New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1867-06-16
DOMESTIC CORRESPONDENCE.
LETTER FROM WARRINGTON.

LETTER FROM WARRINGTON.
Defeat of the Copper-J ohnson Party
False Charges Against the Republican
Party-Ylgilance Of the Ward Commit
| tees-Colored Men Voted en- masse the
Republican Ticket - Republicans OF
Washington send Greetings to those OF
New Orieans-Return orthe President.
Correspondence of the Republican
WASHINGTON, June S, 1867.
The Copper-J ohnson party bears its re
| cent overwhelming defeat in the municipal
election very ungracefully and complain.
| ingly. Excuses and reasons for the result
are not wanting, and the conservative press
has made some remarkable discoveries OF
alleged frauds by the Radicals. The
Republican majority they allege was
made up by importing hundreds OF
colored voters from the adjacent coun-
ties of Maryland and Virginia, and
by refusing the votes of white men. OF
course there is not particle of truth in
these assertions; on the contrary, the mum.
Der of colored voters who were prevented
from depositing their ballots by the closing
Of the polls WAS triple the number of white
voters so excluded. The only fraud perpe.
trated was by the Conservatives. Scarcely
were the polls opened when it was discOv-
cred that bogus Republican tickets were
atloat. They were printed in red, and headed
Republican ticket with the picture of
Mr.. Lincoln as an ornament, after which
followed the names OF the Democratic can
didates. The idea was that the colored
voters, seeing the picture Of the man whom
they all idolize, would consider the ticket
all right and vote it. Even the memoryof
tho artv rrasilapt Jaur 20
hearts, was not sacred enough, in the esti-
nation of these worse than vandals, to be
free from the polluting purposes of fraud.
The genuine Republican ticket, however,
bore the coat of arms of the Union
League of America, and not, rs the
Conservatives presumed 1t would, the pic
ture of Mr.. Lincoln. When this discovery
was made the tactics were changed, and
within half An hour tickets exactly similar
to the Republican ticket, with the exception
of the Democratic names, were in circula-
ton. Thanks to the vigilance Of the ward
committees, but few of the fraudulent votes
were polled, and the only tangible result OF
their use was the odium which 1t brought
upon those who promulgated them. With
an audacity decidedly refreshing this warm
weather, the ItteIigenceT bitterly complains
of what 1t calls the unwarrantable inter.
ference of the Republicans in taking from
voters the spurious and replacing them by
genuine radical tickets.
In spite of the unwearied and persist
ent attempts OF the Democrats to sec.Ee
a share of the colored vote, and of their
predictions that the colored men ofproperty
would vote their ticket, though threats OF
discharge from employment for voting the
radical ticket were freely made by conser
vatiye employers, yet the colored vote was
cast for the Republican ticket with a
unanimity which astonished its friends
and COMPOUNDED its enemies. Thus one
long step has been taken toward the
overthrow of the ring which" has so long
made the municipality OF Washington city
"a by-word and reproach.
Ia its national and general results, how
ever, the election has a much higher i'm
portance and significance.
II demonstrated that the newly enfran.
chised class of citizens can vote quietly and
intelligently; it utilities the predictions of
those who talked of a war OF races, and OF
riots at the polls; it establishes beyond
controversy the fact that the colored man
cannot be impulsed by rewards or com
PEELED by threats to vote against the party
which has given him the title deed of free
dom.
The Republicans of Washington send
greeting TO those of New Orleans, and set
them an example of frmness and unanimity
of purpose, which, il followed. will insure
the early triumph of the principles of free
The president returned this evening from
his North Carolina trip, it is said much
improved in health. The temperate tone of
his speeches on his second tour indi
cate that the lessons of his western
campaign, when he swung around the
circle, much 10 the advantage of the
Republican party, have not been lost
upon him. The remarkably sycophan-
tic and fawning speeches of his prime
minister, Mr.. seward, have excited uni
versal contempt and ridicule. Every re-
mark made by him during the tour seemed
to be with the intent of belittling himself,
that he might thereby make Mr.. johnson
appear greater by contrast. The whirlyigig
OF time has brought no more mournful sight
than that presented by the late course of
Mr.. Seward. Once an Ajax in tho battle of
freedom, once the oracle of the party of
progress and equal rights, to whom all
looked up for noble expressions of truth,
and looked not in vain, he has, by the be.
trayal of principle, by his alliance with his
old enemies, lost the regard Of his friends,
and cannot obtain the confidence of his new
confederates, who are shy Of his old record.
Visited by heavy family Affections, suffer
ing from the effects of attempted assassina-
ton, without the respect OF those who once
regarded IL as an honor to be called his fol-
lowers mistrusted and maligned by those
for whose benefit he became recreant 10 prin-
ciple, he presents picture so mournful
that IL reminds one of poor old Cardinal
Wolsey who bitterly complained that he
was left naked to his enemies.
The Surratt trial viii certainly take place
on Monday, the 10th inst, in the court room
of the old city hall. made famous by the
trials of Sickles and of Mary Harris. Rumor
has 1t that several important witnesses on
the part Of the government have not yet
arrived. IBIS.