New-York tribune., 1872-08-24
THE NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION FRAUDS.

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GRANT PARTY ELECTED CALDWELL~IHE
STATE SURE FOR GREELEY IN NOVEMBER.
In private letter which has been furnished
by one OF his correspondents The World for pubca
ton Senator T. L. Clingman of North Carolina says;
Caldwell owes his success to many thousand fraudu-
lent votes. The Administration OF Grant has an army
OF officers extending over the whole state Ihey nom
inay revenue officers and deputy marshals put
their chief business has been 70 manage the election
There numbers Of them in counties where there Is
not single distlery single acre or TOBACCO, ana IN
which not single KuKlux is even suspected 10 have
been. Some OF them told me that their compensation
was g. per day and their expenses. They seem gen
orally 10 have been literally supplied with money, y,.
think they were also required 70 make regular
reports Of their operations and the prospects, &c.
In the large negro counties their efforts seem TO
have chiefly been directed to the importation OF
aud to the procuring OF double voting by the
more extensively than the first. Many negroes have
two names; they rambe about and could easily be in
the same or by different names, and could thus readily
vote IN one township the morning and another in the
COUNTIES was caused ia this manner. In this county
(BeOmbe) there was an active canvass on both Sides
ulation as shown by the while the heavy negro
county OF Halifax shows $50 votes In excess OF its voting
DoUulatOn like result occurred many of the other
large negro counties While in most counties OF the
State the deficiency Of votes is more than 70 per cent
the whole voting population, we have the extra
ordinary spectacle presented III some counties,
where tho negro population Is numerous, Of an ex-
cess OF votes voters This effected by importa
ton Of extent but especially by repeating
dominates the officers chiefly operated by agreeing to re-
lease those guilty Of violating the Revenue laws and
giving permission to Others 70 dist fruit and grain &C.,
on condition OF voting the Republican ticket. CaTrOw,
the Marshal also admitted, in published letter, that
they had about 5000 whites under arrest as KuKlux
prisoners and many of these assert that they have
been assured that they will be released il they vote the
Radical ticket In Rutherford County there said to
be sos under arrest and when there Twas shown receipts
OF Mr.. Justice, the Assistant Distret-AttOrney for
money paid hum By some of these parties VINO have not
as vet tried, and who assured that they had
promises from him to be discharged without trial This
man. ill-named Justice, is the electOr for this dis
rict and the day when he appointed such by
his party, heard him declare in public speech upon
bis thanks, that they (meaning himself and
his assOcates had already run out OF this Congress
District 1000 voters charged with being Kukux; that
they intended TO impris0n 700 more, and would
away great many And his boast that they would
thus carry the election greatly applnuded by the
which nominated him, composed it was
mOst exclusively OF Federal officers. Many have
been arrested in this section merely because they had
In the year been members OF Seymour and Blair
club We shall feel confident the State easily
for Greeley in November. In the first place. while
tanning late strength, shall have many accessions
TO cur ranks from former Republicans who with us
on the Presidential issue secondly whole effort will
be- concentrated single election; and thirdly, the
tactics Of opponents are now generally understood
and their efforts viii more easily be defeated.