Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-10-28
The Err of Frnud.

''deep corruption" AS might have been
expected the running of such a man for
the Presidency has inaugurated an era OF
corruption, the like of which has never be-
fore disgraced the political annals of the
United States. The extent of the frauds
in Pennsylvania will never be knownE per-
baps But the tale told in Philadelphia by
the ballot box of the increase of voters in
that city some fifteen thousand in five
months, gives an indication of it. The fol-
lowing paragraphs give some idea of what
has been done elsewhere-in Indiana and
Georgia
BALLoT-Box STUFFNe.-The ballot box at
Dupont on Tuesday was found to contain sew
eral more votes than correspondent with the
names of voters taken down. Result of bal
lot-box stuffing, importation, intrigue, perjury,
and villainy-the election of Willard and the
Old Line State ticket.-Mad. (Ind) Courier.
Three hundred men, mostly Irish, voted on
Tuesday, the 14th. in this township, whose
names cannot be found on the textbooks.
Three hundred in one township They came
political havoc and devastation as great as the
visitation of the locusts on the vegetable
world An examination of the poll-books of
the different townships will be singularly in
structive to young politicians.-B.
The Rockford jackson county, Indiana)
Herald says:
jackson township in "a polled 102 votes,
and gave, we believe, 50 mrjority fer the Peo-
pies ticket Now it polls 2Sl votes, and gives
old line majority. 1t is one of the town
ships 10 which the Irish vote was concentrat-
ed. There were probably $50 Irish voted in
this township who are not residents of the
State.
In St. Joseph county three hundred Irish
votes were polled, who had no more residence
there than they had in the moon"
The Marshal Repu6lioan says:
"Our defeat here and in the neighboring
c,unties is attributable to but one cause.-the
Irish vote. One thing we are sure of-the
Democracy have done their worst here in
Marshall. They have polled $50 Irish non-res-
dent votes.
In Laporte more than one hundred Irish
voters were colonized.
" TippecanOe a company of three hundred
Irish voted, who were tracked from Warren
county, where they voted, to Fountain, where
they voted again, and thence to Lafayette,
where they voted again, but were off itnme
diateIy before they could be arrested"
In Allen county, the following well authen
ticated fact may serve as a sample of opera
tons:
"a party of nine Irsbmen, in two-horse
wagon, voted in the morning at Jefferson
township; in the afternoon they assembled ;he
Goshen road, ard crossed over to the Lima
road, where the Washington township polls
were held, there voted again, and then pro.
Ceeded to this city, voted third time, and
then went to Adams township. This makes
twenty seven votes certain out of nine.
In Vermillion county, Mr.. Ray, formerly of
Philadelphia, Hancock county, saw twenty
seven Irish, on Tuesday, ichO told him they had
been brought from Ohio to cote, and that they
bad voted. This he is willing TO support by
affidavit, and lie is we'll known to many Of our
citizens"
SAVANNAH, GEO., Oct. 18th, 1856.
GENTLENEN:-There are not dozen honora-
bic gentlemen here who doubt for one moment
that at least three hundred souls were sworn
into perdition to put illegal Sag NIGHT votes in
the ballot box. The American party are as
urn VI uSdTt hS SNcIt hHu IuO SUI IOSe On 40
gallant a party on the morning after the cleo
ton as it did the morning before, when they
CALAMITY dashed into the fight; and such was
the oathing, disgust and horror excited in the
bOsoms of many of our best citizens by the base
and cowsrdly attempt to mob the residence of
one of our best American citizens by the for
eign party, that the result win cost Buchanan
not less than 80 votes in the city, and, trust,
thousands in the State. Georgia is claimed
for Fillmore by men of the soundest judgment
in the State.
Is there a true-hearted lover of our re-
publican institutions, of fair and honorable
dealing, who, in view of such develope-
ments as these, is not ready to sw, ar eter-
nal hostility to the democratic party, and
to pledge himself to remit no effort to get
change in the law so as to prevent these
fraudsl