The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-22
me Forth Caroline Election and It's
Hnscts-Ths Consolidation Of the Negro

Secretary Boutwell, has returned 10 Wash
ington from North Carolina and announces
with confidence that the latter State win elect
the republican ticket on the list Of August by
majority of between six and eight thousand
The Secretary's political pilgrimage has been
short one; probably 1t was wisely curtailed
by President Grant. But some persons have
the faculty of doing great deal Of mischief In
brief space of time, and IL the republican
majority, which ought to be over twelve
thousand, shall actually be cut down nearly or
quite one-half, we may attribute the falling off
to the injudicious policy Of Secretary Bout
well and to his ipcendiary attempt to excite
the hatred and passions of the negroes against
their white fellow citizens. So far as the re-
suit of the election is concerned we regard
the prediction of the Secretary as entirely safe.
Our Greensboro correspondence, published
to-day assumes that the democrats have good
chance of carrying the State, and talks about
the apathy of the negroes and the energy of
the democracy, but he evidently writes under
the inspiration of democratic meetings. The
republicans are doing all the useful work in
the campaign, and the negroes vote as ma
chimes at the bidding of the republican leaders.
Every colored vote will be polled, and they
will oil be cast one way. There has
been nothing since the rehabilitation of the
State to warrant the expectation of demo-
cratic victory in North Carolina In 1867,
when the State voted on convention or no con-
vention, one hundred and seventy -four thou
sand voters were registered, of whom seventy
one thousand were blacks. The vote polled
was about one hundred and thirty thousand,
of which, in round numbers, sixty thousand
were cast by negroes, and the majority for the
Convention, or on the republican side, was
forty-five thousand. In 1868 one hundred and
ninety-six thousand voters were registered,
of whom seventy-nine thousand were blacks,
and poll of one hundred and sixty-six thou
sand votes gave eighteen thousand six hundred
majority for Holden, the republican Governor,
and nineteen thousand majority for the repub-
lican constitution. In 1870 owing to dissen-
sions in the republican ranks, the democrats
managed to elect their candidate for Attorney
General by little over four thousand majority,
but last year the State again gave q republican
majority of over nine thousand, out of total
vote of one hundred and eighty-fve thousand.
In the present canvass the republicans are
laboring harder than they have labored in any
election since the return of the State to her
position in the Union, and the advantages are
altogether on their side. They have a State
ticket in the field nominated in opposition to
straight incorporating democratic ticket
before the conclusion Of the union between
the liberal republicans and the democracy
on the Presidential candidates, and hence in o
great measure Independent of the influence of
such union. The issue made subsequently in
the Presidential contest, however has aroused
the administration to unusual exertion in the
State, and oil the power Of the federal govern
ment is used to secure a marked republican
victory As President Grant is the renominee
of the regular republican party, any reverse to
shat party, under any circumstances, would be
prejudicial to his chances Of success in Novem-
ber When it is remembered that North Caro-
lima is held under military rule that the fed
eral ofRce-holders, the federal soldiers and the
carpet-baggers, with the solid vote Of the
negro population, are all for the republican
ticket; that q large amount of federal
money has just been thrown into the State,
which, if not corruptly used, will beyond
question be literally employed until election
time in the payment of doubtful voters for
what are called legitimate services, and that
the people of North Carolina have been kept
SO miserably poor under the Southern policy
of the republican Congress as to make few
dollars material object to many thousands of
them, it will be readily understood that the
republican Governors election ought not only
to be secure this year, but ought to be carried
by a larger majority than was given to Gov
ernor Holden in 1868.
The success of the republican State ticket In
North Carolina ON the LIST of August may,
then, be regarded as certain, the question
being only one of majorities This result will
leave the aspect of the Presidential canvass
unchanged; for while q republican defeat
would be almost fatal to that party, demo-
cratic defeat will have no corresponding effect
on the Greeley ticket although it may become
important as indicating the probable concen-
tration Of the whole negro vote of the South in
solid mass on the republican candidates. We
shall probably have to wait for the o.
tober elections until we ascertain with any
thing like certainty the strength of the anti
administration combination in the States that
are likely to determine the Presidential con-
test, unless, indeed any unexpected reverse
on the republican side in the States that ought
to be carried by them with ease should scatter
their forces before the time for the decisive
battle arrives. The real interest the peor
pie have in the North Carolina election is
in the evidence it will furnish Of the progress
of the attempt to array the Southern negroes
as a race against the white citizens Of the