The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-11-15
OH Bulletin.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA FARCE.
Tho Election rockery negro Won't
90 and n nors Allowed 10 vote
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Ma tlc .l,sm se,urcsa NIctor.

IRON tic tNg.Ist0n 'I'''.t
EvcrN DAY there reaches a. ircsh iht'Ih
conc 81 hu fraudulent manner by whi'h
She recent election las been carried.
Thee arc figr,n'anJ suHie'entin rei ASIDE
he y,ho,e ,lsfon T. there va. any tribun-
nj 70 which m,i,cu ADD rght could musc
its nj peal. IN { %. cosuty alone, outside of
,Se city. armed c,lorei bands, .tyliug
then,c'vcs the "mili,n. surrounded the
poll. and insisted upon inspecting the tick
cts Of the voters. and thus, to a great cNtcrt,
either drove oil those of the colurcd race
who wished to vote the Reform ticket, or
intiinidated them into the support of the
Radical; nominee. The few white men
present We're powcrles.. They voted in
peril. In some cases they were not
permitted TO vote at all. Til, was the cuse
with the Wappataw church polls. And so
with others. Colprcd women in some
parts of the State were allowed TO vote for
Their SICK husbands. In many portions
neither managers nor voters were sworn.
In some counties more votes were cast than
males over twonty-one years of age, rs
taken by the recent United States census.
And We doubt not, when the returns are
all in IL will be found that where the Radi-
Gals had the supremacy, 10 produce the
result, nearly every colored person over
seventeen years of age was permitted To
vote. Thus, with intimidation on the one
hand and the utmost license and fraud, il
ia not astonishing that the reform party
should have been defeated. No movement
can ever be successful where there is not
permitted a fair, free and unbiased election.
For instance what would be thought OF an
election In New York, where the Radical
party alone should be allowed 10 20 armed
tothc polls where they demanded the
inspection of votes where they charged
and destroyed obnoxious ballot boxes
whore they voted minors and women; where
those of the opposite party had their tickets
destroyed and their voters inundated, or
exercising their right in the presence Of an
armed mob Whoever heard, in tho his.
tory of free election before of the mana
gers and commissioners Of elecrons being
all appointed by tho chief candidate for
Office himself all of one party, many of
them candidates for Office, and of their
having the custody and the counting of tho
votes In an election in which they were
personally intorested2 We will venture to
say that such an election where there has
bean the slightest pretense TO the right of
ballots, is without a parallel. In the past
the intelligence and the real voice of South
Carolina have had no audience at the
North. Its appeals TO candor, justice and
right have been unheeded. It's statement
Of the real condition Of affairs, and It's Just
demands against oppression under tho
form Of law, the worst Of Tyranny, and for
honest government have been in vain The
ear of tho North is eagerly lent 10 those
who are deiamers Of the State, and who
have tramplcd under foot every vcs,igc OF
liberty, violated every sentiment of right
and brought tho State TO the very verge
Of ruin and dcsolation.