New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-12
COUNTING THE VOTES.

COUNTING TIE VOTES.
Tho Electoral Votes of the States of New
York. New-Jersey, Georgia, and Louisianawere
stolon from Grant and Colfax and fraudulently
tronsforrod 70 Seymour and Blair by Dem
ocrotic managers in the North, and by Rebel
to,,orists in the South. That is the short way
of stating an important fact. Poll the legal
voters Of New-York tomorrow, and it will APP
near that majority of them. considerably eX-
coedinp Ten Thousand cast their ballots last
November for Grant and ColiaX. Ihere Is ho
donbt about this among intelligent politicians.
A nrominent Judge in this City has boasted
among his Democratic confederates that ne
carried tbe State of New York; while another
biob Democratic official has proclaimed in Dem
ocrotic circles, that 1t rested with me to deter
&" mine whether Hoffman should have Thirty
Give Thousand or Seventy Thousand in this
City; and they had to get down on thelr
"l,nees TO me TO make it Seventy Thousand"
The professional thieves, burglars, ana
swindlers, who voted ten to twenty times each
for Seymour and Hoffman, mainly plled thelr
vocation in London before they were driven 10
seek here safer field OF operations;
and very few of them are lrlsh, though
tbe Irish have been wrongly charged with
their crimes against the purity OF the ballot
box; Fraudulent naturalization papers were
made out by tens of thousands; some OF them
were uscd and some not. Joseph Egan, who
has worked in Newcastle, Westchester County,
for the last two years, but who had pot been
four years in the country, and had never de-
clared his intention to become n citizen, was
supplied by the Democrats with a-Naturaliza-
ton Certificate, though he never applied for
it; so were two of his sons, who were stJll
moro recent immigrants one OF them MINOR
Neither of these attempted to vote; but they
were provided with Naturalization papers on
purpose to have them vote for Seymour Blair
and Hoffman. Not less than Fifty Thousand
Certificates, each as fraudulent as these, were
sent out from the Democratic Naturalization
Offices in this City; and tho ballots cast OH
these. with those of the "Tepeaters," gave
Seymour and Blair the forty Electoral Votes
of New-YOrli and New-Jersey.
Georgia and Louisiana were carried by violence
and intimidation, as NewYO and New-Jersey
were by forgery and frauf The Blacks OF entire
Congress 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 at
TEMPTED to vote for Grant and Colfax. The
proofs of this are as clear as sunlight they
are rs papable.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 oftener RETAINED from
voting, because to vote as they chose would
subject them TO prescription, starvation, out
rage, wounds, and death.
But Grant and Colfax were nevertheless
elected by more than twO-tbiTds Of the Elec-
toral Votes Every State but Kentucky, Mary
hand and Delaware, went really for them. No
one disputes since no shadow of ground exists
for disputing, their triumph. 1t seems to us,
therefore, that Congress might better devote
its best energies to precluding in future
such Outragcs as yitiated the result Ia four
States than to rejecting or correcting tho votes
wrongfully cast last December Let the dead
bury their dead. while we give attention and
effort to the case of the living and practical
Such seems to us the dictate OF true, patriotic
craftsmanship sacb we believe will DO the
Judgment of the People.