The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-06-16
The AmaIsamatien Party.

At the june election for city officers
for the District of Columbia the ne
groes and amalgamationists combined,
and with pistol and btickbats drove
the whites from the polls and carried
the election by force. Large num-
bers of negroes from the cornfields
and kitchens of Virginia and Mary
land were unblushingly imported into
the District for days before the cleo
ton to outnumber and overbear the
vote of honest, actual property hold
ing citizens of the District The
I~atelhgencer says:
In the above caption we say, upon
d~eliberation. that ar amalgamation
ticket (perhaps it were better to call
it a negro one) has succeeded in the
election, because the elements that
have contributed to the result are
mainly of negroes, who have been re-
inforced by such whites as are subord-
mate at present, or prospectively, to
the governmental or municipal author
ity. =,
In the country at large, the control
by a party of city or State official pat
ronage is regarded as a great promise
of success. What, then, might not
be predicted of success in a court city
like Washington, where the means of
success, in business, o. in many Ca
ses, of livelihood itself, SO much de-
pend upon Government control OF die
tation?
IF the city government alone, with
its little budget of only s1,5OO,oOC,
can, through the police and a multi
tude of subordinate officials, a well as
of contractors upon works of improve
ment, be counted upon for hundreds
of votes, what might not be expected
of results when that authority is rein
forced by the General Government,
with its half a dozen thousand of en-
ployees, at large pay?
In fine, when General Grant rode
out yesterday, almost for the first
time since his Inauguration, he could
proudly say, in view of election results
here, "See what my work of prosecu-
ton and persecutionhas accomplished! ,
What we have precedent to the cleo
ton predicated of a favorable result
from the relucting of the better class
of negroes from going as a INIT against
the white people, as well as from the
expressed repugnance of many we'll
known white Republicans to sustain
Radical rule in the city, has been dis
sipated by the occurrences yesterday.
In fact, the negroes, who constitute
the mass of the Radical party here,
have been either demoralized by offers
of Office or patronage, or they have
been inundated by menace, or, many
cases, by actual violence. This has
been especially illustrated in the Sec
ond Ward, where the police were for a
long time powe=less before negro raid
and violence. The same, to a consid-
cradle extent, is true of other wards.
1t is within our knowledge that
large numbers of Republicans of SUI
perior morale are Disguised with the
fraudulent negro o~utcropping yester-
day. Such being the case, what won
der is it that hundreds, if not thou
sands, of Democrats or Conservatives
did not cast their votes in the munich
pal contest ?
1t is but true and just to say that
doubt of prospect from the beginning
has been generally expressed. Few
found or asserted good reasons for any
such apprehension, but it is a fixed
fact that the caucus system is fast 60
ing into d~isrepute. The people would
fain go back to the old system OF
bringing out candidates by suggestion
in the public prints. When this is
done, combinations of the people maui
PEE the Vaccinations of politicians, will
assuredly be made at the morning Of
an election which will be acceptable to
the masses, and will override all the
nice laid plans of party schemers.
If such a course be adopted by white
citizens, all the apprehensions that
now exist in the minds of Republicans,
as well as Conservatives, as to the
menaced control af negroes in politi-
cal affairs VIII be happily disslpated.-
There is great responsibility for ,ohite
men in the future.
There are yet near half a dozen
thousand of white men who either did
not register OF did not vote at the cleo
ton. The ultimate destiny of the city
is in their hands. II is not possible
tkas imported negroes from Maryland
and Virginia car long control our
municipal affairs.
I'll NAT.- Tee.