, 1865-06-19
OLD VfRGINi4..,
4 Seine al the Po1ls-Tfeatuasu ut OF the
DIecks-5 h. 1r R1lnsas tosVoee,

| .JFrona the New York Tribnue, 13:h irst1
| A correspondent who attend d the facent
election in York county, VuEiniI, ION the
T. n:nsu!a) md ERw the only unconditional
Union candidate receive three votes ont of
ire huDlred cast, tayoss US with IN account
from which VIC extract tho following:
There was no Rrowline about the oath.
|. They tosk P{rrp: inl's and tho oath Of aliegi-
/ a, ce togethet IN 4 dose, Us calmly as noybcdy
erer tock medicine, I reckan--swallaa<d d
them right down. Il heard no single word all
doy ab.nt var, OF Union. Or Nos1h Or sonsh,
er aDy1eiettnee whatever to past troubles OF
fu;ure po1ilfcs, any morn than If such things
| were UNKNOWN. thought this singular, In
crowd Of one hundred men. There was no
gun: d at tbs polls wha' a'evet. About the polls,
however, were what could hare been mar
ehn1cd into gua,d under. favorable cErcurn.
stances. that would have been effective and
formidable. I little doubt there were there
the largest number Of coiorcd people ever
sLf5trtu to 20 to an elec!lon-a number near.
l{ equal to the whites. Sitting around under
The trces. On ths fences, and indeed mingl!ng
nns %sh v,hf ,hf sgpfto;E, race gsne9ra
certainly, in intelligence, ability md
industry, above one-thl'd Of those
who that day enjoyed the elective franchise.
And thin IN unlonisn, how Infinitely aboyc
them ALL Oh what retuln for past services
and sutter'ngs Of the Negro? What IN uu-
haliowed nockers Of God and sublime mis-
take President johnson made when be re-
manded the management Of the S1ate into
the banda OF The White UnIonists! Waite
unicn!sts! Ia Virginia. there ase scarcely
three hundred natives Of them all. A politl-
ctan tried, aud couldn't count ten In tnese
three e, nntcs, |. E., Unionists at heart. The
vote yesterday in this, By far the largest PIC.
c'nct, showed but thice, But what treat
nentot friends! Did ever another country
I treat Its friends 60 since Adam? Said lit. B.
| to me: Il have never personally injured one
OF ny ne'ghbors and set the coloscd people
arc all the ffleLds hare, because have been
Unten." He Is in favor Of their voting. Said
Ar. G., 1awyer and Richmond conrtter,
true oligarcA: "Had l. not been tor your Sc
Gu Ing tue SERVICES of the ID nigscr, or
lad NC tw" years ago offered him his freedom
eeoe noT sn9u asso ssys eseq e
eE1es that our sucss IS was not due to the aid
OF the Ncgtr, Hnc hr looks at ycu with pIteous
scoin., He held the balau:e Of po xer, and
put II In our SCALE How thaDkess our great
Ruler lur It,
But does he know enough TO yotss Yest
Yes! YES! The revolution in all elso in the
8 nth is searctl y greater than In the Nerro's
habits and tencen cles- Proof TINT be Is ut
to vote! HI cannot be duFed. He may lie
c!aTen-he is patient, hut cannot be fooled.
1bele fa not 80 instinctively sasaeious a race
| on the glote. Bold your ear doHn to The
wn'spclfngs Of The Cabin AMI there you VIII
lam to Hhem bundled tliues arc transps.
rebt When all involved is closed to you. b.
| Jou v ant The ueWay jim, or Sam, or Pete,
lure, has it Ter you. just whit you will get
| Two days afte,Ward Wnen the paper arrives.
| II day, J.I. Davis ia known to be In Hamp:
ton Rosus; tomorrow be Is In the Fort; Is
i,uutd is fed thus and 30. has sueA kind Of q
cell, 81. Three da.s af:erward read the
eaue in the "'late paper" l meet nelehbor
| OUga: ch. He asks: sir, Whit is the news rs
| licp1y: $50 and so; hear 1t rumorrd. ~
'H.W do you get hold OF it? I cau't ret pa
pers Or news TIL long attsrward." "Autho-
by Diummond told me he heard 30 aud "a.
"Oh, yes! bow do the d-d cnsses get hold
drag thIough tier usua, roticcnce showed
nut tliY were generally posted on news"
| This was an actual sally BY one but few
weeks from R.chmtnd.
! DO you want the accurnte measurement Of
my neighbours Unlonis1n: Go to his colored
nc;glbor and you will get it. Do you want
the boundary lines Of that large plantation
whose periphery Is rs crooked as 3 river 7
Here d; three datkies WIN will show ron
every inch ofit. Who're cattle are those tn
tie road? Adam will t. II you, though they
belongtlrce miles OF. But let one OF them
Eoldier rides up and takes large shoat, or
two Of them, ~O,th twice payment, and ruth
ltssly carries them oil, 1t Il 1ncn the poor be.
ing is mute, aud looks bcwildered. And
| wtn be may IN the Peninsula, and especially
| uLde1 Gen. Old's administration A mearef,
| more misctisv6us General don't otten ho'd i
large command. He tlE1a thu Offices in his
Elft with the most p1o-Ssasery type, aud then
perst nally detccnds to petty meanncsscs
himself thRt uene Of them will stoop to.
| Taousatds on thousands Of dollars has the
goyt rrment lost, or will lose, by his opera
lions since he kupp1anttd the noble Bn!er.
All abe missions and ali nntt Slavery men, -
far as know. acknowledge the sans thing.
But there is proof yet to be added Of the
ntg1o's fitness to vote. Though the subt1est
| Of all webbs Was woven by the sktllful sss-
| tematjzirg diplomhts Of the Confciesacy to
blind the eyes Of Poor Whites apd mig
| gtrs'' as to the tine points at issue In the
| gt.at past conteat, and which did Its work
we'll with Poor Whites, save where somo
gFtat leader led them out, yet, without .
leader, With tbs 1eEulslons OF two years Of
the whr, In the deepest receases Of rebe!dom.
the light OF truth md tacts as TO the salient
points Of the struggle was shining clear on
the n, gro's mind, and be Was the Un!on's
fr'cLd. 1t Is enough. such sasaclsy will
lead men to vote right.