Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-01-23
Alleged Election Frauds in America.
ADELAIDE

CAss, our allie and upright minister a, the French
ican journals, ,ha, the late Presidential election was
determined by fraud and bibery-that British gold
and reign influence have so far corrupted the
Amerc N people as to nuIl(y the ballot box and de-
slroy the operation Of repubcansm.
We have received the following from dis,in. /
guish,d hme ican correspondent:
| observed in your journal of Thursday, extracts
from Of the American papers, charging their
political aivt roaries with frauds in the pending clc
ton in The Uncd States for President Gdhganfs
Messenger has attained too high and too just rep
utalion Throughout, Europe for judgment and i'm
parlality not 10 render its communications,
tracts important in the appfcc alton to be formed
Of pas ing events in any civilz,d nation. St fl d
Of youi desire to seek and spread the uth | would
suggest to you a word of caution respecting the
mutual rcctiminaons you may find in the Ameri
papers. Having no s. ir of propagandism,
have nv desire 10 say any thing in def,ncc of tn
institutions Of the United Stdcs. LIT them speak
Ivy their results. system of policy, which had the
experience of more than half century, without the
slightest change. and of uch haf century of tial
and change in ether paris of the world, mankind
have never wtnc scd, and which has secured as
great measure of moral and physical happiness as
any nation ever enjoyed, cannot be unsul'ed 10 th
condition of the people where it prevails. AS to the
European predictions of its prem 'ture decay they
commence w th it' existence, and | suppos, will
! ;,a a.,
time, which trust and believe Providence has de-.
tined 10 it. Every year, some friendly Casanlr,,
surveying America across the atlantic, announces
the immediate dissolution Of the Union, and the
destruction republican institutions; aud ev,ry year
these firmly rooted in the hearts of the
people. and ne,hencd to abide those sh cks fom
which no nation is wholly exempt.
But 10 my more important purpose. One Of he
greatest moral spectaces which the would ever wit
messed is now passing in the United States. E'gh-
teen millions of penI lie freely clcctng the chief
! magistrate. The ballot toI is travelling through
the land from Eas, TO West, from the Atlantic the
Lakes, and from North to South from the st Law
renee to the Mississippi; and day afcr day, the
people dcpasiiing in these ec"p,accs of o-crin
~ the evidence of lh' ir WILL and this without the
slightest emeuie-without shedding drop of blood.
And in a country, too, where there 500 peri
odical urnals without tar, without caution, money,
! and without cenSurc; and where The staniing army
consists Of or 1900 men, who employed upon
the ext enc frontier to restrain the Indians and
whcEe The sword bayonet, agents Of police,
- H. a.. zl...n III
procc eds to arrest a man, not III an armed force
but by reading to him little magical piece Of pl.
per- in which he is commanded in the name of the
State to surrender himsef and he does surrender
himself.
Nov, Mr.. Editor do not claim for my country.
men an exemption from human passions. They
are engaged of the highest functions it is given
man to exercise II would be folly TO expect that
their feelings would not be excited Wiihou, such
result il would show the existence of state Of apa-
thy which would go far TO prove that they unfit
for the blessings of their condition. They are in
earnest. In every government, since mankind first
assembled III communities, the have been, and their
always will be. dI, rcnces of opinion, more or less
important, respecting questions Of policy, foreign or
domestic. 1t is The condition of humanity, and
wisely so that all houd not view things alike, the
frccr the government the decided will be these
| Differences, and the mare harmless. The great po-
/ lCal steam engine in the United States, though of
high pressure construction, is kept secure, by its
numerous and perpetually oien safeiy>va'v,s-lis
entire freedom in talking writing, printing and vo
tng-its frequency of election, aud the drec, ac-
/ c Iuniabiy of all its authorities In countries where
these shut, lhCre less demon stations of pub
! lie opinion but when they do come,
They come as The winds come when forests are
rcndcd,
/ They come as the waves come when na,ies are
stranded"
| | am now led 10 my last remark, and which is
i'd, ed the object uf this note. You know the An
gIo-Saxon spirit Waferer rhe race does, ii docs
,rh all its might. You 10 not Ii tie borou gh
election in England, for the smallest muni iple oil
Ger, where the passions not excited, aud where
the rites are not in presence Of each olher each
endeavorng to attain its obi ct, and each charging
its adversary with ihou,and cor, nj practices fon
which, in nine out of ten, as ! h'lieve, both
sides are exempt. And in the United STATES the
same elements are in motion and you cannot ex'
pect that uhnla n.tion elccing Its head, viii I've
less excited than parish meeting eecins It's bead
le. As To bfihery, and all similar charges the
cusaiion, as general thesis, is, upon the face Of it,
untrue Tn, ne are too many voters, and the rights
of suiflge is too much extended, to permit the pur