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

| The North Carolina election is close at
hand, and there Is no reason to suppose that
the State, which has been republican ever
since its rehabilitation, will change its politi-
cal complexion at this time. Indeed, the sohd
massing of the negro vote on the republican
side, and the extraordinary efforts put forth
by that party to ensure a thorough canvass OF
the State, are confidently expected to increase
the usual republican majority, which varies
from nine thousand to eighteen thousand
Our special correspondence holds out some
expectation of break in the negro
phalanx and democratic victory, but
these views are probably taken from
the standpoint of democratic meetings
and committee rooms. Observing politicians
on both sides have become SO well
satisfied that North Carolina will show no
political change in the present State contest
that the election has lost its interest especially
as such result will have no significance in
the Presidential problem. The only feature
of the canvass now deserving attention is the
marked success of the republican stump
speakers and carpet-bag politicians in their
effort to induce the negroes to vote like so
many machines. In this they have been aided
by the docility and credulity of the colored race
eve have passed the word for Grant,
Massa.' So respond the negro voters in
North Carolina when urged to consider the
claims of Mr. Greeley to their thanks for
the prominent part he played in the long
struggle which finally led to their enfranchise-
ment. 1t will be the same all over the
South. In all estimates of the result Of
the contest this fall it should be dis
tinctly borne in mind that President Grant
will receive the solid vote Of the colored
men. Though the blacks are no longer
chattels, bought and sold on the auc-
ton block, they are still slaves to igno-
rance and to their devotion to blue uniform
with yellow buttons During the late war
they won as race high praise for abstaining
from rapine and violence against the families
of their old masters, and proved themselves an
amiable race They feel profoundly grateful
for the boon of personal freedom which they
believe General Grants sword won for them;
and this, with their unfortunate Ignorance,
has made them the willing tools of the
carpet-bag politicians by whom the South is now
governed. They will vote in q mass, as they
are directed to do, not as thinking individuals.
No efforts of the opposition will avail to break
this colored unanimity. 1t is founded on
credulous ignorance which can be pierced
during this canvass by no ray of political in
telligence-an ignorance which will require
years, perhaps decades to overcome.
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bondage. America forty years ago was wholly
enslaved. We had worn out our British rulers
after the long war Of our Revolution, under
the inspiration of vexatious taxation resisted,
with Mr. JeHerson's affirmation that men are
born free and equal; we had had, in the War
of 1872, drawn fight with the mother coun-
try, and our Fourth of July orators pro-
claimed that we were free. Yet were we
slaves-bond slaves of party, ruled by the wire
pullers of the Albany Regency, the Richmond
Clique, General Jackson's Kitchen Cabinet, the
Blair family, and other combinations of polit-
ical intriguers. Only during the last few years
has this political slavery melted before the
wonderful spread of intelligence. Independ-
ent newspapers, aided by the magnetic tele-
gnph, flashing news from the uttermost parts
of the earth with lightning rapidity,
and the improved means of commu-
nication by steam power, have been
the emancipating forces that dissolved the
shackles with which party bound our people
To cheap journalism we owe the fact that now
each white voter takes his favorite papers,
criticises their editorial utterances, and votes
intelligently and freely for those candidates
he judges most likely to represent his own
convictions of right and policy. Party slavery
is now thing of the past. Through all the
Northern States no man blindly obeys the
behests of party, call it republican or demo-
cratic, liberal or radical; locate its headquar-
Philadelphia or Baltimore. But in the States
. south Of the Potomac, under the baneful in
auence Of the corrupt coterie which lives on
the unclean drippings Of political power, Pres
ident Grant is allowing his Cabinet and Office
holders to combine the solid voting negro power
with the responsiveness of federal bayonets to
secure his reelection. Thus would he and
T the party into whose hands he has surren-
dered himself place the white population of
the late Confederate States under the ignorant
sway of their late slaves. For many years the
republican party labored to effect emancipa-
ton. Now, when the lash and the manacle
have lost their use, that same party seeks to
place a chivalrous and cultivated race of
white Americans under the unbridled rule
Of the blacks and mongrels who until lately
wore servile chains, and set of thieving
carpet-baggers who pander to them. Was
there ever a more monstrous proposition
Such position is utterly unworthy the Chief