The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-11-12
Census Frauds Of 1863 and 1870.

L. $, Marshal Sharpe publishes his cen
sus returns, which we give elsewhere, II
makes the city population less than g31,-
600, whereas, when the DRAFT was going ON
in this city, Federal counters made the
population orcr hruatg per cent. more than
T. s, NdrSbH Sharpe. llomtio Seymour
was then Governor, and we rcpublish his
statement Of the facts as made last week
at Rome, Oneida Co, After showing to
the State and country that the population
of New York falls but Il little below one
million souls, even by Radical count-tak.
ing the largest vote ever given in New
York city, which was in 1863, and which
was less than ~l56,000-that il this number
proved fraud, then there was fraud in his
county (Oncida) at that same election, and
fraud also in every Republican district in
this State, Oneida county has about l00,-
600, and rs vote was about $4,000. The
vote in New York State at that election
was more than $4,000. lfthe vote in this
city, in proportion TO its numbers, as
shown by the census, shows fraud, then,
unless the census will show that New
York has more than five millions and a
half of people, the Republican districts of
this State are stepped IN fraud to the very
eyelids.
When the enrolment was made, It was
found to be SO partisan that, says the Gov
ernOr,
81 deemed it a duty to look into it, |
found under this enrolment, when u call
was made for three hundred thousand men,
that nine Democratic Congressional Dis
tricts, which at that time gave $4,000
votes, were called upon to furnish more
than 10000 men, while sixteen Republican
Districts, with a vote of more than $4,000,
were charged with but $4,000. The dis.
tricts forced to send this excessive amount
were mostly in the cities of New York
and Brooklyn. The first nine Congress.
sional districts, which comprise these cities
and adjacent counties, with q population at
that time rated ut l,2ts,049, were called
upon for %, 1866 men, while Massachusetts,
with ten Congressional districts and a o
lalion then rated at 1881 ,006, had to fur.
nish only 1920. At the same time Il o
quotas of Vermont and New Hampshire,
with a population of 4t,l1t, with six Con.
gressional districts, gave only 1923 men,
while two districts in the city of New
York, with a population of only 2S3,229,
were called upon for 1923 men. | ask
you to notice some startling facts
about the Sixth Congressional District
of New York. You have in the New
York Tribune and in other papers, state
ments which show that in many wards in
this district the vote is unduly large in
comparison with census returns. These
statements are put forth as clear proofs of
election frauds. Now if the census re.
turns of these wards ARE not false, the Re.
publican party and its leaders have been
guilty Of the i0ulest fraud ever pmcticed
on a people. by the census returns there
are only l1s,200 people in the Congress.
sional district, showing a falling Off of
more than 1850 0 since iS60-the only dis.
trict in the city in which it is claimed
there is a loss of population. This is a
Democratic district. Now, in the enroll.
ment OF 1864, there was charged against
this district more than 30, 1000 men as liable
TO military duty, when in the county OF
Oneida, which is said 10 have about the
same population, only 9,lt9 were enrolled,
More men were enrolled in the Sixth
Congressional District as liable to mill
tary duty than in any other district in this
State or nation, nearly three times a,
many as were claimed Of any Republican
district ofthis State, although many ofthen
exceeded Il in numbers by The census re.
turns. There could not have been $4,000
men liaSia TO enrolment in this district IN
less 1t had y population of about 3O0,i 90
when this WAS pointed out by me, ii wal
J said, In answer, not only that the distric
Ind A large n0nnlatinn htt that Il uaa Yur,
idly increasing in numbers. Those VIII,
are parading the censuis returns to SHOW
, how small the population Of this distric
Is, then demanded that this enrollmen
should be enforced at the point Of the bay
onet, They called us traitors merely be
cause we askeda scrutiny into the action 0
the officials. AT length the case was y
gross that an adjustment was forced, an
the enrolment cut down TO about 1000
men, whlchimplied q population Of nearl