Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-03-02
CoLuMDus, Feb. II. 1858.

to get some rich developments fiom Kan
sas. The investig ating commission ap-
pointed by the Legislature seem to be do
ing the Business up faithfully. A full CEN
sus has been taken of the famous Oxford
precinct. From this it appears there are
just thirty three voters therein, fourteen Of
whom are Free State men. Thus /. is
proved that there are not, and never have
been, more than nineteen Democratic vo-
ters in the district; and yet. at every elec-
ton held under the auspices of the min
ions of the Administration that precinct
has rollod up Democratic majority of
from 100 TO 1900 votesl The names of
these pretended voters are proved to have
been copied out Of the Cincinnati Directory
Legal proof is now given Of frauds of
similar character from Magee. Kickapoo,
and other places, where names by the hun
dred are shown to have been copied from
the Buffalo and other Directories. These
monstrous frauds have been accompanied
by the most shameless perjury. Nearly
every one of the "border rufian" Office
holders under the Administration are al
ready implicated in these frauds and PERU
ries- They have all fed from the Territory,
to,avoid arrest for their crimes. Perhaps
tha richest scene in the drama, is the fact,
that Gov. Denver has issued his requisi-
49,. an Ru,bo,on for t1a ,ooJ;,;o,, &c Lie
pet, Calhoun, who has fed to him for pro-
lection. and is now in the District of Co.
lumbia. OF course, Buchanan will not
surrender his protege, but it is equally a
matter of course that Kansas will lose an
other Governor. 1t is not to be supposed
that che President will permit Calhoun to
be punished for merely carrying out the
orders of the Administration, by adding
the necessary perjury to consummate the
premeditated villainy he was appointed and
expected TO Sperpetrate. On this subject,
the Statesman" of this day has this
item
IAN ILLneAL BoDY-We have heard
a great deal lately, about the Lecompton
Convention having been legal body
1t now appears that its late President, and
and it's chosen executor is an illegal body;
and, as such, Governor Denver of Kansas
has made q requisition upon James Buch-
anau, as Chief Magistrate of the District
of Colunibia, to deliver up the said body,
that is the body of the said John Calhoun,
as fugitive from justice and refugee
within the District aforesaid. We hope
that the law will be complied with, and the
criminal in question delivered up, TO stand
his trial for the offense he is charged with
having committed"
But is not the confidence" of the
Statesman" sublime, when it expresses
the 'fhope" that Buchanan will comply
with the Jaw? The Statesman" knows
that the Criminal" as he calls Calhoun,
is but the chosen instrument in the hands
Of that same James Buchanan, whom the
Statesman" hopes will deliver him up to
Justice, to receive the punishment due to
the crimes he has committed, when those
very crimes have been the sympathetic
cords that have bound him to the Admin
istration in bonds that have survived the
wreck Of all honester men who have ever
been in position in the Territory.
We will soon have another "freedom-
shrieker" in the "Cleveland Plaindealer. -
1t is wholly impossible that Gray, the edi-
tor. can sympathise in the outrages Of the
Administration. But he holds the impor-
tant office Of Postmaster in Cleveland.
He is placed in this predicament--the peo-
pie being utterly opposed to the wrongs
and outrages sanctioned and upheld by
Buchanan, will not support his paper if he
supports the Administration, and if he does
not, he must lose the Postofdce, of course
Gray has evidently come to the conclusion,
that in the long run it will not pay to op-
pose the popular will, and so he has given
an indication of feeling, as the following
from his last paper will show:
1.-THE Legislative Investigating Com
mittee IN Kansas, having traced the Della
ware Crossing frauds close to Calhoun,
President of the Lecompton Convention,
Gov. Denver has sent Requisition for
him to Mr.. Buchanan, rs Chief Magis-
trate of the District of Columbia, wherein
Mr.. Calhoun is supposed to be. The fact
that said returns as forged, with many
others, were found by Sheriff and a
search warrant, hid in candle-box under
wood-pile, in Calhoun's ofice-yard at
Iecomnton affords Dresumntiye evidence
of Oaihoun's guilt. His chief clerk,
Mclean. had sworn that said returns had
been sent to Calhoun, ct Westport, NO,
by Calhoun's direction. Mclean has fed
and there is a requisition after him. What
next?f
There. that will finish poor Gray! lie
will lose his Office, Of course. Aud then
iis;er for ''khIi.ks." In ,Wo weeks ft0m