National Republican., 1876-02-08

the tox. Upon a recount, made at the sug-
eestion of Democratic judge after $50
ballots had been drawn out, 1t was found
that 6S4 ballots remained in the box, gain of
100 ballots on the first count. There wero
therefore drawn out of the bsllot-boK 6i3 bal
lots in order to make the number conform 10
the number of names of electors on the poll
books. The said judges, in drawing ont the
ballots from the bsllot-box, in order TO make
the number therein equal to the number of
names on the poll-books, so drew them as to
leave in the box only 5 ballots for Brady and
511 for Gayle, the ballots being of such dis
tinguishable size and texture of paper as to
enable one, Jv feeling them, to distinguish for
whom the ballots had been cast. OF the sill
ballots counted for Gale only S. were of the
style and character of those which had been
offered by and received from the electors as
their ballots; the residue 456 were false ballots
and fraudulently put in the box, and none of
them were at said election offered by any
elector as ard for his ballot, or so received by
the judges of election. These false ballots,
copies OF which we have seen, can be best de-
scribed by saying that they are of the size OF a
-hLSS NCISSs hOt pSihe AZ
with law in size, nor were they folded as the
law requires.
The manner in which these fraudulent bal
lots were introduced into the box was by en-
closing from ten to twenty Of them in an Or
dinary ballot, used on the occasion as a We
hicle for the viIlainy, said ballot being in size
32f by 2Y inches. And yet these judges, with
a knowledge OF this attempt to deprive the
people of their vested rights, counted them,
after having drawn the legal ballots from the
box Nor was this outrage confined to the
ward in question, still worse state OF things
existing in Ward No. 9, which may be readily
shown by aggrcgatiug the frauds in both wards.
1t appears by this sworn and attestei state
ment that the number of names on the roll-
books OF the two wards was ,155. The aggre-
gate number of ballots found in the ballot-boK
was s,35l, being an excess of number of names
on said poll-books Of ,l96; that Of all the
ballots counted at said wardS-to wit: ,l55-
there was only 16l genuine ballots, or such as
had been offered by voters or received by the
judges of election as their ballots, the residue
OF said genuine bsllots-to wit about ,0l3-
having been drawn out in drawing out the ex-
cess ballots that, Of ,0G1 ballots counted for
Gayle, only s. were genuineiballots, the resi-
due, 87G, being of q class that were not voted,
and which we have described as the ''un-
folded, sugar kiss verses"
In view of the foregoing statement of facts,
well might Madam Roland, had she lived to
see unreconstructed Virginia, exclaim, "0h,
Liberty! what crimes are committed in thy
nameI" These are onlr some Of the disboli-
cal methods devised by Virginia Democracy to
fill the Legislature OF the State will, their myr-
midons and to Illegally occupy the seats
of Virginia in Congress with men who
possess no legal right to them whatcYer-a
notable instance Of the latter existing in
the case of Goode, who occupies, but
docs rot fill, the scat from the district
in which these gross frauds were committed.
If the Democracy, who constitute the major
ity Of that body, can afford to wink at this
method of adding to their numerical strength,
even by keeping Col. Platt out of the seat to
which he is entitled until the tail end of the
session. il will not work him half the harm it
will the authors OF such conduct in the cnsu-
ing fall election. With regard to the case of
Gayle, notwithstanding the committee who
have his case in hand have held at least two
meetings, nothing has been done, and what is
worse, nothing is likely to be done by a party
who are so utterly regardless of the rights of
Republicans as the Virginia Democracy have
shown themselves to be in the past. So far
from unseating Gayle, he was honored by be-
ing placed upon that delectable Legislative
Committee that visited this city last week,
ostensibly in the interest Of immigration to
Virginia-truly fit representative to invite or
wheedle Northern men into State Iwhere
their rights are so shamefully violated, and
where he would really have no rights which a
Virginia Democrat would feel himself under
the slightest obligations to.respect.
A natural sequence of the diabolism to which
we have adverted can only result in not only
retarding emigration TO that state, but in be-
ing positively prohibitory in its character, and
can only bc changed by the cultivation of an
enlightened public sentiment among fair
minded mel of the State, who may be found,
if found at all, among the old Wings, who
have, strangely enough, bcen lending them
selves TO the Vaccinations of the secession
Democracy who invariably reap all the re-
wards of party successes. The policy of send
ing committees to Washington from their
Legislature, composed purely Of those who can
claim their nativity in the State, overlooking
thereby the Northern men in that body whose
only crime consists in being Republicans, and
then, when here, ignoring the Republican rep
resentative who holds seat in Congress from
the State, and the other one who; should pos
sess his seat but for Democraticifraud, is, we
respectfully submit, but sorry method of
commencing themselves and their State to the
favorable consideration Of lberal-minded men
Of the North, of any party.