Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-17

DC LIlb III laVOf Oh dfeSk6Ys as 10 NOEtL
Carolina, Gen. Clingman, who Is now
here, states that fifteen per cent. Of The
Democratic vote was not polled at the State
election, which is bound to come out in
November.
As was stated in these dispatches last
night, the Republican Campaign Commit
tee do not feel easy as to South Carolina
until the State election is heard from there.
However that may 60, it is feared that an
irreparable division has been caused in the
negro vote, which cannot be healed in time
to prevent combinations from being formed
before the November elections.
Although the Administration is counting
now largely upon carrying New York,
Senator Fenton's prediction as to that State
is In order. He said that no matter how
the October elections might go, New York
would give fifty thousand for the Lib
eral ticket. The Liberal Campaign
Committee then came to the rescue, posi-
lively claiming New Jersey. Connecticut,
New Hampshire and Indiana, leaving Min
nesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, California, New
ada and Oregon to be contested. Such is
the way the opposition views the field here
after the October elections.
Address Oh the N8NlODaA D0s1Ocfhtkc
Committee.
NEW YORK, Oct. 14.--The National
Democratic Committee have issued the fol-
lowing address to the people of the United
States:
The October elections are over. They
enable us to form a tolerably accurate idea
of the true political situation of the ceun-
try.
In Georgia we have to recount a victory
for the Liberal ticket so unexsmpled as to
take her out Of the list of doubtful States
and practically to pronounce in advance
the decision of at least l25 votes in the
Electoral College. To this number it is
only necessary to add go votes to elect
Greeley and Brown.
In Pennsylvania the distinguished Chair
man of the Liberal Committee has elo-
quently characterized the methods by
which the result of the election there was
accomplished. We commend his state
ment to the thoughtful attention of the
country.
In Ohio, despite most unprecedented
gains for the LIBERAL Democratic ticket,
the Grant managers have carried the cleo
ton by reduced majority, having brought
to the polls their entire reserve vote. Had
our Democratic friends in certain localities
of that great commonwealth, shown the
same earnestness and activity, and
enabled US like our enemies to record
our entire strength, they would now be ex-
ulting over brilliant victory. In Indiana
the Democratic and Liberal forces have
achieved most important success over
Pennsylvania tactics most unserupulously
employed by the administration and its al
lies, showing thus that free people when
aroused know their rights and dare main
tain them. Indiana has fairly demonstrat-
ed that she can neither be "bought nor
bulhed." Ehe moral of these results is
that victory is still in plain view for our ma
tional ticket, and that energy and courage
viii assure it. That victory must be won.
If we mean to preserve free institutions on
this continent we must assure it.
The event in Pennsylvania, on Tuesday
last, when considered in its causes, is the
most appalling political catastrophe that
has ever taken place in this country.
Should the system through which this ca
tastrophe was brought about be condoned
by the people and foisted on the other
States, it seals the doom Of freedom in
America. A sad contrast it is surely that
the city in which our republic was born
amid the anthems of free people should
now be the first to tell the knell of its lib
critics. 1t is for the free, unbought people
of all the States to calmly review the fear
full crime against suffrage in Pennsylvania,
and to decide whether it shall be repeated
within their own borders.
For the first time the system of free gov
eminent and the sanctity of the ballot are
really on trial in the United States. From
this hour forward the preservation of the
franchise in its integrity dwarfs all other
issues.
Let our friends in each of the States
catch inspiration from the heroic conduct
Of our fellow-citizens in Georgia and Indi-
ana; and from now till November let their
struggle be manful and unceasing for liber-
ty and an untainted ballot-box, for Reform
and an honest administration of the gov
ernment. AUGUSTUS SCHELL,
Chm National Dem. Com.
Address of the New York Liberal
Committee.
The following is the address of the Lib
eral Republicans of the State of New York:
HEADQUARTERS NEW YORK LIBERAL
REPUBLICAN STATE EXECUTIVE COMMIT
TEE, ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL, Oct. II, 1872.
The results of the October elections have
not fulfilled our just expectations, though
Indiana is tied, with Liberal Governor
and Superintendent of Education chosen
by decided majority. While Ohio has SO
far reduced the adverse majority that our
brethren in that State confidently hope to
be successful at the coming election; while
Georgia declared for US by majority which
insures the choice of Greeley and Brown
Electors in nearly every Southern State, yet
the enormous majority counted against us
in Pennsylvania has given our adversaries
assurance that by like lavish disbursement
and fraudulent practices they may carry
almost any State they choose, including
even New York. Thers is no intelligent
citizen of whatever party who does not re-
alize that the thirty-five thousand majority
scored up in that State for Hartranft over
Buckalew represents, not the convictions of
the voters, but the vast sums whereby those
convictions have been OVERCOME; and that
this majority could have just as easily been
given to either Of the two undoubted gigant-
ic peculatOrs who were pardoned out
of felons' cells, where they had spent
but few months, in order that their tes-
timony might smooth the way to
Hartranft's election. A contest is now
forced upon us between money and man.
hood. All the expenditures of all parties
in former Presidential elections do not
equal in their aggregate the vast sums with
which every contested State is sluiced, in
order to make them seem to desire and con-
sent 10 the retention of the present rule at
Washington. Not Only are ofice-holders,
land grant jobbers, subsidy mongers and
Government contractors of all kinds assess
ed and reassessed to promote the re-elec-
ton of Gen. Grant, but we are well assured
that European bondholders and fund mong-
ers, who never saw this country, whose
rights are never questioned, whose interests
are never assailed, have been induced to sub
scribe and contribute bounteously to the
same end. We can not raise dimes to meet
the dollars thus poured out against us. No
Credit Mobilier has dsztrOusly transferred
millions to our pockets and fastened cor
responding debt upon the industry and
property of the toiling masses. No Secre-
Lary of the Treasury stands ready to help
us fill our pockets or our campaign chest
by stock gambling, in which he loads the
dice so as to make it certain that he shall
win. In short, we have but the few dol
lars proffered us by those who have hon.
estly earned them, and we must make
Herewith the best fight we can, while the
venal, the sordid, the rapacious, eagerly
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