The daily gazette., 1875-11-05
WILMINGTON. DEL. NOV. ), 1878
NEGRO INsoLENoE IN BALTIMORE

taught every community in which the
negro has been brought to the polls
by the Radical politicians that it is
almost impossible to preserve the puri
ty of the ballot. 1t is difficult 10 iden
tify negroes. They are very migratory
and white window challengers, are OF
one opinion as to this trouble. Then
again the negro is very ignorant, and
does not know or fully understand the
nature of an oath He, therefore, with
very little hesitation, swears to his
age, or his residence, at the suggestion
Of bad white prompters, when he is
certain Of neither his age nor the time
ne has resided in Il ward, city, county
or State. Many negro boys are found
ct polls ready and willing to swear
that they are between 21 and 90 years
of age, and thus secure the right to
vote without paying tax; when, in
fact, they are not twenty; some have
been discovered ready to do this in
Delaware who were hardly seventeen.
Hundreds of them did it Baltimore
when the Radicals held control of the
city; and thousands of them do it in
' the southern cities, where they vote
and repeat with impunity. These
negroes go to Baltimore, Philadelphia,
New York and some of them come to
our own State and city and try the
same experiments. They have been
accustomed in the Southern States to
voting at any poll where there vas
negro or white Radical, judge and
going to another poll and doing so
elsewhere, and when they leave their
States they imagine they can do the
same thing. Six negroes were arrested
at one poll in New York en- Tuesday,
for illegal voting. They were from
Tennessee, Kentucky and Virgins.
In Baltimore, on Tuesday, they tried
the experiment which they attempted
some years ago in this State at polls
where they supposed the Democrats
were weak; they attempted to form a
line and hold it, and keep the whites
away or waiting. Sometimes, in Del.
aware, TO give the Radical leaders an
opportunity to tempt, or bsrterifor the
votes OF poor whites. This trick of
holding the polls was once tried by the
negroes at Mideletown, where ono of
the more savage was fool enough to
use "black jack" on one of our best
citizens. This, of course, was the sig
nal for fight. 1t was too much for
white blood to endure, and although
the whites were greatly outnumbered,
q few minutes from the time the
blow was given there was scarcely a
negro to be seen. This fight had an
excellent effect in Delaware. here the
negroes are all permitted to vote, who
have right to vote; and hundreds of
them vote several times in spite of all
efforts, from the difficulty OF identify
ing them. This should be checked in
some way, wherever it is done. The
Baltimore Aees, an excellent indepen.
dent paper, refers to the acts of the
negroes in that city, on Tuesday. as
follows:
Tae experience Of thousands of citi.
Ills VIII Dear evidence to the fae+ that
m wednesday morning last it was I'M.
possible Tor a Democratic voter, in nine
-ea,as ot the voting precincts. to reach
-le window without waiting for hours
-! tAe line. Many of the negroes com
rPslng these lines We're not satisfied
with depositing their own ballots. but
took their places in the rear Of the Iina
after voting, for the double purpose of
otstructing Democrats who came later
and to give their places to black or
white republicans, and thus facilitate
the polling of votes upon their s;da
while delaying and hindering votes upon
the other.
The facility with which negroes can
repeat, because of the difficulty of recoo.
nlsing them, some time ago inducsd the
Republican party to utilize this element
to the fullest extent, and for years psst |
the negro has been favorite element OF |
fraud in the hands of his cunning man.
ayers. This, together with the fact that |
the negroes have been recognized as the
pet wards of the nation" and have
been specially guarded aaa protected |
against the elightest interference or OBJ
struction, that the government at Wash.
lngton might not have the smallest pre-
text for an unlawful invasion of the
State or its citizens, have caused the
negro to believe himself a favored voter
possessed of peculiar privileges. Aroused
by the conduct of these people in the
the municipal contest, the whito voters
OF the various wards arose earlier than
usual yesterday morning, and when the
bands of blacks came to occupy the polls
as they had been instructed by their DO
litical guides and masters, they found to