American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-24
North Carolina.

ALTHOUGH his precise majority is not
yet ascertained, i is plain from the last
returns that Caldwell, the Grant candi-
date, is elected Governor of North Caro-
lima. This is doubtless due in a great
degree to stupendous frauds. The read
ers of the Sun were forewarned of
these frauds and of their con-
sequences. Referring to the charge of
Grants orr in this city, that the Demo-
Gratis and Liberals in North Carolina were
trying to keep negroes from the polls by
threatening to challenge their votes, we
said, on the day previous to the cleo
ton, frauds will, with here and there an
exception, be perpetrated as usual. and
the GRANTEES will therefore carry the State
Tomorrow"
These frauds were of the type with
which the carpet-bag rulers OF the recon
structed State. have long been familiar.
They consist mainly in allowing negroes
who have not arrived at the legal age, or
have not legal residence in their several
| precincts, to register and vote, all def
ciencies in the poll being made up by false
| counting on the part of those who have
control of the ballot boxes. This scan
dalous game was exposed and resisted in
some of the central and eastern counties
of North Carolina at the recent election,
| but was played as usual in the other por-
tions of the State; and the result is be-
| fore us in the triumph of Caldwell.
This contest, however had its own
peculiar marks of infamy. There was
an unprecedentedly large importation of
negroes from the States of Virginia and
| South Carolina, the most of whom were
permitted to vote. The United States
| Marshal, a few weeks previous to the
election, drew from the Treasury a very
large amount of money, and there is not
| fool Nnrf1, n
know that a good deal of it was expend-
| ed in subsidiZing voters.
| Messrs. Boutwell, and Delano left their
| appropriate business in Washington, and
| went down to the State to engineer the
campaign in person. Though their prosy
| speeches, delivered to motley gatherings
| of negroes and carpet-baggrs, produced
no impression, their very presence said to
| the small army of officeholders IN the state,
''Do your level best, or you shall lose
| your heads," And they did. They stir
red up the secret leagues, whose mem
bers sent the password from the scacOast
to the mountains They spent the Mar
| shall's money where it would tell. The
| internal revenue officers in the eight Con
gressional districts were unusually active
and were remarkably lenient in the right
localities and toward the right persons.
In conjunction with the United States Dis
trict Attorney and his assistants, and the
Marshal and his deputies, they promised
the many scores of persons in the ceutra
and eastern sections of the State who are
under indictments for Illicit distilling anC
other violations of the excise laws thai
the prosecutions would be carried no fur
ther, provided they would vote the Gran
ticket and be very active in inducing al
their friends and dependents to do like
wise. OF course these rascals did as The
other rascals told them to, and at the ex
pense of law, decency, and the Fedora
Treasury, gave Caldwell good lift.
1t is by such means, such agencies, ant
such appliances, that the Grant candidate
for Governor has escaped defeat by thu
skin of his teeth. Immediately befor'
the election the Grant organs claimed
that they were surely going to carry thu
State by from twelve Thousand to fifteeI
thousand majority, secure five of the eigh
members of Congress, choose Leglsla
ture that would return Pool to the Senate
and thus strike the keynote of the Presi
dental campaign. This was the pledg
they put on record How have they re
deemed it? Toey have chosen but three
members of Congress, they have lost tn
Legislature, and consequently the United
States Senator, and by fraud, bribery AM
coercion have elected their Governor by
handful of votes.
The substantial results of the struggle
are all on the side of the supporters o
Greeley, whose friends, now thorough.
aroused, will organize for the Presidential
contest, and give him the State by splen
did majority in November.-Neco lor
Sun.