Year: 1870




The New York Democracy have again
achieved a most noble and overwhelming
victory over mongrelism, tyranny, and Grant
and his minions backed by the Army and
NAVY. For weeks, Grant and his Admin
istration, by the wicked and unconstitutional
use of the Army and Navy and United
States Courts Marshals and other Federal
appointces and appliances, has been prePar-
ING to control the elections in the States by
an intimidation and coercion more wicked,
corrupt and outrageous than ever before at
tempted under Republican form of fGovem-
ment, in any country. For weeks and days
before the election, the telegraph had been
telling us that hundreds and thousands of
Special Federal Marshals were being sworn
in in New Yorl-that the Navy marines
were being concentrated in the harbor-that
soldiers were being ordered from every quar-
ter to the vicinity of the city-that Grant
and the Secretary of War and Secretary of
the Navy were holding long private consul
tations-that the Army cipher telegraph was
being constantly in use-that General Nc
Dowell had his headquarters in telegraph
communication with every election district in
the city, and, in short, that this terror, in
timidation and coercion over free voters was
complete and perfect. These dispatches
were true and told story that disgusted and
aroused the indignation of every honorable,
intelligent and liberty loving, patriotic citizen
in the broad length and breadth of our coun-
try But the end was not yet. The Gov
ernor of New York and the Mayor of the
city demonstrated with Grant and with his
officials, but this did no good, and it become
them as men and. as officials to whom the
people of New York State and city looked
for peace and protection to prepare, as men
who knew their rights and how to maintain
them, for enforcing the laws and seeing that
American citizens had their rights at the bal
lot-box. TO this end the State troops were
ordered rendezvoused at their headquarters,
armed in fatigue dress, to obey the signal
and be i'll line ready for any emergency.
This brought Grant and his officials to their
senses, and this alone secured a compara-
lively fair election in New York city. True,
many timid quiet Democrats stad away
from the polls, and many honest Republicans,
from disgust at Grant and his minions, also
refused to act longer with such a party, or
to vote.


This was the same game that had been
played SO successfully over the disarmed peo-
of the South so often, and later over the
people of Philadelphia, because the State of
Pennsylvania had nothing but the poor lick
spit:al thief, Geary, for Governor but it
failed in New York, through the manly firm
ness of Democratic officials At Norfolk
and Richmond, Virginia Buffalo, N.Y.; Mo-
bile, Alabama, and New Orleans, Louisiana


Federal bayonets and Marines were ordered
and ON hand to control the elections by in
timidation, but with what success, we do
not, at the present writing (Thursday) know.
These are fearful proceedings in free (D
America, and well calculated to try the met
al of which our people are made.


In Missouri, Grant attempted to control
the State election by writing letters, remov-
ing officials and threatening to remove all
Federal appointees who did not vote and
work for his ticket. But here, too, he met
with an overwhelming and disgraceful defeat.
All these things prove that we have a Pres-
dent of small brains, of towering ambition,
imbued with bitter enmity to Republican
principles, aud partaking somewhat of the
characteristics Of the insane tyrant, Caligula
These proceedings meant nothing more nor
less than an attempt on the part of the Ad-
ministration to control the State elections by
Federal bullying through Governmental Off
cials and the Army and Navy, to its own
aggrandizement and perpetuation in power.


New York city gives over $4,000 Demo-
cratic majority. Elsewhere we give the
summing up of the election returns, by which
it will be seen that Grant and his administra-
ton is etfectually y rebuked in these elections,
and forever laid on the shelf by the Ameri-
can people. He is now so low and despised
that no decent man will longer attempt his
defense.


WHERE TIE MONEY WAS Cause.-The
money taken from the Express train near
Reno, in the great robbery on Friday night,
the 4th inst, is supposed to be a shipment