The American. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1857, 1857-11-21
From the New Orleans Daily Crescent
Terrible DOings in Plaquemines.

Terrible DOlngs In Plaquemines.
We extract the following from the Pointe-a-
la Hache parish Of Plaquemines) National, Of
the 7th inst:
Collection FRAuDs-IRIsHMENV oTING THREE
TINES AT THREE DIFFERENT PoLLs.-By the re-
turns made, it appears that the majority of the
votes polled in this parish was in favor of the
Know Nothing candidates, but no dependence
can be placed in shese fallacious statements
because they do not contain the trne express
sion of the peoples will
"If the gang of Irishmen taken Sunday
night on board of the wharf-boat Pascagoula,
from Doyeps plantation, had not been allowed
to vote, God knows how many times, we would
have carried the day by large majority.
"Not being in the lower part of the parish
on the day of election, we can only relate what
has been related TO us. We are informed that
the steamer Pascagoula left New Orleans on
Sunday afternoon. with a certain number of
persons on board-that the boat took from
Doyals plantation great number of Irish la
borers and brought them down to vote in the
precinct below. These informations we hold
from one of the persons on beard the Pasca-
goula. ...
"The general rumor is that the Irish gang
voted first at Allen Ellston's, at Johnson's, and
then at Ayers.
"Ifthis dastardly violation of the ballot-box
is true, we hope that the perpetrators of this
infamous act will be made to suffer-"
With our cotemporary Of the National, we
earnestly hope that all violators of the purity
of the elective franchise may be brought to
condign punishment. The sanctity of the bal
lot-box must be preserved, or else, instead of
being a blessing, it will become an evil of the
first magnitude. And in no parish that we
know of is there so great necessity for main
tanning it in strictest integrity, as there is in
the parish of Plaquemines.
But, assuming the statements of our cotem-
poraries to be well founded-he only speaks
from report-would he have complained If this
gang of Irishmen" had voted the Democratic
ticket once, twice, thrice, particularly in PA
oUEMINEs, when the fraud enured to the benefit
Of his party? We never did, and we have
been tolerably close observer of political
events for the last fifteen years.
The fact is, Irishmen, or adopted citizens,
become gangs" of bad individuals when they
presume to vote any ticket opposed to the par
tialities or interests of those leaders who have
constituted themselves, par excellence, their
friends for--the purpose of making tools and
instruments Of theml That is the plain Eng
lish Of the matter.
PLAoUEMINEsl We have some faint recol.
lection Of having heard of such a place before,
something about "PLAQUEMINE FRAUDS"
and one JOHN SLIDELL.
A new Democratic movement in Kansas is
on foot. It is proposed to form real Demo
cratic constitution, and send it on to Washing
ton and let n Democratic Congress fight out
the difficulties Of Kansas. This constitution
has a pretty fair Know Nothing clause in it,
which reads as follows
"A foreigner to be in the country twenty
years before he can hold office, and five years
before he can vote"
That will do for a beginning, gentlemen
Work along by degrees" wait for the wagon
and wen all take ride, and Sam shall drive
Hurah for old Kaintuck and the rest of-the
Americans. Throw on the harness, Grafton,
the cause is worthy of your steel.
Many of our exchanges are very properly
but not too severely condemning the dangerous
practice of wearing concealed deadly weapons
The press and pulpit of the country, and par
ticularly the press and pulpit Of Memphis, Bal
timore, New York and New Orleans cannot
too zealousy urge reform in this respect
Daily Gazette, Nashoille
The Rockingham Register Organ of the
Tenth Legion--which has espoused the cause
Of Hunter as against Wise, winds up an arti-
Gle on the latter with the following predic-
ton.
"The chief of the State will return quietly
10 the land Of Accomac, where he can console
himself with the shell fish, and reflect seriously
upon the vanities Of life and the ingratitude Of
the tribes OF men"
Now, this is what we call ungrateful treat
mcnt. After Wise has beat down the Know
saved the State, saved the Union,
and been celebrated in the songs of praise Of
III the Democracy of the country, to be snubb-
I'd as cavalierly as this by the Tenth Legion, is
loo bad And the irreverence Of talking about |
consoling himself with shell fish Is our Gov. |
ernor SO much deprecated in Democratic es- |
teem rs to be the butt even Of Suabian ridi- |
,ule ?--Lunchbayo Vir0inian