Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-10-29
a ~ ,..s .,er hous,inrs, and their confident an

-, 7, remoned deep and Inscruiab'e mys-
terv mill The Slrte Elections commenced, aha
ed The grounds of this extraordinary cohh"sn'.
,er dsy w have seen the frauds OF 1885, which rooDea
49, 49,, IS Now York Of her lawful representatives,
.c,eJ over and over again. We have seen oy whal
a,,s tho F.deralsts have rs they lmagine ass"fea "
themselves the victory, in spite 0, ahG ~ uea
Tho will of majority of the people. We nave .. ,i
III s.oaas IN York, in 1885, of Philadelphia oil si
youngwomans town, and other places, whose
ames Ia 10 become classical IN The history OF Irauo,
thrown into the shade and dvested OF 'he'r hoeous
features Of enormy, by the deVeioPen'ent =. ''
greater frauds, and more wiaei, e"'e"''u > =
corruption. ,,,,.l;, ,,s DEMONSTRATED
,h,, ~ Ions, thousand spurious votes were pfonsh
ou AGAINST Mr. Ingersoll at the preceding one ana Tue
rasnIi ne The contest in Ohio, together with the extra
ordnarv snectace exhibited the other day at Whining
ton in the State of Delaware the tact OF wing votes
49,; nI,cod IN The baot-boxes before the opening of
Tho nos the detected letter of the deputy high consa
HE letters and in fact the Developments every where
mixing afford the most melancholy ana incontroVeru
BILE proofs that the confidence OF the federa eaders
thai mysterious confidence which enabled them to pro-
nounce with such certainty, on IN event which no pre-
sent or past indications rendered even pro-
bable-wus founded the repetition OF me frauds,
which had hitherto escaped discovery, ana whose au
thors had become hardened by success throughout te
entire extent of this Union. Upon THIS they couiu
,est with absolute certainty; this they found Their
arrorant boasts and bets, and this alone relied Tor
overtbrowng the Democracy.
senarating from the Convention, they commenced the
applica,ion of the derived from suspended
hanks foreign undhoders, desperate spectators ana
liberal fanatics to the purpose of cornpng the norais
debasnn the habits, and supplying the minds OF por
ton of the people, that they become more ducte
in the vast scheme offraud, and more en-
cent panders in corruptng others. Then commenced
the never ending, still beginning PROFESSIONS, mumme
rios feasts car0rsals and mockeres OF decency ana
tha lop
town. village and precinct of the and ana then was
exhibited the appalling spectacle ola systematic plan 10
encourage and foster drunkenness and deoauchery. py
affording the grutu'tous means OF unoouhoea s''e"
ton "a,
Sensible, rejecting men, wondered at these exhio-
tons. and smiled at the cool eronery OF these appa
ently sensecss attempts to make converts 10 the cause
of a party which had hitherto buasted OF possessing
not only all the talents, but all the decency bu. 'ey
did NOT then comprehend the deep and wicked design
that lurked behind these degrading and mIschc'ans
mnnmeries, and which stands exposed bare naked
10 the meanest comprehension. They wanted oanos OF
reckless, desperate and shameless men, equally oeow
the sense of shame, the obligation OF oaths, ana lhe
apprehension of consequences; men who were adep's
in ai The mysteries not only OF changing Names but OF
mearnorphosing their persons men VINO mght W
banded together, transported in sufficient NUMBERS
from place 10 place, and who would swear thr"nSn
thick and thD men go lost to oil sense OF moran anu
religious obligations that they would barter their very
appeiites.
For this purpose were these log cabins, these lanes
of drunkenness and debauchey erected IN oil parts OIL
The Union They were intended as railying Poinls I,
attract the most inyetsrae and deoased prom M
L, seduce the more innocent and unwary into simiiaf
degradation. They placed in the most cohspch-
Gus situations and garnshrd with the insignia OF drunk
enes- in order render them more seductive TO tue
victims they intended IN ensnare and the Imps they
wished to allure. They accordingly became the
far puli
voters whn might be consigned In order, wherrverthey
were required to turn the scale Of an election They
were converted into nurseries for the preparation nf
new recruits, who becoming gradually vlalrd by con-
slant association and contact win the tenants OF the
pandemonium and Infatuated by perpetual drunken
ness for months toaeter would lose all perception OF
religion md morality, all regard To social duties, all
sense Of shame and become passive instruments IN the
hands of the wrtches who were to cons'sn them, like
CATTLE from poll 10 another, to peure themselves
and de!rnud their countrymrn
Having their instruments TINS prepared, they began
To try the system al the lue State elections II any
wish to learn with what success, let them Look to the
State of Indiana, 10 Kentucky and Ohio; to The vast
accessions of Federal votes without any dmlnution oil
those OF the Democracy, which possible natural IN.
crease in the number Of inhabitants can account tor
and which show of thousands OF votes beyond
those recorded the books othe assessors re-
call 10 mind the two elections nj Wilmington III the
State of Delaware within few days of each other, IN
The first of which, the Federalists had large majority,
and in the second the Democracy trumphed; and let
them solve the riddle by the fact, that the former was
gained by consignment Of the log cabin devotees from
Philadelphia: and the second lost, by their being re-
quired for the election in Philadelphia, which took place
the same day. Let them call to mind the letter of JEFF
fers, making reqIiston for FIVE hundred voters on
the broker Of Philadelphia, to carry the election OF Fe-
dera Mayor of Baltimore. and which would have been
thus carried had the letter been brought 10 light
before the fraud could be consummated. In short, let
odulo tLpv mn
this complicated system of fraud and corruption, look
around East West North and South, and ponder on the
startling developments daily exhibiting themselves
10 the light Of day, blasting the vision, and almost
crushing the hopes of the friends oil free nstitu-
tnns, while they light up smile of eAn!iaton in the
faces of their enemies Let them mark the significant
and omnous fact, that ut the election IN Ohio lmmedi-
atey preceding that which is now just closed Governor
Shannon, with only one hundred and seven thousand
votes beat Gen Vance BY thousand; and that with
one hundred and twenty five thousand, he beaten
in precisely similar contest BY some fifteen thousand.
Both were strongly Contested, and We appeal TO the
people of the IT, S. say whether such extraordinary
results he accounted for on any other hypothesis
than that al faui the part of the adhercns of &C.
neral Harrison.
We appeal TO them to say, whether all these facts
and strange developments do not demonstrate that the
party now calling themselves Wings and having Gen.
Harrison for their siandardbearcr according to Mr..
Webster is mol gov in the full tide Of concentrating
one cf The dr,p-s a;.d most deadly conspiraces ever
devised aei::>' Ia liberties of free peope-a consp
5acy ..ho mean. fraud, corruption, and perjury,
to c:lea, exten nons of people of the right of sul
rage plume The country into civil war to preserve
it 10 themselves and their pos,erity' We leave it TO
them-,o The free, unbought citizens of the u States
to decide the point for themselves, and act accordingly
In conclusion, we would calmly address ourselves
for few moments TO the authors and abettors Of this
neiaous scheme of swindng the people, by violating
the ballot boxes. Should they eventually succeed in
of
Harrison be transplanted from the North Bend to the
White House. what spectacle he will present 10 the
eyes Of The world Long his term has EXPIRED the
means by which he has attained 10 the elevation which
they will render and reproach, must and will
become so palpable and notorious, that even Wing
eifronlerv will shrink from denying them. 1t IS
impossible that a scheme of fraud, extensive
in its operation, and requiring SO many base instru
mcnts carry it out, will long remain subject of
mere suspicion and conjecture. Murder will out, and
truth though slow is The wretched oalers at
the log cabins, cannot always be relied on; and some Of
them Will long, fate, bring bitter draughts