The Republican journal., 1870-11-03
NEW YoRK--HER FIGHTERS AND VOTERS.

Our feaucfS Will remember that IN 1861
we published the scathing exposures which
Gov. Seymour of New York made of the
glaring injustice done in the drafts between
the Republican and Democratic Districts of
that State-an injustice which was the real
cause OF the riots in that year. Now that
the radical papers teem with charges of
fraudulent voting in the city, and Grant pro
poses to use the military at the polls in the
city OF New York, Gov. Seymour again shows
up the frauds OF the radicals And he not
only does that, but places them in most
awkward dilemma
Abiding to the sweeping charges that the
vote of New York city is largely fraudulent
and that some thirty thousand illegal votes
are yearly counted, Gov. Seymour, in a re-
cent speech, said
| These questions, growing out of the census re-
turns of the cities of New ork and Brooklyn, are
OF more than mere local importance. They are the
touchstones which which show the spirit and pur-
poses of party leaders,
1t is charged that the census returns prove that
the vote given in the city OF New York so frald-
lent and excessive that it has changed the result
of our elections and wrongfuly placed political
power in the hands of the Democratic party What
are the facts! The census returns show 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 100000. fthis number proves
fraud, then there was fraud in this county at the
same election. There was fraud in every RepuL-
can district in this State. There fraud all over
| our land. The population of Oneida county is
about A hundred and nino thousand, and its vote
was about twenty-our thousand. The vote in the
State of New York, at The election, was more than
eight hundred and fifty thousand If 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 half Of people, the Republican
districts OF this State are STEPPED in fraud to their
very eyelids. The facts brought forward by those
who are traducing their own State ,lisproVe their
| own calumnies.
| THE ENROLMENT or 1864
| Those who have tried to flsten the charge of
fraud upon the Democratic party of the State of
| New York have not only failed IN this but they
have unWitingy unmasked monstrollS wrong Of
which they themselves have been guilty. This
question about the population of the cities of New
York and Brooklyn and Of Democratic districts is
not new one. 1t agitated this State a few wears
since and was the subject of bitter controversy.
In their haste to denolince Others in zeal to draw
! false conclusions from the census returns they
forget that they are bringing forth proof that thev
themselves were guilty of crimes of ten-fold leeper
| dye than those they untruly charge upon others
| During the war an enrolment was made of those
mrnt never I m oct nnra ora"a NAVY ame s,',
M n,,a .i h, ~, ~ ~, olc SlNe' more Soemn,
ocss Than this No sarauass , ia
preservation of our Union should have invested
tonn m, Seeaes hn s ul sev m M ~ Ws measure which
of their homes, and which was to carry death and
m arest '1 1"itery So 'y nr m y n crca1 th was to
there could be fraud, falsehood and injustice in its
Hu'' stre sn s0tsS m esepy % Hn t th not dead to
was made, it was found to be unequal and parti-