The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-15
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TWENTY MEN KILLEDA.

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We passed yesterday, through tn
forms of an election. AS provided b.
statute, the polls were opened, and priv
1lege granted to such as were RICH
upon the goose" with a few exceptions
to- exercise their elective ~ranchlse
Never, perhaps, was a greater farce, OF
as VI should term les tragedy, enacted
Huudreds and thousands were deterre'
from voting by direct acts OF IntImlda
Stion, others through fear of consequen
cess and a multitude from a lack of prop
etfaciiities, The city, indeed, was du
ring the day, IN possession of an armet
mob,the baser passions of which were in
furiated to the highest pitch by the IN
ccndiary appeals of the newspaper organ
and the popular leaders OF the hnoR
Nothing party.
On Sunday night, large detachment
of men we're sent to the First and Sec
ond Wards 10 see that the polls were
propsrly opened These men,, ths
American Executive Committee - sap
Piled with refreshments and as may DC
immagined they we're IN a Feryrnt con
ditions on yesterday morning 70 see tnat
q rights OF freemen were respected
Indeed they discharges tno important
trusts commltteo 20 them IN sucn q man
eras 10 commend them soreYer 10 .he
admlrattoa OF outlaws Iney opened
tbs polls they PROVIDED ways ana means
Tor their " parry 70 vote ehey DiuHeo
and pulileoa all who could MOI, snow the
sign; they IN fact converted the election
into a perfect farce, without one redeem
ing or qualifying phase: r
We do not know when or how their
plan of operations was devised. Indeed
we do not care to know when such a sys-
TEN of outrage-such per6dy-such das-
tardy-was conceived. We only blush
for old Kentucky that her soil was the
scene of such o~utrages, and that some of
her sons ware participants in the nefa-
rieus sRiDdle.
Itweuld be impossible to state when
or how the rot commenced. BY day
break the polls were taken possession of
by the American party, and In Pursu-
ice of their p~reconcerted game, they
used every stratagem or device to hind
ell. the vote of every man who could not
manifest to the gardians of the polls
his soun6ness on the K. N. question.
we were nersonallv witness to the
procedure Of The nartT in ~certain Yards
and of these we feel authorized TO- sneak
Attic Seventh Enrd we discovered
tina for three hours in the outset in the
morn1np Il WIS imnossible for. those not
posted :,sto vote without the greatest
difficulty. In the Sixth Ward a party
of bullies wcreSnasters of the POLLS.
We saw two f~s-eioners driven fren the
polls. forced to run a gauntlet, beat I'M
mereifuliy, stoned and stabbed La the
case OF Que fellow the Hon. w. Thomas
spn,fermerly a member of Congress from
this district, interfcred, and while APP
pealihg to b maddened crowd to cease
Their acts OF disorder and violence Mr.;
Ihomasson was struck from behind and
peat: his gray-naIrs, his long pubic
service, his msniy presence, and hrs
thororgh AmerIcanlsm, ayalied nothing
with the crazed moi. Other and serl-
u fights occurred IN the Slxta Ward,
OF "hiehsWe nave no time to make men
ton now
The more serious and disgraceful dis
turbanees occurred IN the .upper wards.
The vote cast was but a partial one,
and nearly altogether on one side. No
show was giveE to the friends of Pres
ton, who we're largely in the majority,
but who in face of cannon, muskets and
revolyers. could not, being an unarmed
and quiet populace confront the mad
mob. So the vote was east one way,
and the result stands before the public.
In the morning, as We state elsewhere
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