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History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886. 298 words

Permit no imolent, paid and drilled Wide .\ wakes to dictate the law or your duty. . . . Stand firm and defiant-- and get in every vote possible for tlie Union Ticket.

Further on, and scattered through the paper, are statements that the ' Black Republicans are panicstruck;' adjurations to 'bring every man to the polls;' ' to vote against the Negro and Black Republican ticket, next Tuesday.' ' Cast your vote against Negro Suffrage. Be true,' etc.

The result of these appeals comes out, two weeks after, in the official canvass of the vote : " Union Electoral '' ticket, eight thousand one hundred and twenty-six; "Republican" ticket, six thousand six hundred and seventy-one. The majority of one thousand four hundred and fifty-five cast against the latter ticket is not sustained in other cases, the majority for Kelly for Governor being about a thousand^ while that for the Congressman is only six hundred and fifty. The neighboring counties of Putnam and Rockland show about the same state of parties.

The editorial comment on the result of the election,

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after an admission that the country districts had carried the State for the Republicans by "about sixty thousand majority," is as follows:

"The result is deeply to be regretted, not so much on party grounds, as for the continued peace and prosperity of the country. . . . The election of a sectional President-- against which WASHINGTON warned his countrymen in his farewell address-has now been tried, and we are to witness the result. We hope for the best, yet we are not without serious apprehensions. . . . The Union Klectoral ticket gets about thirteen hundred majority, but the State is black enough. New York City gives the Union Electoral Ticket 28,(iOO majority."