Excerpt from Proceedings of the Electoral Commission, Appointed Under the Act of Congress Approved January 29, 1877: Entitled "an Act to Provide for and Regulate the Counting of Votes for President and Vice-President, and the Decisions of Questions Arising Thereon, for the Term Commencing March 4, A. D. 1877"; Forty-Fourth Congress, Second Session If we go for fraud, let us go to the bottom of. It; let us go where that fraud is found in such a degree and with such force, in more than one State North and South, as to penetrate the very foundation of the popular sovereignty of this country, and to lead every patriot to consider whether the highest duty of legislators is not first to put their guards where alone fraud is essentially to be feared, namely, at the ballot-box, because it is further removed from the sight of the general public and from the control of supervising authority. 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.