New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-07-25
THE FIGHT IN NORTH CAROLINA.

given up New Ork, VINO nave loSC Deart III
Penn ylvania, and are beginning TO be tor
mented with fears for Illinois, still claim t.
be confident of success in the opening battle
of the campaign in North Carolina. We hope
their calculations are erroneous, but we can
not deIy they have very substantial and
practical Ybasis. If it be in the power of pc.
litical p,rtyI supported by the entire resource:
of the Government to corrupt and cOerce the
people o. State into voting for an Admins
tration they nate and fear this will be done
in North Carolina next month.
There Will he an expenditure of money I'M
exampledi in tho history of parties Not only
the officeholders and the jobbers have been
mercilessl. bled Tor this purpose, but it has
been show by Nh. Beck that an amount OF
money hitherto unileard of has been drawn
from the treasury by Marshal Carlow, which
is to be usd for poll tical purposes. Mr.. Car
row, to be ure, says 1T is to be used only for
legitimate Gpenses, but what expenses would
seem more legitimate to him than those which
would result in rejecting the Administration
which emplgs and feeds i'm There are a great
many poor hen in North Carolina. The State
has been ton and plundered from end to end
by the aries of both sections, and the
meaner mace and cupidity of earpet-bag
governm ent 1t is impossible that ignorance
and poverty should always resist temptation.
The Grant pople evidently believe they can
not do 1t.
But the Administration relies, more than on
its corruptio fund, on its legal terTors to
coerce the vtes of the people of North Caro-
lima The porer classes there have grown
so accustOme to outrage that they scarcely
think of resnting it, any more than they
would resent thunder and lightning. They
are harassed and prosecuted, not from any
spirit of waDon tyranny, but from cold
blooded and tactical purpose Of influencing
their votes. I a farmers wagon-load of to-
bacco is seize, under pretense of some viola
ton of the fvenue laws, after he is sufl-
GENTLY annoyd and disturbed, it is given back
to him, with an intimatiOn that if he will
I" vote for Calwell and behave himself,n he
will have no hrther trouble. There are, 1t is
said, more tha 1000 indictments under the
KuKlux lawmow suspended in terror over
the heads of lliet farmers in North Carolina
who have bee as innocent of any crime as
the farmers otWestchester, and it is clearly
signifed to thin that their own conduct will
alone decide what shall be done with them.
They loathe and detest the injustice and the
| tyranny which is thus put into practice against
them, but many of them think that, after all, the
qualification Of voting as they like will be
dearly purchased by trial and imprisonment.
They have long since ceased to rely upon
heir innocence as a sufficient defense. False
witness and perjury is cOngenial growth IN
nd atrla
ARP gifted with political power. 1t is most
lilcly that ir they voted according to their
own convictions, no harm would come OF it;
bit the Grant party are laboriously striving
to create the contrary impression.
Another great reliance of the Grant people
| lis in the ease with which, by their present
| secret organizations, the negro vote can be
| manipulated. 1t is now well ascertained that
vey considerable importatiOns of negro voters
| firm South Carolina are projected and already
| Oh foot. The residence of these men Is to be
established by the Oaths of their political assO-
ciate and it will be difficult to disprove them.
| A lgge number of negro minors will also
attempt to vote at this election, and as it is
impossible to fix positively the ages of the
blacs, the attempt in many cases must succeed.
| AHlllSU jill lucSt ItoOutCCo tuO ihDViuio hh'O
onluheir good cause to rely upon, and they
regad that as amply sufficient. The men of
| intelligence and of character have risen with
almot entire unanimity in favor of this move
men which is to restore the State to its
propr place in the Union, and to finish the
perid of disorder and ruin which was begun
by session. They have no money, no secret
orgaizations, no government chest to draw
from no Deputy Marshals to do their bidding.
But they believe that there is still enough
publ virtue, enough love of liberty and of
hondy left in North Carolina to beat all
these influences combined. If the election
were eld a month later, we would be sure OF
the srcess of Mr.. Merrimon. AS it is, he and
his fends are making most hopeful and
gallat canvass, in which they have the SYM
pathyof the Liberals of the Union, and of all
genepus men.