p the case of Miller versus Elliott from
South Carolina and then seated Miller, though the case was not
slated for that time. The feelings of the Democrats can be better
imagined than described when they returned to the House and found
two of their colleagues unseated and two Negro Congressmen seated
in their places. The Democrats never again resorted to such
tactics.

Very respectfully,
HENRY A. WALLACE.

DOCUMENTS

The following extracts from the _Daily Record_, Greensboro, North
Carolina, February 2nd and 3rd, 1911, setting forth the reminiscences
of Captain Ball, a participant in the Reconstruction of the Southern
States, gives valuable information as to the troublous times of that
period:

New York, Feb. 2.--I have now told nearly all of the
authenticated facts concerning the Stephens murder; the rest is
merely speculative. There have been stories coming from the
negroes which are interesting, even if not strictly true. A negro
has quite an imagination. I will relate some of these stories,
without expressing an opinion, leaving others to decide as to
their accuracy and naturalness.

Much of what follows comes from Governor Holden, at the time an
aged man, retired (perhaps not voluntarily) from public life. The
tendency of his political opinions in his later years was toward
"Conservation." I called upon him in February, 1885 (twenty-six
years ago) and took notes of what he said, because of its
inherent interest. His memory was clear and comprehensive. While
governor--he was elected by the Republicans in 1868--and before
his impeachment and removal from office by the Democratic
legislature of 1870, he sought to unravel the mysteries of the
Kuklux brotherhoods; and tried in every way to discover the
perpetrators of the Stephens assassination.

It has already been stated that Stephens, on the fatal Saturday,
was in attendance upon a Conservative meeting in Yanceyville, and
that he went out of it with Wiley. It is reported that Wiley, on
his way home, took supper at the house of a Mr. Poteat. Now the
negroes are not only full of curiosity, but take risks to gratify
it. Nothing was more common than for them to listen from behind
doors, through keyholes and in the corners