The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1845-01-31
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hundred to not less than eight hundred in
. fact they boosted that they had three thous-
; and men enrolled. This Club, with other
! members Of The Democratic party, perfected
! the most extensive system oil fraudulent vot-
ing ever known. Sir, in What have been
, stating, and what | am about TO state, |
speak from information derived in part from
public soutc s, but mainly from private
ones; sources, however, on which FULLY
: rely. have taken pains 10 get accurate
information. If there be error in npy of
my statements, which am not prepared
10 admit, desire 10 be con'radcted. One
of my objects is to provoke investigation
into this matter. If any thing which
) ran say or do here, should induce this
House to order an investigation into thus
| whole Transaction, shall think have done
the country much sevice. Let gentlemen
meet mo on this ground. In the city Of
New York lhe4e are more than seventy
places at which votes are gwen IN. un-
derstand, sir that one prominent feature OF
this plan was that il each OF tho seventeen
wards into which the ely is divided, there
were one hundred and twenty picked men.
and 90 to one where he vas least known,
on the evening before the election. Stay.
ing one night there, enabled him TO make
oath that lie resided in tha, ward aud he
vas permitted To vote there. He then re.
turued to his own ward, and voted there
without beng questioned. Blu, these two
thousand and forty persons, however, iorm-
ed but part OF those who voted more than
once. From the information which have
received, think that an investigation will
show that there were companies Of men
who voted, in some instances, as much as
sixteen times each. 1t was the calculation
Of the managers TO give fourteen thousand
Illegal votes in the city, and they admit
that they got in eleven thot sand. A por-
ton Of these votes we're excluded at some
Of the boxes, by The Wings requiring them
TO state, on oath, if they had not already
voted. This being an UNUSUAL question, OF.
Tended many Of them, and they retired with
dlenifed disdain. The workingman's Ad.
yocate, a Democratic paper of the city, has
admitted that the party agreed to give five
dollars for every vote after the first one,
which any individual could got in. Many
Of the gamblers predicted what occurred
afterwards with wonderful accuracy. Ono
of them who happened to be Wing, in.
formed prominent individual 10 tho city,
from whom received the statement, long
before the election, Of the plan, and like
wise notified him that on future day, be-
fore the election however, ibis matter
would be published in Democratic paper,
(lhe Plobeian, | think and charged on The
Wings as their plan, SO as TO divert suspi-
con and, in the event Of discovery by the
Wing press, to anticipate such charge, and
thus break its force. When tho day came
on, as predicted The publication appeared
III tina Piebeian.
There is SAID to have been an incident. of
: no great Consequence in ITSELF which for a
, particular reason Is worth notice. IN.
derstaDd that the Moth Carolina line.of-
1 baltIe ship was moored at the Brooklyn
wharf, and 1t had been arranged that the
! men on board Of her were to 20 ashore and
vote for the gentleman who represents ON
this floor the Bsooktyn district and their
votes, If received hy him, would have been
sufficient TO elect him. But on the morn.
ing of the election, BY some singular froak
OF that lcgerdemaln which was prac,ised on
SO extensive scale that day, these men
we're in body spirited across the river into
The city, aud voted mostly in the 9TH ward.
but partly IN the 9th aud lih, for the Dem
ocraic member there, Il mean the only enc
of the present city delegation returned. Mr..
Maelay.) These votes were just enough
TO save him. Nov, have no doubt that
ths gentleman from Brooklyn, (Mr. Muir.
ply } though he was overthrow bv HAVING
the staff on hlch he was about TO lean Thus
suddcnly jeiked from under him, BY broth.
er Democrat, has public spirit and party
devotion enough to be quito as we'll satisfied
/ by result which gives the party a mem.
Der, as If he had been himself the successful
individual. But the object | had in view.
sir, in abiding 10 this incident, is 10 ascer.
tain what is the standard Of party morals as
i respects the members themselves
What is their mode Of dealing With Wings
understand very well; but had supposed.
according 10 the old proverb, that amopg
It's members there was honor in every pro.
tesslon. VIII not some one enliehten the
country as to this port of their code (!
Sir, you remember that when the Whips
were in power, they passed registry
law that would have prevented most of
these enormous frauds, but it was repealed
by the Democratic party, and we see the
fruits of that repeal. From the best in.
formation can obtain, am fully satisfied
that under the existing laws provided bv
the Democratic party of thatState, frauds
enough can be perpetrated in the CITY
alone to determine the vote of that great
State-in fact, may say the result Of the
Presidential election; for it will perhaps
generally be close enough for its thirty.six
.elesoral votes to decide the matter.
But it was not in the city alone that
these things we've done. Similar frauds
were practlsed at Albany, by voters some Of
whom were even carried from Philadel-
pha, It IS said. Even 10 the interior, there
are facts which furnish strong evidence of
Illegal voting. | should like for the zen.