Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-11-27
81 GoD 35.7S6 1873

Iara we soc that in nine counties in all of winch
there was an increased Democratic vote fully equal 10
Tho natural increase Of population, The Federasts nave
made n rain of over six thousand votes, and that The
,grr,oatc of votes cast is Thousand crit hundred
oNd f,ceay.ihrcr more than the aggregate Of white
male inhabitants. There possibility that TINS IS
an honest vo.e-no escape from The conclusion i!ia'
there WAS this number Of ppe-agys Oar friends from
DAYTON in the county oil Montgomery, and from Bel
mont, Guernsey, Delaware, and frchie, and many
other counties Of Ohio wrote Us few days after tiie
election that they had been chcnted-that many s'tan
o.rs had voted and some Of them at several polls
As it was natural for defeated pafty to cxagg'rate
the causes OF their dccs did not fully crc;, HER
statements although satisfied that much al them was
tue These tables more than justify the charges Of
fraud hy the Democracy upon The Fcdcralsts.
Now try this gan y stating the proposition t!irs:-
"As 81 7c6 the actual voters, is TO 6,ll, the Federal
rain 50 is 972 G9G the whole vote, TO The whole Fcdc.
raj gain Of III ,79 necessary 10 overcome Shannon
vote and leave surplus oil over l0,ooo The fo@iins
of TIE table shows that the aggregate increase iusii.cs
the application of the rule; for il any o. our readers VIII
lake the pains to work ont the sum- they will find that
the result will moi vary five hundred from the number
stated proving conci,,svey that what is thus shown
10 have been done III few counties, was very gene
rally done thr ughuut the whole State This gcnera
system of frauds is also abundany shown By the table
10 have been practiscd in other counties than those
whose does no, exceed the aggregate o us white
males above the age OF hecntyonc yeafs. In many of
them they scarce fall one per cent. below III while N
State previous 10 the inventions Of ".Saylorism and
"mpe-awng," such thing as an excess Of votes over
Tie number Of voters not only unhcard Of but the
vote never did could fairly up 10 the full mum
Der II the white male inhabitants arrived a, tic age Of
majority within from ~ 10 - per cent.
The causes alc nhsion Every foreigner mu: have
resided five years within the u. s. before he can be
natrralizcd and become voter In Ohio il is eshna.
tsd that there 10000 seven persons n every
hundred who mol naiura!i2ea The estimate IS pro-
baby near below the true number, If We include the
foreign !abnrcrs the two canals, wlch INCLUDED
IN The census. IN equal number should he estimated
for casualties, every must be aware that the
number detained rom the polls any given day by
sickness niirmity, paupcrsm imprisonment Tor crime
aud debt usness, absence from home, indifference,
must be equal To five six in every hundred Of the
populations saY that il is five, and We have IS The
suit to deduct from the aggregate Of tic census s
account, li,.5; aid this TO the 10000 and II makes
BOO showing clearly that ass,nng, as is 10 doubt
the fact, that the Democratic votes those o! bona
tide sotcrs the party had actual majority ccual 10
their majority in >sS and equal 10 the difference be-
tween 5000 and 225:,j. To illustrate this view
fully, let take few counties equally prosperous,
but where homes. had the charge OF tie poll books,
and Ppelayng could not be practiscd OH so extensive
scale: