Demoine courier., 1856-11-06

cock County, az dissected in a communj.
cation in another column. where the .Olc
Line still sweIls with a vast increase
over all possible growth in the ordinary
course Of improvement. Take tie vote
Of Tippecanoe County. The Republi.
can increase has been about two hun.
dred. The Buchaneer increase has been
look ali, readers! n thousand and
siSty-tDo, fue times the Republican
eain, though there. as here, hundreds OF
Germans left the Pro Slavery ranks, and
voted the Republican ticket.
In Wayne Township. Allen COUNTY.
men no,oriously residents of o,her coun.
ties walked up to the polls and voted,
and a band OF the, lowest Rufians in the
place invariably 'Old Liners kept guard,
and prevented all interference. The Re
publicans. numerically bu, half as strong
as their opponents. were powerless.-
They are the necessary corcomitant Of a
policy that defends the exte nsion Of SIa
very by arms, murder. arson and rape.
They will be repeated every where where
safer means cannot avail. Brownsburp
was made the scene Of similar outrages.
and at twenty other places we hear of
their repetition.
In De Kalb County, on the Goshen
Air Line Railroad. one hundred and ffty
Irish, freshly arrived from some quarter,
nobody knew where, to work a few days
upon the ROAD, voted in a body. They
had no residence in De Calb, and no in
.ention Of staying longer than the COT.
tract kept them.
In Noble County. a, KenIallviIle, one
hundred OF the lrish on the same Rail.
road voted.
In Whitley County. on the Piugburgh.
Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, a
band 81 over one hundred Irish voted a,
Columbia City.
In K%osciusco, two hundred Irish of the
same lawless unsettled race by whom the
odd line party has won all tie battles,
tried to vote, but the people compelled
them to obey the law by force.
In Allen County, on the Tifin Rail-
road. fifty lrish voted, though they had
not been in the State two weeks.
In I.oganspcrt, Cass County, seventy
hvs lrish came in and voted in one squad,
though they had never lived in the place.
or even been in j. before.
In Huntington County Indians were
permitted to vote the Buchanan ticket,
inc rumbers Of Irish veled two and
.hrees.times. 4 Isl"
The facts, az they have been furnish
ed from The best sources. prove indispu.
,ably that thousand of railroad workers.
who have no residencs in the State. and
have only been here a few days or weeks.
coming upon the call Of such hand.bills
as we saw posted up abou. this city. and
are always fly ing thick when an election
is approaching and staying un,il another
job calls them to another, with no incli-
nation Of remaining a moment beyond
the completion Of the contract they are
upon, voted in all the counties in the nor.
,hern par, Of the State and along the Wa,
bash. and in the central section, where
railroads were being made, or made the
transportation to a desired point easy and
cheap. These facts canno, be disputed.
AID are no. denied. But the claim that
such men are legal voters is impuden,ly
advanced in the very face Of the ID W and
reaaoD. Thus frauds are defended anG
excused, and elections are carried against
the citizens by wandering bants of hired
voters.
All this makes up a story, whose NOR
al saddens the hearts Of all true patriots.
and tells with melancholy force against
the morality of American pollticians.-
Committed by itself one crime mighs be
and set down 10 the account
Of individual corruption, bu, where a
whole system of frauds is consumma,ed,
when the whole engineering force of a
grea. political Party is drafted into the
work. when County after County and
District after Districs 10 made the scere
Of the unholy business, il becomes a
crime Of the most sta rting character.
and MAJ well make us ,remble for the
stability Of our Constitution.
Blu. even this does not tell the story OF
all the crimes which this party have
commitled agains. the sanc,i,y OF the
ballo, box. In Californis The leaders Of
the came party which calls itself Demo-
cratic organized a s,upendous sys,em OF
ballo, box s%tufing and election frauds.
and pursued il with such a high hand
and 10. SO long a time. tina, the people
deeming that forbearance had ceased to be
a virtue. were compelled 10 have resort,
10 an unnatural mode of seeking redress
for their wrongs, tina. Of taking the pow
er into their own hands aAc acting in de-
6snce of the constituted authorities.
In Kansas the people have been utter
Iy defrauded of the elective franchise, BY
leaders and followers Of the Democrat
&c! Party and when In their helpless
condition they appealed to the General
Government for protection, a Demo
cratic! Administration sanctioned the