Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-10-31
rtt SAME PERSONS HAVE VOTED FROM

r.,ir GAME PERSONS HAVE VOTED FROh
TuREE TO TEN TINES EACH"
LINEN Of the U. $ Can you look patiently on
and see Yourselves deprived of your dearest rights
schemes which are stamped with characteristics such
as these-which are perpetrated IN tue manner 'ha.
rooues and tenants of the penentaries wouu resori
to! We trust there IS virtue ana energy enough %
savc onr country from this deep disgrace
ELECTION FRAUDS.
Every day brings to light additional evidence OF o'-
bolca scheme TO carry out system Of infamous frauds
to defeat the will of the majority. Inc elections IN evesy
Stale prove it. From whence came the increase OF more
than TEN thousand Wing votes in Vermont, three on-
sond in Maine four thousand IN Connecticut tjeeen
Lonsoud in Kentucky, four thousand III Mary iand, tI
,bousand in Georgia. several thousand IN TINS smai,
S.. IS nal,ware Ten thousand in Pcnnsy van;a, and
fir, thousand in Ohio' In all these States, there
ware severe contests in 1885 and lc3 IN which, II mus,
m sunnosed that both parties got all Their voes 10 Tue
IIs hat could be got by any reasonable exrrtons OF
-, n,eons And il is proved that there were
frauds in particular districts these elections,
- ,hr was no general system Of fraud, such as there
n,,s have been the present year The success ana IN
nun;tv with which those frauds in Philadelphia ana y
VII wcrc then practsed, have led TO The same foui
or,c,;ces on a more extended scale. Where nave
those men come from. The Democratic vote has not
rlIsn o but increased in every one OF these States
;,b the exception of Maine, and there 1t is but lew
hndreds less Than in 1888. BY the extraordinary ex-
arons which the present crisis has called orh the az
,s vote might be increased small per ceniagc-
srh;s has generally been the case on the Democratic
sIo Bnt The increase of Wing voesls altogether too
re n be accounted for in that way. Had there Deeh
fsll;nr off on the side of the Administration, ihat
b, account for the large addition TO hc vote OF 'he
0nns;t;on But there has been falling OIL but an
increase It is in vain, therefore, to talk about Gauges
far i is proved that there has been none. "here
them we repeat, did these thousands and lens Oh hou
sands of Wing votes in single State come rom
Have the Wing partisans been sowing dragon pec,,
,b,, have sprung up armed men: Are these miracles
i, these DAYS: Yes these Miracles but ihey are
cncb only rs are wrought with the MIRACULOUS POWER
az yosry They ure the miracles of fraud and eorr"p
nm They are miracles such as High Constable Iei-
Ca. Of Bamss, ouid I.-~ ..s@' L- H. 80. boon
as,ected They arc the miracles OF the importation OF
men BIZ hundreds and thousands, in steamboats, ana on
railroads from one State to another These miracles
are exhibited in the great cities, ana on Tue "o"''e
counties bordering on other states 80.
The election in Ohio has exhibited scenes OF profit
pacy fraud and vainy, surprising any thing una. IS
to be found in the most corrupt age IN Ensianu' i
rotten borough frauds there haze ocen purity y ,ne
y,lIainy of the Ohio election. British wings IN ms
cam,,Iry h,vr already improved on British examples
and British principles and gone beyond them IN daring
proicacy The conduct Of the British Wings IN mus
election, by their attempts to debase ana prumiize
the lowest of the people, training ana organizing
them into bands for the preparation OF irauf ana
crimes debauching them with liquor, ana corrupt
inc them with money, has done more to over
throw public morals and sap the foundations OF ,ur ~
s,,utons than could have been effected by ordinary
causes in a whole century. They have brought INTO
one wear the decentralization and crimes of an age
VIVA, are we coming to- Are the flood gates o. crime
opened upon us, Is every principle OF law, truth and
morality TO be trampled under foot And to zap the
climax of iufamy the authors of these vlainesare re-
jo,cing these eats, and firing cannon 10 insit lhe
people whom they have defrauded out OF their rights.
Let them reJoice at VICTORIES WHICH sHouu eo'S 'He
with shame and nfamy
But whether they arrested in their career low OF
not we warn them that there is dug 81 ref'iomton al
hand-,hat Justice cannot long sleepthat they only
gathering up wrath aganstthe day of wrath The time
is not vet come for such prcgay and corruption to be
carried on with impunity. Ii II is not arrested now,
let them remember That the moment the phrenzld ex-
element of the day passed. their sins will rise Up in
iudrment against them and they will be called an
| awful responsbllity-"Mc ragcS Of sin IS death, Ii
the Presidential election should be carried BY similar
means to those which have been pracsed in the Safe
elections terrible reaction will speedily follow, which
will overwhelm the party thus obtaining power, and al
their coworkers in these horrible deeds will be consgn-
ed to eternal infdmy Their very names will become
I the scorn and bye-word of all fuure generations.
There too much intelligence, virtue, and integrity
in the people of this country, TO suffer their tree ns
tutions the rich inheritance of noble ancestry TO be
undermined and overhown by bribery, fraud and cor
ruption Let no one despair of the Republic in this
dark hour; it will be saved and its free institutions
preserved for ages in their purity and vgor when the
enemies of free suffrage and popular liberty con.
srncd to oblivion remembered only to be detested
as the enemies Of the liberty of their race.