Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-02-17

for the purpose designed, by the successful
preparation Of numerous gigantic frauds il
the pseudo,State elections of January ant
December following.
From information recently obtained 70
which at the time We had no suspicion
we do not now doubt that if the commit
tee of the House of Representatives hae
made the investigation ordered by the res
olutlon of the last session, they would have
disclosed the fact that the census and reg
is,ration, purporting to have been taken in
the fifteen counties out of thirty eight which
formed the sole basis of representation IL
the Convention, were largely contaminated
with fraudulent and fictitious names, de.
signed to give control of the Convention to
the same parties who wer3 the authors oi
the subsequent frauds at Oxford, Shawnee,
Delaware, Kickapoo, aud elsewhere, per
petrated under the Constitution itself. In
deed, the failure of so large number Of
these registered voters to exercise the cleo
tive franchise in SO many succeeding elec-
tions, at which much larger votes were
given, conclusively confirms the information
stated, that large proportion the names
returned in the pretended registry, like
those of Oxford and other places, was sim
ulated and fictitious.
Now that these truths have been clearly
developed. all candid men must admit that
the Lecompton instrument, falsely called a
Constitution, was itself reeking with fraud
and forgery, and, in the language of the
recent speech of Senator Hammond, of
South Carolina, sought to have been kicked
out of Congress" What that Senator has
already had the courage to concede, we
cannot doubt, will soon be the sentiment
of the whole country; and "the sober sec
ond thought of the people of the South
will eventually unite with the almost unani
nous verdict of the people of the North
and West in stamping this base counterfeit
and inposture with the brand of infamy
and exeeration. 30
Since the election of August last, held
in Kansas under the auspices of the pres
ent Federal Administration, when the Lee
compton Constitution was condemned by
a majority Of nearly ten thousand, we pre-
sume no man will assert that that instru-
ment ever was the choice of the people oi
Kansas; or tina. it was our duty to be ST
lent, with full personal knowledge of all
the facts, when so atrocious usurpation
was attempted.
However much we may regret the ap-
parent saclion given by the South to these
proceedings, We think the censure should
fall upon those who, with ample informa-
ton on the subject, and against light and
knowledge, persisted in urging upon Con-
gress the adoption Of this instrument; nor
have we ever doubted that, with an equal
knowledge of all the facts, the South would
have rejected the Lecompton Constitution
with scorn and indignation. The impos-
ing character of the recommendations with
which it was presented to Congress de-
ceived and msled many honorable men,
bers of both houses, who now, upon better
information, would doubtless unite with
Senator Hammond in giving that instru-
ment an ignominious rejection from the
halls of legislat on. .s'a1g
We venture to hope that the bitter vitu-
peration with which we have been assailed
will be considered a sufficient excuse for
this notice of facts lately developed, com
ing out at last to vindicate the truth which
has been partially crushed, and to condemn
the wrong which has been accomplished or
attempted.
r. ]. WALKER,
Late Governor of Kansas Territory.
FRED. P. STANTON, "a
.........-t, Late Secretary.
WAsHINGTON, Jan, IL. 1859.