The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1858-02-19

VOL. ID: NO. 36.
800 I. 49,.
in the County Recorders office in
Leavenworth, IL was discovered that
James Buchanan, President of the
United States, cast the two hundred
and seventieth yote.vi sily aa3 icaAl
Mr.. Seward.--What day was thisl
Mr.. Wilson.--On the 21st day Of
December. r.cltpoYa! ,si fliT "a.
Mr.. Grcen.--For or against slav;
ery2 .f ,' aogaoegc % stui
Mr.. Wilson. --"For the Consritu.
tion with slavery" OF course. The
Senator need give himself no ankle.
ty about what vote James Buchanan
would give in Kansas or out ofit.-I
] wish the President would 20 to Kan
sas. He has sent out his GovernorsI
there; and they went as men sent ont
lofold TO curse the people, aud they
came back blessing the peoplea IL
the President was there q few weeks
he wonld become wiser and better
man. Instead Of denouncing these
people as rebels, think he would
come back and say that he found a.
people loving liberty, law, and order,
who had been oppressed by class oil
corrupt and unprincipled officials.
"Next on the list Of distinguished
names appears as the two hundred
and seventy sixth voter, William ii
Seward OF New York." (Laugh.
ter
They do not say William II. Sc.
ward voted on that day. but we all
know how William II. Seward would
have voted had he been there.
"323d. Thomas IL. Marshall. Of
Kentucky. 714th. George W.Brown,
editor Herald OF Freedom. Then,
/, s59th, John @. Fremont" Laugh.
. ter.) ..-.. .' De-. .. .'. Vi.
Mr.. Green n.-How did he vote7
Mr.. Wilson,--It does not tell how
any Of them voted except Buchanan.
"Then comes the eight hundred
and seventy. sixth voter, J. W. Den.
yer. Governor of Kansas, who bad
only taken his place tho day before,
and was then in I.ecompton, fifty
miles distant. Thos. II. Benton ap.
pears as the nine hundred and tif.
teenth voter. And now it was dark,
the polls being kept open until halt
past six o'clock, when, alas! for frail
humanity, for the compunctious visi.
ting of conscience, in slips Horace
Greeley, Qaughter,) and etealthily
deposits his ballot as the nine hun
dred and eightieth voter. 1t is now
half.past six o'clock. and the curtain
rises on the last act Of the drama,
and in stops, in all his majestic pro-
portions, Elwin Forrest, as the enc
: thousand and twenty sixth voter.-
This is Mr. Forests drst appearance
on Kansas stage"
a t:ood tine.
A "Grcen Mountain Boy" (so
) called because the mountains, no,
tho boys.arc green, tells the follow
ing spicy anccdote, which we do no
!, remember to have seen in print
Roswell p, a Vermont law
: yer of distinguished ability, is nov
7 residing in St. Louis and in the frs
= rank Of the bar of Missouri, ha,
! brought a suit in Court which wa
: really so plain case for the plain
. tiff, that, having submitted the pa
= pers, and other proofs to tho court, b.
: felt that his clients interest reall,
: required no more, and he according
: " sat down without making the Gus
= tomary opening address to tho jury
But the defendants counsel NOR,
ambitious Of of rctorical display, ant
. probably conscious that the deienc
i required the best abilities, rose an
= :, made a long haranguo characterize
: by an immense flood Of pompou
:, :. words, as was his custom, bnt desti
: tute of even an attempt at logic o
y reasoning of any kind. When h
;. had done, the plaintiffs counsel, win
;. ;. was expected TO make and elaborat
! speech in reply, rose and merel,
= saidSNay it please the court AM
- gentlemen Of the jury-in this case
>, shall follow the example ofthe coun
= sci for the defence, and submit tn
;, case withom argument. - I osto,
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