The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-11-04
VOTERS ANDs SOLDIERS I
FACTS BEARING ON THE
COMING ELECTION IN
NEW YORK.
TIE Difference Between saER-
dfcai Enrolment for Fight
ing Purposes and a Radical
Census for Voting Purposes.

Ing purposes and a Radical
Census for Voting Purposes.
Ex-Governor Seymour. Of New
YORK, delivered a very remarkable
speech in Oneida county, of that
State, last week, which is attracting
a great deal of attention in the East,
il was in reference to the charge
that the vote in the city of New
York is so fraudulent and excessive
that it has wrongfully changed the
result OF elections, and placed po-
litlcal power in the hands of the
Democratic party. In the first
place Governor Seymour showed,
that eve by the recent Radical
census, which gives New York city
a population of little less than a
million of souls, the largest vote ev-
er cast in the c~ity--156, 900 in 1868
was not equal to the proportion
of voters to population IN counties
where the Republican party is
largely in the ascendant. off" said
Mr.. Seymour, sthe vote IN tho city
ofNew York. in proportion to its
numbers, as shown by the ceDsus,
shows fraud, then, unless the eensus
will show that New York has more
than five millions and a half of peo-
pie, the Republican districts of this
State are stepped in fraud 10 their
very eyelids."
Referring to the recent census in
New York city, Mr.. Seymour poin.
ted to the fact that the cepsus tax
ers bad not only a moneyed inter-
est in doing their work earelessly,
but they had also a strong political
reason, which was the expediency
of Producing the population of a
Democratic stronghold. and thus
depriving 1t of its rightfut repre-
sentation in Congress.
But the GROWING point of the ex-
Governors careful speech was bis
comparison of the census of New
York, in 1870, with the military en-
rollment in 1864, both made by the
agents of the Federal Government.
In the n case the policy of the
Federal authorities has been to re-
duce the population so as to dimin-
ish Democratic representation in
Congress. In the other, 1t was to
increase the populatlon SO as to call
an sunjust proportion of drafted
men from q Democratic city. That's
the whole story. In point of DELHI
crate villaIny it has never been sp-
preached in the history of the
Union. IL shows the Radical lead
ers engaged in 1t to be a gang of the
most unprincipled and reckless
scoundrels American politics has
ever yomited forth. And the read
er must not forget that the Federal
Administration is now engaged in
aiding in the final consummatIon Of
this stupendous villainy, and TO car
ry out their plans It's oficeeholding
hirellngs In the metropolis threaten
TO carry ~bloodshed and devastation
into the streets OF the CITY.
We annex the portion of ex-Gov~
erner Seymour's speech in which /;
he exposes the Radical villaInY that
New York has a large population /:
Tor drafting purposes, but an uHex-
pected and unreasonably small pop :
ulation for voting purposes. .
Census of Nete York Compared Nth
the enrolment of 1864. /,
Those who have tried to fasten T
the charge of traqd upon the DEM &
ocratic party Of the State of New G
York have no. only failed IN this, q
but they have unwittIngly unmask, a
ed a monstrens wrong of which G
they themselves have been guilty. Z
This question about the popula- q
ton Of the cities of New York and G
and of Democratic dis q
is not q new one. 1t agitated d
this State a few years since and
was the subject of a bitter contro- :
versy. In their haste TO denounce
; in their zeal to draw false .
conclusions fromtbe census returns, t
they forget that they are bringing a
iorth proofs that they were guilty t
Of crimes of ten-fold deeper dye
than those they untruly charge up 2
on others. During the war an ens '
rollment was made of those who
were liable to do military duty 7
The government never DID - act '
more grave, mere solemn, OF one c
called for more unquestiona- t
BILE fairness than this. The sacred
ness of its purpose, the preservation Q
our Unlo1, shonld have invested i
It with q species of sanetity. II d
was a measure which touched the S
ives of our people, the happiness Of '
-heiI homes, and which was TO car v
Y death and mourning into so ma a
by family circles. II was t. be n
A Great Lottery Of Life, !
And the thought that there could !,
De fraud, faIsehoed and injustice in :
-ts conduct shocks every mind that l
s not dead to justice and mercy I
But when this enroIlnent was 1
made. 1t was found to be SO unequal
md partisan that, with others, L
ieemed 1t a duty to look into 1T. IY
vii give You a few of the results of o
hat scrutiny. / beg every man b
the sound of my voice to re- '