Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-10-08


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Ror naay yssp pa pspssue sssesiees IL most
ofvhe large cisiss han tess . 'brced fasss. Ia
New York and PhiladslphiA, especially. he result
Of n election has been sleaerniasd. sos By . ne
iorisy Of the lawful voters. bal By the ssuaag Of
bsllosbozss and the profsse casting Of Illegal and
fraudulent votes.
To prevsa. II possible, this disgrsosfn state Of
Affairs, some Of The States bavs passcd Rsgistry
laws TAss Il, II is rc1dired that oil legal voters
she'll Rave thsmsslse- registered ten days before
IN slsst;sn. % that not salE the legal vessrs may
b knswn, .bas Illegal votes may b szclsdsd no"
The taIlss-box.s The Inv h wise and bens6csnt
one, and one 70 which no fair maa could make OBJ
iseties. whsrsvsr Il has been proposed, however.
Il has M With ssrsussss dpposisioa. And the
ohjsssioa has always cone fssn The party which
has heretofore psosssd ~ election ffasda. and CT
pssss d profit By them u tia fdtars. MA
New Ysrk, among other Static. passsd . Rsgis-
~ lsw q the last session Of her Legislature. 30
a. b prevent the enormous election frauds which
srs pEaetissd ., svsry election isher principal ci-
y. The Rsgistrap- which 10 mean. the Off
GERS who ore TO sapsrintsnd rhs Registering Of the
votsrs-were 10 b. Appo'ntsd By the Board Of 3d.
pssvisors Of New Yea city. Il happened that
THE Board Of Sopervisors ruas exactly divided in
polities--thsrs bsins N equal number Of Repub-
Resss and Dsnecrus, h H.. According to IN un-
dsrssaalins agrssd npos bs,wesa tho two parties
in the Bead II Sapsfsisors. the Registrars were
TO b distribetsd IN he same proportion is.
half Of them we're 10 b. Democratic and half Of
them Rspablicans Bat on oas occasion, a week
or two ago, q. . meeting Of the Board Of Supervi-
sor., the Dsuocrats found themselves IN the ma
jori,y, owing to the accidental absence Of two of
the Rspnblicsns. Il 10 said that these Republ-
cans lea the city, in fact upon pledge from the
Democratic supsrvisoss that they would not act in
the appointment Of RsgiseFsrs during their alb
senos However THE nay BE-, when tho Demo-
Gratis found thsmsslves in Tho majority In tho
Board. they proceeded ct once to the appointment
Of Regisssrs-aud. out Of over sir hsndscd that
we're appointed. they did no. give more than tween,
y or thirty to the Republicans 5b
This 10 not the wort Of II. The list Of Regis
lrars has been publishsd In The New York papers.
and .fosr Asndrei and JNsy Of Che 81. hundred are
Irirhmen Of education AMI charac-
ter, but the lowest sort Of ruians. keepers grog
shops, DULLES. shoaldsrhiitsrs. and notorious row
dies. The Evening Post says that Tho ha'nes Of a
large namber Of them cannot be found even in
tho City Directory Thcy are adyeh,arers and
psripatetic laborers picked up from the railroads
near New York. or sxhumed from the sab,erranc-
an ram-holes with which New York city 10 in-
tested.
The object Of these Democratic Supervisors in
making such appointments is obvious enough
Primarily, IL is to reader Migratory the Registry
law. The Democracy opposed this Law bitterly;
well they might; for it threatened to put stop
10 the infamous election frauds they have been
nuAlly practicing In Nav York city. Their second
object was so To arrange matters that they might
continue with impuciy their hallot.box s,ufRng
and their casting Of illegal votes. Under the ar
rangement which they have made. il win he the
simplest thing in the world to practice their old
game Of voting unnaturaised Misunderstanding
upon dead meu's pspsrs---voting tho same men in
Aftsenor twenty different wards-aud stuiing the
ballot-hoxss with fraudulent tickets.
Honest people will say that this is shameful
and disgraceful business. And yet wo know
not which 70 condemn the more--this outrage up
on tho elective franchise, or the yillainy Of that
political imnorality which took advantage Of the
accidental absence Of two Of the Supervisors, to ao-
complain the scnrvy trick.
And yst this discrsditabls affair Is 5oasted ofby
some Of the Northern Democratic Journalists |
They aGcca 10 regard Il a. guod joke tina. BY
one Of the most infamous political swindles ever
practiced. they have succeeded in cireumrenting
the Republicans, and By virsaai ratification Of
the Registry Law. opened the door for contin-
ued perpstration Of their frauds upon tho ballet
boxi
The appointments. themselves, reflect iaGnits
discrsdit upon the transaction three -fourths Of
the RsgistArs being low Irishmea. to supcrintend
an election 10 be made BY American freemcn |
But the fragrant breach Of faith involved in the
acs--ths guilty hurry with which !. was commit.
ted, during the absence u the two Supersisnrs---
and the Aendish exultatioas over the success of
the risk, I'll ssnbins % .aks h ono Of the dark
est aad dsessst crimes JET recorded in the annals
Of Amsrioan polisioa setc4
a Tennsssse Democrat ON Douglas.
The Knoxville Rsetsas. one VI the staunches.
Democratic joannals In Tennessee. edited by n
Virginian tisss discosress In the last paper: mr..
Douglas recent course hns slienated the Southern