2pp.+ docketing notes on verso. Autograph Letter Signed, as Chairman, Republican Committee in the 8th Congressional District.  Huntsville, Alabama, Sept. 19, 1884.   To B.F.Jones,  chairman of the Republican National Committee.

During the presidential election campaign McCullough asks for $1500 to get out the vote in an 8-county district with a large number of Republicans, all "poor men” -  8,000 of whom were “colored who are not able to read, hence cannot be posted by documents, newspapers, etc. They must be visited, talked with, posted and organized.” 

Augustus W. McCullough was a “carpetbagger”, a teacher from Pennsylvania who came to Alabama after the Civil War as agent of the Freedman’s Aid Society of Philadelphia. He organized and directed the public schools in Huntsville for freed slaves until receiving a federal appointment as Commissioner and Clerk of the US  Courts in Alabama.