| We have the statement from an unquestionable source, that at one of the precincts in Amherst couty, on election day, a negro after voting, said to the officer in charge that he wanted his "forty acres of land and a mule." An explanation being asked for, he stated that he had been told that every negro who voted was to have forty acres of land and amule given him, immediately after voting, and he wanted his then and there. The disappointment, disgust and indignation of the deluded darkey were intense, when told that he had been fooled, and that neither land nor mule were there for him. The old negro further said that numbers of others on the ground had also been told the same that he was, and had come to the election with the same bright anticipations of the riches that were to be theirs. |