Indeed, his alleged majority of 47,000 over General Grant was greater than the total vote which the Democratic party could honestly cast in Louisiana.
In the Presidential election of 1860, when circumstances tended to call every Democrat in the South to the polls, the united vote of Breckinridge and Douglas in Louisiana was but 30,306, while the total vote, including that given for John Bell, was but 50,510.

In 1867 the entire registered white vote of Louisiana was but 45,199.

The white voting population of the State, therefore, was certainly no larger in 1868 than in 1860--if as large.

It was not denied that since the close of the war a considerable number of white men had joined the Republican party; white it was not even claimed that a single negro voted the Democratic ticket in 1868, except as he was led to the polls under the cover of Ku-Klux weapons, terrorized by the violence of that association of lawless men.
It amounts therefore to a mathematical demonstration, that nearly one-half of Mr.Seymour's vote was fraudulent; and of that fact concealment is no longer attempted from any respectable source.

It has been matter of surprise to the cotemporaries of Mr.Seymour, that sensitive as he has shown himself on many occasions in regard to the record of his political life, he would consent, after investigation and exposure of the atrocities had been made, to remain in history without protest as the beneficiary of a vote that was demonstrably fraudulent in its character,--a vote that was tainted with crime and stained with the blood of innocent men.