Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1839-12-03
ti great respect
am, Nc, Ne,
i. RIrcHiE, Esq. J. G.. CALHOUN
ELECTION ERAInS.


"IuIEn CONGRESSIONAL DIsTEICT ~ PTSH>pIyA-
Nr,-ts the Wing prints Publishing great many
erroneous statements III regard 10 til" dispute between
MSsr> lngcrsoll and Narlor, both claiming to hr elect
ed to Congress from this district, the PENNSYLVANIA
has prepared table showing til" gr"$s frauds pcrpcrra.
led by The Opposition during the election al which
these persons we're candidates. That paper states that
il was ia,l well known in and about Philadelphia,
that rrca' many fictitious added To the
registers ui !i.r ri the wards a" the Northern Liberties
ia which Ill The officers were Wings: HAT prrsonS as
>umnM these names had voted the Wing ticket AID
that large number If Democratic were reckon
ed, in casing mp the result i'll favor Of the Wings.
In proof ofc fact that fictitious added 10
the registry, il says, there are the themselves,
and the evidence That they voted is the number of
votes pollcd, being III wards much greater than
the number Of taxable inhabitants That Democratic
votes changed 10 Wing votes, made apparent by
the fact that in every district the county of P!a-
,rlpha where the election conducted fairly in
iS:!-, the Democratic vote less this year than it
last: while III til" first fix" wards of the Northern
Liberties and IN Spring Garden il was much greater
This IS particularly striking in the Northern Liberties
where the frauds most successfully carried nu =
The rcsul; would have been The same IN Sprn~ Gar
drr but ior the cil"ctua check rivcn TO portion Of t
system ~ fraud Intended la bc p:acScd there, by the
timely inierposIAon of certain Democrats who had
three hundred fictitious names struck from the r,oi-ry
III one ward of that district and eighty i'm another be-
sides using every Just they could devils, to pre-
vent the election officers from COMMITTING other frauds
The table prepared by The Pcnnsylvanian shows:
THAT in III" Democratic districts the
whole vote in l-:'~ was only about three.
iourths of taNahics sos loo
While in the Wing districts The whole
vote was nearly scv.ncigh,ls of taxa
blcS GG-2 : 5o2
That IN the Democratic districts
polling III l>'~, - votes and III I-3.i,
$50. the Democratic gain is only -
While IN the Wing districts polling
III ISIS, G.G-3 votes and in ~:s', 5,:GiJ,
the Democratic gain is 2,257.
That in ISIS, the Wing majority was
made BY wing election officers III ti,lrG
district 269
While in l539 the Democratic naio-
ry is made by election officers of both
parties 2,226!
Whole Democratic gain in third dis
trct 2;gJ
~ J. Post
i appears from the evidence produced before the c
GiSlaturc of P.nnS yvana, that ancng The outrages
which were pcrrc'ratcd during the election .Rea Bad
ger, the Judge .! the election in The Fourth ward. North
crn Liberties and the return ladgc Of the whole seven
wards IN the Northern Liberties, had poid Isaac Abra
ham. lr-, fy do!0rS re'rard 10 rsd"te the Dame.
cFac majority ~ that r0rd Seventh and Prom;<ed
IN" fro h"ndrrddoars fhe 'roud rcdacc ffly rocs
his was proved b. two witnesses the Committee,
who wcrc appointed TO cqurc into the of the dis
tarbahcrs al Harrisburg in December last.
Correspondent in Louisa county informs, that they
are going we'll with instructions to Senator Fon
same,