The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-05-15

Sunday included, and board in the city of Gin
clnnati. Just at that time the man sitting down
observed me looking on; and some individual
who stood by holding sheet of paper in his
) hand, with large number of names on the
) same and the individual sitting on the rail OBJ
serving me looking on the same, he Immediately
| snatched the paper in the other mans hand, and
tore the same in two; and remarked, at the same
time, by Cd he did not want every man TO see
fl that paper.
The whole crowd then moved their stand to
near the wheel-house; and there, as before, ap-
|peared to proceed to settle with divers indivd-
; uals. They seemed 10 come up from the deck
of said boat into the cabin in crowds of from 10
TO Is in number; and after they got through set
Ting, and portion them receiving their money,
} they would dspe rse and go below, and another
1 crowd come mp. They continued in the same
way, think until about one O'Clock, p NJ, of
said day; during which time did not fully sat
a isfy myself about the matter.
Fl then went to the clerk of the boat, who was
at that time stranger to me; | asked him how
many men were there on board that had been
carried 10 Cincinnati to vote. He laughed, and
remarked that he did not know. asked him
who settled for their passage. He pointed out
to me man, rather an elderly looking man;
| afterward found out his name to be William
Stewart, from himself / asked the clerk of the
boat ifhe had a list oftheir names. He said yes;
there lay paper on his desk. | asked if that
was the one. He said it was then took it in
my hand, and then laid it down again, as thought
it would not be prudent TO open it, as | had pick
ed il up of my own accord ] then went to sew
eral of the men, and asked them a great many
questions; where they lived. They all said (that
talked with, but two exceptions) that they
were citizens of Louisville, Kentucky; the other
two lived in Indiana, one in Jacksonville, the
other in Indianapolis. These men on board of
the Pike with but few exceptions) seemed to be
a set of cut-throats and rufiians. One of them
was pointed out to me by one ofthe head officers
Of the boat who observed that, while he (the
otficer was lathering his face, that fellow stole
his razor. And another one was pointed out to
me by whig passenger, who observed that he
was sold under the vagrant act at ST. Louis for
SIX bits. | then called on an individual on
board of said boat, (Pike,) who belonged to the
/ steamboat Mail, by the name ofRobort Edmason,
a nephew of mine, and asked him what he was
doing on the Pike, and why he was not on the
steamboat Mail. He observed that he had stay
ed at Cincinnati TO vote, and then going to his
home, which is about six miles from Warsaw, in
Kentucky. asked him why he would vote in
Ohio, or any where else, when he well knew he
was not old enough lie said he knew that.
| asked him if he sWore to his vote. He said he
was too smart for that; he said when he was in
Louisville that yonder (pointng TO William Stew
arD came to him on the wharf at Louisville and
offered him and another man dollar a pi ece per
day, and pay their expenses to Cincinnati and
back, if they would go and vote the whig ticket.
he (Edmason) said he would see him (Stewalt)
damned first, before he would vote for money;
but that they both belonged to the steamboat
Mail, and were going to Cincinnati, and inton-
ded to vote the whig ticket | asked Edmason
if he voted the whig ticket, and he said he did.
then asked the said Edmason to, give me all
the names that he knew had voted illegal votes );
, to which he refused stating as his reason that,
if he did that, they would take lis life; and that
he was afraid 10, and did not wish 10 be brought
into any scrapcS about the clcction that they
were set of swindleu and cuttmoas, and
would steal the coat off a mans back.
Some time after dinner, for the first time
saw the man (Stewart) alone, who had been,
during the day, sitting with the men 1t was
just before we arrived at Aurora, Or Rising Sun,
| think the former; and some Of the persons on
board had painted or marked on board the
whig majority i'll Hamilton county and city of
Cincinnati | stepped up to him and remarked,
that we would soon have fine huzza and in
a few moments, the persons on the shore, at the
before mentioned town, saw the result Of the
vote on the board, and raised tremendous luz-
"a He remarked 10 me, at the same tm9 and
said, is il not great victory to beat such sCoun
drcl and villain as Duncan? | observed, that
| thought that the party had gone TO greater
lengths to beat Duncan than amy one of the par
ty. He said yes; for he was the greatest scoun-
drel in the world, as well as recoIlect.
| at that moment laid my hand on his shoulder
and observed, old fellow, if it had not been for
you, that we never would have beat them in the
world. To which he replied, beat indeed! No
indeed, said he if it had not of been for the votes
that carried to Cincinnati, that Duncan would
| 'ofbeaten them TO death. asked him, how in
the devil did you manage SO as not to be found
out? What ward did they vote in? lie remark
ed, that he divided them out, and carried seven
or eight at time, and voted in different wards,
and his friends helped him, and portion ofthcm
voted in the third ward. | asked him if he car
ried as many as eighty or a hundred; and he re-
marked, that he carried more than either; and
remarked more than once that he carried more
than Pendleton's majority. And, | suppose,
there were eighty or hundred on board that
day, and, probably, over that number.
Stewart also informed me that he was the man
that beat Mcrywether, in Jefferson county, Ky,
who ran at the August election, for seat in the
Legislature of Kentucky. asked him how he
managed lie told me that he took the men
from the city Of Louisville, and carried them to
Six Mile island, and there kept them several
days, and cat, drank, and slept with them, until
Monday of the election, and then carried them
over into Jefferson county, and he got them 10