Excerpt from Evidence Taken by the Committee of Investigation of the Third Congressional District, Under Authority of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: Regular Session, 1868-'69 Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That a Committee, consisting of two members of the Senate and five members of the House, is hereby created and empowered to proceed, during the recess, to thoroughly investigate the disordered state of affairs in the Third Congressional District, and the causes of the intimidation, outrages and murders perpetrated preced ing and at the late general election, whereby it is stated that a fair and unbiased expression of the people's choice could not, and was not, given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.