The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1844-04-18


sonal district of Ohio and ruffans, thieves and cut
hroats of Kentucky and of other States and counties
without the district ofhis residence and if Mr. Pende
ton held seat here knowing those facts he held it in
the guilt Of treason and in the crime of perjury He may
not have known them, though every body else in the
world beside knew them. Mr.. Pendleton in all the
frauds peruIes briberies and treasons which charac.
erized the elections of 1910, all over the Union, but
more especially in the Ohio first congressional district
may have been political automatoh or mere mamma
chine and like Balaam's ass moved merely as he was
kicked into passive action and obedience If so he mus,
be discharged from any imputation of immortality or
crime, and the charge placed to his stupidity under
take to say there was hct dollar short offy thou
sand expended in and out of Hamilton county, to secure
the election OF the whg candidate of that district and no
man who has character for truth and veracity and
who wishes to maintain that character and who is ac
quained with the circumstances will undertake TO deny
that assertion. The vast sum expended in consum
nation Of the frauds which you have seen and heard dis
closed Mr. Pendeton may not have advanced one cent
nor one mill of all that sum. Though one of the rich
est men in the city of Cincinnati or the State of Ohio
himself and more Immediately interested than all 9th.
ers ne may not have advanced dollar to secure his
own election, which was secured by system of swnd
ting whichno agency but money would have secured
and no sum less than that which have named would
have been sufficient yet, repeat he may not have ad
vanced one dollar for such an infamous purpose to Sc
cure such an infamous end The beraliy of his fed
era party friends in their zeal to overthrow the demo-
cratic party, and to defeat the democratic candidate,
may have done all without his knowledge and without
ms pecnniay assistance That position is hard to be-
lleVe Mr. Pendleton in the centre of all the cav
alcades coon conventions and drunken orgies which
disgraced Hamilton county, dsmoralized society and
debased the character ofcvzed man. and tits difcut
to believe (and almost rreconciably SOY that he could
| have known nothing ofthe frauds and the means by
which his election was to be secured.
MIR. Pendletoh is III dilemma; he may hang TO
which horn he peases on whichever his friend please
to hang him. He must either sta nd charged with lack
assic0I stupidity which, rue rendered him unfit for
seat in this hail. as the representative of any party or
anybody, even the culhroas thieves, and ruians of
kentucky or on the other hand he knew of and par
cpated in the frauds by which he was elected or gave
countenance to them aided them by pecuniary means
ne was unfit to hold place here elsewhere except on
the gibbet due to the traitor, or III cell within the
gloomy walls OF a penientiary, due to perjury in
vent nothing; have presented the evidence as it came
to meas received it from the highest tribunal in our
State draw no other conclusions than every person.
bound and governed by correct principles of morality
and patriotism, must draw. For myself declare, in
presence ofmy Maker and this assembly, to whom |
am responsible here, Ind to whom must answer here
for every idle and profane word spoken that know
of crime crimes in my State which would consign
me- handcufed and shacked to the pententiary andto
eternal nlamy, in the commission of which would feel
more degraded in the estimation ofman, more wounded
in my own conscience and more offensive before God
than those by which believe Mr. Pendeton held seat
in this hail. mean the crimes of bribery and treason
by which his certificate purchased and the perjury
which was committed in the oath which he took at the
the threshold Of his representative duties to support the
constitution which constitution he violated by taking his
seat here, and whichhe continued to violate every min
ute-every moment while he ocEupiedit. Still of all
this, repeat, Mr.. Pendeton may have been innocent
1t is not for to judge nord feel at liberty to Judge
Human judgment, suppose, is a voluntary act, and
the power under conrol why should the Supreme
Judge of the universe have ordered us to "dge hottest
e be jmged." Knowledge is founded on the evidence
of things seen and therefore is not to be controlled by
either the mind the will Faith and belief are conclu
sions we draw from the evidence of things not seen and
are irresistible Faith and belief are not controlled 5ythe
will hence the MAXIM 'ace are boud TO beIieue" So it
is with those who Witnessed the election frauds of4O in
Hamilton county to secure the certificate of election to
Mr. Pendleton. They are bound, irresisbly, to be-
lieve that he had hand in them, and consequently
gHly to the same extent of the moral and political
crimes which havs attached to him, or any one hold
ing seat here under such circumstanc es.
Let no charge me with taking advantage of par
liamentary privilege or Of the high mountains broad
distance inerposes between me and MIR. Pendleon and
his friends have taken no such advantage. hold
myself responsible in my individual capacity Tor all
here or elswhere whether in aprivae representative
capacity; and moreover repeatedly, and to assembled
hundreds and assembled thousands, in every part of
Hamilton county, and within hearing Of Mr. Pehdle-
toms door, Gf not in his presence it was because he
would not come 10 hearme made all the charges and
in strong terms, and with similar language am now
doing both against Mr.. Pendleton and his active par
tsans and shall continue TO do at home and else
where, so long the crimes frauds brberies treasons
skirts, and cover their entire cGrcasses. fear no dc-
countGbty; speaknothing but the TRUTH have the a.
bty to mantain it, My constituents expect me to spok
the truth & the whole truth, and they know wspeak
so as to be understood No speech or saving of mine