Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1856-10-31
TAE ADJUSTMENT


When We began our exposure of
the means by which the late election
had been carried. we had no idea oil
the extent and baseness Of the frauds.
we were TO encounter. We knew
we'll for We had witnessed In many
former elections, the modes,of opera
ton by which the 'old line" party
override a hostile public will, that
gross frauds lay at the bottom Of the
large votes Of Allen. Dearborn, Frank
lin Shelby. and all the counties along
the Wabash. but we did not know
that even "old line" desperation could
dare such lengths Of iniquily as the
evidence proves they have gone. We
have presented already proof enough
to invalidale the whole election
Frauds covering more than Willard's
whole majority have been established
In Allen, Wabash. Huntington. War
rem, Parke. Tipeoanoo, Laporte.
Marshall, Fulton, Marion, Shelby,
Morgan. Hendricks. Look al the
"old line" vote In this county. swell
Ing nj once one thousand, out OF an
entire increase Of only fourteen hun
dred. II fraud does not build up
that vote. IL Is impossible TO find fraud
In elections. Look at the increase Of
eighty In the little town Of Browns.
burgh, within a week Of the election;
at a larger increase In Morristown
with few days Of the election; and
all that increase upon the Buchanan
side. Look at the increase In Allen
county In the township In which Fort
Wayne lies. The Republican vote
growing only with the natural increase
Of the place. gains one hundred. while
the Buchanan vote gains four times ms
much. Are not these facts signid-
cant? Look again at the vote OF Han
cock county, rs jissected In COM
munication in another column, where
the cold line" vote still swells with q
vast increase over all possible growth
In tho ordinary course Of improve.
ment Take the vote Of Tippecanoe
county. The Republican increase has
been about two hundred. The Buch-
aneer increase has been-look Mt II
readers one thousand and sixty-two,
five times the Republican gain. though
there. as here. hundreds Of Germans
left the pro-slavery ranks. and voted
the Republican ticket. We admit that
any "old liner" has impudence enough
to face these facts, but the whole par
ty has not ability enough to explain
them away honestly.
Here are a few more developments,
which we commend 10 the special at.
tention Of those who talk about con-
testing seats on account of illegal
votes. That Is a two handed game,
gentlemen, and you'll..see that it shall
be played out. The effect you think
to produce upon the Presidential cleo
ton by it, is all fudge. The facts are
telling who did the swindling. and
where, and putting on an air Of inju-
red innocence won't make anybody
believe you the less rascally. though Il
may improve their confidence in your
hypocrisy. But to our facts.
In Wayne township, Allen county,
men VIGOROUSLY residents OF other
counties walked up to the polls and
voted. and a band Of the lowest ruff
fans in the place, who are invariably
"old liners," kept guard. and proven
ted all interference. The Republi-
cans, numerically but half as strong
as their opponents. were powerless.-
The scenes Of the Kansas invasion
were enacted, as they will be till
the strong hand brushes out the vii
lainies that are fostered by and foster
such conduct. They are the neces-
sary concomitant Of a policy that de-
tends the extension Of slavery by arms
murder, arson and rape. They will
be repeated everywhere where safer
means cannot avail. Brownsburg
was made the scene Of similar outra-
ges, and at twenty other places we
hear of their repetition.
In De Kalb county, on the Goshen
Air Line Railroad, one hundred and
fifty Irish freshly arrived from some
quarter, nobody knew where, to work
for few days upon that road, voted
in body. They had no residence in
De Kalb, and no intention for stay
ing longerthan the contract kept them.
Like ten thousand or more Of the
same kind in the State. they had no
possible right to vote, ,and they should
have been repealed by force, if force
were necessary, as was done in some
of the Northern counties, where the
people believed that they should make
their institutions an not the Irish, who
had neither interest or residence
among them.
In Noble county, at Kendallville,
one hundred Of the Irish hands on the
same railroad voted.
In Whitley county, on the Pitts
burgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail.
road. band Of over one hundred
Irish voted at Columbia City.
In Kosciusko two hundred Irish oil
the same lawless, unsettled race, by
whom the "old line" party has won
all its battles, tried to vote. but the
people compelled them to obey the
law by force. They were driven off,
as they ought to have been. and they
should be everywhere. Irish residents
have the same right to vote as other
residents, but not such men as these
who iEfest every region where rail
road runs, during election times.
| In Allen county, on the Tiftin Rail
road, fifty Irish voted, though they
! had not been in the State two weeks
1 In Logansport, Cass county, seven
ty-five Irish came in and voted in one
squad, though they had never lived
in the place. or even been in it before
In Huntington county Indians were
permitted to vote the Buchanan ticket
and numbers of Irish voted two and
three times.
The facts as they have been fur.
7 nish ed from the best sources prove in.
disnutablv that thousands of railroad