Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-10-22
Beaten, Not CONQUERED.

No event was ever so well calculated
to incite men TO renewed and unf1agging
effort in a noble cause as the result Of
the election OF the IA b. We have talked
about Border Ruff anism in Missouri and
in Kansas /; we have again and again
shown to the people that systematic
fraud and open violence had been re-
sorted TO, to crush out the residents oI
that territory. We have found it neces.
sary even to produce afidavits to show
that former well known and reliable cit
liens of Allegheny County have not Re.
come liars since they left this soil. But
led by demagogues and base tools OF
power whose interest it is 10 deny every
thing, the truth in regard to a distant
portion of the country has met no re-
Spouse in the hearts of men who profess
to deprecate the ou,rages ''as reported"
but 10 which they appear to give no
credence. Open your eyes then, fellow
citizens, to border rufianism in your
very midst, in your own state. Look at
Pennsylvania, with her mighty interests
involved for veal or woe in the success
of the cause of freedom, Frustrated and
trampled under foot by colonies of men,
who have no rights at the polls except
such as come BY false swearing. The
increase in the vote of Philadelphia alone
our that Of last May when at tie Mayors
election the strength Of all parties was out
IS no less than ELEVEN THOUSAND TWO
HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN. That alone
is from eight to nine thousand voies
more than the majority which the loco
focos claim in the whole State. The
success of the border rufianism in Kan.
sas has enboldened the enemies of liber-
ty, of the union and of the constitution,
the foes of all our institutions except the
peculiar one, to try it upon US, and it
has succeeded again.
We are beaten but not conquered
While there has been a strife and a
bandying of words, about whether or not
there have been murders and illegal vo-
tings in Kansas, behold the game has
come home 10 our own State and the
voice of her people is stifed by wretehes
poured in upon our cities in legions.-
Federal money is not only used 10 put
the bayonet to the breast of our people
in Kansas, but to send liars, ruffians, and
perjurers into our very midst TO usurp
the rights of freemen and make our bal
lot boxes a nullity. There cannot be the
shadow of doubt hut a majority of the le-
gal voters of this State gave their ballots
for the Union ticket on Tuesday last.
What say you now friends? Will
you see the game tried again in this
city on the 4th of November? viii
you have men run in upon you to steal
away your birth-right? We shall see.
We can carry the State in November
without a shadow of doubt if we but pre-
serve the purity of the ballot. box. One
thing is sure, the men who defeated us
in October will be needed elsewhere in
November. There will be less chance
for colonizing. If Philadelphia alone can
be kept from the clutch Of the Yandals
we are safe. Let us perfect our organi-
cation here and every where. Let us
at least preserve our sacred rights at
home if we cannot defend them for such
of our citizens as go abroad to the dis
tant West to build up a new empire there
for freedom. The times demand renew
ed effort. We shall have it-PMs6urq
Gazette.