The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-13

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The electoral votes of tie States of New
Work. New Jersey, Georgia, and Louisiana
rvsre stolen from Grant and COlfaxbnd fraudu-
Iantlv transferred TO Seymour and Blair by
DaroocYatic managers in the North, and by
RebaI terrOrists in the South. That is the
short way of stating an important fact. Poll
tho layal voters of New York tomorrow, and
n will appear that majority OF them CON
s;darably exceeding ten thousand cast their
balIots last November for Grant and Colfax.
There ia no doubt about this among intelligent
noIitioisns. A prominent Judge In TINS city mas
boasted amongh his Democratic contedera!es Vna'
~ osrTied the State of New York; while an
ether high Democratic official has proclaimed
in Domooratio circles that cit rested with me
to determine whether Hoffman should nave
thirty. five thousand or seventy thousand IN thls
CITY: and they had to get down on their Knees
20 ms to make it seventy thousand The pro
fessional thieves, burglars, and swindters VINO
voted ten to twenty times each for oeymour
and Hoffman, mainly piled their vocation In
London before they were driven to seek mere
a safer field of operations; and very few OF
sham ara Irish. though the Irish have been
vuronclv charged with their crimes against
fbe purity Of the ballot-box. Fraudulent
naturalization papers were made out by
tens of thousands; some OF them were
used, and some not. Joseph Egan, who
has worked in Newcastle, Westchester county,
for the last two years, but who had not been
tour years in the country, and had never de-
cared his intention TO become citizen, was
supplied by the Democrats with q naturaliza-
tion certificate, though he never applied for
IL, 30 were two of his sons, who were still
more recent immigrants, one of them a minor.
Neither of these attempted to vote; but they
were provided with naturalization papers on
purpose to have them vote for Seymour, Blair,
Nj &Io,, 4 A1o,, o,,J
certificates, each as fraudulent as these, were
sent out from the Democratic naturalization
Offices in this city; and the ballots cast on
these, with those of the "repeaters," gave
Seymour and Blair the forty electoral votes
of New York and New Jersey.
Georgia and Louisiana were carried by vio-
lence and intimidation, as New York and New
Jersey we're by forgery and fraud. The blacks
of entire Congressional districts were kept
away from the polls or compelled to vote for
those who would deprive them of the elective
franchise by threats that they should be killed
if they attempted to vote for Grant and Col
fax. The proofs OF this are as clear as sun
light; they are as palpable as the fact that an
election was held. Whoever will glance over
the returns from those States by counties and
districts must know that the results declared
indicate the fears, not the wishes, of the
colored voters. They voted, as they often
refrained from voting, because to vote as they
chose would subject them to prescription,
starvation, outrage, wounds, and death.
But Grant and COlfax were nevertheless
elected by more than two thirds of the electoral
votes. Every State but Kentucky, Maryland,
and Delaware went really for them. No one
disputes, since no shadow OF ground exist:
for disputing, their triumph. 1t seems to US
therefore, that Congress might better devote
its best energies to precluding in future suci
outrages as vitiated the result in four State
than to rejecting or correcting the vote
wrengfully cast last December. Let the dea
bury their dead, while we give attention an
effort to the case Of the living and practical
Such seems to us the dictate of true, patriot
statesmanship; such we believe will be tn
Judgment of the people.