New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-11-19
The putchess Co. Outrage.

The great danger Of our country ia that oil mn
deity among men in authority 10 that cardinal ne
publican principle Submission to the Popular W H.
mirlv EXPRESSED and understood. When the Puoic
mind has become SO corrupted tina, any considerable
number of citizens will wink at an outrage OIL
Electoral Rights if it only seem 10 favor their own
marty. then the downfall Of our Freedom Is al
hnnd.
-Du,chess County is Wing 50 proved IN the
desperate struggle OF 1874, which resulted IN ma
;or,v Of l4o for CLAW, 1876 for the Wing candidate
for Congress- and full Wing Assembly TICKET
This verdict was confirmed at the recent riec'ion'
whereof the vote for members OF Assembly - VI
fcially returned as follows
,pti,s us,un 4l92 LOc0s, Sherwood ILL
Epene,us Crosby, 4,Voo =. II p;oSao
r. Wbsei.- 40s4 Van WICK $3.50
or the ticket 4 1913 Average on the ticket, 4O'o
average Whig majority .----53.
D., this "a not all In the Loco Foco town OF
NH Fast. two full Wing ballots were found in
,to cto,e box. each OF which had Convention bal
10, folded. plainly by mistake, inside OF it There
,s no pretcnce that these ballots We're in excess OF
rho tally, or had been voted with intent 10 detraud
Two voters had simply been misled by the ne" di
rections about having all the candidates names on
one ticket endorsed State, and had enclosed their
votes for Convention in their votes for the Wing
candidates These were transmitted by the Town
10 the County Canvassers with statement OF the
facts These two votes gave Mr. Crosby the return
even without the 5 votes for T.. Crosby! which
nobody pretended were or coald be for any body
but the Wing candidate.
oard hoe q I EOcO majority.
two Of its Members having been elected by one ma
ioritv each The Board assembled on the llth inst
to canvass the votes and declare the result. They
found the return of the Loco oco Town OF Pleasant
Valley grossly defective and sent it back 10 be cor
rected; otherwise, all the Wing candidates must
have been returned To give time for this correction
the Board diourned over TO next morning resisting
all suggestions that the North East return be also
corrected.
All things being ready on the Loco-Foco side, the
Beard rel ssembled and declared Mr.. Pierce "a Lo-
coFoco law student in Poughkeepsie) elected over
Crosby by one majority; though every man in that
Board well kner ii was not so-that in very truth
Mr. Crosby had si1 majority. Either the two votes
thrown out in NORTHEAST or the five votes for r.
Crosby would have elected him. Nobody imagn-
ed that E. Crosby meant any body else than Epe-
netus Crosby; in fact, understand that three OF
those who cast the E. Crosby votes have since
been found and have certified that they meant Epe-
netus Crosby and nobody else. But what honest
man can need any such certificate?
Perhaps Mr. G. T. Pierce will think best to make
his first entrance on the stage Of public life as the
holder, under an unjust partisan decision, of Mr.
Crosbvs seat in the Legislature, and perhaps not
In either case the injustice of the party majority in
the Board of Supervisors is the same. That Mr.
Crosby will ultimately obtain the seat, we see not
how any man can doubt Is it wise, then, TO put him
to the expense and trouble of contest, merely to
give Mr. Pierce a few dollars and fraudulent vote
for Speaker! Will it pay? Loco.Focos OF Dutch
ess consider