The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-02-04
THE GREAT FRAUD.

A Geographic dispatch from st. Louis, Feb.
LIST, says:
"Messrs. Calhoun, Cato, Carr, Henderson,
and several others, arrived here yesterday, on
their way to Washington. They say that the
Democratic State ticket has been elected. The
Democrats have one majority on joint ballot"
Democratic State ticket The vile humbug
Everybody knows that it is the Pro-Slavery,
Slave State, Lecompton Swindle ticket.
The Commission appointed by the Legisla-
ture to examine the poll-books returned by the
judges of the election from the Kickapoo and
other precincts, were sitting in Leavenworth ON
on the 22d January. The evidences of mon.
strous frauds were overwhelming what
cares our respectable President, or his church.
frequenting associates, for this ? 1t is dirty
business to avail ones self of Fraud which
writes down $50 instead of IS, returns thou.
sand votes where there are not more than one
or two hundred voters, receives the votes of
boys, invites double.voting, and by dirks and
clubs prevents the honest citizen from challeng.
ing the spurious voter. 1t is mean, dirty
business. Church-going cannot sanctify it
white-neckcloth respectability cannot make tide
-high-sounding professions of Democracy
and Christianity cannot make it anything but
what it is-a dirty business.
The Leavenworth (Kansas) Daily Ledger
of January 22d says:
!" The commissioners appointed by the Leg.
islature to examine the pollbooks returned by
the judges of the election from the Kickapoo
and other precincts in this county are in ses.
sion in this city. The board is composed of
gentlemen well known for their Intelligence
and strict moral worth, and, although identified
with one or the other of the political parties,
yet they are such men as will not violate the
oath which they have taken for the temporary
or permanent success of the party to which
they belong. They will be governed by the
testimony given before them under oath, (which
we publish from day to day. and from that
testimony they will make their report.
The first witness called was Dr. Morris. a
gentleman well known here, and whose veraci.
ty cannot be questioned. He testified to what
he saw. His testimony is corroborated by j.
Q. Vaughan, Esq, j. NJ. Dickson, ESQ.,, Adam
Fisher, Esq, and number of others. ALI of
the gentlemen we have named are we'll known
here, and are largely interested here, and are
gentlemen at whom the finger of reproach has
never been pointed. They give their testimony
under the sanctity and solemnity of an oath.
and 1t must be believed. There is no lodging
It. There aoere gross frauds committed at the
Kickapoo precinct on both election days; boys
ooting; the same men ooting t,0ice, thrice, and
lacting county recorder) personatino M;cheei
Stokes, Esq, and Mr.. Franklin, one of the
judges, land a clerk in the recorders ofice.I
boon companion of Calvert's, calling ont to
the clerks, as he received his vote, michael
osokes and Mr.: Calvert, glorying in the name
OF Michael Stokes replies, Yes, Michael
stokes; Ihis came gentleman, Mr.. James Mad.
son Caivert Michael Stokes, was Judge of the
election last October at the KickaDoo nrec;nc,
and informed US, few days after the election
when the cry of fraud was raised. that If any,
fraud was committed at that precinct he d;dnf
know it.
I" But the richest thing is the poll.books.
There we find recorded the names of William
d. Seward, Thomas II. Benton, Edwin Forrest.
Horace Greeley, James Buchanan, John q
Fremont Willard Fillmore, Stephen A. Dong.
las, and quite number of distinguished pen.
tlemen, who are recorded as uoting there on
the 2lst day of December last, swelling the list
OF voters to the number of one thousand and
seventeen, when in reality there is not over
Jour hundred legal cotes IN the precinct!
We are glad that this com mission has been
SASe"0cN w oAoAAlho iutO Tue IraQC6 that have
been perpetrated. 1t will throw the respons;.
bility on the proper parties. There will be no 90
betweens; the real guilty ones will be brought
to the bar OF justice, Or to escape this, will fee
the country. We hear of great anxiety ex. |
pressed by parties who are near by, in a neigh. |
boring State: There are more persons lutter. |
ing than Calhoun. This commission is a res. |
director of the buried and they will 90 deep. |
and bring it all to the surface"
But, nothing will change the mind of our |
very respectable, high-minded President. We
advise the People of Kansas to prepare to take
care of themselves: they must not rely upon
Congress. And We advise the People of the |
Free States, who have yet lingering regard for
fair dealing and decency, to be ready to give |
final quietus to that low Democracy which shall |
lend itself to the purposes of the President and
his Master the Slave Power.