Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-08-07

an secured by the result OF the State cleo
ton in Pennsylvania on the second Tues
day in October last. That result was pro-
duced by money contributed in this city
and expended in Pennsylvania just before
that election. Had the vote been taken
two weeks earlier, Buchanan would have
lost the State by from five to ten thousand
majority. His leading supporters knew it
was against them when they came here
and pressed our pro-slavery bankers, bro
kers, and ofice-holders into giving them
the requisite money wherewith to reverse
the popular verdict. And they know now
that Mr. Buchanan was made President
by that levy.
At that.election, Philadelphia was made
to give Buchanan majority Of 3,435, the
vote for Canal Commissioner standing,
Scott Ouch 36,O3S; Cochrano Union
Opp 32,603. And this Buchanan ma
jority in the city was more than the ticket
obtained in the State, the total vote stan
ding-Scott, 212, 1856; Cochrane, 21O,1l1;
SCOTS majority 2,775 Thus outside of
Philadelphia, in spite of the universally
of the frauds whereof that city was the
focus, Cochrane had clear majority of
GO votes.
The frauds in Philadelphia were so gross
that William B. Mann, the Opposition can
didate for District Attorney, who was beat
en- in the vote polled by Lewis c. Cassidy,
the Buchanan candidate, resolved to con-
test the return before the higher courts of
that city. The case has at length been
brought to issue, and on Saturday Judge
Thompson delivered the unanimous opin.
ion of the court, ousting Mr.. Cassidy and
affirming the election of Mr.. Mann.
The investigation on which the decision
was based was extended to but eight of
the hundred or more polls held through
out the city, these suffcing to prove Mr..
Mann's election, but the defense were at
perfect liberty to extend the scrutiny to
any or all other polls. These polls re-
turned 1920 for Cassidy to sos for Mann,
while the whole number Of taxables (sy-
anonymous with legal yoters) in the dis
tricts in which these polls were held was
but III, or 9O3 less than Cassidy's vote
alonel Of the illegal vote, it was proved
on the trial that at least, ,I68 must have
been cast for Cassidy, reducing his return
ed vote from 81 ,475 to 81, 1907, and electing
Mr.. Mann by 51S majority. This being
practically as good as ten thousand, Mr..
Mann had no motive for increasing the
expense of the contest by going further,
or he might doubtless have proved thou
sands more of his opponents votes as bad
as these 1,1,6S.--N Y. Tribune.
These are startling facts. They serve
to give some faint idea of the terrible ex-
tent to which fraud was carried in the
Pennsylvania State elections Of October,
1856. The amount of money contributed
ia New York city for the purpose was i'm
mense, A Democrat of great wealth in
that city informed US several months ago
how the thing was done. He said that,
two OF three weeks before the October
election in Pennsylvania, Mr.. Forncy dis
patched messengers or messenger to the
wealthy New York Democrats, stating that
Pennsylvania could be carried by money
in the pending State election, that the re-
suit of the Presidential election through
out the country depended upon its being
carried; that large sum, the exact amount
of which we 10 not remember, would be
necessary for the purpose; that, without
the money, all was lost; and that, to be of
: any avail, it must be in Forney's hands by
specified day And our informant told
) US, that, before sunset of the day onwhich
the messenger arrived in New York, thir-
three thousand dollars, contributed by
himself and others, was on its way to For
ney. How much was contributed after
wards, he did not know, but the presump-
ton is that the amount from n. Y. city
alone was not less than one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars.
: Forney was correct in his declaration
f that Pennsylvania could not be saved by
: the Democrats in the State election Of Oc'
o tober, 1856, without very heavy sum o.
= money from New York, and he was equal
d ly correct in declaring, that if Pennsylva
G MIA should be lost in October, Mr.. Buch
anan would be defeated throughout thu
g nation in November. But for the perpe
g tration of the most terrible frauds and thu
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