The North-Carolinian., 1844-04-13

t6StitnOuy SOOuIQ % TcCeivo0.
1t is ascertained that all, or nearly all the
witnesses who testified before the committee
of the House, on whose testimony the articles
Of impeachment were based, were sent TO be
naturalized before Judge Elliott, by the Clay
Club. On the back Of one Of the lists of
those persons ives a note signed by Judge
Elliott, aPprising the person TO whom it was
addressed, "a member Of the Club,) that he
the judge-couid not naturalize the individuals
whose names were mentioned in the list, un-
less they were accompanied by men who
could testify to their qualifications.
We venture to assert that such scene Of
treachery aud turpitude as this impeachment
exhibits, was never before witnessed III a civ
iized country. One of the managers of the
of that Aagrant and disgraceful fraud, desig-
mated as the Cab Votes, by which the wings
carried The city ticket for members of the leg
islature in 1912. The fraud was proved, and
indeed WAS admitted and confessed by the
wings themselves-and yet MIR BENJAMIN, in
stead Of being subjected 10 criminal prose-
cution, was permitted to take his seat as a
member of the House of Representatives, and
is now striving to bring Judge Elliott to pun
ishment for acts W >h, if proved, are not half
so criminal as those Of which he himselfis
known TO be guilty. And .hen there is the
gallant Hunt, also Of the tribe of Benjamin,
who, If he was not privy TO the fraud of the
cab votes, at least participated in its fruits,
and sat through two sessions Of the legisIa-
ture in consequence of that fraud. His name
was the lowest on the whig ticket and only
twenty votes ahead of the highest OH the dem
ocratic ticket. 1t was ascertained that nearly
200 of those votes we're given in, and conse-
quently the gallant Hunt elected by them;
and this clustering, windy spouter, this empty
headed Bombastes is the chief manager Of
the persecution ofJndge Elliott for acts which
Hunt and his whig brethren incited him 10
perform-they contemplated in those acts an
other fraud upon the ballot box, more cuIpa-
bic than that OF the cab votes-but il was not
quite so successful first, because Elliott was
more honest than they supposed him to be-
and, secondly, they found that at the game of
making votes, the democrats could beat them
SIX to one.
These naturalization certificates were most
Of them issued BY Judge Elliott before the
election in July last, and they were received
by the whig inspectors, both then and at the
election for The Recorder of the First Munich
pality, in the September following. 1t was
proved in the course Of the proceedings
against Judge Elliott, that Colonel Christy,
the agent of the Clay Club, in the business Of
naturalization, on examining one of the GER
,ificaies, said it was perfect. On what ground,
for what shadow of a reason, then, do they OBJ
ject to them now? A writer in the Tropic,
aud another in the Bee, have impudentIy avow-
ed that the reason for ohjecting to them is that
those who hold them will generally vote against
the whlg dynasty that now misgoverns the
corporation OF the Second Municipality !.
Good heaven! the opinion which a man en-
tertains of a particular set Of candidates, is
alledged reason for refusing his vote
This Is candid at least. In fact, no one
doubted that such were the motives Of the
wings for raising an outcry against these ma
tufalization certificates. No one doubted that
if they thought majority of the naturalized
citizens would vote for Peters. Lockett, Freret,
and that set, not IL word would be uttered ;
and the ceritica'es-in Colonel Christy's
language-would be perfect.
SUPREME COURT JUDGE.-Under
this head, the last Standard has a strong ar
ticle in reply TO some uncaed for remarks of
the RaIeigh Register, in which said Register
asserts that the s'locofoco" majority in the last
Legislature of North Carolina was ssacciden.
ta - and that 6 seven bitter partizans" were
elected 10 compose the Council. The STAN
dard then goes on to shew that the Council
cannot be such bitter Partizans, or they
would not have confirmed Mr. Nash, ss fed
eraist Of the old SCHOOL," nor 26 MAORI
ty on joint ballot well be an accidental'
majority.
The following is the closing and material
part of the article in the Standard:
sBut, says .he Register-and this mark
you. is the most extraordinary portion of the
ar,icl le-" had The office been rendered, it
,couid not hare been accepted by Mr. Badger;"
aud it goes on to state that Mr. Badger had
deliberately prepared letter. to be delivered
in the event of his confirmation, in which he
declined to accept the office! Now what
does this amount 10? Mr. Badger is init
mate friend of the Governor. They were
together but n short time before the Council
convened, and he must have known that the
Governor intended to ptesen, his name. But
according to the case which the Register has
himself made out, Mr. Badger, with sufficient
knowledge of the Governors mind on the
subject, had no, only determined to trine with
that high public functionary, but had deibe-
rateIy prepared letter TO the Council declin-
fho