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The Oxford Intelligencer
Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi
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In Philadelphia's five congressional districts, Black Republicans were elected to Congress with average majorities of 500 each, despite opposition majorities, due to vote splitting by Belloveritte supporters who cast 6,000 votes for separate candidates, defeating Democrats and aiding Lincoln's Southern subjugation program.
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—In the five Congressional Districts embracing Philadelphia and its environs, says the New Orleans Delta, five Black Republicans are elected to Congress by majorities averaging 500 to each District. Now, in each District there was a majority against them! How does the reader suppose these Black Republicans were elected? Of course the Belloveritte did everything possible to defeat them—at least we should infer from their protestations of love to the Union. Strange to say, however, they voted for separate candidates, for whom they cast, in aggregate, 6000 votes, and thus defeated the Democratic nominees. Thus five Black Republicans get into Congress to aid Lincoln in his programme for the subjugation of the South.
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Philadelphia And Its Environs
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five black republicans elected to congress by majorities averaging 500 in each of five districts; democratic nominees defeated due to 6000 votes split among separate candidates by belloveritte.
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In the five Congressional Districts embracing Philadelphia and its environs, five Black Republicans were elected despite majorities against them, as Belloveritte voted for separate candidates, splitting votes and defeating Democrats.