Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-09-03

Highs ANA IA ldOus Of POITtfcsl Life.
On last Saturday, Judge Conrad. of one of
the Philadelphia courts. Sentenced q man. nam
ed Rqmp, to prison for two years and eight
months Tor the preparation of frauds by which
James Buchanan was elected to the Presiden-
q last Iall. Dir. Buchanan now occupies the
= Aite house at Washington, and Rump IS
domieIled in a cell at Moyamensiugl
Our readers are of course familiar with the
gross and outrageous frauds referred to. Their
ehOrmlty has never been equalled in the couB-
Try. Not even those of the famous Plaque
mine parish, Louisiana in 1874, by which Hen
~ Clay lost his election and the country the
services OF its ablest statesman 10 the Execu-
tive chair, are at all comparable with them.
They were indeed sufficiently startling and gave
evidence of the deep and utter degradation of
Locoioeoism-of the viieness of the means to
which that party would resort for the accom-
pllsbment of its objects; but even beyond the
lowest depth there has been found still low
er deep in political infamy. 1t was reserved
for the quasi Democracy of Philadelphia to
perpetratt the most enormous frauds upon the
purity of the ballOt-box that have ever dis
graced the elective franchise of the nation.
These frauds were praetieed at the State cleo
ton in October, and gave the State of Penn
sylVania to the candidates of the Democratic
party. The influence of that election is well
known. 1t was anticipated throughout the
nation with the deepest interest. Upon it
hung the national result. Had the DemOcFa-
cy then been defeated in the home of its can
didate the battle would have gone quite differ
emily in November. The Buchanan leaders
well knew the importance of the October con-
test, and they left no means untouched TO ac
complish that which was of vital importance
to their interest. On the day of the election
Philadelphia was a perfect caldrOn of seething,
boiling, noxious corruption. ROwdyism was
rampant. The voting places We're accessible
only by force. Ballot-boxes were stuffed
Democratic judges of election acted with an
eye only to partisan success. Bribery and
chicanery and all the elements of political viii
lainy were brought to bear upon the lower
classes of the population. In that manner the
vote of Philadelphia was secured and Pennsyl-
vania rendered Democratic
What followed it is needless for Us to state.
The South fOOlishly imagined Buchanan to be
their only hope, and general reaction took
place throughout this section of country, most
terribly disastrous to the cause of Fillmore
and Americanism.
This is the simple, true story. 1t needs no
establishment. The startling nakedness of
the facts is sufficient to bring home to every
true American heart a sense of depression and
to thrill his frame with shudder for the safe
ty of IA government whose destinies can thus
be so lawlessly controlled. There can be no
question of the fact but that the'present ad-
ministration owes its elevation To power to a
gigantic scheme of fraud and violence, winked
at, encouraged, and authorized, too, by men
who assume tor themselves honorable positions
! in society.
There is soma atonement to injured justice
and the outraged rights of freemen in the pun
shInent that is being melted out to the villain
] pIIs of w IR
wise adequate Rump and his confederates
might linger in prison during the remain
der of heir lives, but will that deter men
high in authority from the commission of sim
liar crimes through the agency of such miser-
able wretches2 AS long as the Democratic
party has vitality enough TO make battle, its
leaders will resort to just such agencies for the
accomplishment of their purposes. 1t is the
party of radcalisn, of turbulence, ofreyolutioD,
of individual aggrandisement, and shrinks from
the commission of no felony that success may
crown its efforts.
This Philadelphia case has a great moral,
but 1t Is too patent to the rejecting freemen
TO need elaboration. We leave it to the good
sense of our readers. They will see how for
eign scoundrels, under the authority of Demo
cratic champions, ruled the elections and
turned the scale last November, defeating true
Americanism and its candidates. Mr.. Buch-
anan in the White House and Rump in his
Moyamensing cell are widely separate in posi-
ton, but there is between the smallest aye,
au almost imperciptlble line of distinction
to the pure political mOralisk Both have
wronged the American peOple.-LOu. Jour.