The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-06-17
The Egis 4 Intelligencer'
BEL AIR, MD, JUNE 18th, 1870
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feet peace? All testify to this who have
been in New York on election day. 1t is
so quiet you would not know it to be cleo
ton day. Gentlemen talk here about cleo
tions il New York as if they were held
underthc influence of whiskey, brides, vice,
&c. Now, the simple fact is, that in or
about the room where the polls are held
YOU see no crowds and no rows, as you do
in Illinois, in Ohio, or in New England.
There is no drunkenness; you see one or
two policemen there to prevent possible
trouble. The ballots are placed in the vari-
Gus glass boxes. Any one can see his bal
lot fall like the poetical "snow flake" If
there have been frauds heretofore in the
city of New York, the Republican police,
over the registration, had as much to do
with it as any one of the party. And such
frauds to some extent are incidental to all
great cities of diverse interests, where men
are absorbed in the hurried pursuits of
wealth and luxury.
In conclusion, repeat that laws like
this will be imperative and Intellectual. 1t
may provoke, as it is intended, trouble, col
lision, riot and bloodshed, but its penalties
will be scorned. This will be the case in
New York city, upon which we were in
formed this bill was intended to operate,
the registration clause especially.
Nor will it aid Radicals to carry elections,
The clamps OF the Republican party at
Albany have been fixed on that city by
State legislation and city commissions for
years. Every year brought fresh dissatis-
faction with this system Of government
until the revolution oflast year. Although
the Republican party had the police of New
York city although they had all the pow
er to control, arrest and punish repetitions
and fraudulent voting, yet large majority
has been rolled up there against the Repub-
lican party with every year. No intelligent
man, whatever he may think of some of the
sores of the body polite and of some of the
incidents inseparable from great city, but
will believe that New York is becoming
more and more Democratic every day. and
that this bill will still further add to its
Democratic strength. Therefore, it ought
to be entitled "a bill to secure the suprem-
acy of the Democratic party and the in
crease of its votes in New York city"
Mr.. Allison. Why did you not vote,
then, for this bill.
Mr.. Cox. do not vote here to increase
or aggrandize party. hope that my friend
from Iowa votes on higher plane than
that. He is so serene, kind, and handsome.
Laughter.
know full well whence emanate all the
ISLANDERS against the Democracy of New
York. They are from the same source as
that which clamors for the naturalization
bill ofmy colleague Mr.. Davis.l l do not
wonder that my colleague-and desire to
speak of him with all respect thinks rather
poorly of New York city after his recent
experience there. But that experience is,
| fear, associated with the source of these
ISLANDERS and clamors. | think | have put
this plainly enough, but | will repeat the
statement for my colleague. | say that all
these ISLANDERS on the New York Democracy
como from the New York Tribune, most of
the editors ofwhich live outside of that city
and have no sympathy with its masses and
no votes in the city. fl were disposed to
enter more fully on the defense Of New
from this legislation would do sol could
show that she has cheaper and better
government, in which there is less fraud
than in your Chicagos or Cincinnatis or
Philadelphia or Rochesters, and less taxa
ton, ay, and less crime and crime OF diff
terent and less hateful grade and kind than
Boston.
Mr.. Stevenson. The gentleman will do
we'll if he can do that.
Mr.. Cox. There is one thing more on
which desire to remark. 1t will not do
for gentlemen of the republican party, at
least in New York State, who the other day
gave all their votes in the New York legis-
lature for the new charter, to impcach the
character of that honored and glorious State
with its ninety-one thousand Democratic
majority. That Democracy have overcome
many trials and dangers. Their motto, like
that of their State, is Excelsior" When
new bills Of pains and penalties are pres
sed on them by Radical bigotry and NAL
ice, when this system of spies and inform
ers is added to the restrictions already
heaped upon their commerce and their in.
dustry, when to Federal taxation, internal
and external, with its inquisitions, seizures
annoyances, burdens and frauds, is super
added the espionage, litigations, prosecu
tions, indictment and penalties, tostered
by horde of Federal detectives and pc,
lice, to overawe their free suffrage and
control their local government, they will
prepare and nerve themselves for the con
fict. They have by State supremacy al
Albany broken your yoke of wood and
with Gods help, they will break the yokes
of iron now forging for them in this Fed
eral capital