The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-10-18
ONE OF THE UNSPOTTED.

From the Ieckport Journal, October 5.
How Coz. Hunt Uoted.-The Silver Gray and
Hlndoo newspapers are engaged in the concert
ed task of proving by the power of simple as
sertion that Gov. Hunt, last fall, voted the Wing
ticket. They deny that he voted the Know
Nothing ticket. Though Know Nothings them
selves, they profess to consider it an imputation
and stain on the Governor to charge him with
doing as they did. At first blush, this looks not
little singular. AS they are his only cham
pions, why not claim him as one Of their own
number? The reason is, that they are using his
name to try to decoy Wings from the Republi-
can cause-a cause fully identified with the
Wings by the act and ratification of the Wing
State Convention. But if they should confess
that Gov. Hunt abandoned the Wing ticket a
year ago, they would surrender the only chance
by which they seek to use him for the advance
ment of Hindooism
The Niagara Courier has asserted that the
Governor did not vote the Know Nothing ticket
and conveys the idea that he actually labored
tor the success of the regular Wing State nom-
nations. The truth is, that the Courier and
Gov. Hunt gave the Wing ticket the same kind
of support. The Courier kept up the Wing NOM
nations in its columns till election, but does
any man pretend that the Courier supported
that ticket -? 1t held it up, the more effectually
to Kill 1t. 1t has been asserted that the result
IN Niagara county, which gave Gov. Clark a
handsome majority, was due to the exertions of
Gov. Hunt! So far from this being the fact,
Uov. Hunt held no correspondence whatever
with the friends of Gov. Clark in Niagara coun-
ty; he contributed not one cent to the cause ;
he held no consultations with the regular Com.
mittees in the interest of the Wing ticket, but
stood off on another tack during the whole cam
palgn On the contrary, he was in constant
communication with the Hindoos was present
at the County Convention when the Hindoos
nominated the editor of the Courier for County
Clerk, after the split in that Convention-con-
| graduated the nominee on his success, when
thus nomlnated-exerted his influence to bring
| round that nomination, and was a co-operator
with them, and them only, during the election.
More than all this his near friends and shadows
all worked like slaves to elect the Hindoo coun.
ty ticket and constantly vilifed the Wing State
ticket.
In his own election district, where his mighty
influence was directly felt, Ullmann got l29
votes, Seymour SO, and Clark only 80. The
wings received in the same district in 1853, on
State ticket, 100 votes. Was it such men that
elected Gov. Clark?
There was not one single other district in the
county where the Wing vote made such small
| show as this
Not only did Gov. Hunts new friends work
tor the defeat of the Wing ticket-his horses did
the same service; his team was in active ser
vice OF the Hindoos, to draw in ant. Clark votes
during the day of election.
Nor is this all. Gov. Hunt himself voted the
ticket that bore at its masthead the Hindoo
hleroglyphics. What names were in that ticket
no one can tell except those who had person
al Inspection of the contents but the exterior,
the Endorsement and heading, were visible to the
naked eye, and that showed the ticket to be Of
the Hindoo stripe. That he voted such a look
ing ticket we can prove by testimony in a court
OF justice, and by witness whose word will es
tablish any fact capable of being established by
human testimony.
And We declare, further, that Gov. Hunt voted
for the regular Hindoo nominee for Assembly
in this district Linus Jones Peck. If Gov
Hunt will deny that he voted such ticket, We
will prove yur assertion.
Hunt was Fusionist last fall-he fused with
the Hindoos and Hunkers, and gave that fusion
the support of his public example at the polls