New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-08-22
The Plot Ia DIssrai:rhiSc Enlored
Voters.

t0iGFS.
There will be found in to-day's NEW Ma
TIoNAL ERA an extract from the New York
Express. n yindictivc and representative DEM
Ocratic paper, with some comments BY the
New York Times, an article practically as
sorting that colored men are only fit for
slaves, and. as n logical conclusion, that they
are ugtf 10 possess The clectirs franchise. That
is undoubtedly the sentiment of the whole
Democratic press, North and South, and Of A
very large majority of the Democratic party.
That is clearly the tendency Of Mr.. Greeley,
Tribune since his bargain and sale with the
Tammany and rebel leaders. ColOred men
| cannot read this paper without coming to the
uncomfortable conclusion that there will be a
systematic effort to disfranchsc them should
Mr.. Greeley be elected President. We
verify believe il is :" 50 nominated in the
bond he has given the other contracting
party.
But whether it be ar not, Will make very
little difference to them since they have al
ready threatened that he will be got out OF
the way if he should prove an obstacle to
their plans.
In its rantinG comments upon the Greeley
rebel defeat in North Carolina, Mr.. Greeley's
organ assumes that there were great frauds
committed in counties having a large cOlored
population, and taking the ground that, there
fore, the colored vote in these counties ought
to be thrown out without ceremony. In one
Of its late issues the Tribune says "that the
| facts are that in none but negro counties
was the proportion of one vote to five inhab-
itants obtained in North Carolina. 1t is
only in the counties controlled by the negroes
that find the natural proportion ex-
ceeded." And more to me same effect 1t
maintains that in every NEGRO county,
there was fraud, because the NEGRO coun-
| ties" all went heavily Republican. 1t adds
1--WE trust that Judge Merrimon will dispute
the election" To dispute the election be-
fore Ku-klux, anti-ncgro voting Legislature
will he, it thinks, as We do, to have the votes
of the negroes thrown out, and so have the
negroes DISTINGUISHED.
| We think few will dispute the conclusion,
at which the Detroit Daily Post arrives, that
it makes very little judicial difference to col
ored men if they are DISTINGUISHED by the
Greeley Democrats, upon what excuse it is
done. The New York Tribune, Greeley's
own personal organ, instructs the Democrat;
of the South in villainy; it tells them how to
disfranchise the negro race, by a dodge which
will eyade the provisions of the fifteenth
amendment. The dodge is to let the colored
/ Int, Il,
raise the pretense of fraud, and throw out
the votes Of all counties and districts where
| the colOred voters decide the election in favor
of the Republicans. There is not a particle
of evidence of fraud; but it IS enough that
the colorcd men polled large vote, and all
voted the Republican ticket. This is enough
for an excuse to disfranchise them all By
throwing out the votes of all counties and
districts where they are in a majority. No
votes are 10 be thrown out in the districts
where the whites have a majority. The
blow is manifestly leveled mt the colored race
only. Under this dodge the negroes can be,
and certainly will be, if Greeley is elected,
practically DISTINGUISHED in every State i'll
the South. They may be allowed to vote,
but their votes will not be allowed to
count.
The truth is, in North Carolina, the Demo
Gratis had the Legislature, the State offices,
all the machinery o.the State government, ia
their hands. There is abundant evidence OF
frauds committed BY the Democrats none
of frauds committed by the Republicans.
The votes were received and counted BY
Democratic officials and these Democratic
officials made the returns that elect the Re-
cry of fraud is Il cry raised against the returns
made out by their own officials. But the
buster about cOntesting the election, and
this threat 10 throw out the votes of the
NEGRO counties, "will not be carried into
execution unless Greeley is elected. The
Democrats of North Carolina dare not have
the election Investigated. if Grant is re-
elected with IN honest Congress; because,
in that case, Congress will also investigate,
and the proof will show that two or three
Democratic Congressman from North Caro-
lima owe their election to Democratic frauds
and, perhaps, that the expected Democratic
gain of n Senator has not been fairly Son
Besides, North Carolina will give such ma
iorty for Grant, in November, as will take
the remaining pluck entirely nut of the Gree
ley Democrats of that State.
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