Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-10-12
Co.., M. pttt,buIrh Ga.lt.e.l


pexxsyLvASrA POLtTics -An GLtegctt Fec
tionesriag Trick.-ORe of the yiest eiectlonGet-
ing tricks ever practiSed in this or any otheT
connty came to our knowledge yesterday, and
ouT eypose of it will doubtless stir up the blood
Of our Republican readers to fever heat
II seems that there has been some backward
mass in the payment of Licenses assessed by
Inc St.tc on stsTckeepers throughout the conn
IT,: aud the Treasurer, Thomas Biackm9"e, Esq
nut the collection of thell into the hands oil
James G. Cum,nins, ESQ, an Alderman III the
Sixth Ward SummonSes were issued upon INC
suits. and the day of hearing was hSea Ior
sSs" ruRsEAY SE1T, 0GToB2.: Is, the pAI %
ELECTloxl ,.6Ea A largo portion ofthese store.
kecpcrs consist of Republicans, and the plan
undoubtedly was to bring in these men, to the
amount Of 300 and more, with their witnesses,
from the most distant parts OF the county, De
tain them here all day, and SO prevent them isotn
voting.
Twas deliberate plan to cheat from 800 to
500 Republicans out of their votes by drawing
them away from home on election day through
! fear If having Judgment giTen against them by
def.GlL The ingenuity that devised this can
be little short Of hellish. Talk nhout oppression
in the collection OF taXcsi 1t is oppressive
enough to be sued at home for tax due the
State; but to be hailed away from homo n dis
lance in many instances of % miles, on such
an GRAND. and that too on election day, with the
out Of their votes, i'll the hope of thus stealing
a democratic victory, is an act oppression never
attempted anywhere out of Kansas, and denOn-
stratcs that tho Court House managers have
been apt scholars in the school Of Border Kui-
lianism. sse
BROTHERS IN BLOOD, not ALWAYS BROTHERS IN
PoLiTIcsI
Mr.. Vein Forney, brother to Col. j. VISOR
pev the p,reat Right Bower of Mr.. Buchanan in
Pennsylvania, has come out in remarkable
letter, from which we extract the following:
"T oppose the present leaders of Democracy
Jeertise consular them dangerous H'el tohenerer
yktcsd in positions Of trust and while l have
nothing as hard to utter against the private
character of William +. Packer, as las been
DIaced on record by his '.Hedr dHd dear reid
ti0ns, " would consider his election as the IN:
nuguration of q band NJ men TitT ac0TSe than
t1oxe ashoI,ilItyeit the State whenthc misguided
Ritner placed himself in the hands of Chandler
and Burrows. Indeed, it could not be otherwise,
because both Chandler and Burrows, the leading
spirits of Ritner, are now the Lancaster and
Philadelphia supporters of Packer. There is
more truth in this than your readers Will at llrst
be willing to admit, but il it be not true, there
is time for its contradiction before the election.
in the history of all tue public men of Penn
svlvania, no finer contrast can be exhibited than
TINT presented between David Wilmot and YIN.
f. Packer. The former L knew personally if
the cf5pi6RP 81 R8a 4Hd f tran @a%ns s
most bitter opposition-as the political orator
who wasnever dcfeatcd=-ns a man who presents
an unblemished rccord-and ms a man who
would scorn to insult a foe or desert friend
The contrast is present in Packers own record,
and in the fact that he never held position di-
rectly from the people or by appointment Gpon
The expiration Of aodicl time ii dill not require
a c5Mmittse to i8q&Ic into his dcrelicti0a IF
duty a1biic iM cDfcG.
"por these reasons, and they arO only moiety
Of what could he addnced, am opposed to
Packer and the present Democratic party"