The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1845-01-31

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bad provided no mode by which the fair
ness of the Presidential election could bt
contested no means of purging the poll'
Of illegal votes. Ii vote were recei, eC
by the inspectors Of the election a, eacf
precinct, and By them retained, il mattereC
not whether tho person protesting TO give
i we're qaalii dto vote or not al that plaza.
They, therefore, by means of The system
Of organization already described, dellle
lately formed a widely extended plan for
the purpose Of procuring sufficient NUN
Ter Of Illegal votes 10 carry States enough
10 secure tie election Of Mr. Polk Their
first demonstration seems 10 have b. Ell
Wade in the city Of Baltimore in the Octo
Der election. There il Was that they gave
q vote so much larger than was ever polel
al any preceding election, as 10 satisfy al
persons that fraud had been practjsed. In.
vestigalions since then have made il mani.
fest that The increased vote was owing, not
only To the fact that many persons voted
not authorized at all to vote there, but that
likewise those qualified had in some in,
stances, voted two, three, or more times
at different precincts in the city. About
fifty persons have already been convicted
and sentenced to punishment for tbs Of.
fence by the courts, not one OF whom 10 n
v hig, though they have been patdoned
from time to time BY the Democratic Gov
ernor there. The fraud here was bat the
precursor Of what followed
The great Stato Of New York claims
the first notice. During the past year
there were naturalz d there not less than
seven thousand Foreigners. This was OF
/ lected entirely BY lie Democrats party the
/ Wings having no Office provided for that
purpose, because, as learn, there is no,
one Of these foreigners out of fifty
sho viii vote the Wing ticket OF this
large number great proportion, not hav-
IN. been five years in the country, could not
be legally naturalznd, and their votes,
therefore, when gwen, were gal.
Men who had not been one month in the
country from the penientates Of Europe,
unacquainted even with the language in
which they we're sworn, voted for what they
knew not.
But the principal flands were practised
By what is called double voting. The city
Of New York was the great theatre where
i this was consummated. As the Empire
+ Club bore such prominent part in these
transactions, must devote remark or tW q
7 TO il. 1t was organized IN July last, and
II consisted Of gamblers, pickpockets, drop.
pers. burners, ihimble rigsers, and the like,
and lis association seems TO have been then
mainly for the purpose Of carrying on sue.
eessfully these and similar trades. Nj os,
Of lis members had been repeatedly indie
ted for crimes. lis general character
however, may be sufficiently inferred from
that Of some Of lis officers. lis presiden
was Isaiah Ryndors, often arrested fo
ihInlble rlgGi9g and similar oilsnces. II,
and JOSEF. jaNetl, being Indicted for mur
der, aed from New York to Nea Oaeans
by the Ivy, may hero mention that thi
Jewel, who has indictments for murder i
t~o different cases hanging up against him
was the standard bearer Of the Club, an,
I figured as the bearer of the Texas banne
j IN the professions. These worthless hat
mol been long in Ne@ Odeans before the,
I found it convenient to leave, being charged
with stealing Treasury notes. They came
to this city, and we're arrested ard Sent
back 10 irons by order of Captain TYLER
| mention this circumstance TO show the
mutation Of The times; for since the cIec.
lion this man Rynders having become a
great man amoDq The Democ racy, has not
only dlued with Benjamin +. Butler, when
the electoral vote was given for MIR. Polk
at Albany; not only has he received q
complimentary ball from the chairman of
the Democratic General Committee of the
city of New York, but, having come on
with his friend Jewell to this place for an
Office, as am told, if the papers are 10 be
relied on, he has been cordially received
at the White House. Whether President
Tyler or President Rynders then remem
bered the ironing, is not chronclcd. But
| am DEPRESSING. John J. Austin, vice
president of the club, has likewise pending
against him an Indictment for murder, aud
was likewise implicated ln the charge of
stealing Treasury notes. Woodbridge, its
secretary, but recently came out of the pen.
itentiary, William Ford one of its direc
tors, in the short interval of time which
elapsed between the publication of notice
Of one Of its professions and the arrival Of
the day Of parade, was indicted by the
grand jury in seven cases, rape and burgla
ry being among the offences. Being put in
the 'Fombs, he unfortunately los, the oppor.
tunity of figuring on that occasion. Soon
after tned and convicted Of the first named
crime, he was sent to the penitentiary, but,
his services being valuable 10 the party, he
was Immediately pardoned and turned out
by his Democratic excellency Governor
Buck. | may remark, too, that this off
caI digntary,a short time before the cleo.
tton, restored to their political rights all
the criminals in the Safe, aud patdoned
great number who were IN the PenHeniiarv,
This Empire Club, constituted, as have
related, tor some time devoted its energies
TO the prosecution Of the laudable kbiaets
for which it had been originally ofeauized.
Several weeks, however, before the elecuon,
the Democratic leaders thought it coud be
employed in the political eau
vass, and they thereupon took lis members
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