New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-12-16

popul ,tion. Ii has been suggested that
there might be underground roads. surface
roads and elevated roads in the same street.
And perhaps we shall see i'll the future rail-
roads in three stories.
The FACTS TARRAAT TIE INDIGNANT
Mr.. Bane's powerful speech, certain men
say, was wholly founded upon IA mere pre-
sumption which he had no right to make.
| Without any proof, they say, he presumes
| that there must have been fraud be-
cause every negro did not vote the
| Republican ballot, and ignores tie con-
version of great bodies of labOrcrs to
! the side of their employers by O. the
natural influence Of education and prop
"erty." There is no presumption in the case.
| The miraculous "conversion" has been drag
gcd out into daylight, with the tool chests "
and the Onion-skin" ballots which pro-
duced 1t. The TRIBUNE does not build upon
presumption, as Mr.. Tilden has learned.
Its correspondent, Mr.. White, has be-
come known in every part Of the
land as a most conscientious, candid and care
full investigator, aud his report Of personal
inquiries and observations III Louisiana Few
years ago was treated by the whole Demo-
cratic press as conclusive proof He has per
sOnally ascertained the facts in the counties
of South Carolina where the conversion
was most completes has talked with
competent Witnesses of both races and both
parties, and has reported what he has seen
and kROWs to be true. 1t is the truth that
active Republican leaders were imprisoned,
driven from the country, or killed; that armed
troops Of laW-breakcIs in red shirts took pos
session of nearly all Republican meetings; and
that the cOlorcd phalanx still remained sub
stantially unbrOken. In spite of terrorism and
DISCRIMINATION, those who did vote cast Re
publican ballots. Then the great proud
"white race" asserted its superiority 10y re-
! sorting to the mcanest and most infamous
| frauds. Voting places were abolished
| so that thousands of cOlored men
were DISTINGUISHED; tissue-paper ballots
were substituted for Republican votes actually
cast, aud that by the thousand, all over the
! State, under direction from central authority.
Mr.. White hears the Democratic admission,
We had to do 1t, or the Radicals would have
beaten u.s." He finds that the negroes, almost
TO a man, did vote Republican ballots
| Nor is his testimony alone. Mr.. Campbell,
a Democrat of wide reputation and high
character, and leader of the bar OF South
Carolina has publicly offered to give album
| dant proof to any Democratic editor who will
ask IT, and not one has dared to ask.
To absolute proof, the Democrats have not
dared to oppose direct denial. 1t is not
presumption. but established and demon
strablc fact, that the miraculous "cOnver-
"sion in South Carolina was in the
main barefaced and systematic swindle.
| - tbaf
or violence has been at the bottom of the
conversion of large masses of colored
voters IN every other case. For in ev-
cry case armed organizations of DEM
ocrats have opened the missionary work
with massacre. In every case, leading
Republicans have been driven into Jail, into
their graves, or out of the converted"
region. In every case, where terror and dis
organization did not disfranchise the Repub-
licans, fraud has finished the work. That is
| the record, foul with shame and black with
| crime, which will be handed down by history.
| PentecOsts never occur i'll politics. The
| Democrats have Overdone the missionary
work, for it was not necessary to convert
| everybody. "The natural influence Of prop
&" erty and intelligence" they say, causes the
miraculous change. Does 1t, indeed At
| first, everybody knows, it did not. The land
was filed with cries Of rage because the col
ored men voted, at every election for
years, so compactly for the party and with
the men who had given them the ballot.
Who has forgotten the walls of Democrats;
because % the property and education of
"the South had absolutely no influence
cover the solid mass of labOrers;o because
their former slaves had been given power over
them, which 1t was u brutal, cruel and vindic-
! tive thing to do; and because those slaves were
so sure to remember the lash, and the years
of unpaid toll, and the separation from wife
and child, and sure, as long rs memory lived,
10 vote in solid body against their former
masters. Have We not heard the solemn
warning that it was dangerous for prop
erty to be so Dowerlessf Have we
not heard. after every election for many
years, the hOwls of rage because all the intel
hgence and property could make no impress
sion upon that solid, unbroken and impregna-
BILE phalanxf Is it easier now than it was
for ten years for property to work mraclesf
In no age of the world in no land, under
no circumstances. however favorable, has
such miraculous conversion of great masses
of men ever yet been SEEM Has Russia ever