Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1849-07-20


pIicabilily. Mr. Hoffman swell knows M. Dis
ney was The uuihor Of en- argument very much
like bis own, loug before the Congressional
canvass last fall" and thar "he qgossd 10 the
beginning Of his iraide Of the 25lh ull., an or.
gumenl borrowed from Mr. Brough, or perhaps
Mr.. Disney, By Mr.. Oids, and By him intro.
duced into the Senate by way Of preamble io
his resolution in 1919"
Ia reference 10 those two political beauties,
T0lDHshend and Morse. Mr. Beaver says: mir.
Hoffman was informed, before he became the
poor apologies for these twins, that they had be-
come the willing instruments Of others, 70 car.
~ OHi e0rTHp bargain, negotiated between
the lOcUiOcos-Chaso, llamlin and otheTs-iO
merge the Free SOiiers Of tie STATE INFO aljeet
iOcof ofOcOiSm. llE DID UNDERSTAND THATl Tie
did know, too, that the Hamilton county case
was used as dee0g 10 afford the contrivers Of
the base scheme an argument to project Town.
shend and Morse, who in the end were TO vote
through Breslin's appouionmenI bill, if those
conlrivers succeeded in finding some Wing
Free Soer 10 the Senate base enough to take
pau in the game. But the Giddings men de-
manded his election on honorable principals,
and cared litIle about Figuring profitaby in his
constitutional business" One vote in the SEN
ate, such as Towushend and Morse gave in the
House, would have passed Breslin's infamous
BILL but that vote could mol be had. ID was then
thought that the bill should be remodeled 10
make il some less alrocious. This was done.
The bill is then known as Pugh's amendment 10
House Bill No. 1870.
These bills will be laid before the public, be-
fore this controversy is ended. The bills them.
selves will utter such volume Of villainy as
will make even Mr.. Hoffman stare. ltis ouly
necessary here to say, that Pugh's bill amended
passed the House with The aid Of the corrupt
coalition have mentioned. And that their OBJ.
/ ject, end and aim was TO swamp the Free Soil
ers IN this State, and subject them TO the con.
troll of the slave-ridden Locofoco party, no one
can well doubt Such was the bsrgan-such
the intention-and such the attempt. When
The public shall be in possession Of the bills re-
ferred TO, il will be seen, under either Bresln's
bill or Pugh's amendment, the Locofocos would
inevitably elect large majority on joint ballot,
and a majority in each branch of the Legsla.
ture, Orer both The Free Sellers and Wigs Of
The State.
But Mr.. Hoffman assures us he is honest
! He took therefore no special interest in this
scheme; yet il is vastly strange that he should
make such elongated pretensions 10 disnteres.
tedness and accumen, and not discover sooner,
that he had associated himself with The very
clique who had contrlved TO destroy the denti.
~ of the Free Soil party Of this State, by mer.
gng it into old fashioned pro-slavery Locofo.
coiSm. He has moved with them, by u sort oi
sympathy, if not concert, and has turned all the
same sharp corners and travelled the same road
TO his conclusions.
Mr.. Beaver proceeds with long and able
argument, jusIiiying the construction of the
Constitution under which Hamilton county was
constituted Two election districts; which position
was made so apparent in his speech which we
have published, that it is not necessary to re.
peat it here. He concluds his article with the
following word of warning;
"ln my next communication. Messrs. Editors
| will endeavor to show up the apportonment
schemes intended 10 be got through the Legis.
lature by corruption; which will occupy perhaps
more space than you will willingly give, o
which this Hamilton county case is mere
decoy. And if Mr.. Hoffman does not know il
now, he eau soon be informed by his new asso.
ciaies, that such was the fact. All Free Soers
who do not wish to be decoyed or dragged into
the old Pros Slavery LocoGoco party, had better
! from under."- Gin Gaz.