Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1845-04-18
SPEECH
IF Mr.. Duncan, Of Ohio, in the House Of Rep
resentatires, February 10, in Committee on
the .army appropriation Bill.

" -'' DuHcuH, " OItto, IN ne house q Iitp
resenfatires, February 70, an Committee on
the .army Appropriation Bill.
CONCLUDED.
After the federal triumph in 1Sl0-a triumph
marked above all other trinmphs ever known,
military or political. by unbounded reioicings,
singing, music. dancing, huzzas, and insults
and sneers TO the democracy-l say, after that
triumph, Mr.. Clay, in the United States Sc
nate, likened the democracy to a felon who
had been tried by jury, found guilty and
condemned, and standing in the cart, under
the galiows, ready for the rope. How forcibly
does all this remind one of the fate of Absalom and
Hauan! How admirably their. treacherv, their
wicked schemes, and their fatal end, illustrates the
frauds, the peruries, the brlberies, and the demo-
| rallzng corruptions of the federasts and partcu-
larly their leaders in 1910. And how like their
end has that of the federalists been? Absalom
was hung while riding mongrel beast, much like
that on which Mr.. Clay rode, (for such is the COM
position of the federal party.) Hannah was hung
on the same gallows which he erected for Morde-
cal. Permit me to inquire with modesty and a
diffidence which claim to be almost peculiar to
myself, who now has been tried as telon, found
guilty by his jury, condemned by his judges. and
now stands in the cart with the rope round his
neck, under the galIows which he erected for the
democracy will let Mr. Clay, the embodiment
of the whig-federal party, answer. AS sure as
God is just, there is day of fearful rctrbuton for
| the wicked That dark day now hangs over the
federal party; and the calamtes, the disgrace, and
the evils which they had prepared for the democra-
cy, have fallen upon themselves; whether or not
they will profit by it is yet to be seem "God lou
eth whon1 he chnstenaeth.' It may be that the ca
lamities visited upon them by their wickedness
may improve their political morals.
But, sir, must talk of the frauds, forgeries, bri-
berries, and SANDERS, which were practsed by the
ederasts in the recent election. tits to them that
| wish to direct the attention of this House and
the country more particularly, hoping that an ex-
pose of them may have the effect to direct public
attention to some plan of more efectualiy proven
ting repetition of them. A duty which / owe
to myself, to my country and to the purity of the
elective franchise, would, at all times, induce me
to vigilance in important trust, whether If
public private life; but my attention has beer
called more Immediately to the exposes ain abon
to make. | am not at this time going to expose
double voting fraudulent votes. | am not il
the possession Of the evidence of such votes.
have not made inquiries as to the extent to which
iniquities may have been practised in other state
than my own. | think the ballot-boxes were to-
we'll guarded in Ohio for the preparation of man,
of the frauds that characterized the election c
1910. That kind of voting | exposed to som
extent, and the fatal effects that must result fror
it, il a speech which had the honor to make her
last session. I have said that by whatever mean
the public mind may be poisoned in relation t
political men and political measures, equally in
lures the value Of the elective franchise, and col
rupts the baIlot-box, upon the purity of which de
pend the duration of our present form of govern
ment, and the perpetuity of our free institution:
am now to talk of forgeries, undue influence:
brberies &c, which were carried to alarmin
extent in the recent canvass, and with effects thu
diminished have no doubt, the popular vote t(
the democratic candidates to great extent.
! Permit me to enumerate some of these trauC
and their effects as practised IN Georgia-frst
the frauds then Of the effects. A circular was i
sued and circulated in that state, purporting TO
signed by Sir r. Peel, and others of London, inv
ting all leading members of the free-trade party
call on and draw upon their house (desgnatin
the house) in New York, for whatever amount
money might be wanting to conduct and sccu
the election of Col. Polk as follows:
"LONDON september IS, 1874.
g To the Free Trade Party Of the United Stutes:
eve the undersigned, members Of the tory party
England anxious and willing TO aid in the cause, al
haSten the triumph of free trade principles trougho
the world and especially the continent of Americ
have awaited ourselves of this to address tn
bret circular tory brethren in the United state
who E zeaIously engaged in effecting the ascenden
of our doctrines by eectng to the Presidency that ste
ling and unfnchng tory and proud descendcnt OF Il
nv Mr. James X. Polk, and our tory breIhr
On the opposite side Of the water that the money and
Tents of every good and true tory i'll England are at
times and shall be henceforth at the command servic
and disposal of the leading par,sans of james X Pol
who have SO long suffered and patiently endured the
ses of protective tariffs and negro slavery.
"This circular will be transmitted secretly through
mails TO the various pOstnasers and other goFernme
officers of tie United States All bills or drafts for mon
or documents must be addressed with proper caut
and circumspcction through democratic commerce
houses to The undersigned, London.
(Sigucd,) PEEL
WELLINGTON,
j. IL $. DENNISON,
"Consmittee for q. 50
There was also handful circulated far a
Mr. Claw should he nlf