Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-10-27

denied that enormous sums we're applied tace com
pensation
at appears from the testimony of Young, the Pha-
dephia Police Officer, from the confession ct Client
WORTH and from the discoveries made by Stevenson IN
| Pbilade!phia that these were expressly employed
to vote at the polls in New York. So desperate, in
fact was the character of these fellows, so manifest IN
all their conduct were the signs of proiigacy, That
Captain saul,z himself, Wing, at The very hrs. sight
of them, while in the charge of Glcntworth, on board
of his steamer, knew their guilty errand al once, ana
upbraided their leader with il;
eTo this it is answered, that whatever might have
been the object of these men IN coming 10 New fork,
and whatever frauds they may have committed IN voting,
the leaders the Wing party, whose connect
ed with this affair, and who paid the expenses Of their
importation, not responsible, inasmuch they
ployed Glentworth only to bring men TO watch and
detect the spurious democratic voters, and actually
cautioned him against employing them in any other
! manner.
| "The absurdity Of this pretext is apparent
ain the first place, the large amount of money-seve
raj thousand dollars, appears from various parts OF
the testimony-furnished 10 Gientworth inconsist-
ent with any such idea The leaders of the Wing par
ty known, from the very circumstance of the
enormous required, that vi.lany foot
For the simple service of attending TO prevent egA
voting men, are paid literally Perjury and fraud
be compensated with large rewards, account Of
the risk of detection and punishment
sin the second place, the Wing leaders mnst have
known that they were giving their money to men of
the most abandoned description, who, would make
scruple committing almost any crime If they were
vel! paid for t-rnen who, if large reward was
offered them for assisting in the elections, would
understand at once what service expected OF them,
in whatever phrase wrapped up Their principal
tool Glentworth is whose character Is we'll and
widely known absolute and unconscentious to the
last degree The fellows whom they brought on from
Philadelphia, the most desperate thieves and .e
Ions in the place.
In the third place, there is particle of tessimo-
ny show that after these deectors of fri I'd
W
made TO employ them in the Office for which il IS pre-
tended they imported We hear Of their voting
various wards after another, but 60 not hear
Of their being stationed at any OF tire polls IL give m
formation 10 the chaengers There is history o. .
single instance of illegal voting prevented by their
means, though there abundant evidence that Il ey
were led up and down TO give fraudul mt vot The
leaders of the Wing party, active, keen-sghtrd men,
making the ampcst arrangements Tor every Tn else,
made arrangement for employing these n the
very business for which they paid them enormously
awe Will not waste further argument on this subject
The of the Wing leaders palpably dishonest
one. They knew that they employing villains
they knew it well, II they had them in the
striped habit of the penitentary. They gave the
ward of yains-the wages without wh'ch viainv will
not DO its work. They took no measures after they
had brought these rogues into the city, to employ them
honest manner, but lett them 10 practices better
suited to their character
awe care not in what form of words they disguise
the transacton-they knew whom they were employ
ing-they knew what they were best fitted for-they
understood what they would do, and they paid them
accordingly So strong the Of guilt in one
of the instruments at least, of this conspiracy;
mean High Constable Young Of Philadelphia, that
when arrested the other day in this city, he burst,
we informed, into flood Of passionate weeping
An effort is making in New York 10 involve
Mcssrs. Butter oyt. &c, in the guilt Of promising
money and Office 10 Gentworth TO- his developments
But these respectable gentlemen have denied all such
propositions on oath.-And this fact happens TO fail
within knowledge. Some days since our Cor
respondent in Washington wrote rs Of the Exposes
that expectedA few days after, he wrote Us, that
they would not be made as the wretch who had the
Vouchers receipts, &c had refused 10 give them np un-
less for pay; and that friends in New York had III.
dignany refused 10 purchase in any way the lntcrma-
ton which he possessed.
Citizens of Virginia! read over and over again these
startling iacts--and strike blow for the salvation
Of the purity OF yorr free institutions.