Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1841-02-01
MATCHMAN g. STATE JOURNAL.
MONDAY, FEE. /, 1871.
LIES OF THE WASHINGTON GLOBE.
Disgrdcing The nation, and hiadcring The Repub-

Ever since the verdict, rendered by more than
twelve hundred thousand ofthe American people,
against Mr. Van Bureaus administration, the Off
cia organ of that administration has teemed with
articles, making the most reckless aud unlounded
charges of election frauds, and wholesale bribery
Ivy British gold. These charges were made when
overwhelmed with chagrin at most extraordinary
defeat; and were they only made then, there
might be some excuse. But they are repcaed al
terample time for reflection yea, after their on-
lire iasity is apparent; aud repeated by all the
party tools throughout the length and breadth Of
the land We say the Galsity of these charges is
apparent. Let lis recapituatc the specific iastan-
Of alleged frauds. First, in MAYORS district:
the locofoco party in Congress has disWoved Ibis.
SECOND, in Baltimore: the court, instead of find
ing fraud, has bound over the locofoco nccuscrs
for Il conspiracy to ruin The ndvidual-im implicated
by their false accusations. Third, and last, the
Glcntworth and Stevenson case +: the grand Jury,
after long examination, found no bills against
the accused Wings, but presented The judge who
had been mainly instrumental in arIaignng them!
Thus have resulted the specific charges. And
now MS to the general charge wc shall disprove
thy simply showing that the whole number of
votes cast does not exceed the number which
ought to have been cast The total white poprlu.
ton of the Union is H. 1866 SAB, - and free coorcd
335,0O0,-totN 14,55OS43. The total number of
votes cast is 2403,7e3, being only enc vote to eve
ry six free inhabitants. The just proportion,
where universal suffrage is allowed, is about one
vote to four inhabitants in the new states (where
there Is II dsproportionnc number OF malcs) ard
to D III the old states; and, making all allow
ances for restrictions of the right of suffrage, The
fact that but one in six has been cast, is sufficient
10 exclude utterly the idea of any considerable
fraud 1t is bat fair proportion: in fact it is
Just the proportion that occurred in one of the
heaviest locoioco states, viz. New Hampshire. In
that state the population is 3830Gl and tie vote
1904 being one in six. Away, then, with the
false cry of Great Wing frau,sn Now, the
leaders of the administration know these facts :;
hut knowing them, they still persist in sandering
the people. And why? 1t is precisely for the
reason that the false cry of "hargain, intrigue
and corruption" was raised in 1924. BY that, they
succeeded in deluding the people, and on the
strength of it they elevated men to power who
stepped themse,yeSin corruption, and proved but
plaques and curses to the country. This cry now
is OF The same sort, and for the same end Gen
HARRISON has not yet taken the oath of office his
policy is not yet divulgcd and yet in advance
the creatures Of the existing administration take
this course TO poison The public mind and form al
least nucleus upon which to build an opposition
TO the new government. But what say the people
of other nations? What should we expect them
to soy-wlen the official and acknowledged Or
gan OF our government openly and shamelessly
declares that the American people have been brb-
ed by British gold, and that the strong citadel of
liberty, the vote by ballot, has beer undermn-
cd ny fraud? Is il not.-tl!at The experimental
government has JaiLed! The uote 6y ballot is a hum
bug! And thai is just what they do say: yea,
the falsehoods Of The official Globe are greediiy
caught up by the tory presses Of England, and u.s.
ed 10 defeat those in England who are demand
ing the republican right Of the ballot. The Globe
disgraceS the American nation, wounds the
cause Of RepublicpniSm and throws all the
weight Of its influence upon the side of the British
Tories: This is the democratic organ of demo-
cratic administration, is il? Pshaw We copy
the following from high authority, viz the Euro
pean correspondent of the National Inlegencer
and we beg our readers to remember that it is the
Washington Globe which thus plays into thehands
of the British tories.
Your recent elections your own awful sto-
res OF election frauds afford rich theme, of
which all the London tory editors avail them
selves for n renewal of their war on the ballot
The Standard of the 9Th inst says:
/" We are literally deIuged with multitude OF
evidence, proving the truth of all that we have
advanced in reference to the abandoned atrocity |
CT American elections; and the many cases that
have been proved, and which give such Geplor-
bic character TO American institutions, are mere
trihe in the catalogue of crimes consequent on the
late election"
The Times of The 5lh quotes the Washington
Globe amply on the same head and avishes quo
tations from M. dc Tocquevilles book respecting
the evils of our frequent elections, TO show the
coincidence of his authority with that of The
Washington official, Take the conclusion of ,.Ie
article of the Times in explanation of its motive:
"What are the conclusions palpably implied in
The foregoing statements OF the Washington Globe?
81. In the first place, that the ballot us security
for honest voting, is complete failure. Il leads
10 the perperation Of frauds by voting twice in
different names and dresses by going TO different
polling booths, by personang other people, and
in every way that the ingenuity Of men can de-
yise.'
"2. That universal suffrage, far from promot-
ing the good order and security of society, is real
ly productive of such anarchy and civil discords
as leads the rival factions 10 keep their arms in
their hands for purposes Of instruction and
bloodsled.
80. That the ballot and universal suffrage occa-
sion an unparalleled extent of bribery and cor
rupon, from which the British system of open
vOing, and select constituency, is, in good mea.
sure, free
"a. That the secret and universal exercise of
the franchise, though said TO be Indispensable TO
the purity of election, is L source of danger TO
free institutions, which, if not speedily remedicd,
will prove fatal TO public liberty
"Such are substantially, the confessions of the
ultra Democratic print whose words we have Civ
en- above and as, besides proceeding from Jour
nal which eau have no interest in damaging the
oo,Sa The yarious truths tnDlipd