Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-10-17

The BLACK Carpet-Bag Conspiracy.

We are intending to publish in day or two Ger.
hhcates from the most respectable gentleman IN
this vicinity IS TO the truth of all we have stated
IN regard to the recent immigration into Kentucky.
We can obtain the best certificates TO establish far
more than We have stated.
Below, we give certificates from highly respect
able gentleman as 70 the confessions and declara-
lions made to them by one of the carpet-osg adc
ven.urers under the impression that they were his
political friends. It will be seen that the develop
mentshe made are altogether of startling character
To what is stated in the certificates, must add,
shat when he arrived at the Nashville Railroad de-
lpot, be was taken possession OF and drummed
Through the city to the Jefferson vile ferry being
REQUIRED to bear in bis own hands transparency
inscribed With the words 'An imported Sag-Nicht
voter" We are authorized TO say that, as soon ss
the ferry>boat containing him left the wharf, three
other men with carpet>bags FASTENED to the shore
from q house designated by him as one Of the
headquarters of the Imported voters, and rowed 10
all speed for the Indiana shore.
At least four or five thousand Of these rsscally
Immigrants hired by still more rsscay Kentukians,
already in the interior Of our State, and others
are daily hockng there. We invoke our friends
throughout the State by their love of freedom and
their scOrn Of corruption to viDdcate the rights
bequeathed to them by their fathers. Let them
do it or die if necessary in the attempt:
On Friday morning early | was at Mrs. Vacaro's
on Market street. Ny attention was attracted by
strangers taking black carpet bag near the house
Having heard much about black carpet-bags,
lorked into the wagon and saw nine or ten Of them
there. Shortly afterwards, took two respectable
/, Gentlemen there and showed them some Of the
carpetb bags the rest having been removed by their
Tewners, all Of whom wen: out the Bards,own road.
The whole Of them were gone before the next morn
ing.
!, ~ Saturday morning, found man, calling
himself Theodore Meyer, who waa looking for the
Nashville Railroad Depot. Suspecting his business,
fell into a conversation with him, made him
think me Democrat, and proposed to show him
the depot. gained his confidence, and he be-
came very communicative. He stated that he had
been indisposed for some weeks from a cut on his
foot, whiee he showed me; that he had staid four
teen days ct German boarding house at Cincnna-
ii, near the steamboat fandiDg; that he was out Of
money there; that some persons, learning from
him that he Democrat asked him if he was
willing 70 come to Kentucky to vote that he was
| answered he was willing TO do that or anything
else, if they would pay his bill for board; that they
paid it, gave him brown jeans coat, pair ofpan-
{taloons, pair of shoes, and fifteen dollars in mo.
\ ney; that they directed him to come to Louisville
and stop at a designated house, and 60 hence to
\ Lebanon, where be would be recognized by his
black carpet bag with red string tied at the key.
hole, that boarding houses would be furnished
. Throughout the county of Marion for persons like
1jmsIE that he would be told there where to vote;
and that if he got his vote in, he would have his
whole bill in Marion paid, and receive an additions
Ell snm of ten dollars in cash-then to 60 where he
pleased.
This, the'man Meyer stated to meas to a cOnfdens
tial political friend and that the Democrats of Gins
cnnati had already sent from that city from three
to five thousand persons to vote in Kentucky with
instructions not to stop at any Of the river towns
and, that they intended sending many more-that
they were sending them off in large numbers
every day. He stated that Kentuckians were do
ing all this thing and furnishing the whole of the
money. he stated that many crossed directly at
Cincinnati for the interior of Kentucky, and that Of
those coming down the river, more stopped at
Carrollton than at any other one point. l asked
si.a at what county those stopping at CarrOllton
where going to. he could not remember. / men.
toned TO him the names Of several counties, and,
last OF all, named Owen, wbereupon he said at
once that Owen the place to which most of
those stopping at Carrolton were destined. He
furthermore stated, that, from Cincinnati to this
place, not one Of the immgratng Democrats got
out upon the Indiana side.
THOS REAUGH