The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-11-21
From the N. O. Tropic.
INFAMOUS FRAUDS.

From the NO. Tropic.
INFAMOUS FRAUDS.
Information was received from the Parish
of ~Plaquemines last evening. which exhibits
the most startling and stupendous frauds
upon the ballot-box, every witnessed in the
world! The Parish is capable OF polling
perhaps 500 votes, at the utmost, and had
when the census Of 1910 was taken, a white
population of THIRTEEN HUNDRED
AND FIFTY SOULS! including men,
,Vomen and childrenu Yet can it be belize
we'd, that up to one O'Clock yesterday, t,pelre
hundred and eighty-three uotes scere poled?
Strange as this may appear, it is neverthe-
less true! AT one O'Clock, the vote stood
For Polk, 1899
For Clay, Al
Majority for Polk. 1851!
The scenes ofIawless violence. enacted at
the places of voting, as they have been de-
tailed to us, would cover with disgrace the
most abandoned villain that ever expiated
his crimes upon the gallows, or in the Peni-
Tertiary! Law, d~ecency and order were
trampled under foot without conjunction.
A crowd of shirtless ~vagabonds surrounded
the polls, filling the lair with screams for
Polk and Dallas, and hooting at every man
suspected ofbeing a Wing. Those who vo-
ted were required to vote an open ticket,
and if it was for Polk, it was received, but
if for Mr.. Clay, it was rudely thrust aside,
and The person offering it repulsed with Vi
olence from the polls! No oath was admin
istered, no questions asked. 1t was suffici-
ent that anysman desiring to vote exhibited
a Polk and Dallas ticket; it was received
without hesitation! q
BY such means as this, by the most ADAM
doned species of scoundreiism ever concei-
we'd, a majority of lbs was obta;aed up TO
one o'clock yesterday. What it was last
evening at the closing ofthe polls, God only
knows;-it may be 1900 to $500, It'll just
as easy for the men who controlled the cleo
ton there, to make it one as the other. The
question now arises, what remedy is there
for such profiigate and unparalleled villainy?
Are the people Of Louisiana to have their
voice silenced in this manner? Are they
TO be manacled, bound hand and foot by two
or three base w%retches, unprincipled gam
blers, for money and power? And ifso, are
we to submit to such a fragrant outrage?
These are questions of solemn and serious
import, and we beg all honest men TO pom
der them deeply. If there be no legal rem
edy for such chimes, then should our law
makers go s~traightway to work, and prepare
a statute by which speedy and retributive
Justice may be dealt out to those who con
trive and consummate such monstrous frauds.
If the swindlers who have committed this
crime are permitted to 60 unwhipt of Justice,
will they be content to stop where they are
If they can rob us of our voice in the Sc
lection Of our rulers, how long will it be be-
tore they enter our counting-rooms and our
dwellings, and rifle them of their contents?
We speak not now of the rabble who
have been made the instruments in this stu,
pendous piece Of %yillainy, they are not wortf
the blank paper on which we write. We
speak OF those who concerned and carried
out the plan! The lordly schemers who
pulled the wires, and furnished the money
the men who are 10 make money and those
who are to make politicalPreferment by the
operation! These are the real villains
These are the robbers who seek to deprive
the free peopl ofLouisiana of their deares
franchise, and though they may rejoice il
the success or their schemes, they need no
fatter themselves that they are not known
They are! The finger of scorn is pointing
at them, and the brand is already upon thei
brows. We shall endeayor to get such ey
idcnce as will convict them Of crime and thel
blazon their names 10 the world, that al
men may avoid them as they would avoid
pestilence.