A Rabidly Democratic Paper from 1868 on the Republican Party's Determination to stop the Intimidation of Voters (yes, yes, the parties reversed after 1964)

 This was occasioned by "An Ordinance to Prevent the Intimidation of Voters" which the Raleigh NORTH CAROLINIAN on 8 April 1868 pretends really means an official notice "Intimidating the people of North Carolina."

Be it ordained by the people of North Carolina, in Convention assembled, and it is hereby ordained as follows: 

    Section 1. Any person who shall prevent or endeavor to prevent, any qualified elector of this State, from the free exercise of the elective franchise, by violence or bribery or by threats of violence or injury to his person or property or by depriving an elector of employment, or threatening to deprive him of employment, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment, for not less than one month, nor more than sex months, or by file of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each offence, and one-half the the fine shall to to the prosecutor . . . .