The purpose of this memorial will be to meet these issues. The matters of personal grievances complained of by said petitioners are. many of them. untrue. and others are grossly exaggerated. and so far as they have any foundation in fact are the direct and legitimate result of the odium in which the parties are held. not because of their political sentiments. but because of their own personal misconduct as individuals. It is not true that the petitioners are now refugees from theirhomes on account Of political persecutions. as alleged by them. There has been. for a long time. a strong feeling on the part of the good and lawabiding citizens of Washington County against the petitioners on account of their corrupt political methods. their dishonest administration of the affairs of the county. and their incendiary appeals to race prejudice in order to array the colored voters against the white. For many years the taxpayers of this county have been plundered by these men and others who have been elected to office by the vote of ignorant colored men.
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