In the parish of Caddo, where in the spring election the Republicans had shown a decided majority, General Grant received but one vote.

In the parish of Saint Landry, where the Republicans had prevailed in the spring election by a majority of 678, not a single vote was counted for General Grant, the returns giving to Mr.Seymour the entire registered vote--4,787.
In other parishes the results, if less aggravated and less startling, were of like character, and the State, which the Republicans had carried, at an entirely peaceful election in the spring, by a majority of more than 12,000, was now declared to have given Mr.Seymour a majority of 47,000.
There was no pretense that there had been a revolution of public opinion in the State to justify these returns.

It was not indeed denied that General Grant was personally far stronger before the people of Louisiana than any Republican candidate at previous State or Parish elections.

The change was simply the result of fraud, and the fraud was based on violence.

Various investigations ordered by Congress establish this view.