The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-12-01
The Alabama Election.

AVERY, the Southern correspondents
of the Cincinnati Commercial writes as
follows concerning the recent election in
Alabama: ed
So far as / can learn, the election in
this State was a fair one. If the bloody
Africans run the rebels away from the
polls in any precinct in Alabama, |
have not heard of it; and, on the other
hand, if the Africans were not allowed
to cast their intelligent ballots in any
of tn e counties, that circumstance has
not come to my ears. 1t seems to have
been fair election where everybody
voted his honest sentiments, and got
back to his own fireside at night with
out having his throat cut from ear to
ear, or his head mashed into perfect
jelly. In many Of the precincts in the
northern portion Of the State, where
there were great many whites, and
but few negroes, the negroes voted the
Democratic ticket. What will be done
with them on this account, whether
they will be returned to the manacles of
slavery, as unworthy Of the priceless
boon Of freedom conferred upon them
by that great party which saved the
country in the hour of its peril, Quota
ton from campaign document,) / am
unable to say, but the melancholy fact
remains the same, regardless of what
punishment is to be melted out to them,
they did, to the number Of thousands,
vote the Democratic ticket.
/ know a district in one of the north
ern tier of counties where the returns
show that Of the eighty odd votes
polled, all were for Lindsey, although
there are several gentle Africans living
in that favored locality. Thinking au
interview might shed light on the
gloomy affair, said to a sovereign of
that district, GLOW happened it that
Smith did not get any votes at your
polling placer
Because" said he, as he paired toe
nail that protruded through a hole in
his boot, because nobody voted for
him"
This answer would have terminated
an ordinary interview, but as was after
information bearing upon the future
welfare Of the party that saved the Gov
eminent in the hour Of its trial, | con.
tinued:
"Any negroes in your beat?'
Eyes, about dozen on EN-.
did they vote p
"They did in the cool.
"Who torY
Lindsey, Of course.
THAT seems funny, considering the
unanimity with which they supported
Smith in the Southern part of the
State"
ayes, tbs little funny that the mig
gers should have sense enough to vote
the Democratic ticket. The Radical
school teachers are learning them some
thing. The more the niggers are educa-
ted the more they will see that it is to
their interest to vote with the people
among whom they live who like them,
who care for them, who give them part
of their cotton crops, instead of run
ming after set Of id dead beats and
carpet-baggers."
and scalawagers, added, not
wanting my friends from the North to
bear the entire brunt of Democratic
wrath.
"Yes, and every other kind OF wag
ger and wiggler. Why, on election
day the niggers came up to the polls,
and said thev wanted to vote, and TO
give them some tickets Some Of the
men says: Boys, how do you want to
voteH And they answered that they
wanted to vote like all the balance was
voting A Democratic ticket was read
to them, and they said that was the
very thing-just what they wanted,
and so they voted it.
Not only was Smith defeated by six
ur sight thouoNnd votes, but the Legis
lature Is largely Democratic They
have alse gained a Congressman ana a
multitude of small officers. In short,
the Democracy have gained victory
in Alabama. 1t may not be pleasant
to have it that way, but that does not
hinder it from being true. 1t is doubt
full if the Republicans ever get control
here again-that is, if the Democrats
behave themselves and from the num-
Der OF lessons they have learned in the
school of. experience, taught for the
benefit of those who will not learn in
any other, it looks as though they
ought to.