venture here to distribute ballots.
"Just before the last presidential campaign, two brothers, Samuel and John Bowser, colored, happened to go down to New Orleans.

Things are not so bad down there as they are up here in Northern Louisiana.

These two brothers each secured a republican party ballot, and on election day somewhat boastfully cast them into the ballot box.

There is, as you have perhaps heard, a society here known as 'Nigger Rulers.' The postmaster of this place is president of the society, and the teacher of the white public school is the captain of the army thereof.
"They sent word to the Bowser brothers that they would soon be there to whip them.

The brothers prepared to meet them.