The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-10-26
The Radical Libel Upon New York.

The best answer we have vet seen t
the cry of fraudulent voting in New
York, raised by the Radical leaders ant
those in the interest of the Administra
ton, to palliate their premeditated sup
preston of the ballot-box, we find con
tanned in the speech Of that distin
guished statesman, Hon. Horatio Sey
mour, delivered at Rome, New York, or
the 18th inst. The force Of his argu
ments apply not only in New York, but
throughout the whole country, and fol
that reason we reproduce the following
extracts. Mr. Seymour said:
SPIRIT AND PURPOSES OF PARTY LEADERS
1t is charged that the census returns
prove that the vote given in the city Of
New York is so fraudulent and exces
sive, that it has changed the result Of
our elections and wrongfully placed
political power in this State in the hands
of the Democratic party. What are
the facts? The census returns shows
that the population of New York falls
but little below one million souls. Take
the largest vote ever given in that city,
which was at the election of 1868, and
which was less than 10000. If this
number proves fraud, then there was
fraud in this county at that same cleo
ton. There was fraud in every Repub'
licau District in this State. Ih.Ic vas
fraud all over our land. The popula-
ton OF Oneida county is about 5000,
and its vote was about $4,000 The
vote in the State of New York, at that
election, was more than $4,000 II
the vote in the city of New York, 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 halt
of people, the Republican Districts OF
this State are stepped in frand to their
very eyelids The facts brought for
ward by those who are
TRADCCING THEIR own STATE,
disprove their own calumnies. These
men are not only waging war upon the
city, but also upon the rights and inter
ests of the whole State; if they cut
down the rightful population of the
city, they cut down the rightful
political power of the State. New
York suffers severely by her constitu-
tional representation in the Senate,
where her four millions of people count
no more than one-fortieth part of her
population living in some rotton-bor-
ough State, which has been manutac-
tured for partisan purposes 1t is a
wicked thing to try and cheat her Of
her just power in the House of Repre-
sentatives.
THE ENROLMENT OF 1864.
Those who have tried to fasten the
charge of fraud upon the Democratic
party OF the State OF New York have
not only failed in this, but they have
unwittlngly unmarked a monstrous
wrong of which they themselves have
been guilty. The question about the
population of the cities Of New York
and Brooklyn and of Democratic dis
tricts is not a new one. ltagitated this
State few years since, and was the
subject OF a bitter controversy. In their
haste to denounce others; in their zeal
to draw false conclusions from the cen
sus returns, they forget that they are
bringing forth proof that they them
selves are guilty of crimes OF ten.fold
deeper dive than those they untruly
charge upon others. During the war
an enrolment was made of those who
were liable to do military duty. The
Government never did an act
more grave, more solemn, or one
which called for more un-
questionable fairness than this. The
sacredness of its purpose, the preserva-
ton of our Union, should have invested
it with a species of sanctity. 1t was a
measure which touched the lives OF our
people, the happiness of their homes,
and which was to carry death and
mourning into SO many family circles.
1t was to be a great lottery for life, and
the thought that there could be fraud,
lalsehOod and injustice in its conduct
shocks every mid that is not dead TO
Justice and to mercy. But when this
enrolment was made, it was found to be
80 UNEQUAL and partisan that, with
others, | deemed it duty to look into
it. will give YOU a few Of the results
of that scrutiny. beg every man
within the sound of my voice to recall
10 his mind the statements which were
made in the controversy which grew
out of that subject. ! ask You all,
without regard to your political views,
to read again what was said at that
time in political speeches and in pollti,
cal journals 1t was found under this
enrolment when call was made
for three hundred thousand men,
that nine Democratic Congress
sional Districts, 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 SO, 900. The districts
forced to send this excessive amount
were mostly in the cities of New York
and Brooklyn. The first nine Congress,
ional Districts, which comprise these
cities and adjacent counties, with a
population at that time rated at LIS
$40, were called upon for %, l66 men,
while Massachusetts, with ten Congress
,onal Districts and a population then
rated at | .23l ,OO6, had to furnish only
1926. At the tame time the quotas
Of Vermont and New Hampshire, with
a population of 64l,l7l, with six Con
gressional Districts, gave only 1899 men
While two districts in the city Of New
York, with a population of only 2S3
229. were called upon for 1928 men,
Now, if the census returns OF these
wards are not false, the Republican
party and its leaders have been guilty o
THE FoULEsT FRAUD
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