The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-22

the employ of the Board Of Public
Works have been leaving this city dur
ing the last three weeks, in squads OF
twenty or more. for Pennsylvania. Whom
interrogatod, the answer is, they s'nre
going to work on railroad at two dol
lars day, with expenses paid, and ex-
pect to return nbout the middle of Oc-
tober." They travel mainly by Came.
ron's Northern Central Road, and are
distributed in the cities and Counties,
where detection will be most difficult.
A glance at the colored laborers on our
streets shows that there has been large
depletion within month.
That scheme has been concocted TO
import negroes in great numbers from
Kentucky into Indiana, and from Mary
land and the District of Columbin into
ennsylvania, is no longer doubtful.
They can be spared from all these loculi-
ties, without affecting the Radical
strength in any way. The Administra
tion has no hope of either Kentucky or
Maryland, and hence every vote with
drawn from those States and added to
the doubtful, is double gain. Here,
the election i'll October has no national
Significance, and if it had, the regstra.
ton and counting are in the hands of
~NOPSoS "hO oAo chAiiAuI CuOuRu GO uuuO
the precise majority before the polls close.
The colored population of Pennsyl-
vania is 5.294, and of Indiana $50,
scattered along the frontier Counties and
in the principal cities. 1t is, therefore,
not difficult, unless great vigilance be
exercised, to smuggle In aud vote several
Thousand imported negroes in pluces
where the Radicals have possession of
the registry. It was proven in the case
OF Col. Mcclure, that even this formality
was discarded in Philadelphia. He was
cheated ont of his election by bare faced
ballot-stuffing and fraudulent counting.
Ihe game now is to register the "pipe.
laying" blacks under false names, and to
run the risk of detection by the difficulty
OF identification and other devit es.
In the desperate strait to which the
Administration is now reduced, it's ma
nagers are capable of any fraud or vii
lalny, however mOnstrous, in order to
carry Pennsylvania and Indiana. With
them, the means justify the end. The
whole power of the Federal Government
Will be exerted to insure success, just As
1t was in North Carolina, where the bal
lot-bo1 was openly corrupted, or in Yer
mont and Maine, where money and pa-
tronage were combined and suuandcred
to save them from the danger of an
alarming detection.
Cameron has been here frequently of
late, and is, doubtless, not iguorant of
the scheme to colonize negroes in Penn
sylvania. His political position is staked
on the result, and he will not scruple
moment to employ any agency by which
votes may be obtained. It is, therefore.
important that our friends should
promptly organize an efficient system
by which these intended iniquities should
be prevented and punished. The laws
of Pennsylvania and Indiana furnish
means of pursuing such knavery, and
bringing the corrupt conspirators to JUS
tlce. We hope that every legal resource
will be employed for this purpose
promptly and vigorously, and that an ex-
ample will be made, not only of the ne-
groes who are hired for this service, but
of the unprincipled Radical leaders, who
have conspired to defraud the people of
their suffrages.- Washington Patriot.