The New York herald., 1872-08-01
| NORTH CAROLINA.
The Tar-Heel State Ready for
the Battle To-Day.
CHARGES AND COULTER CHARGES.
Republicans Discovering Sticking Plaster
Ballots In Conservative Hands.
DEMOCRATS ALL, "YOU LIE -
Culled Bredren Caught at
Tammany Tactics.
SUMMERS LETTER TO SAMBO UNHEEDED.
Uncle Sans Troops In Line to Receive All
Rioters at Short Notice.
SCHURZ AT COMPANY SHOPS.
Wilmington Prepared for Amy
Emergency.
Bloody Fight Between Soldiers and
Citizens at Greensboro.
SUMMERS LETTER TO SAMBO UNHEEDED.
Uncle Sans Troops in Line to Receive All
Rioters at Short Notice.
scHURz AT COMPANY SHOPS.
Wilmington Prepared for Amy
Emergency.
Bloody Fight Between Soldiers and
Citizens at Greensboro.

Clt1ZenS at Greensboro.
RALEIGH, N. O., July 81, 1872.
The excitement which has characterized the
campaign for the last three weeks is now at fever
neat There Is some reason 1t Is alleged to appre-
hend disturbances at the polls in many localities to-
morrow, but after careful inquiry among all parties
l am inclined to believe the fear Is not well
founded. There Is no doubt whatever that the pas
sions and prejudces OF the negroes have been
greatly excited and innamed by incendiary speak
ers, white and black, so much so that the attempts
of conservative challengers to prevent fraudulent
voting OF negro minors are met with open defiance,
often accompanied by threats. This, how.
ever, is the greatest extreme to which the
election excitement will be carried. If there is any
disturbance the responsibility must fall upon the
administration officials In the State, who boldly
proclaim that they cannot afford to lose the State
and that the election must be carried at all
hazards. 1t is due to the conservatives TO state
that while they are frm and determined to cast
their votes, every precaution has been taken by
them to prevent fraud and to secure q
peaceable and orderly election. The indica.
tions this afternoon are that a very
large vote will be polled, by far the
largest that has been polled at any
time since the war. It is confidently predicted by
conservative politicians who profess to be thor
oughly informed that ten fifteen thousand white
men in the western counties who have not voted
since the surrender are now registered and will
vote the conservative ticket tomorrow.
CONSERVATIVE HOPE OF SUCCESS.
Basing these estimates on former votes and
adding this increase, and II the already accom-.
plished frauds are not more gigantic than can be
reasonably supposed, they predict with apparent
q, tbo In
be elected by decided majority. II these state
ments ana expectations prove unrounded the
ntis continsency If not % tGe state oss ticket it y
reasonably -, certain that the conservatives
Congressional delegation. In the absence OF
Samuel 7. Phillips, Chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee, and OF Senator John Pool
who has gone home to Pasquotank county to vote,
Collector Ike Young Is experimenting the canvass
no speaR as as did SENATOR Pool wees
ago, and could not help thinking that there was
an evident effort to convince himself as well as
OF what he said. He said the figures which the
committee counted upon for the State ticket were
from eight to ten thousand majority. They claimed
gresslOnal districts and the Legislature by Q ma
j0rity OF fourteen.
! THE DIvIL FIGHT AT ALL EXPECTED.
Mr.. Young emphaticaly disclaimed any appre-
hension OF q disturbance tomorrow, unless he
said, it was provoked by the democrats, and de-
nounced the telegram from G0ldsboro, disclosing
a plot to seize the polls by deputy marshals as
sensational and utterly false, gotten up only to
prejudice the minds OF the whites against the me-
There are probably being held in the State to-day
not less than fty mass meetings, all Of which are
largely attended. On all sides are heard the busy
notes and hustle OF active preparations the great
and decisive struggle tomorrow.
Men OF both parties look anxious and unsettled,
and the republican Office holders seem excessively
nervous. Judge Merrimon, the conservative noml-
having concluded the abos Of the campagn 9n Sy
speech at Company Shops on the North Carolina
sANGUNE OF VICTORY
The radical leaders express equal confidence in
the success of Governor Caldwell but there is little
s
tive to morrow Greeley Will sweep the state by
thousands In November; and It Will have the effect
of virtually deciding the Presidential election. All
the enthusiasm seems to be with the conservatives;
the sternness OF desperation with the radicals
inclined to give up the State, but
that they are ashamed to make the admission. 1
am crsdby informed by members orr ot the Conserve
negro voters have been made nom Virginia and
Tennessee, and also that huge registration frauds
have been attempted; but the vigilance OF the con.
servatives has detected them, and active measures
have been adopted to counteract them.
sAMBO WILD WITH EXCITEMENT.
On to this evening the negroes continue to be
greatly excited and eXasperated because boys,
ranging from sixteen to twenty years DID, who
have registered, have been challenged and will not
be allowed to vote tomorrow. They are standing
in little knots about the streets, except at the
Market House, Wnere tnefe Is quite crowd, dis
cussing in angry tones what they deem to he a
fresh Ku Klux outrage and rebel effort to deprive
them Of their rights
SUMMERS TORNADO NOT GREATLY FELT.
Senator Summers letter, synopsis OF which
reached here to-day, has no visible effect upon
them. Indeed, 1t Is the common impression that
time alone will change the negro in political con-
victions, which have been so well drilled into him
that he regards them with more religious zeal than
he does the Gospel. Even senator sumner, one or
the apostles OF negro equality, Will ind his nnu-
ence with the race impotent to change single
vote; and they will probably assail MIN now, as
they 10 Mr.. Greeley, as q turncoat rebel democrat,
who would put them back into slavery again Ii he
could
The negroes are not only stubbornly and mplaca-
bly welded to republican doctrines, which, with
them means opposition to the INA mass o Gs the White
and proscriptiye beyond conception. Just
the other day Samuel q. Cross, one Of
brethren because he espoused the Greeley cause,
and had the temerity to march In procession OF
white people, was in court His prosecutors, or
rather the leaders, have all been bound over to
appear before the United States District Court by
Commissioner under the Enforcement act.
CROSS IS A NATIVE OF HARTFORD.
Conn who was sent here six years ago by the New
YORK branch OF the Freedmens Union Commission,
of which Chief Justice Chase is the President to
teach the young negro idea how to shoot. In 1865
s WAS BY aaen a TO the he
espoused the liberal movement he was leader
among the negroes.
"Are you in any fear Of being again molested ~
asked him.
''Yes, when pass along the streets hear slurs
and curses often hurled after me, and don't know
what time may be attacked in the dark"
'What caused you to join the liberal movementg'
because the other party was corrupt, aud mon
esty thought reform was needed In both the, State
and national governments; had conndensJe IN the
and made my mind up to act independent and
'1l lIad you no other reason 70 leave yae partysr
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