Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-03-18
EATON PREBLE COUNTY, O. MARCH IS, 1858.

Hall, and were in the midst of their de-
liberations, the samo outside pressure
which had managed to control the ac-
ton of Delegate Convention, came in
upon them, like rolling avalanch, and
sought to break them up, and succeeded
SO far as to compel them to adjourn to
the Odd Fellows Hall to complete their
Ilahers. These intruders had hoped to
have dispersed those old tried friends of
the cause, by a ruthless mob, but the
next morning, they learned that tick
ct was in the field. Then went up the
cry of 'bolters.' Then originated the
title of the Brown Ticket Browns
Cellar Kitchen Ticket the John p.
Wood Brown Ticket the half dozen
Boilers Ticket and away through the
country were sent runners, bearing ly-
ing circulars, representing any number
of falsehoods in regard to that nomina-
ton. Less virulence was exhibited in
the great political campaign of 1910,
than was seen in Kansas on this occa-
sion.
Its effects were visible at the polls in
the deprecated vote given in many pla-
ces. AS we showed last week, it RE-
SORTED TO VIOLENCE. At Mound City,
the ballot box was broken to pieces by
the deluded deciples Of this policy, and
the votes were scattered broadcast upon
the ground, and trampled in the mud.
At Clinton, in this county, body of
peaceable Free State men went up to
the polls and they found others upon
the ground declaring that no uotes
should be pozled there that dog for State
officers. a general melee seemed inevi-
table. Twenty coats were stripped off,
and twenty brutal men stood ready, it
is said, to fight if the polls were opened.
The true men of the vicinity, who depre-
Gated such action. and who still desired
to exercise voice in the election, pre-
vailed upon the judges to visit Bloom
ington, and open the polls at that place,
They complied, but were followed by
the rowdies, and an eLectiom tvas preren-
ted at that point. AT Lawrence, no vi
olence was exhibited; but throughout
the day, men were seen around the
place of election, continually laboring
to prevent others from voting. Argu-
ment and ridicule, and every artifce
which a bad cause can invent, was used
to keep the people from exercising the
right of suffrage, and about 500 were
induced to withhold their tickets fer
State and Legislative officers. Run
ners. and newspapers, and lying circu
lars were sent over Doniphan county,
the object of which was not to bring
the people out in their strength to the
polls but to keep them away, and too
well they succeeded.
The object of voting was to get con-
troll of the Lecompton Constitution,
not to use the government to oppress
the people, but in case we were forced
into the Union under it, instead of leay-
ing in the hands of our enemies to use
for our enslavement, that we would use
it for its own destruction, and to sup
plant it with another.
It is now settled that we have tri-
umphed, and there is no longer doubt
in regard to the character of the law-ma
king power. There is also no doubt that
ace shall be admitted into The Union wn-
der that instrument, if such is not The case
already. Suppose the policy of these
hair Drained mad caps had prevailed! |!
Where now is the chances for our free
dom? Nothing but a sea of blood
would be before US, and who shall say
with such odds as the Federal Govern
ment against US, it would not have been
an ignominious defeat, and a death on
the scafo1d to the leaders in the move
ment.
Not by grim visaged war, but by
peaceful means, and through legal forms
We have the power to work out our lib
critics from this protracted tyranny "with
out the shedding of blood, We have
the power to roll back this flood tide
which has broken over our borders, and
robbed us of our rights, and that through
the wisdom of the 'bolters' on the 23t
December. The Brown Party born il
asCellar Kitchen of the Herald of Free
dom Office, like the, rock cut out of thu
mountain without hands, has grown il
size, until it has capacity to accomplish
, the object of its missien, and sweep int
e life long captivity the enemies of free in
i stitutions.
v The name 'Bolter,' for this party, an,
y the men composing it, is a proper one
;, 1t sounds well, and it means we'll. TIL
: good in all ages, have been boilers fror
r the vices and customs of the times
= Politically, all persons who cease to fol
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