The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-29


crowd which was being addressed by the Senator
was surprised by the sudden appearance OF an
of mounted negroes numbering 800 What still
more astonished the concourse was the iact that,
as they approached, Greeley fiags were displayed
by the negroes, and they cheered wildly for honest
Horace. The horses they rode were al excellent
animals, ana the appearance OF the mounted visit
once dismounted picketed their horses and listened
with great attention to the remarks OF Senator
Upton giving him three hearty cheers at the s, con
source said to be entitled 10 credit, and
the explanation Of so strange an exhi-
Greeley club in the ~' counties Of Stokes and
Surry, and, desiring to attend Senator Tipton's
sney aa see opm the csya
cade, and amazed the people OF the county and the
meeting in the manner stated. However true this
may be IL s well known that a large number Oh
negroes have dared to break through the
RIGID RULES OF THE LEAGUES,
and for the first time to exercise their own opinion
in the matter OF casting their votes; but in the
present condition OF affairs 1t requires the greatest
moral courage on their part to carry out these a
be to the apostate who goes back n.. on
man among his sable brethren, an Ishmaelite, with
every mans hand against him, to be pereecnted
and subjected 10 relentless insult and indignity,
and perhaps to be beaten, robbed and Danlshed
from his home. have II from several negroes win
whom cOnversed at High Point the other day,
"A. y.
conservative meeting that they dare not vote 10r
Greeley and Brown, and that their
OATHs REQUIRED
IN ey shOnld vote for General Grant
what oath do you mean ~ asked. .
''De oath we TOXIN when we lined de League"
40 you recOnect what that oath wasp"
ayes sah II was loyalty to de g0v'ment; ana
den you knows Gineral Grant Is de gov'ment. so
we'se boun' to vote for Gineral Grant,
! endeavOred in every possible manner TO con-
vince this negro, and number or others VINO were
with him, that the oath they had taken had no
right to vote they pleased without regard to the
oath but might as we'll have undertaken to con
vince them they were white men and not negroes.
II Is by such means these the radical leaders
manage to keep the negro vote so soldly and COM
pacty consolidated that 1t Is AN impos,s'eii,y al
threats intimidation or by any other mode familiar
30 ward politicians. Another characteristic which
has been educated into the negro Is that IL ~ q
CRIME TO MISS VOTING
at any election that may he held in the county or
township wherein he resides. They believe this
Grant should be President OF the United States;
aud let them he ever so far from home they trndge
il foot hundreds of miles sometimes to cast that
vote. As proof OF this no less than three hun
dred negroes, who have been working on the
Lynchburg and Danville Railroad, In Virginia. have
recently returned to GuiIfOrd county in this state
where they were registered, purposely to vote
at the election on Thursday next. Many
of these dsluded suflragans lose nearly
whole months wages sooner than
lose the privilege ofvotng besides the travel OF 200
miles going and returning to their work. IL is
known that large numbers OF negroes have mi
grated South within the past two years and great
many have died whose names are still on the regis
tratiOn books, yet 1t invariably happens that
negro votes for every name on the books To
identify them Is out of the power OF any man, and
having no ancestral names OF their Own-s0me oil
them, too, having several names-havlng no per
manent place OF residence and paying no taxes,
they cast not only their own vote at the proper
voting precinct but they frequently cast the
votes OF
ABsEHrEEs AND DEAD MEN,
and then go to other townships, where they are
This latter dodge is more fruitful Of ballots for the
republicans than any other fraudulent system that
may be resOrted to, and thus 1t Is the original
negro registered vote never diminishes. with TINS
multiplying Of votes and with the large white vote
timidate by means OF the XII Klux indictments,
think it nothing more than reasonable to assume
that the republicans VIII
ELECT THEIR STATE TICKET
by a small majority, though at the same time there
are good chances OF the conservatives doing the
same thing by the honest and ndOmitable canvass
they have made A few days ago Governor Vance
was asked nv friend what his actual opinion was
as to the result. and he unhesitatngy replied that
the conservatives would carry the state by 5000
majority. Now, Vance is good Judge, and his
opinion is worth something, and upon that alone
OF the Internal Revenue, one OF the admins
tration managers, who has his deputy as
temporarily , appointed h, at w - per
money up' that the republicans will carry
the state by 10000 maority but that Is out OF the
safe. The conservatives will elect a majority on
Joint ballot OF the Legislature, perhaps six OF the
congressman, and they will run the State ticket
very close.
In the Fifth district Hon. Thomas Settle. the re-
publican candidate for Congress, and who was
chairman of the Philadelphia Convention, the other
day, on the stump. Indignantly denied the charge
that money was being freely used by his party. An
hour later he was tapped in confidential man.
ner on the shoulder by an individual, who
said:-'Judge, know about a dozen voters near
here who viii go for the other side, but they
can be got" "How can they be gotf" asked Set
OF people they are here" How much win It
takef" said Settle. 81 don't know, but not much. y
was the answer. "Here," said Settle, taking a roll
lars Is that enougha' eyes, that is plenty .If
you want more You can have IT," said Settle. This
will do, this will get them" said the individual,
and away he went. Not ten minutes afterwards
Settle saw this individual on the speakers stand
displaying the greenbacks to the gaze OF the crowd
and relating with no small degree OF delight the
and adding, loosely, that the republicans were not
using any money in the campaign, ''Oh, TO-" He
invited all his conservative friends to groggery,
where Judge Settles money was freely expended
I'm whskey for his opponents.
The mass Of documents which have been and are
now being distributed throughout the State by the
republicans Is immense. There never was any ap-
prehensiOn OF q
Personal DIFFICULTY
between Judge Merriman and Senator Pool, as
stated by correspondent or the New YORK
Tribune. Pool ranked campaign documents con-
tanning gross charges against Merrfman, which the
latter denied in q published card, and stated he
would enter suit against Pool as the publisher OF
the libes. correspondence OF an unimpOrtant
character ensued, In which there was nothing
belligerent whatever, leaving the matter exactly
where it stood with the publication Of Merrimans
and both Of them shook their heads decidedly mega
lively when asked If they apprehended any per-
sonal difficulty from each other
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