M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1856-09-25

nome IOllPu. fteTe, MS fortunes apu lndL U
his House, he found in desperate condition
owing to the exposures OF the Bulletin
Orders we're Immediately issued by him tC
Fremont and Wright, to turn Black Republi.
, cans, and by bribery. and every available
! means, accomplish the election of Black
Republican Speaker. The money of Palmer
Cook & Co., elected Banks, Speaker. Now
Tor She reward. Banks so appointed the
Committees as to secure the reporting OF Q
Bill to confirm the Bolton and Barron claim
without going through the ordeal of the u
States Courts. They found a convenient
tool in in Phil. Herbert to offer this bill
and 70 lobby it through the House, as he
would, certainly have done with the aid oI
Wright and his partners in the claim, not
withstanding the opposition OF Gen. Denver
but for Herbert's having killed the Irish wait
er. But to return to Wright and Fremont.
Their success in electing Banks embold-
ened them and they struck for higher game
no less than Fremont's nomination by the
Black Republicans, for President. With
such nomination, the confirmation Of the
Bolton aud Barron claim by Congress, and
the Mariposa claim by the Supreme Court,
Fremont,it was supposed, could borrow upon
these claims any amount OF money among
his fanatical negro worshipping associates,
and Palmer, Cook & Co., would in reality be
the Rothschilds of America. The plan was
well laid, and now for its execution. At
this juncture, ,Seover appeared upon the stage
the very man 20 carry through this villain
Gus scheme. Into this he entered with
wild enthusiasm, having oceans of gold
| floating before his vision, if successful. But
TO get the nomination, money was first
necessary, and money was. obtained and
spent lavishly, poured out like water. In
this way large portion Of the money Of The
State, designed 10 pay interest on the Bonds
went. The Placer Herald says, Selover ex-
pended $40 900. How much Wright spent
is not known. Success attended their efforts
Fremont was nomina ted by the liberal and
scoundTelly use Of the money Of the people
of CaliGornia--placed in the hands Of Pal
mer Cook & Co., to pay the interest on our
State and other Bonds.
Diplomacy and negotiation were now requi.
site to the consummation OF thei. complica.
ted and sinister schemes. But Ten days re-.
mained from the time of Fremont's nOmina-
tion, until the interest had to be paid plenty
Of time, so the conspirators thought, in
which TO attain their ends. But like Biddle's
speculation in cotton, with the funds OF the
United States Bank, they tripped up in play
ing their last card Fremont could borrow
no money on the Marposa claim. Herbert's
difficulty had blocked the game on the Bolton
and Barron claim, and the first Of July found
Palmer, Cook & Co.'s agent without dol
lar OF the 100000 placed in the vaults Of
that House, TO pay the interest on the State
and City Bonds. San Francisco and Cali
fornia are discredited before the world, and
their creditors are swindled out Of their
money but what Of that? Fremont is
nominated; IL elected, Palmer will be Sc
cretary OF the Treasury, Wright Sub-Treasurer
Seloyer Collector Of the Port, and that will
be honor and glory enough 10 the State, to
re-instate its former credit and wipe out The
stain upon her escutcheon now so disgrace.
fully impressed thereon, by these political
schemes and financial Transactions.
Peace in Kansas----GOVernOr
Geary at LeaVenWOrth City.
On the arrival OF Gov, Geary at Leaven-
worth City, he was met at the boat by a
large number Of citizens and enthusiastical
received. Gov. Geary addressed the people
and said, according to the report in the Leav.
enworth Herald.
tIe came to Kansas with the olive branch
in his right hand, ard determined to restore
peace and order in our Territory. Why we
could not enjoy the same tranquility as Ne
braska, which has the same organic law as
Kansas, he could not see.. He came to Kan
sas fully empowered by the President TO quel
the disturbances in the Territory, and could
il need be, summon hundred thousand men
to his aid. He wanted to see peace and
quietude reign in our Territory, and should
use his every effort to the attainment Of that
end. He should see that our laws were faith
fully executed, and believed that obedience
to them alone would insure individual safety
and public order. II that obedience was not
voluntarily rendered, he should compel it,
II was better that it should be secured by
force Of arms than not secured at all.
To say that our laws are not what they
ought TO be, said Gov Geary,is nothing 10 the
purpose. 1t was not for him to inquire
whether they are just Or unjust. /! was his
duty to see that they were executed, SO long
as they remained unppealed, and he should
do it at every risk and every peril. If our
laws are unjust it is the duty of the people,
and not his, 10 remedy them. The remedy
is-not insurection or revolution, but the
ballot box. II they are unconstitutional the
people have the privilege ofappeaing to the
United States Supreme Court, where their
constitutionality can be tested and decided
upon. This thing Of ofConstituting oneselfthe
arbiter Of the legality Of law was wrong
and pemicious, and tended to make the best
oino effect, and the most carefully construc.
ted safeguards of the we'll being of society
futile and inefficient.
If this privilege of holding at defiance
and in contempta law, because it does not
precisely square with an individual estimate
Of right, be allowed one man, upon The same
principle some other law, which another may
deem of vital importance to the public well
fare, may be trampled under foot with i'm.
punity. Such principle places every safe.
guard OF society at the mercy OF its enemies,
and is hut the practical annihjlation of law.
He believed that our only safety rested in
the rigid execution of our laws and would
pledge to see them strictly enforced. The
execu tion Of them, he believed, would set
everything right in our Territory at no distant
day whereas resistance and violation OF
them could only dishonor our Territory
and magnify our evils.
From the st, Louis REDublican. the moet