"5. That we consider it dishonorable and unneigh-
borly for any farmer, planter, merchant, lawyer, doc-
tor, or any other person to violate any of the foregoing
resolutions." ^

In many cases no doubt the intimidators were con-
tent with keeping the blacks away from the polls, but
in others the negroes were required to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket. The device of numbered ballots was used



1 8. R. No. 611 Part 2, 44th Cong. 2d Sess., p. 46. The
use of the device Indicated by these resolutions seems
to have been tolerably common, thou^rh, for obvious rea-
sons, not many such resolutions were published. This was
published when caution was deemed unnecessary. Probably it
would not have appeared a day or two later. There were In-
stances during the campaign of such notices being posted in
public places.
