from the November 5, 1874 THE BLADE (Tuscaloosa)

 There were 1828 votes cast at the courthouse here; of these, probably 1400 were negroes, and their handful of white-skinned allies, who are not near so good as negroes. Up to a late hour Wednesday afternoon, the officers of election had not finished counting out the Vote at the Court-House. The negro vote in this city was the heaviest ever known. Fifty-odd negroes were arrested, and many of those will find quarters in the penitentiary for illegal voting. Not more than forty to fifty negroes voted with the whites, and these were threatened by the negro Radicals. Talk of intimidation on the part of Democrats! There is a score of black rascals here who ought, by rights, to be chained and sent to Albany for their villainous, cowardly threats and efforts to force Democratic negroes to vote the Radical ticket. Tom, servant of B.B. Lewis, was assaulted by the crowd of these black demons for voting the white man's ticket and only saved himself from the fury of the cowardly mob by drawing his repeater. One Silas Martin was conspicuous as an intimidator, and, with others are fit subjects for the handcuffs of Williford, Randolph, Beach and Hester.