Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1858-11-20
The Democratic BallOt.Box Stuhng
in Fillmore County.

The Democratic BallOt-Box Stumng
In Fillmore County.
The following letter from respectable
source will serve as an answer to the card of
Messrs. j. R. BENNEr, Register and Colonel
j. H. M'KENNY, Receiver of the Chatfeld
Land Office published in the Pioneer last
week, under date of the Sd inst:
"CHArFIELD, Nov. 4, 1858.
"Dear Sir Il saw in the MINNEsOTIAN of
October 30th, communications relating to the
Chatfeld frauds in Fillmore county and also
the editorial comments thereon.
The whole thing is too deplorably true
corruptons run rampant here under the con-
troll of set of land pirates and unprinci-
pied men, men whose only desire is to rule at
all hazards, whether by frauds, illegalities,
thefts or otherwise, just so they can rule and
subserve the purposes of slacery, whose twin
sister is uice, and following in their train igno-
rance, deceit, tyranny. The true patriot must
deplore the downward fate of this country,
when he sees "alien hordes led on by dema-
gogues" to corrupt the ballot box by voting
"early and often," till his heart sickens at
| their presence-he is led to exclaim, 81 the
| blood of our fathers was shed in vain "! What
| allude to is the fact that in this country
alien hordes have been led into Chatield,
thence to Preston, the county seat, in both of
which places they voted, of course contrary
to law and decency.
at is well known here that the Chatield
thieves, pirates or robbers, as the case may be,
did last fall register the names of an alien
horde on the Register of one Of our hotels
that they might prove themselves actual resi-
| dents of the county, should their infamy be
| brought to light; that these voted the " dim
| ecrat ticket" taoice in this county after voting
once in Olmsted The great aoarricr of the
| Land Office furnished the team to convey the
emigratng" dimecrats from Chatfeld to
Preston to corrupt the sanctity of the boon
vr n vcuUl,,, L..n- To nncurn h;c
| IeaIIou.,,' .n~--, l. Al--- +L~no+nrnd him
Sir, if you say word about this, you shall
lose your wages" The teamster was poor
man, and dared not at the time say word for
fear of losing his wages; he kept the secret
well i; but now after rendering good service,
his employer says, " the laborer is not aoOr-
thy of his hire" and Judge Wilson is to pro-
nounce worthy" or "not worthy" during
his term of court here
The gentleman who commanded the dis
tribution of these emigrating dimecrats at the
time above spoken of, is limb of the law in
| Chatfield, and notorious LecomptOn pro-
| slaveryite, whose name as well as that Of the
warrior of the Land Office, and the names of
many other rascals and infamous villains in
and about that office, shall appear at the pro-
per time. The success of the Legislators of
this county in the last Legislature, was thus
conceived in fraud and in iiniquity-not con-
| tent with usurping seats for them, then the
same faction has just tried the more abomi-
nable plan this fall to carry their most nefari-
Gus designs, by STEALING from the ballot-box
the votes of freemen, left in their charge du-
| ring the recess at noon. How must the hon.
| orable Judges of that board feel within them
selves? We know, all know that the robbing
of the ballot-box, was done by them or with
their consent, even though it might have been
given tactly and indirectly.
Your readers are aware that the Chat
field returns were rejected on account of
frauds, and the certificates given to the actu-
ally elected officers, the Republicans, who re-
ceived an actual majority of the legal votes
cast at the election in the county of from 80
to 40 but on account of the fraud at Chatfield,
were defeated, except one, Mr.. N. P. Colburn,
whose majority was two over one of his Dem
ocratic competitors for representative, conse-
quently his election cannot be contested.
The bullies, the bludgeonites, the whiskey
gugglers of that house of damning fame, the
notorious Chatfield Land Office, threaten the
Republicans with "whippings," "prosecu-
tons" " shooting" and every other torture
they are able to invent, t,-stIl we walk the
streets without fear We have heard the gas
Of their corrupted brains, till we pass it by
unheeded and with contempt, They have
contested the elections of Sheriff, Auditor and
Surveyor. They claim in their complaint to
have received the Majority of the "legal"
votes! Who has heard for the last two years
of Democrats being elected by LEGAL votes?
Such thing is an absurdity.
"Our District Court will commence its
labors on Monday the 9Th of November The
most interesting time that the people of our
county have known for a long time, they will
witness during this Court. The whole Re-
publican force of Chatfeld township will be
present as witnesses in the cause of justice
against fraud perpetrated upon the sanctity
of the ballot-box, of which they as freemen
are the sufferers. We will show the Land
Office faction up to the world as untrustwor-
thy Jfends in human shape, void of conscience,
MANHOOD, HONESTY Robbers of the bal
lot-box. Designing knaves.
IF Justice be done in our Court. which no