The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-11-19

tract from letter recently received from
a gentleman residing it Chicago, which
will show bow nobly tho Republicans
fought the political baltic with tho
dougbface Slavery Democrats and ballot
box suffers in that State, and yet lost
the election on tho Presidential ticket,
by the most base corruption and bribery
known in the history Of our country.
"CmcAco, Nov. 10, 1856.
suppose you would like to know
little something how our election passed
off. We received returns enough Tues
day night, the 18th inst. to satisfy us
that we had gone up Salt River" al.
though we beat them badly in the city
and in Northern Illinois. / think if tho
Republicans had worked as hard in Penn.
sylvapia, and kept clear Ct the American
party, as We did, that the result would
have been different The Fremonlers
here were desperate. The Douglass par
ty htd imported votes enough to carry
the city. They carried it in the spring
by coo majority. They undertook the
same game this fall. They appointed all
the judges of election from their own
party; but there was so much Of storm
about it, that they at last threw it up,
and gave us one judge in each ward.
The next thing they did was to put W
barbados eight feet high at each ward,
to prevent the Fremont challengers from
challenging their illegal voters but they
were torn down before o'clock. a M.
1t vas expected there would be fighting
and bl9odshcd at the 9th, 18th and 9th
wards, as the night before election the
Fremouters got up torch light process.
sion. ard the Douglas men titled every
way to provoke a fight and break it up. 1t
was a dark, rainy night but it was the
larges. turn out that ever took place in
the city. Over seven thousand torches
were lit, and The procession extended
over two miles. The Douglas men sue.
cceded in getting IN a fight a, the corner
Of Dearborn and Rondolph streets, by
throwing mud and brickbats at the pro
ceesion. A great many Of the torches
were broken at this poiut over the heads
of the Buccaneers, and several Of them
wo,c badly cut by bowie knives. and one
it is said was killed.
The next morning the Fremont Club
Sent abont one hundred men iuto the 9Th
and 9TH wards. 10 protect the voters
there. with orders to send to the club
room for more help if they needed They
kept things about right until afternoon,
when two or three thousand drunken
Irishmcn undertook to take possession Of
the 9TH ward pollsand large force was
sent there from the other wards. When
a Fremont wagon came along with its
band IF music, tb9y would attack twith
brickbats aud clubs About 8 o'clock,
p, NJ they undertook to stop one Ct
these wagons, led on by big Irishmen;
but teli from six shooter broke his
arm. aid several others in the crowd
were seen to fall If they had had full
control Of this poll, they would no doubt
have beaten US, as they did in the spring
election AS it was we get in the city
1910 majority gain Of over 1000, and
in tia county $500 majority.
We supposed we had carried the State
sure. and Douglas gave it up as so. The
northern counties went to Egypt" with
about 40 600 majority. All that was
asked by the Republicans to secure the
election Of their ticket was 10000. but
by dispatches received yesterday from
the southern cnuntics,it would seem that
we arc beaten six or eight thous and
These are counties down in what here i:
fami!iarly called Egypt" that gave on
~ five votes out Of 400 for Frem ont
according to the returns made out, and
in some counties Buchanau's majority i:
as much as the whole white male popula
ton. The 9th District it is said give,
Buchanan $4,000 majority. This il
COCO more votes than that district evei
cast before According 10 the last cen
sus, there were in that same territory
over 1000 whites, who could ucthc
read nor write. They live on hog auc
hominy and poor whiskoy, and hardl,
know their right hand from their left
We knew they werc capable down Their,
of giving just AZ much majority as Doug
las and tho Democratic State Committee
asked for, but did not suppose their wo
men aud children were going to vote
but it would not DO for Douglas and tn
Democratic State Committee, to los
his own State, after he had got badl
beaten III his own city"
The above information is from iourc
that is reliable, ana it corresponds wit
intelligence received from Pennsylvaui,
Indiana and other States, respectn
fraudulent votes cast and false return
made by the dominant party tn carry tn
Presideniisl election which finds DO pa
allel in the history of this country.
it not the duty of the Republicans in e.
cry State, in which these frauds hay
been practiced, to ferret them out, an
, hold up the perpetrators of them to til
scorn Of all honest men2 Where pra
ticablc, let the State Legislatures, ar
. civil tribunals DO appealed to, to ms
tute enquiry, and prosecute offender
No intelligent and impartial man CO