The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-08
Political Ite,,as.


The following from the indianapolis Jour
nal, shows how the BUCCANEERS managed th'
game :" In st. Joseph, the actual voting po
puIation Of the country as ascertained BY
the Assessor has increased from 1854 tc
1856 just three hundred and seventy-fye
but the uote at the election showed an in
crease of mine hundred, a palpable evidences
of open fraud. Colfax's vote is 33l larger
than it was. in 1854, a gain of fully one
fourth, but the Old Line vote is increased
555, hundreds voting that ticket whom nc
one of the Oldest citizens there ever before
saw. ',f ...-. ....t;. .. .;f., -. ..s.,
In the 9th election district of the 10th
ward, Philadelphia, the Buchanan ticket re-
ceived twice as many votes as there are vot-
ers in the District! IJ H Jeae..5 9raH
The Richmond Enquirer, the great Bu-
chanan organ at the South, ranks the Ger
mans with the negro slaves. 1t says: 6 They
(the negroes) are much more capable of in
telligently exercising the rights of suffrage
than the ignorant Dutchmen at the North,
whose votes can be bought for dollar or a
fill of beer" The BUCCANEERS boast that
their doctrines are the same in Illinois, Vir-
ginia and South Carolina. ..-.
They ran a clear Fillmore American ticket
in Allegheny county, Pa, at the late cleo
ton, with the following result:
SENAroR-Gazzom, Opp, 1l,ls4; Hep
burn, Buch, 1888; Way, American, 776.
The recent election frauds in this city,
says the Lafayette, Ind, Journal, have SO
aroused the indignation of our citizens that
it is seriously proposed to organize Vigi-
lance Committee, for the purpose of ridding
the community of a number of individuals
who are known to be deeply implicated.
Hon. William Appleton, who was nomi-
mated for Congress by the Fillmore Know
Nothings in the Fifth District of Massachu-
setts, and afterwards taken up and indorsed
by the Democrats, has declined the nomina-
ton. He could not stand an Endorsement
by the 'nigser-driving, Jacobin Democracy.
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Ex-senator Baldwin, of Connecticut, in a
letter dated the Goth, has come out for Free
dom and Fremont. 'd F.. 7 +~fs' ''1
Daniel W. Farrar, Elector on the Fill
more ticket in New Hampshire, says he
has concluded to vote for Fremont He was
formerly Webster Wing.
Senator Clayton, the veteran Of the Sc
nate, we observe, is seriously and it is
feared fatally i'll, at Dover, Del. He has had
long and useful life. ttf
The Republicans of Maryland have COM
pleted their electoral ticket. The electors at
large are Francis P. Blair, and William p
Ewing. s,.J f..,.e.. r.,~,.-.f b..
The Buchanan and Fillmore parties have
& fused" on Congressman in the Springfield
District, Mass, but correspondent of the
Commercial is satisfied the Republicans will
beat the coalition by five thousand majority.
The Richmond Wing states that the Ere
mont electoral ticket in Virginia is compos-
ed entirely of prominent and hitherto influ-
entail Democrats.
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The venerable Horace Binney, of Phila-
delphia, has declared his determination to
vote for Fremont. -.-rH ef-- rg .
The Hon. VIM. L. Dayton, our next Vice
President, made an eloquent address at
Newark, N. j., on Friday last, at the cele-
bration of the ninth anniyersarv Of the
founding of the Newark Orphan Asylum.
Willard, the Democratic Governor-elect of
Indiana. in speech at Indianapolis the
other nigh acknowledged his Indebtedness
to the Nothings for his election. g