The Shasta courier., 1868-09-26
About New York.

York will go in the pending election, and
have no time to answer our quersts severally.
Where their letters imply that we have a
private opinion different from that which we
express In these columns We have no wish to
answer them. We pretend TO no exclusive,
no occult sources of information Here fol-
@ow-s0nie nf the considerations which under
pin our convictions that New York, like most
OF her sister States, will vote for Grant and
Colfax
| |. Since the Republican party was form
| cd, it has never failed to carry this State on
II vigorous canvass and IA full poll, though it
has often failed at other times. 1t was badly
beaten in 1885, yet it gave Fremont $4,000
! plurality in 1856 The State went against
MS in the next year (lS57) by heavy plu
rality on light vote yet we elected Coy.
Morgan in 1858 by nearly 10000 plurality.
In 1859, the combined Democratic and kaow
Nothing vote beat several of our State can
ddates; yet in 1860 we met the supporters
of Douglas, Breckenridge and Bell, compactly
arraved against US, and beat them hy nearly
| $4,000 majority Up to this time, it had
been said, . You Republicans are but plu-
rality; if your adversaries were united, they
would overwhclm you - but. when they did
unite, they were Beaten most signally.
In 1861, a Union ticket prevailed byavery
large majority, though Seymour, Hoffman,
Church 4 Co. did their BEST to defeat it vet
in lS62 they rallied all their forces under
I Sevmour for Governor, and, in the absence of
| fifty thousand of our voters at the front, they
squarely beat by 10000 majority. The
very next year. we reversed that Iud cement
by 30, 900. and in '64 we tu ned Seymour out
and gave the vote of our State to Lincoln by
seven or eight thousand majority. We held
the State firmly in '65 and '66, but lost it in
the general collapse of 1861.
! Thus, from the day in which the Republi-
can party formed, we have never lost
this State on full vote, never lost it twice in
succession, and never lost it twice in the same
Presidential term. We are confident that
this year will establish no exception to these
rules.
An enormous, unprecedented proportion of
our voters were absent in Europe and travel
ing on business in every direction when our
last years State Election was held. Our net
loss from this cause was not less than twenty
five thousand votes. Then the results of
the elections IN California, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, &C., had disappointed and disheartened
us. Of the four Republican dailies published
in this city,. three were doing nothing to call
out our vote but very much I'VE thOught).. to
keep it away from the polls. Our local
legislation and canal management had tenn
porarily disaffected many thousands of earn
est Republicans. So the disasters Of the year
eliminated in our defeat by Fifty Thousand
majority; sweled from Ten to Twenty Thou
sand by fraudulent Naturalizations, and by
double and treble votings in this city and
| Brooklyn.
= But can't they cheat you just so (or
worse) this year?'
No. They cannot. We shall be wide awake
and on the alert this year. We shall be
watching the Williams who make a trade of
70 ing illegally at the Naturalization mills,
at the Regstries. and at the polls They do
not fear the officers whose duty it is to
prosecute them to punishment; but we shall
make the State too hot for them if they at
tempt to repeat the wholesale frauds of re-
cent years, especially last year.
We are awake and at work. Our watch.
fires never yet burned brighter so early in the
canvass than they do to-day. Our rank and
lie were never more Jealous, more confident.
nor more active. They are more confident of
Grants election than we wish they were; for
they work best when somewhat apprehensive
of defeat. But there is hardly a Republican
i'll the State who does not personally know of
some changes in our favor, and there is dan
ger that too many will regard our triumph
as already secured.
We do not want one illegal vote polled for
Grant and Colfax, and shall not have hun
dred in the entire State. We have at least
Four Hundred Thousand legal voters who
desire that our candidates should lie and be-
lieve that they will be elected ; and there are
not Three Hundred and Eighty Thousand
legal voters in the State who desire Seymour's
election. Every vote he gets above 375 600
he will owe to deliberate and concerted fraud.
Still, we have very difficult, arduous,
energetic canvass before us. Thousands OF
our voters are absent in Europe and on voy
ages in every sea- Many are travelling on
business, or looking through the West and
South. West for future homes. If the cleo
tion were tomorrow, we should not poll our
full vote by at least Fifty Thousand. To call
pur.voters home from every quarter is a work
requiring systematic effort. 1t can only be
Effected by an efficient organization in every
election district and most effective canvass.
Then we have to fight coffce-colored Natura-
lzatiou papers and legions of alien swindlers
who mean to vote if they can and as often as
dare Tie work required is immense.
Friends, North and South, East and West!
do not distrust New York She never failed
you at critical moment except in 'G2, when
at least Fifty Thousand of her noblest voters
were carving muskets in Dixie or sleeping
beneath its turf The casualties of war have
seriously cut down onr majority, but have
not DESTROYED it. You will nave to work very
hard and to very good purpose to do better in
YOUR several States than the Empire State
will do for Grant, Colfax and loyal Peace
-Neu York Tribune dug. 26th.
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