Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-31
THE REVOLUTION NEW YORK.

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New York is the first State to hold an
election since the formal proclamation OF
the ratification of the fifteenth amend
ment has conferred the right of suffrage
upon negroes everywhere. Heretofore
the Radicals have always carried the State
outside the city of New York by MAORI
ties ranging from $4,000 to 80, 300. But
this time the Democrats have carried the
country districts" by majority almost
as great as the average majority OF the
Radicals. So much for the fifteenth
amendment folcing negro suffrage upon
the people of New York after its repudi-
alton by large majority of the voters
last fall. The Albany argus of the 27th
inst. reports the official majority already
ascertained to be $1,000, and the pros
pect that it may reach $4,000. This viii
give Democratic majority in the "coun-
try districts" of more than thirty thou
sand. A correspondent at Hudson, N.
Y, writes to the Albany Argus as fol
lows:
I'm this city the negro voters were Or
gained by Republican politicians in adj
vance, and appeared at the polls in full
force, one hundred and twenty voters in
number. In one ward they had almost
entire possession of the polls, with but
little support from their white friends
among the Republicans. 1t was sup
posedthat this large addition to the Re-
publican ranks must necessarily decrease
the Democratic majority here, but the re-
suit shows that it was greater than usual
by one hundred votes. Many of the ne
groes now say that the Republican whites
did not stand by them, leaving them TO
bear the entire burden of the canvass, and
that hereafter they will vote with their
friends, and not consider themselves
bound to support Republican candidates.
Another result of this marshaling of the
colored forces Is, that many Republicans
were so disguised at the idea of putting
forward this new accession to their ranks,
that some of their leading workers did not
vote, and some of their laboring men
voted the entire Democratic ticket In the
country towns throughout our county, it
is said that the colored men paid but little
attention to the canvass, and those who
voted were about equally divided between
both political parties"
The official returns have greatly upset
the calculations of the Radicals. For In
stance, the estimated Republican majority
of Chenango county was one hundred,
whereas the official count make it so much
Democratic; Madison county is put down
in the estimated returns as six hundred |
Republican, when it turns out in the
official count to be eighty Democratic;
Ontario county is also changed from one
hundred Republican TO two hundred and
twenty-five Democratic. Cayuga has
done wonders in changing Republican
majority of 3, 3Sl into Democratic ma
jOrity of about 256, but what shall we say
Of Oswego County, The official canvass |
gives Church 635 majority, and Judge /
Allen SIG. The county prior to last fall
was usually good for about about 5000
Republican majority Republican loss
If nearly 1000. Wayne county also has
yiven Democratic majority of $50, and
lie first since 1852. The Lyons Press
RadicaD says: o 20
"This result is attributable to the fail
ire of the Grant administration.
In Steuben, also, Church has 722 ma
GRITTY over Selden. Steuben has been
Radical since the Fremont campaign,
nd the revolution in political feeling is
indeed great. The Radical majority asst
ear was 756.
Herkimer county is redeemed, and this
J the first Democratic victory in siy;ceo
ears. Nor is this all. 1t is a nQiicuaol,
act that the official count is uniformly
the Democratic maior.sies,
'hile it is decreasing those of Republi-
ans.