Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1872-04-13
Coercion and Northern HUI
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The attention of our readers is
invited to the following from the
Concord, New Hampshire, Patriot
The vote of the manufacturing
towns is significant, and especially
lh $50 which were visited by Mr..
Straw personally before tho cleo
ton. We heard Of him at Dover,
Somersworth and Rochester, and
tho Radical gain in those and Man
chester is equal to his Majority. In
Manchester it is 4SG, Somersworth
2S4, Dover PIP and Rochester 1SO;
total gain in these four towns 1l72.
In these towns there are very
large number of voters employed in
the manufacturing establishments,
and in all the same influences and
tactics were doubtless employed to
induce them to "vote right" And
what were they? The Manchester
Union tells us how it was in that
city. 1t says:
"Agcnts were sent among the
worimcn, paper and pencil in hand,
to designate their political atfinities
We have known such tests in Il
railroad car, but in II machine shop
they are presumed to have II great
er significance. Another mahifes-
tation of this espionage Was picket
ing all the ballot-boxes with corpor-
alton spies. And another still more
atrocious was practiced to great
extent by the bosses taking the
men in their employ personally, one
by one, to the ballot-boxcs, and su-
perintending their act of voting as
they do any other work they are set
to do"
The same thing was probably
done in other manufacturing towns,
and tho result is seen in the large
Radical gains in their vote. We
know that employers caused it to
be intimated to their men that it
would be for their interest to vote
rs their employers wished, and that
this intlmation was regarded as u
threat of discharge in case of refu-
sal to comply with it,, In this way
alone the whole Radical majority
was secured, and without this wick
cd and cruel coercion Straw could
not have been elected.
The other day we stated that tho
Northern employees in manufac-
turing establishments, factories,
foundrics, and other industrial de.
pots, We're not allowed to vote their
own political convictions. Here is
proof of the charge from a highly
respectable source. The enslaved
workingmen with beloved families
dependent on their labor for sup
port, are threatened with dismissal
unless they allow their tyrannical
employers to virtually cast their
ballots. This is one of the misuses
the Radical ruffians make Of the
fact of Universal Suffrage. They
SO order things that the very ex-
istence of principle which would
seem TO bc, in itself, a great guar
antee of freedom, is the strongest
evidence to show that Liberty is an
illusion!- The Workingmen do not
act, except mechanically, when ap-
preaching the polls. The tyrants
watch them, attend them while ex-
ercising the duties that freemen
only should enjoy, and cast their
votes for them.
Besides, is not such coercion of
voters a clear violation of the pro-
visions of the Enforcement Act? 1t
is so construed in all the Courts
in all the Southern States. What
is the differance between undue in
fiuence over the ballot of an Afri-
can in Alabama, and undue influence
over thousands of white men in
New Hampshirel The law is more
viciously offended in the latter than
in the former case. Why do not
the Democrats and Conservatives
in the Northern States demand the
protection of the laws, and il
refused seek such remedy as the
case requires. All history demon
stratcs that the great struggles of
every people have been against ty-
rants or would-be tyrants. Only
in the United States men submit to
be robbed and enslaved and speak
in the bated breath of serfs.-MORt-
gomery Advertiser.
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