Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-04-11
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The Baltimore SHs notices public dOoumsntcOn-
tanning the papers in the contested election case Of
tire Third Congressional District, Of Maryland, Wm.
PBKEET WHTTE contestant against J. MoRRIsoS
HAIRS, oOntestee. The matter, says the Sus, is
presented st length, occupying q volume Of three
hundred andtFenty large octave pages. It comprises
the letter Of Mr. WHYTE announcing his intention to
contest the election, the reply Of Mr. HARRIs, and
other preliminary papers. Then follows the testi-
mony which includes the statements and particular
examination Of one hundred and forty flour witness.
es, conducted before Justice HUGH J. MORRISON.
DANIEL E. MYERS and JOIN MCA1IsrzR. The ex.
aminstiOn seems to have been conducted invariably
by M. WHITE in person, and on the part Of Mr..
HARRIS by Mr.. B. J. GrTruGs, his counsel.
We have looked through considerable portion
Of the testimony, with view Of making some sslec-
lions for publication, but we might take page at
random, anywhere, and it would afford revolving e1
hibit Of the nature Of the whole. The volume is,
in fact record Of the most shameless and sudscious
violations OflAW, public order, the rights Of suffrage
and the dsCencies Of society, that any official docu.
ment presents in the United States. It betrsys q
systematic and persistent fraud at the several polls
thus laid bare to public inspection and if we are to
infer, from the manner in which the system was
carried out in practice in the lower wards the
sort Of thing in the upper we confess that the
aggregate majority Of the sitting members for Bal
imOre is really the best evidence extsnr or ths ex-
IRENE moderation Of the American party st the
Congressional election. For instead Of 1000 for
Mr.. DAVIS, and 8 200 for Mr. HARRIS, it would only
have been at the cost Of little more effort to have
doubled the majority in each case.
The evidence establishes beyond controversy the
exclusion at will Of nsturalized citizens from the
POLLS the determination to do this the atrOcious
manner in which it was done; the deliberate con-
nivsBee Of the regular poliee the outrage and vio
lence committed against individuals the daring
frauds By which the ballot boxes were crowded with
illegal vOes the PerversiOn Of the ballot by striped
iekets and in short history Of wrongs so great
to justify the unqualified assertion, that the civil
and political rights Of the people we're utterly sub
vered by organized ruffanism, throughout the whole
mookery Of the election Of the 4th Of November.
considerable portion Of the testimony is that o.:
Wel-knOWn citizens, men Of undOubted character,
some acting officially, and some of the most striking
facts are elected from members of the American
party, also acting officially. The tone of the whole
voluminous record is the same from beginning to
end and the reiterated assertions of the Witnesses
together with the overwhelming testimony is direct
to the fact that it not possible for the people
Of the District at that election, freely and fairly
express their choice for representative to Con-
gress" The record is g sad commentary upon our
boosted civilization and political liberties, for the
conclusion is irresistible, that no despotsm could
more efectually disfranchise a people, and in
manner more humiiating than the Democratic party
Of Baltimore we're DISTINGUISHED by mob law at the
last Congressional election.