Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-11-14

been ihcdupe of conspiracy which, under the
preteuce Of gaining the means to compel Goyernor
Seward 10 continue deponent in office, and thereby
10 assist deponent, has from the beginning hadtor
itsoBject to induce deponent BY promises OF re- |
ward, and then by THREATS OF PROSECU-l
TON to be, ONE the inst rument Of violent attack
upon the Governor the Wing .party,tand de-
punent further adds, that in the progress u this |
Gffair, the snid Stephenson has cor stanty spoken
of the unlimited power he, the said Stephenson,
would acquire with the administration party At he
should succeed in this attack upon the Wings. |
JAS. B. GLENTWORTH. !
Sworn this 23d day of October, lS40' before me- |
/ pfaE ,arr -'7 81 JOS p PIRssoN,g
|4t..,-r a.. ..,54 M Commissioner Of Deeds.
Let the reuder recollect that Mr.. Butler Is Mr..
Van Bprens District Attorney, that Mr.. Hoytis
his Collector of Customs, and that Stephenson and
Edmonds are not only ofRce-holders, but majority
Of the gang represent themselves as being in regu-
lar correspondence with MIR. Van Buren, We
hope for the honor of the country that Mr.. Van Bu
rem may not be implicated in this foul affair.
90 1t is not denied but that Gentworth went to
Philadelphia as the agent of certain Wings of New
York. but it is denied that he had instructions or
was authorized to import voters.-Our readers
may recollect The alarm given by the Wing press
Il
forts of Mr.. Van Buren's friends TO import voters
from Philadelphia, and thereupon certain Wings
employed Glentworh to proceed to Philadel pha
and employ 25 or 80 men who would be likely 10
know the Philadelphia voters when they made
their appearance in New York, and thus expose the
frand. We desire to expose this whole affair, and
to do this it is necessary to state that Glentworth
| dad In lodi md afr
| prevailing on the kind of men required by his in
struciions, he wrote 10 New York. soliciting ad-
vice as to the prupriety of employing a certain
number of voters. The testimony in the case
shows that he received the following answer:
a .t. New YORK, October 3lst, 1888.
DEAR SiR-Two of your letters written yes
terday, have found their way to this city the pro-
| iect which you laid out is not wholly understood
| by yonr friends here. The position which they
consider themselves placed in, is easily summed up,
and their only fear is that you may have msunder.
I stood their motive and desires. If you have made
any arrangements which in any way tend to any.
thing beyond general supervision of the polls.
for the purpose Of detecting and preventing illegal
voting. you must at once unequivocally abandon IL
and look to them for any expense which your pre-
cipitate steps may have occasioned. We value the
cause as highly as any portion OF our fellow cti-
zens value it, but We are determined not TO enter
into any sort of arrangement which. under any
circumstances, could be construed into a bargain
i for foreign votes. We therefore take the earies:
and most effective mode of saying to you that,
while we are ready to submit to the expense which
you may have incurred nvour preliminary arrange
nen:, we will not countenonce any system, which
can in any way encourage the importation OF vO-
/ tiers. .....-. ...-....... .... -I.-.
1--WE know your desires. and shall be willing to
ii 81 La.a al
simple point of protecting the rights Of the honest
voters, which we deem your only hope or expecta-
tion." ...,.-. .. .......-.. % .-. ......
That this "perjury and bribery plot had been
connecting itself for time is evidenced by the
fact that the administration papers in every quarter
| simultaneously announced the arrest of Governor
Sc ward, and the flight of Mr.. Grnneil. What
were the facts /? Governor Seward then in the
Western part of the State, aud Mr.. Grinnell in his
counting room in New York! To show the effec
of this conspiracy, on the public mind, in New
York. we will state that MIR. Grinne had previous
" been nominated by his friends for reelection t,
Congress, which he had declined, and F. A. Tall
,nadgc was substituted in his stead. The momen
this plot unveiled itself, however. twenty Thousand
of his friends mustered in front Of his door, ant
testified their admiration for his private virtues b.
procaiming him candidate for reelection, in op
position to his wishes, and calling on Mr.. Tall
madse to decline poll. rt
TO those who are familiar with the history 0
the two parties in the city, nothing need be said l.
elucidate their relative efforts at fraud. So thor
oughly have the Wigs of the city been convince
that The Van Buren, party have invariably Practise
the grossest frauds on the ballot box, that the
have for six years petitioned the Legislature for
Registry law, whereby 10 enable them to hold un
lawful voters up to public scorn, and purify thei
elections. If tho Wings we're the fraud party, VIII
we're they in favor Of the very law that would de
, tect such vilainy And If the Locos were homes
why we're they against it, that the villainy nigh
90 unde'ected' This is question that will go "a
TO silence such shameful pretences to moral right
as well as to expose their glaring hypocrisy. Tn
! following from the New York Courier proves III
l position that the Wings have heretofore assumed
After reading it, we would agoin ask, which is tn
FRAUD party:
1--WE have heretofore alluded TO the extensiy
system OF fraud conceived and carried into effeC
by the Loco FocO Party; by reason of which, som
/, three thousand names of persons not entitled L
vote have been placed upon The Register. OWNS
to the vigilance of the Wing Committees, however
most of these fraudulent Registrations have beef
detected, and measures have been adopted whic
cannot fail to consigD to the Pententiary very man
Of the abandoned wretches who have thus attempte
10 violate the laws and destroy the purity Of cleo
, TONS"