This ten-page pamphlet opens by calling on the North Carolina General Assembly to adjourn because so many citizens claim that the current government is illegal and void. They had rejected their pre-War constitution so this Reconstruction version had been ratified; now the Democrats were calling for violent remedies to the situation. They couldn't get power by ballot, so now they want in by bullet. After many other accusations and histories, including the fact that Jonathan Worth, the military governor, had to be removed by force, it recommends voting for U.S. Grant for the presidency, and against Francis Blair for the vice presidency. Blair had said that the federal government would refuse to work with any Reconstruction governments, since they had replaced the military governments he and General Sherman had set up. Grant, on the other hand, would prevent this kind of presidential usurpation of power over states. It is signed in type by 88 Republican legislators.