Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-10-17
From the Philadelphia News. ]
The Great Fraud.

Tuesday last will long be remembered as TIE dan
of the Great Fraud. Driven to despair by the fact
that an immense majority was known to exist in this
State and city, against the Democratic party its lead
devised gigantic system of fraud which extend
ed throughout the whole Commonwealth. Gangs of
scoundres organized in this city to vote in every
precinct and more than ten thousand illegal votes
were polled in this way alone. Others after having
voted in the country, to the city for the same
purpose. Some six eight thousand naturalization
papers issued to who had no legal right to
them and the clerks of the Courts again hard at
work. manufacturing thousands more of these patent
American citizens for the Presidential election
Watchers were refused admttance in defiance of the
law In many precincts, that the Loco Foco officers
might perpetrate fraud without the chance of detec-
ton, and every possible stratagem was resorted to to
defeat the Legitimate expression of the will of the
people.
Men who claim to be respectable citizens were the
chief consprators in this atrocous scheme of vlany
and they hired army of ballot-box suffers and
adopts in crime to do the deeds which they origina-
ted. The interruptions Mayor of this city had APP
pointed some of the most notorious ruhans of Moya
mensing on his police who co-operated in the execu-
ton of this outrage In some of the wards they COW
cred the extra assessment lists with false Names by
vouching for persons who they knew were not enti-
tied to vote. They interfered in every way with the
assessment of the legal voters and e9en attempted to
overawe the citizens from the frse exercise of the
dearest right of American freemen. With the agents
of the law against them, and rounded by an over
whelming fraud, it is matte Of surprise that so
many NOtcs were pOleu LDS COllSplTAtOTS.
And all this was done by the party which profess
SEES such tender regard for the constitution
jealous apprehension of the duration of-our insttu-
tonsl What consummate hypocrisy, for such a
party to talk of the Constitution and the Union,
when they engage in acts like these, which sap the
very foundations of the government If the people
are to be deprived OF the privilege of expressing their
will through the ballotbox. then the government
will fall into the hands Of political oIigarchy, who
will rule the country by frauds in the great cities
which determine the vote Of the leading States
Unless new guards are thrown around the ballot.
box, it will altogether cease to be exponent OF
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1t is easy TO that our institutions cannot long
stand such things. But will the people quietly sub
init to be thus swinded out of their most precious
rightsi Will outraged community calmly sub
NIT TO be thus cheated by clique of nOmnally decent
men, but who arc really lost TO all sentiments Of
honor, TO all conscientious rectitude of couductS
Arouse, then, Americans Bring the scoundrels
to condign punishment Citizens assemble in town
meeting, and adopt measures to prevent a repetition
Of fraud by Furnishing its present perators, and
let the country see you determined 10 efend the
purity of the ballot box at every hazard PHI Mems