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FRIDAY NOVEMBER I6, ls60
HOW NEW YORK WAS CARRIED.

Kings County, n. Y. containing Brook
lyn) has long been a stronghold of Dlmoc-
racy. In 1856 it gave a majority OF 1875
for Blchanan, and this year the Fdsionists
claimed q majority of at least 10000 The
actual fusion majority was 1852 That a
reduction Of over Ten thousand in tie Dtm-
ocratic majority IN ore County, since the last
Presidential! contest, was not accomplished
without hard icork, may be readily beiic, ed.
What the work was and how it was done,
may be inferred from some extracts from q
private letter, which we have received from
one of the corps Of resolute Republican work
eFs there, who appears to have had the post Of
challenger on election day. 1t is to be noted !,
in order to understand the amount of vigil
ance and labor requisite for the duty, that no
less than three different sets of legal quahf-
cations in the voter, were to be legarded, in
determining his right, or lack Of right, to
vote for one OF the other of the ssUeR sets Of
officers voted for. And it is TO be remem-
bered, toe, that the work described below.
was only that portion Of the entire great
labor of the campaign, winch was necessary
in order to prevent the victory, gained by
months of severe labor and thorough canvass
ing, from being taken from them by trGud.
Our correspondent speaks Of bat one polling
district. A like labor had to be done in all,
and throughout the State; and it was thus
New York was carried and Lincoln elected.
"aero in Kings Co. we feel very crank because
ty; and cur 9th Ward is the banner Ward Of the
County, aud our % Distrio: Of that Ward is the
banner District.
You lave no idea of the work that the registry
law requires, especially in a distrie; like Of
some 1900 voters, ali vote one place, and the
majority low Irish. 1t took (for instance) above
five nights work till midnight, and one whole day
for three or four Of Us, to make an alphabetical
lis Of the registered voters and in my opinion
hat went far 10 save the District. It works il
f them takes the Register and sits by the window
where the voters come, and as he knows every one
Of the Pats, be sings ont all right without look
ng at his book, so that il needs very sharp work
or the Republican who is on the watch to over
laul his book and detect the lie before the ballot
gets into the box. Our excellent book, however
enabled me Con whom this duty felD, 20 DO this in
every case but four, think; and the result was
.ha; / sent back from the window at least one dun
dTcd and tcenfy-fUs men, not registered. Many Of
them afterwards came with affidavit and witness
and swore in as they had a right to Dc but this
took time, and every minute cost the Democrats
vote, inasmuch as there was not time to take al!
he ballots, and all the Republicans, or aImos
III, were on hand early.
1t was hard days work, for the votes came
Ike clock ticks from sunrise to sunset without
.n instant termission. 1t hard for the voters
90. who had to stand in queue for hours before
-eachinr the window but don't think one Re-
publican left the ranks. Why, at sunrise there
we're 200 men in liDe waiting for the polls to open
nine tonths Of them Republicans by good luck,
,r rather hard work And when the ballots were
III in tne hardest to come, for the eanyasse1s
IRE all Democrats and you can't trust them 80
,ouut without watching. To count the votes took
all the night and till P. NJ. the next day, with
out adjournment. staid till one, and then came
,ack at six in the morning, and relieved Il,
ie having been up all nig BIT. At nine ne took
hold again, and held On till it was finished at )
P. N. " ednes sday. This will give you some idea
# the work required in such cities. We carried
verything but the Coagrsssman. Humphrey ran
much ahead Of his ticket; but there was no split
N the other side, and 1900 was too much to over
zone"