The Arkansas banner., 1844-07-17
M0RE -ABOUT PIPE.LAYING.

In our last, called attention to the pipe-laying election frauds, practeed by the Wings in l840; ]; and to the refusal of the late Whig Senate to pass Bill to prevent repetition of those frauds in l844 Many of those frauds were practieed along the Ohio river, by means of the facilities of steamboat trav- cling. We copy the following from the Cincinnati Enquirer, eonilrmatory of our remarks.
 ''DR. DUNCAN7s ANTl-PIPE-LAYING BILL. The defeat of this truly Democratic mea- sure, which was intended to cause the elec- ton of President to take place on the same day in all the States, and thus prevent frauds upon the ballot box, is to be deeply regretted by all true friends of the purity of elections and honest government. It IS blow which, though aimed mainly at the democratic party, goes beyond that object, and strikes at the foundation of the government itself. IL sub Verts the first great principle upon which our republican system IS founded-that the ma jorlty shall govern-because 1t not only leaves the door open for fraud but announces in advance that that fraud upon the popular will shall be committed-that the minority l wiI rule-that if they cannot obtain power by fair means they will by foul ones-that if they cannot defeat the majority by fair voting, they will by dishonest voting, doHble-voting, pipe-laying, and colonizing imported votels. This is the system which is proposed to be introduced-or rather the system proposed to be perpetuated. It is, in plain words, giving to the few the power to rule the many reversing the whole system of republican government by making the minority instead ol the majority the source of Power-and changing us from republican into mo- narchical government. This IS the result a result at once destructive of liberty and hamiIlating to freemen. Yet, wicked, dis graceful, and degrading as is this result, it is doubtful whether it's effects be worse than the causes which lead to it-the frauds from which 1t sprngs-and the demoralization of public morals which those frauds necessarily l introduce
 Those who remember the frauds which characterized the Whig campaign of 1880, cannot have forgotten the bold and unblush- l ing and~too successful attempts then made upon the purity of releetions-thep pipe-lay- ing which was brought into requlsition by an interruptions minority to defeat the will of the majority. Men were imported, like live ] stock, from county to county, and from Siate to State, and there colonized week, and sometimes only Q day before the election Strong Whig districts would spare afew votes 10 a weaker one. and thus the votes from one district would defeat the will of a majority in district where they had legally no right 10 vote, and the result was the return of a Whig candidate, by imported votes, from a democratic district. So with adjacent coun- ties. Democratic counties, on the eve of an election would be flooded with illegal votes borrowed from a strong adjoining Whig l county-and the consequence was the elec- ton of WEig by votes from another county. In some instances counties were known to give larger number of votes than they actu- ally had inhabitantsi This systematized party fraud was commenced with the State elections. It was afterwards brought to bear upon the Presidential election. Steamboats, stages, rail roads, and canal boats, and all the means of communication between the States were filled to overiiowing with emigrating Whig voters, who went from State to State, voting and singing for ''Fippecanoe and Ty- Ter too," happy as lords, because they travel led 'free gratis for nothing,7 and had plenty of cider and 1.-two dollars day and roast beef" besides for supporting the vhig ticket l generally, i.e. in all the States of the Union 1 These frauds have been proven iii courts of justice and before State Legislatures They were boasted of by he Wings at the time, and they dare not deny them now. On the contrary, they give us fair warning, by re- jecting Dr. Duncan's bill, that they will prac- tice the same frauds again.
 Taking into view, then, these transactions of the past, together with the recent vote of the coon United States Senate against a bill which was intended to prevent them for the future, we can but regard the action of the iederalsts as dangerous stab at our repub- lican institutions-a stab for which there is no palliaton-a blow which calls for the in- stantaneous and indignant resentment of the people, and which, if not resented in time, and with the boldest resolution, will leave us not only disgraced, but soon deprive us of the power to ayenge the wrong.
 The Wings admitted the bill to be an honest one--but they wished to postpone its adoption untU qfter lie neat election! and, having the majority in the Senate, they car ried their wishes into edect,-and thus the offices of the country are again to be gam bled for; and the voice of the people to be overpowered, if again possible, by the double, and treble and quadrupie voting of the pipe laying system of the Coons
 The honest people of the country owe 1t to themselves, and to their posterity, and to honesty itself, to frown down this wicked attemptupon herliberalties-this monstrous fraud to defeat the popular will
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